Business news

Bank branch manager

ORONO – Bangor Savings Bank announced appointment of Christopher Winstead as branch manager in Orono at 110 Park St. Winstead comes to the bank with more than five years of banking experience in the area. He is a graduate of Northern New England School of Banking and Bangor Region Leadership Institute.

Winstead is the chairman of Fusion and serves on the board of Junior Achievement, the Bangor Public Library Book Festival advisory committee, and United Way of Eastern Maine Leaders’ Circle committee. He also is a Bangor Region Leadership Institute advocate.

Bank board of directors

CAMDEN – Rendle A. Jones, chairman of the board of directors for Camden National Corp., announced that James H. Page has been named to the bank’s board of directors.

Page is the chief executive officer of the James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town, a Maine institution founded in 1880.

“We are extremely pleased to add Jim to Camden National’s board,” said Jones. “As a veteran leader in the Maine business community, Jim brings to our board significant experience and expertise in leading the largest and oldest mapping firm in the Northeast.”

Page said, “I appreciate the longevity of Camden National’s commitment to the economic vitality of Maine’s communities as well as the service experience delivered to its customers.”

In 1997, after a career in academia, Page joined the James W. Sewall Co., which provides comprehensive consulting services in forestry, engineering and geographic information management for municipal government, utilities and the natural resource industry.

Page is an adjunct professor at the University of Maine. A native of Caribou, he holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine at Fort Kent, a master’s degree from St. Andrews University, Scotland, and a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Page serves on the boards of Maine GeoLibrary, the Old Town-Orono YMCA and Maine Rural Partners. He is a founding director of the Gulf of Maine Oceanographic Observing System.

Real estate board

BANGOR – The Maine Real Estate and Development Association announced that J. David Hughes of Epstein Commercial Real Estate has been elected to its board of directors.

As a commercial real estate broker, Hughes focuses on the sale and lease of office, retail, industrial and investment properties. Before joining Epstein Commercial, Hughes worked in property management at Hughes Associates.

He has dealt with all facets of management including leasing, maintenance and capital planning for condo associations, apartment complexes, office and retail properties.

Hughes is a graduate of the University of Maine with a degree in business administration. His transactions include sales of shopping centers such as the University Mall and North Hampden Shopping Center, office buildings such as the former Dead River building in Bangor, and industrial properties such as Sysco facilities in Bangor and Newport.

Hughes is a CCIM designee candidate; serves on the boards of Maine Commercial Association of Realtors, Eastern Maine Community College Foundation and Bangor Museum and Center for History. He a past president and a Paul Harris Fellow of Bangor Rotary Club.

He has served on city of Bangor committees and task forces.

For information about MEREDA, call Shelly R. Clark at 874-0801.