South Louisiana businesses and nonprofit groups recently announced the following promotions, new hires and resignations.
Baton Rouge
Dr. Roy Culotta has been tasked with leading a new pulmonary medicine clinic at Baton Rouge General. Culotta, who will be based at BRG’s Bluebonnet campus, also serves as an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center.
Beverly Haydel has launched the new government relations firm Frontline Strategies through the combination of her previous firm, Sequitur Consulting and David Tatman‘s The Tatman Group. Haydel will serve as president and CEO, of the new firm, where she will be joined by Tatman, Doreen Brasseaux and Evan Alvarez.
Mark Marionneaux, president and CEO of Bank of Zachary, was elected to a four-year term on the board of directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, a network of 11 district banks with more than $112 billion in assets to support mortgage lending and community development. Marionneaux succeeds Albert Christman, of Guaranty Bank and Trust, whose term ended at the start of the year.
Courtney Myers has been appointed the new deputy secretary of youth services for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, effective Monday. Myers previously served as assistant secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice.
New Orleans
Ana Melissa Ramos was promoted to senior vice president of human resources for Pan-American Life Insurance Group, effective April 1. Ramos, who succeeds Bryan Scofield, previously held senior HR roles for Copa Airlines and Nestle. She will remain based in Panama and regularly travel to the group’s New Orleans headquarters.
Kathy Harrison, Magdalen Bickford and Susanne Cooper have joined the New Orleans office of law firm Gordon Arata. Harrison’s practice has centered on commercial litigation defense, and she previously worked as in-house compliance counsel for a maritime transportation company. Bickford and Cooper, who joined as members of the firm’s labor and employment services practice, previously worked together as in-house counsel at the same law firm, working with corporate and nonprofit clients in an array of industries.
Charles Tillotson, the executive director of the Louisiana Gateway Port in Plaquemines Parish, announced his immediate resignation. Port Commission officials announced plans to convene in the coming weeks to discuss the transition plan and the process for selecting Tillotson’s successor…