Three young leaders of Covenant Transport Service have been promoted to new roles with the Chattanooga-based trucking and logistics company.
Ryan Rogers, chief transformation officer at Covenant Transport Services, has been named executive vice president over the enterprise’s wholly-owned brokerage subsidiary, Covenant Solutions. Rogers joined Covenant in January, 2018 after serving as a transportation executive at Amazon, and earlier in his career, leading a brokerage unit at Chattanooga-based U.S. Xpress.
Paul Bunn, chief accounting officer at Covenant Transport Services since 2009, has been named chief administrative officer and executive vice president for the enterprise. Bunn will specialize in leading the way for all companies in the areas of people, processes, projects and procurement.
Joey Ballard, former senior director of talent acquisition at Landair Holdings, has been named senior vice president of human resources and driver recruiting for all of Covenant Transport Services. Since Covenant Transport Services’ acquisition of Landair in July 2018, Ballard has led the way integrating people and sharing human resources and recruiting assets and practices, and she is tasked in her new role with ensuring a true people-first culture across all companies.
“Our organization is blessed with tremendous talent, top-to-bottom,” said Joey Hogan, president of Covenant Transport Services. “And that’s never more clear than at a moment like this, when we have strong, energetic and forward-thinking leaders ready and capable to advance our companies and our culture, while remaining true to the values and ethics upon which we were founded.”
C. Douglas Dooley elected to Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
C. Douglas Dooley of the Chattanooga law firm of Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC was elected to a three-year term on the executive council for the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA) during the ADTA’s 78th Annual Meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland.
The ADTA is an international organization of defense attorneys which accepts members by invitation with only one prime member from any city like Chattanooga with a population of less than 1 million people.
“It is a great honor to be elected by international peers to serve on the management of this prestigious defense organization,” Dooley said.
Dooley graduated from the University of Alabama in 1984 and earned his law degree from Cumberland School of Law at Sanford University in 1987. He has been with Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan for 32 years.
Dooley has served as president of the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association and is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and DRI: The Voice of the Defense. He has served on various committees for DRI and the IADC. Additionally, Dooley has served a three-year term on the DRI Board of Directors.
Eric Foster heads programming for Brewer Broadcasting radio station
Brewer Broadcasting has tapped radio veteran Eric Foster to program radio station WPLZ-FMt, Big 95.3. Foster has over 20 years of radio broadcasting experience, some of which allowed him to work in the Atlanta market with Urban One.
Foster was also nominated for a Marconi Award for Best Personality/Small Market and won Best Radio Endorser for the Krystal restaurant chain. He’s currently doing mornings on Big 95.3, a part of the Chattanooga Morning Show with Gary, Beth, and Eric and middays on Power 94.
Patton Albertson & Miller adds Robert Vitolins as analyst
Financial life management firm Patton Albertson & Miller has hired Robert Vitolins as a trading operations analyst in its Chattanooga office.
Vitolins will support the investment services team at the the Chattanooga-based firm, which provides fee-only wealth management and trust services to individuals, families and institutions throughout the United States.
“Vitolins comes to us with a good foundation on investing and solid understanding of trade processes, and we’re proud to help retain local talent in Chattanooga,” said Jimmy Patton, founding partner and CEO of Patton Albertson & Miller. “Our firm is dedicated to fulfilling the financial health goals of families and individuals, and it’s energizing to expand our team with an analyst who’s just as passionate about providing quality service to our clients.”
A native of Tennessee, Vitolins graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a bachelor’s degree in finance and a focus on investments. He is working toward achieving designation as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
InfoSystems promotes Josh Davis, William Cobb as VPs
InfoSystems, a Chattanooga-based information technology company, has named Josh Davis as vice president of marketing and William [Fred] Cobb as vice president of services and chief information security officer.
“As we position InfoSystems for continued growth, it made sense to align our leadership team with the needs created by expanded service offerings and added skills on our team,” said Clay Hales, founder and CEO at InfoSystems.
Davis started with InfoSystems in a marketing capacity in 2012 and in his new role he will direct the creation of a new InfoSystems division that boosts InfoSystems own presence while also providing marketing services to other technology companies. Davis currently serves on the Chattanooga Technology Council board of directors and on the IBM Global Business Partner Advisory Council marketing committee.
With more than 30 years of IT experience, Cobb joined the InfoSystems team in January vice president of cloud services. Cobb’s purview will now expand to guide information security, project management and engineering services, among other roles.
“Not only are we celebrating our 25th anniversary this year, but we’ve added to our technical team which has enhanced the capabilities and value we can offer to our customers,” Davis said. “I’m excited to play an important role as we take on the challenges that come with a rapidly growing company, and I know Fred is as well.”
Crye-Leike adds Danny Weaver in Fort Oglethorpe
Crye-Leike Real Estate Services announces that Realtor Danny Weaver has joined Crye-Leike’s Fort Oglethorpe branch office as a licensed Realtor. Weaver will serve the real estate needs of buyers and sellers in Walker, Catoosa and Hamilton counties.
Weaver worked as a railroad conductor before deciding to jump back into the real estate industry.
“This office by far seemed to have more of a family atmosphere than the other firms I had talked with,” Weaver said of his decision to join Crye-Leike.
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