Personnel Briefs

JMZ Architects and Planners, P.C. in Glens Falls announced two staff promotions.

David Holbrook, AIA was elevated from associate to senior associate.

He has designed major projects for Hudson Valley Community College, SUNY Adirondack, and Glens Falls National Bank. Holbrook holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

He and his family live in Queensbury.

Jeffrey Dolan, CSI, CDT, AIA was promoted to the position of associate. He deals with the technical aspects of design documentation and construction administration.

Dolan has served in leadership roles on projects at SUNY Potsdam, RPI Darrin Fresh Water Institute, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

He holds a Bachelor of Professional Studies in architecture from SUNY Buffalo and a Master of Architecture from Iowa State University.

He and his family live in Corinth.

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Michael Doud was elected president of the Board of Directors Habitat for Humanity of Northern Saratoga, Warren and Washington Counties.

He succeeds former president Michael Gestwick, who concluded his five-year term.

In addition to his role as president, Doud will be serving as acting executive director with the departure of former executive director, Adam Feldman, who served for seven years at the agency.

“I look forward to working with the Board and HFH staff, meeting more of our supporters and partners, Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 states and in more than 70 countries.

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Saratoga National Bank and Trust Co. announce that Dina Trahan and Philip Carr recently joined the residential lending team.

Both are based in the Latham Century Hill Business Development Office, which serves the greater Capital District.

In her role as residential mortgage originator, Trahan helps clients with their home-financing experience and guides them through the mortgage application process.

She has more than 30 years of experience in residential mortgage services and is past president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Northeastern New

York.

Trahan is active in her community and currently serves as a member of the Brunswick-Brittonkill Central School District Board of Education.

Carr will also help clients with their home financing experience and guide them through the mortgage application process. He brings more than 10 years of lending services experience to the position.

He is a graduate of the Rensselaer County Chamber Leadership Institute and a former board member of the Capital Alliance of Young Professionals (CAYP).

Carr earned a degree in business administration from Hudson Valley Community College in Troy. He lives in Stillwater.

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NBT Bank has announced that Mark P. Sidoti was promoted to branch manager of its Glens Falls office located at 86 Glen St.

Sidoti will be responsible for business development, managing customer relationships and serving as a financial partner for customers in the Glens Falls region.

Sidoti joined NBT Bank in 2021 as a community banker. He has more than 30 years of business development and sales experience in the banking, telecommunications, payroll, outsourcing and employee benefits industries.

An active member of the community, he serves as the treasurer of the Glens Falls Civic Center Foundation board and as an ambassador for the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce.

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Herzog Law Firm PC has added Phillip K. Vacchio, Esq., to the firm as a senior associate. Vacchio will provide comprehensive legal counsel to existing and new clients in the areas of estate planning, elder law, estate administration and guardianships and will work out of Herzog’s Albany, Clifton Park and Saratoga Springs offices.

Vacchio was formerly a partner of a Long Island-based law firm handling the same areas of law and brings his extensive experience to the Capital Region and the North Country. Phillip is a graduate of the University of Maryland, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in behavioral and social sciences in 2009 and Hofstra University School of Law where he graduated cum laude.

He has been named to the Super Lawyers Rising Star list for the last three years.