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The Great Frederick Fair promoted Becky Brashear to general manager. Previously, Brashear was executive assistant to the board of managers. Earlier, she was an agriculture editor at The Frederick News-Post and assistant executive director of the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair.

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Beech Street Capital of Bethesda named Larry Sneathern senior vice president of loan origination. Previously, Sneathern was regional senior vice president with PNC ARCS.

Goodman & Co. named Jon C. Holmes a manager in its Rockville office. The company also promoted Kam Chun Lo to manager and Payton Baran, Nikolina Boyadzhieva and Timothy Hare to senior associate.

Lerch, Early & Brewer of Bethesda named Erin Kopelman an associate in its family law group. Previously, Kopelman was with Brodsky, Renehan, Pearlstein, Lastra & Bouquet.

Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic of Bethesda named John Eisenberg lead writer and Ravens Insider for its CSNbaltimore.com. Previously, Eisenberg was a columnist for The (Baltimore) Sun and a sportswriter for the Dallas Times Herald.

Terrance C. Coakley, co-owner and CEO of Coakley & Williams Construction of Bethesda, won the 2010 Catholic Business Person of the Year Award from the Catholic Business Network of Montgomery County.

Discovery Communications of Silver Spring promoted Bruce Campbell from president of digital media and corporate development to chief development officer and general counsel, succeeding Joe LaSala in the latter role. Before joining Discovery in 2007, Campbell was executive vice president, business development for NBC Universal. He also was a lawyer with O'Melveny & Myers. Discovery also named Lee Bartlett executive vice president, global production management, business and legal affairs. Previously, Bartlett was managing director of ITV Studios for ITV plc and executive vice president for business affairs at Fox Broadcasting.

TW Perry of Gaithersburg promoted Michael Cassidy to president and CEO, succeeding Edward J. Quinn as CEO. Before joining TW Perry in 2008 as COO, Cassidy was vice president of mergers and acquisitions for Strober and also worked for United Technologies, Booz Allen Hamilton and Kimberly Clark.

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Old Line Bancshares of Bowie named André J. Gingles a director. Gingles owns Gingles LLC, a law firm in Calverton.

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Barcoding Inc. of Baltimore named Shane Snyder vice president of sales. Previously, Snyder founded Work Confident and was executive vice president of sales for Catalyst IT Services and national sales director of Kronos' labor analytics division.

Greater Baltimore AHC named Mary Claire Davis of Burtonsville a project manager. Previously, Davis worked for AHC Management.

Community Health Charities of Maryland of Baltimore elected the following directors: Bonnie Heneson, president of Bonnie Heneson Communications of Owings Mills, and Edward J. Novak, manager of government and external relations for Baltimore County Public Schools. Heneson also was named to the board of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland.

The Columbia Bank of Columbia named Sean M. Hough vice president of commercial banking. Previously, Hough was a vice president with K Bank.

Noxilizer of Baltimore named Lawrence Bruder president and CEO. Previously, Bruder was president and CEO of Guava Technologies. He also worked for Becton Dickinson, Applied Biosystems, Leica and Olympus.

Crestline Hotels & Resorts of Fairfax, Va., named Patricia Scott sales director for the Courtyard by Marriott and adjoining Residence Inn hotel in Aberdeen. Previously, Scott was conference sales manager at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Del., and also worked for the Embassy Suites Hotel in Newark, Del., and Homewood Suites Hotel in Wilmington.

Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore promoted Caroline Laguerre-Brown to vice provost for institutional equity, succeeding Ray Gillian, who retired. Previously, Laguerre-Brown was associate vice provost for institutional equity. Earlier, she was labor and employment defense counsel for the New York Transit Authority and assistant director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Office for the Fire Department of New York.

The Columbia Bank promoted Lisa Swan to manager of its Oakland Mills branch in Columbia. Previously, Swan was associate manager of the bank's Ellicott City branch.

Conmed Healthcare Management of Hanover promoted Stephen B. Goldberg to executive vice president, succeeding co-founder Howard M. Haft, who is retiring. Goldberg is president and founder of Correctional Mental Health Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Conmed. Previously, he was director of admissions, director of pretrial services and associate medical director at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, Maryland's maximum-security state psychiatric hospital. Succeeding Haft as chief medical officer is Robert Younes. Before joining Conmed in 2007, Younes was medical director at the Medical Education Center Primary Care Clinic of Northern Virginia Community College.

Merkle of Columbia named James Foley senior vice president and chief people officer. Previously, Foley was senior vice president of human resources at Vertis Communications and vice president, human resources, at Corvis Corp. and U.S. Office Products.

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