Business Digest: McKee promotes Krause, Ranalli

McKee promotes Krause, Ranalli

McKee Foods Corp., has promoted Keith Krause to vice president of corporate purchasing and Ryan Ranalli to vice president of the company’s Stuarts Draft, Va., operations.

Krause began his career with McKee Foods in 1982 while in high school. He steadily acceded to positions of higher authority, most recently serving as director of purchasing since 2004. In his new role, Krause is responsible for all ingredient, packaging and fleet purchases, as well as supplier inspections.

Ranalli began his career with McKee Foods in 2001 as an intern in technical services. He served in several different technical services positions, most recently as director of quality/research & development since 2011. In his new role, Ranalli is responsible for all functions of McKee Foods’ Stuarts Draft, Va., plant, including administration and manufacturing.

Grisham, Bell form law firm

Attorneys Art Grisham and Bylinda Bell have formed the law partnership of Grisham & Bell, PLLC, with Judy Fisher being the practice administrator.

The new law firm located in the First Tennessee Building in downtown Chattanooga will offer creditor rights representation in state and federal courts, estate planning and administration, family law, and civil litigation services.

NW Georgia Bank promotes two

Northwest Georgia Bank has promoted Alice Holsopple to assistant vice president and consumer lender and Taryn Hall Roberts as a branch manager and assistant vice president.

Holsopple joined Northwest Georgia Bank in 1999 as a teller and has worked as an in-store manager, assistant branch manager, and branch manager in Fort Oglethorpe.

“Alice displays great attention to detail and a strong desire to serve our customers; both of which are qualities needed to be a successful lender,” said Rich Balthrop, vice president of retail and sales for the Ringgold, Ga.-based bank.

A 1994 graduate of Lafayette High School, Holsopple has studied at Dalton State College, Northwestern Technical Institute and the American Institute of Banking. She will begin serving as the president of the Fort Oglethorpe Kiwanis Club in October 2015.

Roberts, who joined Northwest Georgia Bank in 2006 as a teller after graduating from Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School, is the new manager of the Fort Oglethorpe branch at Battlefield Parkway and Dietz Road. She worked her way up the retail ranks of the bank and was promoted to in-store manager of the Lafayette office in 2012 and assistant branch manager of the East Ridge office in 2013. Most recently, Hall-Roberts served as treasury management officer.

Balthrop said Hall- Roberts’ familiarity with the Fort Oglethorpe and North Georgia area, and her cash management experience, “will prove important attributes as she takes on this new role.”

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