Who is on the move?
Carla Askonas is named executive director of Chattanooga Technology Council. Before joining ChaTech, Askonas worked in a variety of leadership and community outreach roles across many of Chattanooga’s public institutions, such as Hamilton County, the City of Chattanooga, United Way, the Trust for Public Land and Chattanooga State.
Trace Devanny is the new chief executive officer of TractManager. In this role, Devanny advances the growth of the knowledge-based system solutions TractManager supplies to more than 3,000 hospital and provider clients. Devanny joins TractManager from his position as president of Nuance Communications’ Healthcare Business, a leading, global provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers.
Brooke Maedel is the new vice president of HR technology and operations for Reliance Human Captial Management. She previously worked for Junior League of Chattanooga and Russ Blakely & Associates, LLC. Reliance Human Capital Management delivers enterprise-class employer solutions to the Small and Medium-Sized Business market. Headquartered in Chattanooga. Reliance serves employers both locally and nationally.
Wilson Meads has joined Synovus/Cohutta Bank as a commercial banker for the bank’s downtown office. In his new role, he helps deliver the full range of Synovus services, products and banking capabilities to small business and commercial banking clients in the Chattanooga market. In 2005, Meads joined Citizens First, the Synovus affiliate in Rome, Ga., as a management associate and was a regional credit analyst for six years. Most recently, he served as a commercial banker in the Rome market.