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Finance

• Todd Koyama has been hired as a wealth adviser for Fulcrum Financial Group. He has 13 years of financial planning and private banking experience. He is a Certified Financial Planner and member of the Financial Planning Association.

• The Financial Planning Division, an office of MetLife has hired Elyssa Baltazar as a managing director. She has 27 years of financial services industry experience and is a Financial Planning Association member. She attended the University of South Florida’s College of Business Administration and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Executive Education program.

Health Care

• Felix Martinez Jr., M.D. received Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Advanced Practical Pathology Program certification from the College of American Pathologists. Dr. Martinez works for InCyte Pathology as cytology laboratory director.

• Valentina and Yana Timofeyeva have opened Spokane Reflexology Manual Center, located at 1212 N. Post St. in Downtown Spokane. The company specializes in reflexology, providing stress-relieving foot, hands and ear massage. Contact: (509) 742-0761 (Russian language) or (509) 638-9491 (English language).

• Medication Review, Inc. has hired husband and wife, Ashley and Howard Ganser as clinical pharmacists for the company’s telepharmacy team. Both graduated from pharmacy school at the University of Montana. Ashley previously worked for Medco for 11 years and Howard previously worked for Community Health Association of Spokane.

• Kelcey Hendrickson has been hired as operations manager for InCyte Pathology. She previously served as a cytogenetic technical supervisor for Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center. She is a medical technologist and has more than 13 years of clinical experience.

Interior Design

• Brianna Musser has been hired by Design Source as a full time interior designer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in interior design from Washington State University.

Manufacturing

• Key Tronic Corporation named Patrick Sweeney chairman of the board. He has served as director of the company for the past 12 years and as chairman of the audit committee since 2001.

Miscellaneous

• Tammy Everts received Certified Business Adviser certification from the Washington Small Business Development Center. Everts works for the Spokane Small Business Development Center.

Nonprofit

• YMCA of the Inland Northwest promoted Bev Reed to vice president of financial development. She has been with the organization for 33 years. YMCA also promoted Julie Banks to community development director and Steve Jurich to senior vice president of operations. Banks has been with the YMCA since 2005 and Jurich has been with the organization for 30 years.

• The following individuals have been named 2012-13 board members for the Women Helping Women Fund: April Anderson of Lukins and Annis, P.S.; Joanne Benham of Benham and Associates LLC; Stacy Covey, community volunteer; Jean Edwards of US Bank; Patsy Gayda of Spokane Teachers Credit Union; Teddie Gibbon of KXLY Broadcast Group; Jennifer Lehn of Numerica Credit Union; Yvonne Lopez-Morton, community volunteer; Nancy Mahoney of Dew Drop Sprinklers and Landscaping; Kris Mason of Lawton Printing Inc.; Lori Moloney, past president and community volunteer; Melissa Murphy of Choice Real Estate Group; Jamie Tobias Neely of Eastern Washington University and The Spokesman-Review; Julie Olds, community volunteer; Cathy Simchuck, independent consultant; Dori Sonntag of Gonzaga University; Kimberly Thielman of Asuris Northwest Health; Peg Thomas of People to People Ambassador Programs; Diane Thoren of Avista; Stephanie Thun of Welsh Family Foundation; Carol Wilson, president and community volunteer; Molly Wright of College Found Consulting; and Debbie Zimmerman, of Bank of American and past president.

• Sherri Richardson has been hired by SKILS’KIN as manager of the organization’s individual employment program. She previously worked for the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Department of Corrections in the States of Washington and Missouri, and has more than 15 years of direct program experience.