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MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Jackie Kendrick has been
hired by Treasure Coast Hospice
to lead the comprehensive
hospice care and grief support
service agency in Martin and St.
Lucie counties as chief executive
officer. She started July 1.
Kendrick
most recently
was executive
director of HPH
Hospice in
Pasco County.
HPH is part of
the Chapters
Health System,
which provides end-of-life care
to residents in seven counties on
the west coast of Florida.
Kendrick began her career at
Legacy Hospice in Tyler, Texas,
and then served as the executive
director at Heart to Heart Hospice
in Lufkin, Texas. Under her
leadership, the start-up organization
developed into the largest
hospice in the area.
Kendrick holds a bachelor of
business administration from the
University of Texas and is certified
as a hospice and palliative
care administrator.
Triana Romero is the new director
of development at McKee
Botanical Garden in Vero Beach.
Romero oversees fundraising
initiatives and manages all levels
of the membership program,
sponsorship solicitations for
events and exhibitions, grant
applications, and direct mail
solicitations.
Romero attended Jersey
City State University and the
University of Miami with a focus
on marketing. She most recently
worked for the Treasure Coast
Food Bank and was responsible
for all aspects of fundraising,
including direct mail campaigns,
online fundraising efforts, donor
engagement and stewardship,
grant applications, and data
integrity. Before that, she was
the director of development
and communications for Save
the Chimps for eight years and
donor services coordinator for
two years.
Melody Ipolito has been appointed
vice president of Adams
Media Group, an advertising and
marketing agency in Vero Beach.
Ipoloito has a decade of
experience at a local CPA firm
that included
coordinating
client services,
business
development,
requests for
proposals, human
resources
and overseeing
marketing activity and the firm’s
social media presence. A graduate
of Canisius College in Buffalo,
New York, with a bachelor of
science in finance, she is also a
certified professional with the
Society for Human Resource
Management.
“Being part of the growth of
Adams Media Group, with its focus
on exceptional client service,
is a great fit for me,’’ Ipolito said.
“It’s energizing being in a business
whose mission is to grow
other businesses.”
Adams Media CEO Carrie
Adams said the appointment of
Ipolito will free her up to focus
on business development.
“We needed someone with
her unique skill set to take us to
the next level,’’ Adams said. “I am
thrilled to have her on board and
look forward to the growth of
Adams Media Group.”
Jacqui Loring has been appointed
as the general manager
of the Staybridge Suites-Vero
Beach. The newly built hotel features
109 all suite extended stay
guestrooms, fitness center, large
outdoor patio and open lobby
seating.
Loring is responsible for
overseeing all
operations for
the hotel.
She recently
oversaw operations
at an
extended stay
hotel in the
Port St. Lucie
market. She brings more than 18
years of experience in operating
both full service and extended
stay hotels with the Hilton and
IHG brands.
InterContinental Hotels Group
(IHG), one of the world’s leading
hotel companies, is the parent
company of the Staybridge
Suites brand. The hotel, located
at 5155 20th St., is owned by
Vero Beach LLC. and managed by
Great Lakes Management Group
under a license agreement with
InterContinental Hotels Group.
Denise Giannino became the
new public programs manager
at the Vero Beach Museum of Art
on Sept. 3.
For the past year, Giannino
worked at the Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art in
Hartford, Connecticut, where
she designed and planned adult
and academic programs for local
and regional audiences. She
completed a PhD in art history at
the University of Kansas, where
she dedicated efforts to teaching
college students the ways the
history of art could enrich their
lives.
“I’m excited to be joining
the education team at the Vero
Beach Museum of Art and engaging
with the dynamic range
of adult and family programs
already in place,” Giannino said. “I
especially look forward engaging
with the vibrant community
of Vero Beach and interacting
with families during programs
such as Museum Studios and the
Children’s Art Festival.’’
After several years of practice
in the private sector, attorney
Megan N. Root has joined
Florida Rural Legal Services as its
new pro bono
coordinator
for the 19th
Judicial Circuit.
The Vero
Beach native
will oversee efforts
to recruit
legal professionals
throughout the fourcounty
area for Legal Services’
Pro Bono Initiative. Root seeks to
increase access to justice through
partnership with the private bar,
law students, and paralegals
who volunteer their time to the
program.
About 200 Treasure Coast attorneys
are currently involved in
that initiative.
Root also will be responsible
for coordinating the agency’s
free legal advice clinics, where
volunteer attorneys provide
advice and limited assistance to
people needing help with civil
legal matters, such as family law
and probate.
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Root earned her law degree and
certificate in public interest law
at the University of Alabama.
She currently serves on the
board of directors of the Junior
League of Indian River County
and is that organization’s vice
president of finance. She also is a
volunteer mentor with the Youth
Guidance Mentoring Academy
for at-risk youth.
A nonprofit organization
established in 1966, Florida Rural
Legal Services provides free civil
legal assistance to qualifying
individuals within a 13-county
service area.
KUDOS
Vero Beach Outlets and its
tenants donated more than
$17,000 in back-to-school merchandise
to Little Birthday Angels,
an organization dedicated
to celebrating the birthdays
of the Treasure Coast region’s
homeless children.
Stuff the Bus, the month-long
community initiative, invited
Vero Beach Outlets customers
to purchase and donate a new
back-to-school essentials item
from one of its many brand
name stores.
“As a united community, we
definitely ‘stuffed the bus’ this
back-to-school shopping season,”
said Vero Beach Outlets Marketing
Coordinator Beth Hager. “Many
thanks not only to our generous
shoppers for their donations,
but to our stores’ amazing staff
members who also contributed to
this worthy cause.” v
Melody Ipolito
Megan N. Root
Jacqui Loring
Jackie Kendrick
From left, Ashley Schmidt of Chico’s
Outlet, Angel Pietsch of Little Birthday
Angels and Kristiana Strickland
of Jockey at Vero Beach Outlets
participated in the Stuff the Bus
fund-raiser.
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