Newsmakers: Sept. 2-8, 2024

Banking & Finance
Mid-Missouri Bank hired former employee Gabe Magnuson as community president in Bolivar. Magnuson served the past four years as a commercial loan officer for The Bank of Missouri, and he previously worked more than five years for Mid-Missouri Bank. He earned his bachelor’s in exercise and movement science from Missouri State University and graduated from the Graduate School of Banking in Boulder, Colorado.

Brewing
Piney River Brewing Co., which is located in Texas County, won five medals at the U.S. Open Beer Championship. Float Trip Ale and Andy’s Root Beer won gold medals, Missouri Waltz and Raise A Ruckus received silver medals and Black Walnut Wheat took home a bronze medal.

Education
Three Nixa Public Schools choirs were selected to perform at the Missouri Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop/Conference, and officials say this is the highest state honor a choir can receive. The choirs are the Inman Intermediate Eagle Honors Choir, Nixa Junior High Varsity Tenor/Bass Choir and Nixapella from Nixa High School.

Food service
Springfield-based Hiland Dairy Foods Co. LLC promoted Greg Helbig to senior vice president of operations and Clay Powell to vice president of operations. Helbig has worked at Hiland Dairy for 39 years, and the senior VP role was created for him. Powell, who succeeds Helbig, has 35 years of experience in the dairy and food manufacturing business.

Health Care
Citizens Memorial Hospital and Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation announced the appointments of Jenna Hicks and Donna Shelby to new leadership positions. With 16 years in health care, Hicks was appointed as director of quality and population health. Shelby, who has worked in health care for 37 years, was named director of medical staff services and physician recruitment.

Manufacturing
Michal Moss Early was promoted to the newly created role of executive vice president of corporate strategy at security and monitoring product manufacturer Digital Monitoring Products Inc. Early leads DMP’s marketing, human resources, information technology, customer service, inside sales, organizational development, global distribution and data technology teams. Early has been at DMP for five years, and prior to that, she had 16 years of experience in the financial industry.

DMP hired Matthew Gallion as director of data technology. The newly created role calls for Gallion to build and lead a team focused on tracking and analyzing business intelligence data. He has six years’ experience managing data strategy and working with analytics and data science.

SRC Holdings Corp. was honored for its impact in society as part of the Tugboat Institute’s Best Evergreen Companies list. Organizations were selected based on practices across Tugboat’s seven principles of purpose, perseverance, people first, private, profit, paced growth and pragmatic innovation.

Nonprofit
The Springfield-based Ozark Trails Council Inc. of Boy Scouts of America selected Travis Rubelee as Scout executive and CEO. With a Scouting career that started in 2003 in Dallas, Rubelee most recently served as director of field service and chief operating officer for the Heart of America Council in Kansas City.