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The Greater Reading

Chamber Alliance (GRCA)

announced its hire of Katie Johnsen, who joined the team as Events Coordinator this past November. Johnsen will manage day-to-day event and special program tasks including client relations management, marketing assistance and social media. Prior to joining GRCA, Johnsen worked as a month-of events planner at LEO Design Gallery and with the GoggleWorks as a venue coordinator. Johnsen earned a BA in theatre from Muhlenberg College, giving her the skills to create events with a dramatic flair.

RKL LLP announced that Thomas D. Reardon, CFP®, has been named a partner in the firm, effective January 1, 2022. Since joining RKL’s investment advisory subsidiary, RKL Wealth Management LLC, in 2008, Reardon held a variety of roles with increasing responsibilities, most recently serving as a Senior Wealth Advisor. This career path gave him a unique perspective and deep understanding of RKL Wealth Management’s operations and processes, which he continues to apply as a member of the firm’s leadership team. RKL LLP is pleased to announce that William Hill has joined the firm as a Senior Manager in the firm’s Audit Services Group. In this role, Hill specializes in identifying, growing and managing strategic value for companies and public sector entities. He has more than 20 years of experience in venture capital, private equity and investment banking. Previously, he directed business intelligence and analysis at a major private equityowned firm. Before that, Hill served as a Director of Finance for a large public sector entity.

RKL LLP announced that Danielle Covely has joined the firm as a Senior Consultant. In this role, Covely supports organizations and management teams in a wide range of industries with financial accounting and reporting solutions. Her expertise includes financial statement preparation (from administrative review to full GAAP compliance) and accounting for complex transactions, such as stock options, business combinations, variable interest entities, consolidations and more.

RKL LLP announced that

Ryan C. Moore, CPA, CVA,

CGMA, has joined the firm as a partner in the Tax Services Group. Moore’s admittance to the RKL partnership marks a full circle professional moment as he returns to the firm where he started his public accounting career in 2005 as a staff associate.

Mid Penn Bank (Mid Penn), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc., has been named Best Small Bank in Pennsylvania by Newsweek on their America’s Best Banks list for 2022. According to Newsweek’s website, the list evaluates more than 2,500 FDIC-insured financial institutions and considers more than 30 criteria in the decision. These factors include the overall health of the bank, customer service performance, responsiveness, product and service offerings, interest rates and fee structures.

Barley Snyder continues to add to its group of attorneys, as the firm has hired three new associates. Zachary D. Griffith, a Berks County native, is a magna cum laude graduate of Widener University Delaware Law School and a summa cum laude graduate of Albright College. Caleb P. Setlock, a member of the firm’s Employment Practice Group, is a cum laude graduate of Duquesne University School of Law and Duquesne University. The Lancaster County native previously worked as an intern at the county’s Public Defenders Office. Gabriel T. Wertz is a graduate of the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and DeSales University. He was a certified legal intern at Villanova Law School’s Interdisciplinary Mental & Physical Health Law Clinic, successfully representing clients in appeals cases to increase or have reinstated paid personal assistance service hours that had been previously denied by their health insurers. The Board of Directors of Tompkins VIST Bank announced that Scott L. Gruber will retire as president and CEO of Tompkins VIST Bank after nearly nine years of service to the company. In anticipation of his retirement, Tompkins VIST Bank worked to assure a smooth transition of leadership and is delighted to announce the appointment of Ginger G. Kunkel to chief operating officer, before she assumes leadership next year upon Gruber’s retirement. He will support the transition process during the early part of the year, retiring in the second quarter, 2022.

Herbein + Company, Inc. (Herbein) announced the acquisition, effective Oct. 1, of Tubiello-Harr & Associates, LLC, a Greater Lehigh Valley certified public accounting firm. This merger is part of Herbein’s dynamic growth plan and is based on strengthening a growing geographic market. In fact, Herbein was recently named one of the Lehigh Valley’s 2021 Fastest Growing Companies awards winners.

For its Banksgiving program this year, Tompkins VIST Bank donated a total of $15,000 to three food pantries in its southeastern Pennsylvania marketplace. The organizations are Helping Harvest, Share Foods, Inc. and Council of

Churches of Schuylkill Haven.

Tompkins VIST Bank

announced that Anne-Marie Nicola has joined the company as vice president and commercial lender. Her role will be to expand relationships and support the success of construction & industrial and real estate clients in the greater Philadelphia area.

Savoy Magazine has included Barley Snyder partner Jennifer Craighead Carey on its 2021 Most Influential Black Corporate Directors list. Craighead Carey was recognized for her work as a member of the board of directors at Lancaster-based Fulton Financial Corp., the parent company of Fulton Bank. The list of more than 700 African-American directors on corporate boards of directors across the country is compiled by the national publication Savoy Magazine, a leading African-American lifestyle magazine focusing on fashion, business, technology and style.

The Rhoads Energy Family of Companies announced the launch of Cool Crew, a new HVAC service group. The team consists of more than 50 service technicians from Rhoads Energy and its affiliate companies, including Boyertown Oil & Propane, E.G. Smith Inc., Mack Energy and Reilly & Sons. The move enables Rhoads to centralize operations and expand service options across a large swath of southeastern Pennsylvania.

Visions Federal Credit Union

has promoted Steve Wayman to the position of Senior Vice President/Chief Data and Performance Officer. A dynamic leader with 23 years of experience with Visions, Wayman worked with President/CEO Tyrone Muse to introduce the Business Performance department six years ago. This push has been central to Wayman’s role within the organization, where he now leads a team of 20 employees to streamline Visions’ processes eliminating inefficiencies and providing data driven insights.

Domani Wealth, a wealth planning and investment management firm with offices throughout Central PA, has hired William F. Lampariello, PMP®, as manager of firm administration, and Joseph P. Marmorato, CPA, manager of tax planning. Lampariello has joined Domani to help with continuous process improvements, support compliance, and manage firmwide project implementation. Marmorato collaborates with the investment management team to assist with tax efficiencies in client portfolios. He will be leading the education of the company’s wealth advisor team on new tax legislation and proposals. He is also responsible for the firm’s internal tax training of team members.