Personnel

Advanced Payroll Plus, Bangor Savings Bank’s payroll subsidiary, has named Miles Greenacre of Hampden as general manager and has promoted Tess Mairhuber of Hudson to assistant general manager at its Bangor office. A certified public accountant, Greenacre joins Advanced Payroll Plus with more than 20 years of experience in financial management as a veteran of Maine’s paper industry. His experience ranges from strategic planning and budgeting to financial analysis and risk management, and he has held regional controller and operations controller positions. He has a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Maine. Mairhuber had seven years’ banking and bank operations experience before joining Advanced Payroll Plus as production manager in March 1997 and most recently served as interim general manager of the company.

Susan Dolloff has been transferred from the main branch of Bangor Savings Bank at 3 State St. in Bangor to the Waterville branch as assistant branch manager. Dolloff has extensive banking experience and has served in various capacities in the bank including as a teller in Unity, customer service representative in Pittsfield, branch assistant at the Broadway Avenue branch in Bangor, loan officer in Brewer, and assistant manager at 3 State Street in Bangor.

Michael W. Grondin of Bangor was recently named the new business and cooperative services programs director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development office based in Bangor. His duties include planning, directing and coordinating technical and professional aspects of loan grants and guarantees relevant to business and cooperatives services. These include business and industry loans, rural business enterprise grants, rural business opportunity grants, and various other business loan programs. Grondin is a 1975 graduate of the University of Maine, and has worked for USDA Rural Development (previously Farmers Home Administration) for nearly 30 years. Grondin was promoted from his previous position as multifamily housing specialist.

Ronald C. Lambert Jr. of Hartland was recently named community programs director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development office based in Bangor. His primary responsibilities include planning, directing and coordinating technical and professional aspects of loans, grants, and guarantees of community programs. Lambert has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture and resource economics from the University of Maine, and has worked for USDA Rural Development (formerly Farmers Home Administration) for 27 years. Lambert was promoted from his previous position as senior community program specialist.

Susan R. Kaye has joined Linda Packard and Liane Judd as a principal in the strategic marketing firm of Packard Judd Kaye LLC in Bangor. Kaye brings twenty years of professional experience in both strategic marketing and the health and human services field. She has a master’s in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s in social work from Columbia University in New York City. Kaye will specialize in strategic planning and marketing plan development.

Cynthia Bergman has been named press secretary in the Office of Public Affairs for the federal Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. In 2002, Bergman handled communications for the Maine Republican Party, focusing on U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’s re-election campaign. She previously worked at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in New York City and was press secretary for U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., from 1997- 2000.

Jennifer L. Eastman of Hampden has joined the law firm of Eaton Peabody as an associate at the Bangor office with a practice concentrate in corporate law, estate planning and elder law. Eastman received her undergraduate degree from Arizona State University and is a 2003 graduate of William & Mary School of Law. While attending William & Mary, she served as an articles editor for the William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, and won an award from the American Bar Association in a writing competition.

Steven L. Gagnon of Caribou has been promoted to team sales leader for Key Bank’s Northern and Eastern Maine Business Banking Team. In his new position, Gagnon will be responsible for leading Key’s business banking efforts in the Presque Isle and Bangor markets. Gagnon has been with Key Bank for 25 years.

Birch Bay Village has named Debra Chalmers of Southwest Harbor as its activities director. Chalmers recently received her certification to teach a variety of exercise programs. She has attended the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Orono and Augusta as well as the College of the Atlantic.

Mike Roberts has become a partner in the firm of Management Intervention Services, LLC. Roberts has 25 years of senior management experiences from private sector organizations in New York and Maine. MIS is located at 138 Union Street in Rockland.

Peter Collett of New Limerick has been hired as a sales agent by First Choice Real Estate, located at 46 North Street in Houlton. Collett was licensed as a sales agent in June and has been accepted as a member of the Maine Association of Realtors.