new orleans
Tim Smith Adopted by investor bank He served as president and senior vice president of the commercial real estate market in New Orleans.
Smith has 40 years of professional experience, most of which has been in the banking industry. At Investar, he was a Commercial Real Estate Relations Manager at Capital One.
Smith serves on the board of the Louisiana Housing and Community Development Corporation.
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Laura Shiraz is driven by Adams and Reese to Chief Marketing Officer.
Sillars joined Adams and Reese in 2020 as Director of Marketing and Communications. She has over 30 years of her career in marketing and communications. She served as a producer on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. In that role, she helped create and develop the concept of ‘Oprah’s Book Club’. Shiraz continued her television production career with top-tier shows such as ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ and she served as HGTV’s Vice President of Programming and Hallmark as Senior Vice President of Programming for her channel.
She earned a BA in Journalism from LSU.
Baton Rouge
Dr. Gabriel Saint-Germain Colon attended the Mandeville Dental Clinic of Dr. Joseph Fitzpatrick.
Colon is from Mandeville. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in dental surgery from LSU School of Dentistry.
She previously practiced dentistry in Columbia, Missouri.
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Harold Merrion Jr. was appointed Research Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator at Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
Previously, Merrion served as Dean and Program Leader for Agricultural/Animal Sciences at Southern University’s College of Agriculture, Home and Consumer Sciences.
He has a BS in Agriculture from Southern University, an MS in Animal Science from Kansas State University, and a Ph.D. in Agriculture, Extension, Adult Education, and Online Education from LSU.
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Ashley Coco I participated stewart title As an underwriting advisor in Louisiana.
Coco has over 10 years of experience in real estate and title law. She has an extensive background in commercial real estate transactions including retail, industrial, single family/multifamily development, and the petrochemical industry. Prior to joining Stewart, Coco was Chief Counsel at Baton Heading Rouge’s Commerce Services Division for the title. She previously worked as a title attorney in both the Dallas and Baton Rouge offices of a boutique mortgage bank.
She holds a bachelor’s degree and a law degree from LSU.
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Stephen Howell I participated Oxnerbaton Rouge as Chief Financial Officer.
Howell has over 30 years of healthcare leadership experience. He spent the first twenty years of his career at his Baton Rouge General. Initially a financial analyst, he was eventually appointed Director of Decision Support, Strategy, Business Development and Physician Analysis. He then founded his own consulting firm working with hospitals across the country and was involved in launching the Louisiana Healthcare Information Exchange.
In 2015, he joined Northern Light Health, a health system in Maine, where he was vice president of capital planning and finance before joining Oxner.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Accounting and a Master’s degree in Finance from LSU.
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sahar haddadian I participated Neil Shaffer As a coastal hydro engineer based in the company’s Baton Rouge office.
She has three years of experience with the Gulf Water Institute and worked for the Louisiana Department of Coastal Protection and Restoration while providing coastal expertise and coastal hydropower modeling services. Prior to that, she provided coastal engineering and modeling services to clients in Florida and the Caribbean.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Tabriz University, a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering-Hydraulic Engineering from Tehran University and a PhD in Civil Engineering-Coastal Engineering from LSU.
