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Cheryl Castro has been hired as director of operations at ParleeStumpf Inc., Doylestown. She is co-owner of Aaron Mitchell Photography.

Marisa Ciarrocki has been hired as an associate at Leonard, Sciolla, Hutchison, Leonard and Tinari L.L.P., Philadelphia. She had been an assistant district attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.

Blue Bell divorce and family-law firm, Shemtob Law P.C. has hired Abby Silverman Leeds as an associate. She had been executive director of the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project.

FTI Consulting has promoted Thomas G. Rees to senior managing director in its forensic and litigation consulting practice, from managing director.

McGladrey L.L.P., a Philadelphia provider of assurance, tax and consulting services, has hired Gregory Cowhey as a principal. He had been a partner with Cbiz.

Fesnak L.L.P., Blue Bell, has hired T.J. Haas as director in-charge of the firm's transaction advisory services group. He had been vice president with Private Capital Research L.L.C.

InterDigital Inc., a Wilmington wireless research and development company, has hired Byung K. Yi as chief technology officer and head of InterDigital Labs. He was assistant division chief of engineering at the Federal Communications Commission and senior executive vice president at LG Electronics, where he headed the company's North American R&D center.

Penn National Gaming Inc. has promoted Ameet Patel to senior vice president of regional operations, from general manager of the Hollywood Casino Columbus in Columbus, Ohio.

Raj Kishore has been named director of the Stem Cell Therapy Program in the Center of Translational Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and appointed professor of pharmacology and medicine at the medical school. Kishore focuses on cardiac regenerative medicine. He had served as a faculty member at Tufts University and later Northwestern University, where he was an associate professor of medicine-cardiology.

Carmon M. Harvey has joined LeClairRyan as a shareholder on the firm's labor and employment and commercial litigation practice area teams. She had been a partner at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads L.L.P.

Risè P. Newman has joined Spector Gadon & Rosen P.C. as a member, practicing in its Philadelphia estates and trust department. She had been sole practitioner in the Law Offices of Risè Newman.

Delphic Digital, Philadelphia, has hired Joshua Finkelstein as marketing director for its expanding digital marketing practice. He had been head of online marketing at DFC Global Corp.

Montgomery McCracken, Philadelphia, has hired Jonathan R. Flora as a tax partner in its tax practice group within the firm's business department. He had been a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis L.L.P.

Symphony Health Solutions, a Horsham provider of high-value data, analytics and technology solutions for health-care and life-sciences manufacturers, payers and providers, has hired Neal Bibeau as chief executive officer. He had been president and CEO of DecisionOne Corp.

Alliance Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliance Bancorp Inc. of Pennsylvania, promoted Suzanne J. Ricci to chief operating officer in addition to her duties as chief technology and chief information officer.

Airgas Inc., Radnor, supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases and related product, has hired Thomas R. Stringer as president, Airgas Merchant Gases. He had been director of research and development for the Carbon Capture and Environmental Control Systems at Alstom Power.

Three researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected as new members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are: Garret A. FitzGerald, the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, and director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics; Carl H. June, the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and director of Translational Research in the Abramson Cancer Center, and M. Celeste Simon, professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, scientific director and investigator for the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

- Mike Zebe