Mercyhurst University

National Search for Development Director Begins as COL Tripp Billingsley Announces His Retirement Following 33 Years of Service at Fork Union Military Academy

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

FORK UNION, Va., Feb. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CAPT Mark Black, USN (Ret.), the President of Fork Union Military Academy, announced this week that the school is initiating a national search to fill the role of the Academy's top development officer as COL Tripp Billingsley, the school's longtime Director of Advancement will be retiring at the end of the school year on June 30, 2024.

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  • ), the President of Fork Union Military Academy , announced this week that the school is initiating a national search to fill the role of the Academy's top development officer as COL Tripp Billingsley, the school's longtime Director of Advancement will be retiring at the end of the school year on June 30, 2024.
  • The Billingsley family history at Fork Union began with Joseph A. Billingsley, Sr., who graduated in the Class of 1909 when the school was still officially named Fork Union Academy.
  • Tripp Billingsley (Joseph A. Billingsley, III) first arrived at Fork Union Military Academy as a postgraduate football player in the Class of 1977, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather before him.
  • Tripp's nephew, Jack's son Joseph B. Billingsley, is currently at Fork Union playing postgraduate basketball for Coach Bob Williams, continuing the Billingsley legacy.

Alliant Insurance Services Hires Steven Stauss, Grows Team in Northeast

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Steven Stauss has joined Alliant Insurance Services as Vice President within its Alliant Americas division.

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  • Steven Stauss has joined Alliant Insurance Services as Vice President within its Alliant Americas division.
  • Based in Buffalo, New York, Stauss will work with a diverse and growing client base across Western and Central New York, Western Pennsylvania and the broader Northeast region.
  • Stauss joins Alliant with broad experience in property and casualty insurance, employee benefits and estate planning.
  • “Steven combines broad industry expertise and a keen understanding of regional business dynamics,” said Bob Bennetsen, Executive Vice President and Senior Managing Director with Alliant.

Proactive Worldwide to Partner with Mercyhurst University

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Monday, January 23, 2023

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Proactive Worldwide (PWW), one of the world's leading Market Intelligence (MI) companies, announces a new partnership with Mercyhurst University, a private liberal arts university in Erie, PA, to provide training on the fundamentals of competitive intelligence (CI). PWW's comprehensive on-demand CI Blueprint℠ program, which is part of its CI Learning Lab, will be built into the curriculum of the Advanced Competitive Intelligence courses for both in-person undergraduate students and graduate students in Mercyhurst's Department of Intelligence Studies – about 40% of Mercyhurst's student base. Mercyhurst pioneered intelligence education and offers the largest intelligence studies program in the world.

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  • SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Proactive Worldwide (PWW), one of the world's leading Market Intelligence (MI) companies, announces a new partnership with Mercyhurst University, a private liberal arts university in Erie, PA, to provide training on the fundamentals of competitive intelligence (CI).
  • Proactive is also offering a needs-based scholarship for three students each semester, as determined by Mercyhurst, to cover their cost of the CI Blueprint℠ program.
  • Proactive Worldwide Co-founder and President David Kalinowski says, "A person with strong competitive intelligence knowledge and skills knows how to think analytically and strategically.
  • "We're thrilled to Partner with Proactive Worldwide and offer our students this opportunity to learn about, and gain skills for, becoming CI professionals from a leader in the CI industry," says Executive Director Lindy Smart, Department of Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst University.

Kathleen Barone Joins Crescent Hotels & Resorts as Vice President of Global Sales

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Friday, July 29, 2022

FAIRFAX, Va., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Crescent Hotels & Resorts, the award-winning hotel management company headquartered in Fairfax, VA and Toronto, ON announced today the appointment of Kathleen Barone as Vice President of Global Sales. An accomplished sales leader, Barone brings more than 25 years of hotel sales and revenue management experience to the company and its portfolio of over 100 hotels and resorts in the United States and Canada.

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  • FAIRFAX, Va., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Crescent Hotels & Resorts , the award-winning hotel management company headquartered in Fairfax, VA and Toronto, ON announced today the appointment of Kathleen Barone as Vice President of Global Sales.
  • In her new role, Barone will further develop sales from a global perspective and will serve as the direct report for both regional and national sales employees within the organization.
  • With over 25 years of progressive hospitality experience, Kathleen brings diverse leadership abilities and community engagement to Crescent Hotels & Resorts.
  • Crescent Hotels & Resorts is an award winning, nationally recognized, operator of hotels and resorts with over 100 properties in the United States & Canada.

LevelField Financial Appoints Trey Zeluff to Director of Strategy and Innovation

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Thursday, May 5, 2022

HOUSTON, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LevelField Financial, the organization that is uniting digital assets and traditional banking services in one trusted platform, announced today that it has appointed Trey Zeluff as the company's first Director of Strategy and Innovation.

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  • HOUSTON, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LevelField Financial ,the organization that is uniting digital assets and traditional banking services in one trusted platform, announced today that it has appointed Trey Zeluff as the company's first Director of Strategy and Innovation.
  • At LevelField, Mr. Zeluff will bring his skill and relationships to facilitating opportunities with next generation customers for commercial enterprises in the digital asset space.
  • In addition, Mr. Zeluff will be responsible for developing the overall group strategy, with a focus on building partnerships within the crypto community.
  • "Trey is a next-generation financial services strategist and connector who is well versed in the opportunities that digital assets afford investors.

U.S. competitive intel/security expert named first woman, first alum to head Mercyhurst University's pioneering Intelligence Studies Program

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Erie, PA, April 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercyhurst University announced today that it has hired a renowned expert in the field of competitive intelligence and corporate security to lead its pioneering Intelligence Studies Department within the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies & Applied Sciences.

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  • Erie, PA, April 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercyhurst University announced today that it has hired a renowned expert in the field of competitive intelligence and corporate security to lead its pioneering Intelligence Studies Department within the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies & Applied Sciences.
  • She leaves behind a highly touted career at Target Corporation, where she developed and implemented competitive intelligence risk strategy and rose through the ranks to become director of competitive intelligence.
  • Effective May 2, Smart becomes the first female and the first alum to hold the post of executive director of the Mercyhurst Intelligence Studies Department.
  • Smarts career with the Fortune 500 behemoth began in 2011, soon after earning her masters degree in applied intelligence from Mercyhurst.

Mazars Names Partner Anthony Stranix as Insurance Practice Leader

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Thursday, October 7, 2021

NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Mazars, a leading audit, tax, and advisory firm in the US, today announced that effective September 1, 2021, Partner Anthony Stranix will be the new Insurance Practice Leader, taking over from Partner Brian Clouse.

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  • NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Mazars, a leading audit, tax, and advisory firm in the US, today announced that effective September 1, 2021, Partner Anthony Stranix will be the new Insurance Practice Leader, taking over from Partner Brian Clouse.
  • Mazars today announced that Partner Anthony Stranix will be the new Insurance Practice Leader.
  • "I'd like to thank Brian for his effective leadership of the insurance practice over the past years," said Charles Abraham, Partner and U.S. Financial Services Practice Leader.
  • "I look forward to building on the solid foundation of Mazars' Insurance Practice across all of our service lines," commented Anthony.

Mercyhurst University Board of Trustees elect new president

b'Erie, PA, May 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercyhurst University announced Tuesday, May 11, 2021, that the Board of Trustees has voted to name \xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xadKathleen A. Getz, Ph.D., \xc2\xad the university\xe2\x80\x99s 13th president.

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  • b'Erie, PA, May 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercyhurst University announced Tuesday, May 11, 2021, that the Board of Trustees has voted to name \xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xad\xc2\xadKathleen A. Getz, Ph.D., \xc2\xad the university\xe2\x80\x99s 13th president.
  • Since 2015, she has served as dean of the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University Maryland, a Jesuit Catholic institution whose business school is home to nearly 2,000 students, 55 full-time faculty, and 13 full-time staff.
  • She worked as an assistant manager and retail lending officer at Mellon Bank from 1981 to 1986.
  • At that time, NeCastro will resume his position as chair of the university\xe2\x80\x99s Board of Trustees.\n'

Mercyhurst and NCI form AI-Capabilities Partnership

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Mercyhurst University has forged an academic partnership with NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI), to support the Reston, Virginia, systems innovator in conveying the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology to the federal government.

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  • Mercyhurst University has forged an academic partnership with NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI), to support the Reston, Virginia, systems innovator in conveying the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology to the federal government.
  • Were excited to work with Mercyhurst University to further augment the NCI Empower AI platform .
  • Mercyhurst Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Leanne Roberts welcomed the partnership also for the experience it affords Mercyhurst students in this highly innovative arena.
  • Mercyhurst University, founded in 1926 by the Sisters of Mercy, is a fully accredited, four-year, Catholic comprehensive institution in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Mercyhurst University first in PA to offer students personal security app

Already home to a robust program targeted to reduce sexual violence on campus, Mercyhurst University is adding yet another tool to protect its students, and this one is right at their fingertips.

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  • Already home to a robust program targeted to reduce sexual violence on campus, Mercyhurst University is adding yet another tool to protect its students, and this one is right at their fingertips.
  • Beginning this fall, Mercyhurst joins several colleges throughout the nation, and is the first in Pennsylvania, to launch UASK (University Assault.
  • We provide all kinds of information on our website and in the various programs we offer, but this kind of technology is what students use every day, Agnew said.
  • Besides UASK Hurst, the following university programs also exist:
    UASK DMV - 10 universities in DMV region (DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia)