PEORIA MAGAZINE March 2023

BUSINESS NEWS

Mark Welp has joined WTVP and Peoria Mag azine as senior content producer. Welp has spent more than 25 years in television journalism, most recently as the

IN BRIEF

evening news anchor at WMBD-TV in Peoria. He brings extensive expe rience reporting, shooting and edit ing video, as well as production and newsroom management. MEET THE NEW BOSS Andrea Bjorkman , who founded Bloomington-based Fizz Enterprises with Teri Lucie Thompson , has assumed full ownership of the business. Find Your Fizz , founded in 2021, has served female clients from California to Massachusetts with curated solutions to help them navigate challenges through all stages of professional life. CLIMBING THE LADDER Katherine G. P. Legge , an assistant U.S. attorney in Peoria, has been selected as an associate judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit covering Peoria, Tazewell, Marshall, Putnam and Stark counties. She will fill the vacancy created by the December retirement of Judge Albert L. Purham Jr.

HIRES AND RETIRES

Randy Weatherly , vice president for F&M Bank , Brimfield Market, has announced his retirement. Weatherly began his banking career in 1982 as a loan correspondent for a major life insurance company and joined F&M Bank in 2018.

Jessica Linder Gallo is the new vice president of operations at the Peoria Area Chamber of Com merce . A native of Morton, Gallo returns to central Illinois after four years as president and CEO at the Aurora Area Chamber of Commerce.

Bradley University has named Jason G. Petrovich as its new vice president for advancement. Petro vich comes to Bradley from Valparaiso University, where he had served as as

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sociate vice president for advancement since 2012. Prior to his time at Valparaiso, Petrovich served in numerous roles over 18 years at DePauw University.

Judith Marks , CEO and president of Otis Worldwide Corporation, and James Fish, Jr. , president and CEO of Waste Management, have been appointed to the Caterpillar Inc. Board of Directors. Marks will serve on the Audit and Compensation and Human Resources Committees. Fish will serve on the Audit, Sustainability and other Public Policy Committees. The company also announced that Ed Rust will not stand for re-election at the 2023 Annual Shareholder Meeting.

ArtsPartners of Central Illinois, Inc. announced that Dr. Mae Gilliland Wright has accepted the position of executive di rector. Wright previously served as executive di

Mike Wells has been named president of OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center , replacing Bob Anderson , who now serves as chief executive officer for the

rector of Big Picture Initiative, a local arts nonprofit. She has a long history with ArtsPartners, including six years of serv ice on the board of directors, three of which were spent as vice president.

Chris Holmquist is joining CityLink as director of human resources. With more than 20 years of HR experience across multiple industries, Holmquist will manage

central region of OSF HealthCare . Wells will be responsible for directing all internal operations. Ben Fengel , past board member for The Center for Prevention of Abuse and a current member of CFPA’s Human Trafficking Ad Hoc Committee, has been appointed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to the Illinois Human Trafficking Task Force. Fengel retired from the Bartonville Police Department in 2019.

Ken Hinkle has been named vice president of leasing for Cullinan Prop erties . He brings more than 30 years of leasing, property management and retail management

the overall operations of the Human Resource Department, including benefits administration, talent acquisition, performance management and legal compliance.

experience to the Cullinan team. He will be based in Cullinan’s Atlanta office.

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