Freese & Nichols, NV5 Global make hires, and a new name for CSG
Hires
Hilltop Securities announced that Victor F. Medina has joined the firm’s Private Client Group as senior vice president, branch manager in the firm’s new wealth management office in Fort Worth. Medina joins Hilltop from Morgan Stanley, where he served as senior vice president, financial advisor. Medina is involved in the Fort Worth community on the Ambassador Council of the Amon Carter Museum of America Art and on the Salvation Army’s Youth Education Town Advisory Committee of North Texas. His wealth management practice will be at 777 Main, where Hilltop has a municipal finance office.
Greg Vowels has joined Freese & Nichols as a senior project manager in Dallas. Vowels has more than two decades of experience in civil engineering, roadway design and construction supervision, most recently with a North Texas engineering firm on projects including the Chisholm Trail Parkway. Earlier, Vowels worked for TxDOT in Fort Worth and handled roadway designs for multiple Tarrant County projects, including the Airport Freeway/Loop 820 interchange near North East Mall.
Terry Bates has joined NV5 Global, an engineering and consulting firm, as a group leader and senior project manager of commissioning services. Bates has more than 19 years of experience in program and construction management, including several years as an engineer at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and time served in the U.S. Navy. In his new role, Bates will work on regional projects, including a recent contract with DFW.
Weir Oil & Gas announced the hiring of John Hrncir as vice president of sales and service, pressure control, responsible for safety, sales and aftermarket services for Weir’s pressure control business. He will be in the Houston office of the Fort Worth-based company. Prevously, Hrncir was director of global sales and marketing, surface wellhead for FMC Technologies.
Promotions
Hill School in Fort Worth, a college preparatory schools for students with learning differences, named Roxann Breyer as its new head of school, effective July 1, succeeding Audrey Boda-Davis, who will be retiring. Breyer joined the Hill School team in 2006 and has 21 years of experience, including roles as a classroom teacher and principal.
Honors
Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that five employers in Tarrant County have been awarded the company’s top honor for workplace safety. The companies are: Burnett Ranches, Intercon Environmental, James L. West Presbyterian Special Care, Offsite PR and Structured Foundation Repair. Texas Mutual is the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance.
David F. Johnson, managing shareholder of the Winstead law firm’s Fort Worth office, was selected from among more than 40,000 writers to receive the JD Supra Readers’ Choice Award, recognizing authors who achieved the highest visibility and engagement for their written analysis and commentary last year. Johnson’s commentary was ranked fourth out of 568 authors in the estate planning readership category.
Cara Guthrie-Chu, a neuroscience acute nurse practitioner at Medical City Fort Worth, was honored with the Clinical Excellence Award for overall program and onsite clinical performance in the NETSMART-AP fellowship program. NETSMART-AP aims to improve acute stroke treatment outcomes.
Name change
CSG Companies announced that it has changed its name to Forte Benefits and launched a new website with improved navigation and personalized tools as part of a rebranding campaign. Forté Benefits is one of North Texas’ leading employee benefit broker-consulting firms.
Appointments
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed James L. Minge of Arlington to the Credit Union Commission for a term set to expire on Feb. 15, 2023. Minge is president and CEO of the Texas Trust Credit Union.
This story was originally published May 3, 2017 at 3:57 PM with the headline "Freese & Nichols, NV5 Global make hires, and a new name for CSG."