Newsmakers: May 6-12, 2024

Banking & Finance
OMB Bank made two appointments for its new banking as a service department. Mindy Taylor, an OMB employee since October 2023 who has nearly 24 years of experience in the industry, was named BaaS operations manager. Faith Strong, who joined OMB in 2022, was promoted to BaaS operations specialist.

Nathan Maberry joined OMB Bank as mortgage loan officer. Maberry, who serves Joplin and surrounding communities for OMB Bank, has more than 15 years of mortgage lending experience, most recently as a mortgage loan originator for USA Mortgage.

Construction
Springfield mechanical contracting company Gold Mechanical Inc. hired a chief financial officer and construction manager. New CFO Angie Way joins Gold Mechanical from Springfield firm BRP Architects, where she worked for 20 years. Carl Kicklighter, who was hired as construction manager, previously served as plant operations director for Vital Farms of Missouri LLC.

Health Care
Citizens Memorial Hospital’s Colonial Springs Healthcare Center in Buffalo named licensed nursing home administrator Roy Pace as the facility’s new administrator. With 28 years of experience in long-term care, Pace has his associate in nursing from Missouri State University-West Plains.

CMH’s Community Springs Healthcare Facility in El Dorado Springs appointed Vautrin Cadle as administrator and Rachel O’Dell as director of nursing. Cadle has been administrator-in-training since November 2023 and brings 15 years of health care experience to the role. He has a bachelor’s in psychology from MSU. O’Dell, who earned her associate in nursing from Southwest Baptist University, has worked at Community Springs Healthcare Facility since 2022.

Nonprofit
The Springfield chapter of The Salvation Army hired Hollee Ellis as development director. With a bachelor’s in mass communication/media studies from University of Central Missouri, Ellis most recently worked as an education consultant for Promethean.

Ozarks Food Harvest Inc. honored volunteer Don Landon for contributing 2,000 hours of service to the nonprofit. Landon, 93, has been moved up on the Charles Foltz Gift of Time Tree for his seven years of service to Ozarks Food Harvest.

United Way of the Ozarks appointed new board members and officers. The nonprofit’s new board members are Matt Aug of Cox HealthPlans; Tyler Hesser of Springfield ReManufacturing Corp.; Dee King of Burrell Behavioral Health; and Stephanie Matthews of Simmons Bank. The new officers are Chair David Agee of Husch Blackwell LLP; Vice Chair/Chair-elect Rachel Anderson of the Efactory; Secretary Shawn Calhoun of Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.; Treasurer Jason England of Arvest Bank; past Chair Joan Barrett of Ozarks Technical Community College; Community Investment Committee co-Chair Aug; at-large officer Stephen Hall of Springfield Public Schools; and at-large officer Ryan Sivill of FORVIS LLP.

Trucking
Barry McGowen, director of safety for Christenson Transportation Inc., was honored as Safety Director of the Year by the Missouri Trucking Association during a conference held in Lake of the Ozarks.