U.S. Cellular has promoted Sean Griffith to store manager and Stephanie Dow to sales manager in the Bangor-area market. Griffith is responsible for management of the Bangor and Ellsworth retail store locations. Dow directs daily activities for employees in the company’s Ellsworth retail location. Her responsibilities include growing revenue and driving standards of excellence. Griffith started his career with U.S. Cellular in 1999. Most recently, he served as U.S. Cellular’s store manager, where he was responsible for locations throughout central Maine. Griffith received his bachelor’s degree in advertising from Michigan State University. He resides in Winslow. Dow started her career with U.S. Cellular in 2002. Most recently, she served as U.S. Cellular’s retail wireless consultant. Dow received her associate degree in business management with a concentration in office administration from Eastern Maine Community College. She resides in Hampden.

Ocean Properties Ltd. has named Bangor native Kara M. Greer director of sales and marketing for its northern New England sales team, responsible for sales and marketing operations at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, and in Bar Harbor at the Harborside Hotel, Spa & Marina and the Bar Harbor Regency. Greer brings more than a decade of lodging industry management experience to the position, the majority in the luxury hotel and resort sector. Before joining Ocean Properties, she was director of revenue management for The Ritz-Carlton Hotels of New Orleans, a 757-room luxury hotel complex. She also held positions as director of organizational effectiveness and assistant director of human resources for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC. In addition, she taught as an adjunct faculty member at Tulane University and Delgado Community College, both in New Orleans. She completed her undergraduate work at Tulane University, then returned to Maine to complete her graduate degree in public policy at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service. Greer grew up in Bangor and now resides in Belfast.

Allen Stehle, president and CEO of Beal College of Bangor and head of the criminal justice program there, recently was named a certified fraud examiner by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The ACFE is an international association with approximately 45,000 members. Its mission is to reduce fraud worldwide and increase confidence in business practices. Stehle said his goal is to use his skills to work toward elimination of fraud and financial abuse of the

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