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Career Moves

Paul van den Berg has been promoted to vice president-general manager of Norris Furniture & Interiors.

SunTrust Bank has named Bruce A. Schultz president in Lee County and Daniel G. Waetjen president in Naples.

Joan Salustro has been promoted to vice president/regional manager/compliance officer for Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast.

Custom Financial Planning has named Julia Bay Zem chief financial officer.

Frank D'Alessandro, Tom Woodyard, Hal Arkin, Todd Holman and John Kremski have joined Re/Max Commercial in Fort Myers.

Wachovia's Adria Parsons has been promoted to executive vice president for the Gulf Coast region.

John Klumpp has been appointed to the newly created position of senior vice president and technology man-ager for The Customer Service Center of F.N.B., a subsidiary of F.N.B. Corp.

James P. Johannsen has been named managing director and head of U.S. Trust's Naples office.

Key PrivateBank in Naples has added Karen R. Gudknecht as vice president and relationship manager and Michael R. Laliberté as assistant vice president and relationship manager.

WCI Communities has named Linda Gaytan office manager for the sales center at Tarpon Bay.

Samuel Rush has joined Royal Corinthian Homes as production manager.

Michele Yovanovich has been named director of alumni relations at Florida Gulf Coast University.

US Home Corp. has appointed Ronnie Listro vice president of sales for Heritage Palms Golf & Country Club and Westminster Golf Club.

The Bonita Bay Group has named Steve Bill golf course superintendent of The Preserve, Cathy Moschetto manager of The Brooks Commons Club Fitness Center, and Dave Dooley tennis director and Bill Harley golf director for Shadow Wood Country Club.

Northern Trust has named Samuel A. Kiburz second vice president and private banking relationship manager in Fort Myers and promoted Preston C. Came to second vice president in Bonita Springs.

Fifth Third Bank, Florida has named Nancy E. Griffith vice president, human resources director and Harvest Wood office manager of the Carillon Banking Center.

Landmark Development Group has named Norman J. Greenough chief financial officer.

John Pascall, Dave Nichols, David Slowthower, Richard Steele, Ricardo Timmermann and Dennis Weimer have joined the Southwest Florida Chapter 219 of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) as counselors.

Dottie Babcock has been appointed chief operating officer of John R. Wood, Realtors in Naples.

K2 Design Group has named Denise Couture Cowell project manager.

Kudos

Leonardo García of the Southwest Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has been appointed chairman of the board of regional representatives to the Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Colleen Kvetko of Fifth Third Bank, Florida, has been named to International College's board of trustees. In addition, International College has been recognized in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges Index.

Geraci Travel-Ports of Call in Fort Myers, owned by Bill Lawton, has been accepted for membership in the Virtuouso travel organization, the nation's oldest association of leisure travel agencies.

The National Association of Home Builders National Sales and Marketing Council has awarded WCI Communities four Silver Awards and six regional awards, including two for Sun City Center Fort Myers, in the nation's largest competition for new home sales and marketing professionals and communities.

William Ernest Waites has been elected by the Fourth District American Advertising Federation Council of Presidents as its delegate to the nominating committee of the Fourth District of the AAF.

Trudi K. Williams of TKW Consulting Engineers has been elected to serve on the Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers' board of directors as environmental director.

Tom Ghuman of Retina Consultants of Southwest Florida has been initiated into the American College of Surgeons.

Lee County commissioner Ray Judah has been appointed chairman of the Tourist Development Council.

Richard L. Durnwald of Durnwald & Associates has been named chairman of the Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida's 2003 Lee County Business Leadership Hall of Fame.

Alayne Barry Conlyn of Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT in Fort Myers has been named secretary of the Federal Bar Association of Fort Myers.

Lee County Port Authority's Jami McCormick, William Horner and Fred Watts have taken leadership positions with the Florida Airports Council.

Rainer Filthaut of International Realty Consultants has been named the National Association of Realtors' president's liaison to the annual meeting of RDM (Ring Deutscher Makler) in Germany.

Business Moves

Tom and Colleen Hibbert have opened Hibbert Hospitality Property Services in Naples.

WilsonMiller has relocated its LaBelle office to Belmont Woods Profes-sional Centre, Suite 2, 450 S. Main St.

J.L. Wallace has completed construction on its corporate headquarters in Lake Pointe Commons Office Park in Fort Myers and a South Trust Bank branch in North Fort Myers at 4099 Hancock Bridge Parkway in the Orange Grove Shopping Center.

J.E.D. of Southwest Florida and D'Jamoos-Jerulle Construction Co. have opened a new headquarters in Naples at 9130 Corsea de Fontana Way in the Vanderbilt Galleria.

VIP Realty Group has opened its sixth office at 3561 Bonita Bay Blvd. in Bonita Springs and plans to open a seventh office in Naples in June.

Rob Reed has opened This Is I.T., an information technology consulting firm, in Cape Coral.

Fort Myers-based Johnson Engineering has opened its fifth office, in La Belle, staffed by company principal Lonnie Howard, Andy Tilton and Matt Howard.

Edgar and Tiffany West have opened a third location of The East Indies Trading Company at 11935 N. Tamiami Trail in Naples. Jennifer Sellars of Grubb & Ellis/IPC handled the transaction.

HEI Engineers and Consultants and K2 Design Group have acquired property in Bernwood Business Park at 25801 Bernwood Drive in Bonita Springs and plan to build a 7,000-square-foot office complex.

James A. Chouinard and John E. Stamps have formed Chouinard & Stamps, an accounting and financial planning firm, in Fort Myers.