based in Roanoke, announces that Beth Schulhof has joined the firm as a Tax Credit Specialist in the Richmond office. She began her career with a national public accounting firm and subsequently joined a predecessor to Bank of America in commercial Brown lending. After 15 years, she returned to public Gentry Locke accounting specializing announces that Hugh in various financial H. Brown has joined incentives for real estate the firm’s Roanoke development firms. office as an associate Today she focuses on in the firm’s business Historic Rehabilitation and commercial law practice. Brown assists Tax Credit programs clients with the financing, and the Virginia including credit facilities, Enterprise Zone program. syndicated and bilateral loans, accounts receivable monetization, and collateralized loan obligations. He earned his J.D. from the Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he served as managing online Hayes editor for the Washington Freedom First Credit & Lee Law Review. Union announced that VaLinda Hayes has joined the Freedom FINANCIAL First Mortgage Team, FRONT serving homebuyers in the Roanoke and New Brown Edwards & River Valleys. “VaLinda Company, LLP, a Top has more than fifteen 100 accounting firm
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EDUCATIONAL FRONT Jonathan Porter has been named associate vice president and executive director of research development in the Office of Strategic Alliances at Virginia Tech. Porter will work with university leadership, faculty and staff, in the D.C. region and Blacksburg, to develop strategic collaboration and partnerships with federal agencies and laboratories, other academic institutions, and Washington, D.C., area-based associations and business groups. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Porter served as chief scientist in the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Research, Development and Technology within the U.S. Department of Transportation. Entrepreneur and Virginia Tech professor Jeffrey H. Reed has joined the
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Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) leadership team as its inaugural chief technology officer. CCI is described as “a network of higher education and industry experts created to build an ecosystem of cyber-related research, innovation, and workforce development.” The goal is to solve cybersecurity challenges “that will position the state as a world leader in cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems.”
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Patrick Tomlin has been appointed University Libraries assistant dean and
