New hires at Louisiana Bar Foundation, Pennington Biomedical Research Center

New Orleans

Franziska Wagner has been hired as chief financial officer of the Louisiana Bar Foundation.

Wagner has worked as an accountant and auditor for clients in the government, nonprofit and construction sectors.

She earned a bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a master’s in accounting from the University of New Orleans.

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Terrance Payne has been named director of building trades training at the New Orleans Career Center.

Payne was one of the inaugural trainers in the building trades program.

The Career Center recently hired 14 new staffers, a move that brings the number of employees to 42, double what the organization had two years ago. There are now more than 600 trainees in the program’s five industry sectors: health care, building trades, digital media/IT, engineering/manufacturing and culinary arts. 

The new hires are: Shanitra Charles, instructor, pre-nursing; Myles Ford, instructor, pharmacy technician; Diana Kennedy, instructor, pre-nursing; Wynn Martin, success coach; Tony McKarry, instructor, building trades; Bria Hays-Mackey, bookkeeper; MacKenzie Rosenberg, success coach; Maria Schneider, program coordinator; Cedric Singleton, instructor, building trades; Taralyn Stephens, instructor, culinary; Lee Stevenson, instructor, building trades; Aaron Washington, trainee support coordinator; and Anastasia Williams-Smith, program coordinator.

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Darian Shorts and Justin Vlosich have joined the staff of Gambel Communications.

Shorts is a communications strategist. Previously, she worked for The PR Alliance.

She earned a bachelor’s in political communication and a master’s in mass communication, both from LSU.

Vlosich is a communications coordinator. He previously worked for the New Orleans Pelicans, Louisiana SPCA and the New Orleans Saints.

He earned a bachelor’s in marketing from the University of New Orleans.

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Joe DiTommaso has been promoted to vice president of commercial lending for OnPath Credit Union.

DiTommaso joined OnPath in 2022 as northshore market president. Before that, he worked for Gulf Coast Bank, Chase and Hibernia National Bank/Capital One.

He served as a Marine for five years and received awards for his involvement in the support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Baton Rouge

Bailey Richard has been hired as director of marketing, communication and compliance for Off The Hook Restaurants.

Richard has held senior marketing positions for other businesses and has a track record of strategic planning and grassroots marketing.

Off the Hook, which was founded in 2012, has five quick-service seafood restaurants in Baton Rouge, Gonzales, Hammond, Thibodaux and Houma.

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Reis Alsberry has been hired as director of intellectual property and commercialization for Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

Alsberry was commercialization manager for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Before that, he held patent management positions at Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Old Dominion University.

He earned a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Old Dominion, a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law.

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Amos Davis has been named chief operating officer for Emergent Method.

Davis has nearly two decades of policy, legal and operational experience. He spent the past several years as global senior counsel for Uber; before that, he was a lead adviser for several Coca-Cola Co. brands, including Minute Maid.

He earned a bachelor’s from the University of Virginia, a master’s from Emory University and a law degree from Emory University School of Law.