Business Briefs

Maitland author Ken Pelham’s debut novel was released on July 18. “Brigands Key” is a thriller set off the coast of Florida that revolves around mystery, murder, a category 5 hurricane and a lethal plague.

The Winter Park Breakfast Rotary Club announced the new club officers for 2012-2013: Susan Sackett, president; Jennifer Chapin, secretary; Susan Sackett, treasurer; Chelsea Dygan, president elect; Katie Miller, Bob Koch, Frank Kaney, Zack Hussain, directors; Wayne Koontz, information technology; Mark VanHaasteren, past president.

First Southern Bank hired three new vice presidents with the addition of Mike Brown as senior vice president and commercial lender in Ponte Vedra, and Doreen Londono-Garcia as vice president and market manager and Connie Buencamino as assistant vice president and office manager in the bank’s Winter Park office.

Jonathan Perry, shareholder in the Orlando office of Greenberg Traurig, was elected to serve as the new chair of the UNCF Leadership Council.

Diane Wink, a professor and coordinator of the Nurse Educator M.S.N. program, has been appointed the Hugh F. and Jeannette G. McKean Endowed Chair in Nursing at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing.

Fisher & Phillips LLP announced that 81 attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2013.

Rollins Crummer Graduate School of Business has been included in Net Impact’s Business as UNusual student guide to graduate programs. The school was rated 4 out of 5 for both sustainability and social impact. The program’s profile focused on social and environmental impact, listing the program’s greatest strengths as social entrepreneurship, corporate responsibility and non-profit management and philanthropy.

Attorneys in the Orlando and Tampa offices of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., hosted the quarterly Women of the Boardroom event with guest speaker Dr. Barbara Jenkins, the newly appointed superintendent of Orange County Public Schools.