Newsmakers: April 22-28, 2024

Architecture
Kinetic Design and Development LLC hired Patrick Tasset as project manager and Autumn Lambertson as interior design associate. Tasset has more than 30 years of industry experience, and Lambertson is a 2023 graduate of Missouri State University with a bachelor’s in interior design.

Banking & Finance
Dana Havens, managing partner for Affinity Wealth Partners, was named to Forbes’ list of the best-in-state women advisers. With more than two decades of financial services industry experience, Havens has a bachelor’s in business administration and economics from Drury University.

Guaranty Bank hired Andy Redman as vice president and commercial banking officer. With more than 20 years of experience in commercial banking, Redman graduated from MSU with a bachelor’s in business administration and management.

Engineering
Toth and Associates Inc. promoted Luke Snow to vice president and shareholder. A professional engineer, he has nearly a decade of experience in the power delivery and utilities industry, specializing in transmission and distribution line design and the deployment of communication facilities for Toth.

Health Care
Children’s Smile Center hired Sandy Thompson as community relations director for its nonprofit dental clinics. Thompson, who is responsible for public relations, special events, grant writing and school liaison communications, has a bachelor’s in mass communication/journalism from Texas State University.

Law
Kent Hyde of Hyde, Love & Overby LLP was inducted as a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Membership is limited to 500 fellows in the United States, as well as international members. Fellows are evaluated based on peer and judicial review.

Real Estate
Pittsfield, Illinois-based Whitetail Properties Real Estate hired local real estate broker Dustin Ross to lead its waterfront homes, luxury homes and country homes market segments. The new segments cover all of southern Missouri. Ross, who works for the Utecht Residential Team of Whitetail Properties, is based in Marshfield.

Brian Utecht, salesperson and land specialist in southwest Missouri for Whitetail Properties Real Estate, received a handful of industry awards recognizing his sale of rural properties in 2023. Utecht, who has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, was honored in Land Magazine and on its website, Land.com, as a Land Star Award Top Producer for ranking in the top 5% of all rural land sales in the Midwest last year. He additionally was honored by the Realtors Land Institute with a regional Broker of the Year recognition for ranch sales and won an APEX Producers Club award that recognizes real estate agents with at least $5 million of qualifying land sales in a single year. Utecht also earned RLI’s accredited land consultant designation, which requires the completion of an educational program, a record of successful transactions and professional growth commitments.