Contributed photography / Kira WheatDr. Alan Koffron joins Erlanger Kidney Transplant Center as its new surgical director. Dr. Koffron works alongside Dr. Kenneth Kokko, kidney transplant center program and medical director. Dr. Koffron earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Following medical school, he completed residency training in general surgery at Chicago Medical School University of Health Sciences. Dr. Koffron completed two fellowships – a multiple-organ transplant surgery and hepatobiliary surgery fellowship at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and a pediatric liver transplant surgery and hepatobiliary surgery fellowship at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Matthew McKenney joins HHM Wealth Advisors, LLC as client service administrator. With deep roots in the community, McKenney joined HHM Wealth Advisors after earning a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Rhodes College. He had several internships over the last four years, preparing him to serve as client service administrator. Matthew supports HHM Wealth’s lead advisors with research, trading, and retirement analysis. He is also dedicated to ensuring customer satisfaction in every encounter he has with clients.
E’tienne Easley joins Family Promise of Greater Chattanooga as the director of development. Easley leads the work of fundraising and grant writing, as well as managing communication efforts. Family Promise is a nonprofit organization that offers four programs to prevent, reduce and end family homelessness in the Chattanooga area. Easely has extensive experience in leadership, managing grant funds, strategic planning and implementation, volunteer recruitment and building effective and long-standing community partnerships. She is a certified grant writer, and her background includes being Hamilton County Department of Education’s family partnership specialist, community engagement manager and health program manager, as well as the employment career specialist at Signal Centers.
Joel Henderson is named as the new executive director for Volunteers In Medicine of Chattanooga. VIM serves the health and wellness needs of the medically underserved by providing quality, compassionate, personal care in a faith-based environment. Henderson previously served as director of communications and marketing since 2017 at the Cleveland/Bradley County Chamber of Commerce and previously served as vice president of communications at North American Credit Services Inc. Henderson is a 1994 graduate from Southern Adventist University and a 2013 graduate of Leadership Chattanooga.
Anne Najjar joins the team at Second Story Real Estate Management, Chattanooga’s full-service property management group. A skilled negotiator with a reputation for creating successful outcomes for investors, tenants and landlords alike, Anne Najjar brings over 15 years of commercial investment, development and brokerage experience. In 2018, CoStar awarded Najjar their Power Broker award for being a top broker for the Chattanooga MSA area. Her experience ranges from acquisitions and dispositions to leasing and financial and market analysis for clients. She played an integral part in the redevelopment of the Southside from acquisitions of historical buildings, becoming knowledgeable on grants, understanding the conservation of buildings and finding tenants to fill the newly refurbished buildings. Najjar will be mainly working on retail, restaurant, medical and office representation, as well as investment, acquisition and disposition with Second Story.