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Frederick

Brian Gaeng, president and CEO of BlueRidge Bank, was recognized by the Frederick Memorial Hospital Board of Directors for his "many years of dedicated service to the Frederick Memorial Healthcare System." Gaeng was a director for 10 years, stepping down in September, and was chairman in 2002-04.

Montgomery

Maier & Warner Public Relations of Rockville named Karen Widmayer a senior associate.

DRS Advisors of Silver Spring named Fritz Beuker managing director. Previously, Beuker was director of corporate finance at Americatel Corp.

Montgomery Housing Partnership in Silver Spring named Artie L. Harris director of real estate and neighborhood development and Angela Diaz assistant director of community life. Previously, Harris was vice president of land acquisition for Fairfield Residential and Diaz was a field coordinator for World Vision.

Comcast Spotlight of Bethesda, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, named Raj Bhansali director of research. Previously, Bhansali was senior account executive at Insight Express and also worked for Nielsen Media Research.

USEC Inc. of Bethesda promoted Peter B. Saba to senior vice president. Saba will continue as general counsel and secretary. Previously, he was of counsel in the global projects group at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and principal deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Domestic and International Energy Policy. USEC also named Paul Sullivan an officer and chief engineer. Sullivan, a retired Navy vice admiral, joined USEC in January as vice president for operations.

Discovery Communications of Silver Spring named Laura Michalchyshyn president and general manager of Planet Green. Previously, Michalchyshyn was executive vice president and general manager of the Sundance Channel, senior vice president of dramatic programming at Alliance Atlantis and program manager at WTN.

Rohini Anand, senior vice president and global chief diversity officer for Sodexo Inc. of Gaithersburg, won the 2009 Trailblazer Award from the Women's Foodservice Forum and the Maryland International Business Leadership Award from the World Trade Center Institute.

Patton of Gaithersburg named Ernesto Casas regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, Casas was Latin America director with 3Com and also worked for Supercable and VoIP Vox2Vox.

Lerch, Early & Brewer of Bethesda named Mimi L. Magyar a principal in its family law practice group and Ruth O. Katz an associate in its community associations practice group. Previously, Magyar chaired the domestic relations practice group at Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker. Katz was with Grenadier, Anderson, Simpson & Duffett.

The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Montgomery County named the following officers: Julio Parra of Parra Consulting, president; David Fraser Hidalgo of Sandglass Systems, vice president; Vicky Medina of Montgomery County Public Schools, secretary; Carmen Larsen of Aquas Inc., treasurer; and Jorge Restrepo of EurekaFacts, immediate past president.

John P. "Jack" Hollerbach, founder, president and CEO of HarVest Bank of Maryland in Gaithersburg, won the Montgomery County Good Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.

Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health of Rockville added the following psychiatrists: Michelle G. Seelman, Madan Uprety and Gebrehana Zebro, plus Samantha Madhosingh as residential treatment center director and Laura Thorpe as program director. Seelman, working in the children's unit, is a former Navy flight surgeon and general medical officer. Uprety works in adult acute inpatient services; he was a staff psychiatrist at the Cumberland (Wis.) Memorial Hospital/North West Regional Center and also worked at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center. Zebro is a general medical internist in acute care services; he was section chief for consult-liaison and emergency psychiatry at Carillion Clinic Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Services. Madhosingh was a clinical psychologist with the Washington, D.C., Department of Mental Health. Thorpe worked for Vesta, Stress and Health Management and Creative Mental Health Services, and was a psychiatric social worker at Crownsville Hospital Center.

The Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce named Robert A. Burton, a partner in Venable's Washington, D.C., law office, to its Government Contracting Network.

Prince George's

The University System of Maryland Foundation in Adelphi named the following directors: John J. Cronin, senior vice president of ATK; and Eric E. McLauchlin, a shareholder in Gessner, Snee, Mahoney & Lutche.

State

Northrop Grumman of Linthicum promoted Michael E. Hinkey to vice president of engineering and manufacturing for the Eastern region campuses of its electronic systems sector. Previously, Hinkey, who joined the company in 1981, was director of multi-role electronically scanned array radar programs. The company also promoted Patrick M. Antkowiak to vice president of strategy and capability for its electronic systems sector's engineering, manufacturing and logistics organization. Antkowiak also joined the company in 1981; most recently, he was director of space systems in its advanced concepts and technologies division.

DuraBante of Baltimore named J. Michael McLaughlin managing director of finance. Previously, McLaughlin worked for Dynamac Corp.

GateKeeper USA of Gaithersburg named Randal E. Null to its advisory board. Null, an independent consultant in homeland security, previously worked for the Transportation Security Administration, Intel, Microchip Technology, Fairchild and Texas Instruments.

The Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau named Bill Adams of Bowie director of its sales department. Previously, Adams was senior sales manager at the International Spy Museum and group sales manager at the Newseum.

Message Systems of Columbia named Joal Barbehenn corporate counsel. Previously, Barbehenn was an associate at Venable LLP.

Sean Logan and Larry Yumkas have added Jim Vidmar and Paul Sweeney, formerly of Linowes & Blocher, to their Annapolis law firm, now called Logan, Yumkas, Vidmar & Sweeney.

Healthy Housing Solutions of Columbia named Michelle Y. Nusum president and CEO. Previously, Nusum was executive director of Coppin Heights Community Development Corp. and led statewide community outreach and education efforts of the Coalition to End Childhood Poisoning.

Systems Alliance of Sparks named Tony Lynch a senior business development executive in its Atlanta office.

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