People on the Move

November 25,2009

Ameren names new regional manager

Michael Holman

AmerenUE has promoted Michael Holman from assistant manager to manager of the Missouri Valley Division, which is based in Mexico, Mo.

Holman, 50, will supervise about 150 employees covering a 12,000-square-mile area with about 130,000 customers and operation centers in Columbia, Boonville, Moberly, Kirksville and Excelsior Springs. Holman will be overseeing the division's electric and gas engineering, construction and customer service departments.

Holman will continue to live in Columbia with his wife, Kelley, and their daughters, Amanda and Abby. He has worked in Columbia since 1989 except for short assignments in St. Louis and Cape Girardeau. His first job in the utility industry was district clerk with Missouri Power & Light 27 years ago. Missouri P&L was later acquired by Union Electric Company, which is now AmerenUE.

Homan received a bachelor's degree in business administration with finance, marketing and communications specializations from Truman State University.

Hirings

Brooke Peery

Bob Peery

Flat Branch Home Loans hired Becky Hoover as a loan originator, Brooke Peery as a loan originator and Bob Peery as a sales manager. Prior to joining Flat Branch, Hoover did mortgage lending at Bank of America. Brooke Peery was working as loan originator at Premier Mortgage Services. Bob Peery was also with Premier Mortgage Services before joining Flat Branch.

State Treasurer Clint Zweifel appointed Andrew Maschhoff as his new director of investments and Paul Cushing as his new director of information technology. Maschhoff comes from Floral Park, N.Y., where he served as the director and a senior portfolio manager for the global insurance fixed-income division of Deutsche Bank. He attended both Truman State University in Kirksville and Illinois State University. Cushing previously worked at Miller's Professional Imaging in Columbia for nine years and managed all IT-related tasks.

Promotions

Boone County National Bank promoted eight employees in October. Victoria Haller, Melissa Beman and Hannah Taylor were promoted to senior tellers. Cory Morton and Amber Dykes were promoted from teller I to II positions. Sarah Moreau was named the assistant manager of BCNB's Motor Bank. She started with the bank as a teller in May 2006 and became a consumer banking representative in 2008. Theresa Kuhn was named financial associate for Smiley Bank. Rebecca Muenks was promoted to public relations specialist for BCNB's marketing department and will oversee bank events and handle media relations.

Hawthorn Bank in Columbia has promoted Ann Westhues to branch manager. Westhues has been with Hawthorn Bank since 2007 and has more than seven years of banking experience.

Kittle

Mid-America Wireless has promoted Josh Kittle to a business specialist position for the Columbia and northeast Missouri markets. Kittle will focus his efforts on maintaining and developing relationships with business clients as it relates to the wireless industry. Kittle has been with Mid-America Wireless since 2007.

Recognitions

The Boone County National Bank Lobby Gallery is displaying the photography of Woody Woodward through Dec. 31. The exhibit showcases Woodward's photography of Columbia and the mid-Missouri area.

University Hospital's Medical and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit

University Hospital's Medical and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit has won the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. The award recognizes the top hospital intensive care units in the country.

Until this fall, no hospital in Missouri had ever received the prestigious Beacon Award. There are an estimated 6,000 intensive care units in the United States. The AACN has given approximately 200 Beacon Awards since the award's inception in 2003.

To receive the award, intensive care unit staff demonstrated how the ICU at University Hospital meets more than 40 criteria that measure excellence and quality in seven areas: patient outcomes, training and mentoring, recruitment and retention, education, research and evidence-based practices, leadership and organizational ethics and overall healing environment.

University Hospital's Medical and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit has 18 beds dedicated to the care of acutely ill patients. The unit is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of more than 100 medical experts.