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The Indiana Chamber partners with 25,000 members and investors – representing over four million Hoosiers – to achieve the mission of “cultivating a world-class environment which provides economic opportunity and prosperity.” Below are the latest announcements from some of these businesses.
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Hamilton Wins Gold Event Marketer Award
INDIANAPOLIS – Hamilton was named the Gold 2023 Event Marketer Experience Design & Technology Award recipient in the Best Demo Zone category for their work on Zimmer Biomet’s Intelligent Operating Room. Event Marketer’s Experience Design & Technology Awards recognizes outstanding event design and innovative uses of event technology across various consumer-targeted and business-to-business event formats. Zimmer Biomet, a global [...]
STAR Bank Announces Third Annual Future of Agriculture Scholarship
FORT WAYNE - STAR Financial Bank is excited to announce the third annual Future of Agriculture college scholarship, which will provide five Indiana students with a $1,000 scholarship to apply to their secondary education. To be eligible, students must currently be a junior or senior in high school or have at least one year remaining in their college/trade school [...]
Plymate Names Ben Warnecke as President
SHELBYVILLE - Plymate Inc. has named fourth-generation Ben Warnecke as President. In this new role, Ben is taking over the responsibilities for all Plymate operations, which services roughly a 100-mile radius of Shelbyville, IN with uniform, floor mat, and safety rental needs. As of January 1st, 2024, Warnecke took over the role that his uncle, Todd Plymate, had for [...]
Centier Bank Assistant Branch Manager Receives Junior Achievement Award
ELKHART - Mariana Reyes, Assistant Branch Manager of Centier Bank’s Elkhart North Branch, was recently named Volunteer of the Year by Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana/Elkhart County. Junior Achievement is a nationwide nonprofit with chapters throughout the country, reaching over 4.4 million students per year in classrooms and after-school locations. There are over 151,000 JA volunteers across the country [...]
FORUM Employees Raised Over $77,000 for Charities in 2023
(INDIANAPOLIS) — FORUM Credit Union supports an employee nominated charity each year. In 2023, FORUM’s Charity of Choice was the Humane Society (supporting local Humane Societies including Johnson County, Boone County, Hamilton County, Indy Humane, and Hendricks). The Humane Society aims to improve animal welfare, provide affordable pet ownership, and ensure the well-being, health, and safety of all animals [...]
Centier Bank Promotes Janet Gary to Bank Officer
MERRILLVILLE – Michael E. Schrage, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at Centier Bank is pleased to announce the recent promotion of Janet Gary to Officer of the bank. Having joined Centier Bank in 2005 in Deposit Operations, Gary moved out of state two years later to begin another career path in education. While she enjoyed working [...]
Katz Hired as Curator of Art for Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites has hired Paula Katz as the museum system’s new curator of art, following the retirement of longtime curator Mark Ruschman in 2023. Katz had served since 2022 as the interim director and curator of the Herron Galleries at Indiana University, Indianapolis, a position she also held from 2008-14. Before that, [...]
Blue & Co., LLC Announces 2024 Director Promotions
CARMEL – Blue & Co., LLC is proud to announce the promotion of Joell Grisel, Greg Heitkamp, Debbie Herbert, and Kevin Umberger to Director effective January 1, 2024. Joell Grisel, CPA, is an accounting director within Aliign, an affiliate of Blue & Co., LLC, and is based in the Carmel, IN office Joell specializes in providing accounting, tax, and [...]
Centier Bank Donates $3,000 to Stepping Stone Shelter for Women
MICHIGAN CITY - Centier Bank recently made a $3,000 donation to Stepping Stone Shelter for Women, La Porte County’s shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Stepping Stone provides free services including crisis lines, intervention, temporary shelter, clothing, food, transitional housing, counseling, support groups, and advocacy. Stepping Stone Shelter is La Porte County's sole 24-hour shelter, providing [...]
Ascend Indiana Names New President and CEO and New Board Chair
INDIANAPOLIS - The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and Ascend Indiana announce that Conexus Indiana COO and Chief Talent Officer Brad Rhorer has been named president and CEO of Ascend Indiana, CICP’s talent and workforce development initiative, and will succeed Jason Kloth in January. Concurrently, Board Vice Chair Bridget Boyle, head of people and culture for Roche Diagnostics, has [...]
