NEWS - People in the News

Aug. 9 – PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Teresa DeSimone has joined the Small Business Assistance Corporation (SBAC) as a new Microbusiness Finance Associate at their satellite office in Bluffton. She will be responsible for production of small business loans throughout the lending process including the Microloans and 6 loan programs available in Beaufort, Hampton and Jasper counties.  She will also represent the SBAC in community outreach and participate in seminars to small business & banking institutions. The announcement was made by SBAC President Tony O’Reilly.

DeSimone, originally from Tennessee, brings over 13 years experience in the commercial lending/financing sector. She was previously employed by Carolina First Bank as the Vice President, Commercial Lending officer.                                                           

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Coastal Concrete, a leading commercial and residential concrete company headquartered in Rincon, Ga., recently hired Ronnie Snyder as Technical Services Manager. In his new position, Snyder is responsible for complicated concrete mix design, quality control and quality assurance as well as internal and external technical training.  He is a National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Certified Concrete Professional and Certified Concrete Technologist. Before joining Coastal Concrete, he worked at The Euclid Chemical Company in Charlotte, N.C.

Snyder graduated magna cum laude from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn. with a B.S. in Concrete Industry Management.

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Julian Miller has been named Public Information Administrator for the Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, according to Police Chief Willie Lovett who made the announcement last week at his weekly Comparative Statistics meeting with his upper staff.

As administrator, Miller will lead a three-member staff that serves as liaison between the public and the police department, providing information through the news media, maintaining and updating the department web site and leading the department’s community outreach.

“I have worked with Julian on community issues in the past and I am looking forward to working with him as a representative of our department,” Chief Lovett said. “His experience and his enthusiasm will allow him to hit the ground running.”

Miller, 59, is a 44-year veteran of the newspaper industry. He formerly was publisher of the Savannah Morning News before resigning in June 2008 to begin a family real estate investing company. He started his career in Valdosta, GA as a police, sports and courts reporter and moved to Savannah in 2005 after 16 years as president of The Augusta Chronicle in Augusta, GA.

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Cora Bett Thomas Realty’s Allen Eager, working in the company’s Commercial division, has earned the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation.

A CCIM is a recognized expert in the disciplines of commercial and investment real estate who has successfully completed an intensive curriculum consisting of four core courses: financial analysis, market analysis, user decision analysis, and investment analysis.

The designation is held by only 6 percent of the estimated 150,000 commercial real estate practitioners nationwide.

Allen grew up in Valdosta, went to The University of the South in Sewanee, and has been with the company for the past 6 years. He has sold over $30 million in sales including the Savannah River Landing project and Abercorn Terrace, and specializes in land sales for mixed-use, condo developments and waterfront developments.

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James B. (Jimmy) Franklin of Statesboro, has been named by Georgia Super Lawyers magazine as one the top attorneys in the state for 2010.  Super Lawyers research is a service of Thomson Reuters.  He is the founding partner of Franklin, Taulbee, Rushing, Snipes & Marsh, LLC. of Statesboro.

Franklin holds an Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and a J.D. from UGA Law School.  He is the past president of the State Bar of Georgia and a trustee of the Georgia Bar Foundation.

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