MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

The accredited Master Registered Financial Consultant Certification Program (MRFC®) announces the re-election of Barry Dayley, MRFC® of Money Concepts Inc. and Dr. Craig Lemoine, MRFC® of the University of Illinois to their Board of Directors (MCB). The election answered the recent call to action for volunteers and a subsequent voting survey by current accredited MRFCs.

“It is an honor to serve on the MRFC Certification Board,” confirms Dayley. “There has never been a more important time to support a higher standard of care in the financial planning business. We invite all financial professionals to expand their capabilities and credentials and join us as a Master Registered Financial Consultant.”

The mission of the MCB is to provide an ongoing benefit to the general public by granting and recertifying the MRFC Credential, upholding it as a standard of excellence for ethical, valued, competent, and client-focused financial consultants. The MCB operates independently from the International Association of Registered Financial Consultants (IARFC®) to establish and uphold high standards of competence for the MRFC and its Credential Holders.

As the MRFC Certification Program continues on for 2020 thru 2021, the MCB Board will focus on marketing and reaching out to more qualified consultants to schedule their exam. The Board along with the Certification Staff are working on developing the marketing that will encompass a multi-faceted campaign for achieving membership goals. In conjunction, the IARFC Education committee expects a Study Guide by Fall.

Having the backing of the National Commission of Certifying Agencies (NCCA), the MRFC Credential continues to set its members apart from other professionals. Obtaining and keeping the credential is a commitment to excellence in the field of financial services. It is recognized on FINRA as one of only nine accredited designations.”

For more information on the MRFC Credential and to apply to take the exam, visit the MRFC section of the IARFC Website.

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The International Association of Registered Financial Consultants (IARFC®) is the parent company of the MRFC Certification Program. Founded in 1984, the IARFC’s mission is “to recognize world class financial consultants and empower them to make a transformational difference in the financial lives of the families and communities they serve.”

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MILWAUKEE (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

After a month of voting, AAEA has named a new leader to their Executive Committee. Madhu Khanna from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be the incoming President-Elect for the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s (AAEA).

Khanna previously served on the Board of Directors for AAEA from 2016 to 2019. She says, “I am honored to be elected by my peers to be the President of AAEA and to have the opportunity to continue to grow AAEA into a vibrant association that is inclusive of a greater diversity of specializations, institutions and regions. AAEA plays a vital role in keeping us all connected, even more so, in these challenging times and I would like to see it become an even more effective voice for a broad range of societally relevant issues important to its membership.”

Joining the Board of Directors this year are Titus Awokuse, from Michigan State University and Carola Grebitus from Arizona State University.

Awokuse says, “I’m thrilled by this good news and look forward to the opportunity to serve our profession as a member of the AAEA Board.”

Grebitus is excited “[a]bout the opportunity to serve on the Board, and is looking forward to working on strategies to increase numbers of AAEA industry members by staying relevant, and communicating all AAEA has to offer.”

Khanna, Awokuse, and Grebitus will begin their new roles for AAEA starting July 28, at the culimination of the 2020 AAEA Annual Meeting.

Rotating off the AAEA Board of Directors after a three-year term are Kathy Baylis from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Norbert Wilson from Tufts University.

ABOUT AAEA: Established in 1910, the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is the leading professional association for agricultural and applied economists, with 2,500 members in more than 60 countries. Members of the AAEA work in academic or government institutions as well as in industry and not-for-profit organizations, and engage in a variety of research, teaching, and outreach activities in the areas of agriculture, the environment, food, health, and international development. The AAEA publishes two journals, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, as well as the online magazine Choices and the online open access publication series Applied Economics Teaching Resources. To learn more, visit http://www.aaea.org.

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DENVER (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

As a company focused on helping cultural attractions fuel their mission, SSA Group (SSA) is expanding our ticketing and admissions services. Sean McNicholas, SSA Group CEO adds, “SSA’s growth and operational success in food and retail has resulted in our customers asking us to also operate their admissions. We’ve listened, and we have built a solid foundation with our world class admissions team.”    

Earlier this year, Scott Lobaugh joined SSA Group as their Vice President of Admissions to spearhead this dynamic emergence into admissions. “For the last 14 years, I have worked for one of the leading ticketing and admissions POS companies. It provided me with incredible opportunities to work at a deep level with hundreds of cultural attractions as well as other major attractions such as Disney and Universal Parks worldwide. I was offering a POS solution that could help with efficiencies and also help drive revenue, but in many cases, the attraction was missing parts of the strategical, technical, and operational skillsets needed to drive it.

At SSA, we can now have a bigger impact with an experienced team that not only handles the technical end of ticketing POS systems, but also provides best practices on the operational and strategical side. I now get to use all of the “in the trenches” experience to have an even bigger impact for our partners and our guests, and I am ecstatic.” Scott Lobaugh commented.

SSA’s goal is to take the complexity out of managing the multiple facets of admissions so our cultural attraction partners can power their mission. With deep experience across all aspects of this service, SSA is positioned to continually grow this team.

The timing of this addition has strengthened SSA Group’s reopening strategies as we move forward post COVID-19. SSA has been able to meld our expertise with admissions together with our food and retail subject matter experts. These subject matter experts have been organized into a SSAfety First taskforce that provides a tactical decision framework and checklist full of detailed operational guidance for our partners.

The SSAfety First taskforce is a group of cross departmental SSA team members with a purpose to provide a central resource for the following:

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  Safety training and communication
• Best practices, SOPs and protocols for operation updates/changes that are driven by new safety guidelines across retail, food and admissions
• PPE – acquiring and distributing PPE for team members

McNicholas concludes, “This taskforce has been able to quickly organize and provide great tools that we are extending to our partners and the industry as a whole. We don’t see the need to reinvent the wheel on items we know we will all be working on. It’s been positively received by our partners.”

Attractions interested in downloading the reopening training and other resources can access them here: https://thessagroup.com/safety/.

Tracy S. Kubota, Acting Director, Department of Enterprise Services, Honolulu Hawaii, stated, “This is an excellent presentation!  Thanks for providing the necessary tools to support our efforts to prepare for the new normal.  It framed the steps for us which makes it so much easier to move forward together for a reopening which will be as safe as possible.”

“Thank you again for meeting with our team.  As I mentioned on the call, this information was more helpful than you know and we are so appreciative of the work you have done and your willingness to share it with us!  We have only been partnering with SSA for a very short time, but each and every interaction I have had with anyone so far has exceeded my expectations and this one was no exception!” from Laurie Phelps, Vice President for Guest and Institutional Services at The Strong Museum.

SSA currently has six cultural attraction partners utilizing our admissions services including: Chattanooga Zoo, Great Plains Zoo, Bishop Museum and Pearl Harbor Attractions (USS Missouri Memorial Association, Pacific Fleet Submarine Memorial Association and Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum). As we continue to grow in this area, we look forward to helping more partners activate their mission. SSA focuses on innovative solutions to revenue driving services like admissions, food and retail as well as the convergence of all three. For more information on SSA’s approach to admissions please visit: https://thessagroup.com/services/admissions/

About SSA Group: 

Rooted in family and relationships, SSA Group activates the ticketing, culinary, and retail merchandise moments between the experiences at cultural attractions across the United States.  Founded almost 50 years ago, SSA is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, partners with over 60 cultural attractions, and has served well over 20 million families annually.   SSA Group is an industry leader in delivering an innovative suite of products and revenue driving services.   Built by family for families, our operational models are powered by exceptional results and continuously reshaped to align with changing consumer expectations.  Our motto is, “Your Mission.  Together”

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SAN DIEGO (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

Ignite Visibility, a top-rated digital marketing and advertising agency, is pleased to announce the hiring of Oscar Lutteroth as Director, Creative & Interactive Social Media. Oscar brings to the team more than twenty years of marketing experience working with a wide array of top B2B and B2C brands.

Oscar earned his bachelor’s degree from USC Marshall School of Business, then launched a full service advertising agency working with major brands like Red Bull® and Nissan®. After more than ten years of living and working in Los Angeles, he returned to San Diego. Oscar continued to focus on luxury, beverage and spirit brands as a partner at The Lambesis Agency, where he has worked for the last nine years on well-known brands like SKYY Vodka®, Grand Marnier® and Coca Cola®.

“Digital marketing has matured into a space that requires impactful creative, innovative thinking and measurable results,” says Oscar. “Joining the Ignite Visibility team allows us to succeed in this evolved space by integrating my branding and creative experience with their best in class services to develop and offer a new range of services to our existing and future clients.”

John Lincoln, CEO of Ignite Visibility, agrees that Oscar’s impressive skill set will soon benefit the company’s diverse clientele, “We are thrilled to have a true creative titan who has worked with some of the biggest and most iconic brands in the world now here at Ignite Visibility. This allows us to meet the demand of clients who consistently request photography, video and stunning websites. It also allows us to create better ads, imagery and interactive content than ever before. His work with Coca-Cola®, Red Bull®, Tacori, SKYY Vodka® and more made Oscar an easy choice for this role.”

Originally from Mexico, Oscar first moved to San Diego when he was eight years old. He currently resides in Chula Vista with his wife Christina, his two sons Sebastian and Felix and their cat Mistico. In his spare time, Oscar is an avid sports fan, rooting for the Padres and the Lakers. He also enjoys classic films, traveling through Mexico, cooking, wine tasting (particularly in Valle de Guadalupe) and collecting sneakers.

To discover Ignite Visibility’s wide range of digital marketing and advertising services, visit https://ignitevisibility.com/.

About Ignite Visibility:

Launched in 2013 by co-founders John Lincoln and Krish Coughran, Ignite Visibility is a premier full service digital marketing agency based in San Diego, CA. They are not only one of the highest recommended agencies on Clutch.co, they are also recognized as one of the top digital marketing companies in the industry. Consistently named one of the top SEO, paid media, social media, email marketing and CRO companies in the USA, Ignite Visibility has used the same strategies they use for clients to become a three-time Inc. 5000 company (2017, 2018 and 2019). Their single-focused mission is to provide the most comprehensive offering coupled with the highest level of customer service in the industry. To learn more, visit https://ignitevisibility.com/.

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Stacy Peters: Director of Design

“We are extremely proud that Stacy has earned the CHID certificate,” Faulkner adds. “This elite, industry-recognized credential underscores our firm’s commitment to ensuring that our clients have access to the most qualified interior designers possible to Design Environments That Transform Life™.”

DALLAS (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

Stacy Peters, Director of Design for Faulkner Design Group, recently passed the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers (AAHID) examination and earned the prestigious Certified Healthcare Interior Designer (CHID) certificate.

Passage of the examination and earning the CHID credential signifies that Peters has met the standards for education, experience, and examination and is a certified healthcare interior designer. The CHID examination is a rigorous assessment requiring examinees to demonstrate competence in a variety of aspects that affect the healthcare interior environment. The examination covers acute care, ambulatory care, and residential healthcare facilities.

“AAHID is the standard to identify those interior designers who are uniquely qualified to meet the needs and challenges of the healthcare interior design industry,” explains AAHID President, Libby Laguta, CHID, EDAC, ACHE, of L2D Interior Design in Charleston, SC. “The CHID certificate is the highest appellation available for a healthcare interior design professional, and this credential is what every healthcare facility should look for when choosing an interior designer.”

Peters graduated from Purdue University – West Lafayette, IN, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis on Interior Design and has worked in the interior design field for over 21 years. In her current position with Faulkner Design Group, Peters is responsible for client development and overall design quality of each senior living project.

Certified Healthcare Interior Designers are distinguished and qualified by education, examination, and work experience to practice healthcare interior design. The CHID appellation recognizes excellence, commitment and knowledge. It further distinguishes preeminent healthcare interior designers from other architects, designers, decorators, and interior designers. More information about the organization may be found at http://www.aahid.org.

About Faulkner Design Group

Faulkner Design Group is a fully integrated and highly awarded national interior architecture and design firm specializing in multifamily housing and senior living environments, completing over 75,000 units in more than 2,000 communities across 37 states, from Hawaii to New York, and even Canada, working with the largest developers, contractors, real estate investment groups, and management firms in the country for over 28 years. These communities are surpassing the industry standard for creativity and quality, earning a reputation as the most highly sought-after properties on the market. FDG offers comprehensive design services during the architectural development and construction planning phases of the projects, leading the industry with cutting-edge virtual tools and technology, approaching each design solution as a fingerprint in which no two are alike. For more information visit: http://www.faulknerdesign.com

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CHICAGO (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

EKI-Digital, an award-winning IT and Strategy consultancy has announced the hiring of accomplished senior executive Mohit to lead EKI-Digital’s data engineering practice, with offerings for Government, Public and Financial sectors.

“Mo” (as he likes to be called) brings the experience and passion for development and deployment of new and innovative AI-driven data solutions.

“I am very excited for Mo to join our team. Having worked with him for several years, I’ve personally seen the impact of his work, and his ability to simplify complex situations and ultimately help clients drive data decisions, “ Christopher Rigg, COO EKI-Digital.

The Data Engineering practice brings AI-driven data solutions to help clients maintain, sustain, and commercialize the value of data for competitive and strategic advantage. This comes at a time when digital transformation is accelerating, and the need for faster, easier data integration and monetization is increasing tenfold.

EKI-Digital has extensive experience building and executing data governance and data management programs with clients of varying size and complexity. Our services include Data Integration, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Data Migration, and Data Monetization. Our objective is help our clients maximize the use of their information assets and achieve the highest return on their investments.

To learn more about EKI-Digital’s Data Engineering offerings, please visit http://www.eki-digital.com

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NAPLES, Fla. (PRWEB)
May 25, 2020

Intetics Inc., a leading global technology company providing custom software application development, distributed professional teams, software product quality assessment, and “all-things-digital” solutions, announced new corporate style in the celebration of its 25th anniversary. Intetics is expanding to welcome new projects, customers, employees, thus new style is to solidify the global impact delivered across various industries.

Boris Kontsevoi, Intetics CEO and President said, “Intetics has been facing the rise in recent years, with a need to execute customer-centric marketing strategies across multiple channels using various data, we faced the need to coordinate and adjust the approaches to our brand awareness.”

On the design level, the updated corporate style has become closer to the “White and Bright” approach and thus making the emphasis on the logo, its color, and history.

Through its color and design, the Intetics logo embodies the company’s mission and vision. The orange color sets the company apart from mainly blueish and greenish competitors and draws attention to its ability to create new business models and strive for innovation. It’s a sunny color, the color of life and development. The Intetics star is the symbol of the company’s past and its future. It reflects on the company’s roots in Belarus, a post-Soviet country where the star was a key symbol, and its current headquarters in the USA, another country where the star has a very special meaning.

This star further represents the global vision behind the Intetics innovation, it’s a projection of Intetics intended future: to rise as the number one star in the software services industry (a title that has been earned already according to the IAOP’s list of Top 100 Global Outsourcing Companies).

“We’re 25, it’s spring outside, and despite all viruses in the World we do not only keep moving on but progress, innovate and make an impact as a result of the efforts of every employee personally. It’s a good time to refresh!”, said Intetics CEO and President.

About Intetics

Intetics is a leading global technology company providing custom software application development, distributed professional teams, software product quality assessment, and “all-things-digital” solutions built with SMAC, RPA, AI/ML, IoT, blockchain, and GIS/UAV/LBS technologies.

Based on proprietary pioneering business models of Offshore Dedicated Team® and Remote In-Sourcing®, an advanced Technical Debt Reduction Platform (TETRA) and measurable SLAs for software engineering, Intetics helps innovative organizations capitalize on global talent with our in-depth engineering expertise based on the Predictive Software Engineering framework.

Intetics’ core strength is the design of software products in conditions of incomplete specifications. We have extensive industry expertise in Education, Healthcare, Logistics, Life Science, Finance, Insurance, Communications, and custom ERP, CRM, Intelligent Automation and Geospatial solutions.

Our advanced software engineering background and outstanding quality management platform, along with an unparalleled methodology for talent recruitment, team building, and talent retention, guarantee that our clients receive exceptional results for their projects. At Intetics, our outcomes do not just meet clients’ expectations, they have been exceeding them for a quarter of a century.

Intetics operates from 11 offices in 6 countries including US (headquarters), Germany, UK, Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine.

Intetics is ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO 27001 (security) certified and a Microsoft Gold and Amazon Partner. The company’s innovation and growth achievements are reflected in winning prestigious titles and awards, including Inc 5000, Software 500, CRN 100, American Business, Deloitte Technology Fast 50, European IT Excellence, Best European BPO, Clutch and ACQ5 Awards, and inclusion into IAOP’s Best Global Outsourcing 100 list.

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