People, Companies & Deals
May 1, 2008
Luis Aguilar, a partner with McKenna, Long & Aldridge, has been nominated to fill one of the
two open seats on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by President Bush. The five-member
commission, which oversees financial markets, has been operating with only three Republican
commissioners since January. The Cuban-American, a former staff attorney at the SEC, has a high
profile in the Hispanic community ... TSYS named Rod Boyer as president of the TSYS loyalty
division in Alpharetta, which provides card-based rewards and loyalty marketing products and
services ... Michael Rosenzweig has been named interim CEO of Hands On Atlanta, replacing Tracy
Hoover, who had served in that capacity since 2003 ... Four former members of Staubach's national
contact data center practice are opening their own firm to develop and acquire data centers for
global clients. The firm, T5 Partners LLC, will expand on services they began at Staubach. They
include Pete Marin, who will serve as president; Frank Lyles; Jason Chartrand; and Jimmy Bailey ...
The HoneyBaked Ham Company of Georgia named Pat Sugrue as COO; promoted Ken Caldwell to VP of
franchise and retail operations; and promoted Molly Kesmodel to senior director of retail ...
Dustin Greene was promoted to COO for Emory Eastside Medical Center... BNY Mellon Wealth Management
named Brian E. Ranck director of business development in the company's new Atlanta office ... At
its recent board of directors meeting, Del Martin was elected chair of Giving USA Foundation, which
publishes Giving USA, the annual report on philanthropy in America, as well as other research on
charitable giving in the United States ... National design firm Cooper Carry appointed Deborah
Jensen, an urban planner and associate with the firm, to Atlanta's SPI-1 Downtown District
Development Review Committee. The committee was created when the Atlanta City Council adopted new
zoning and design regulations for the downtown district ... Recordant, a provider of audio-capture
technology, analytics and consulting solutions, named Martha Powers as head of its consulting
services division ... Rob Couch has been named president of Lane Company's property management
subsidiary, Lane Management LLC ... MARTA named Dwight A. Ferrell as deputy GM/COO, and Theodore J.
Basta, Jr., as chief of business support services.
Rollins Inc. is adding to its pest control arsenal. The parent of Orkin is buying HomeTeam
Pest Defenese and Centex Corp. for a reported $173 million. HomeTeam, which has 50 offices in 13
states, is the nation's third-largest residential pest management company, performing services for
about 400,000 customers across the nation. It works with more than 1,000 builder partners and
performs more than 1 million pest control services a year. Rollins plans to operate HomeTeam
separately, along with Orkin, PCO Services, Western Pest Services and The Industrial Fumigant Co.
Atlanta accounting firm Porter Keadle Moore received the American Psychological Association's
2008 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. One of only five
organizations from across North America to receive the award this year, the firm won in the
for-profit category for businesses with fewer than 100 employees.
Metropoll, a national survey conducted every two years to gauge the attitudes of meeting
planners on convention cities, ranked Atlanta 12th out of 40 meetings destinations, up from No. 18
in 2005. The city also improved its ranking of hotel meeting facilities, moving up two places to
No. 7, according to a report commissioned by the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau.
CNNMoney.com named Buford, Ga., as the third best place in the country out of 100 to live and
launch a business in 2008. Fortune Small Business, which conducted the study for the Web site,
sought places that "combine a great business environment with alluring leisure offerings." Buford's
proximity to scenic Lake Lanier and the Mall of Georgia, its safe neighborhoods and affordable
housing, and its mix of artists and interesting downtown, make it attractive.