People
Mike Wallis was named vice president of content licensing and strategic partnerships at EBSCO Publishing in Ipswich. Wallis joins EBSCO after a 21-year career at Fidelity Investments, where he served six years as senior vice president of Strategic Partnerships.
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Beverly Cooperative Bank has elected the following new corporators: Stacy Ames of Beverly, president of Falmer Thermal Spray in Salem; Andrew DeFranza of Beverly, executive director of the nonprofit Harborlight Community Partners; Peter Pedro, senior vice president of the Bostonian Group in Boston; and Christine Zampell of Zampell Companies of Newburyport.
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Salem resident Liz Polay-Wettengel was named director of marketing and communications at Aviv Centers for Living. Most recently, she was the community manager and co-creator of JewishBoston.com, a Combined Jewish Philanthropies initiative, where she was the manager of Internet initiatives.
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Salem Five has added the following new executive committee board members: Donald Glass of Salem, who serves as the president of the Salem Five Heritage Charitable Foundation and is former director of Heritage Bank; Donald Sadoski of Salem, a dentist who joined Salem Five as a director in 1975; and John Shea of Marblehead, a retired gastroenterologist who joined Salem Five as a director in 2005.
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The Trustees of Reservations, the nation’s oldest statewide land trust and one of Massachusetts’ largest nonprofits, has elected its first female president, Barbara Erickson of Beverly, to succeed Andrew Kendall, who served as president for 12 years. Erickson will join the organization in July and will oversee an annual operating budget of $20 million; an endowment of more than $125 million; and 180 year-round staff, 400 seasonal staff and more than 1,500 volunteers. Erickson was formerly the vice president of Save the Children and served for six years as chief development officer at the Boston-based Earthwatch Institute.
Milestones
EBSCO Publishing recently expanded its offices to Topsfield. The new building is the fifth local site that EBSCO has opened as part of its expansion. More than 900 of the company’s 1,350 employees work out of Ipswich and Topsfield. As part of its move, EBSCO will donate $15,000 to the Topsfield School Committee for technology upgrades at Proctor and Steward schools. EBSCO provides information resources for libraries and other institutions.
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J Barrett Company, a real estate firm based in Beverly, has merged with REALPRO Associates of Beverly, owned by real estate broker Linda O’Connor. With this new association, J Barrett now has five offices in four North Shore communities: Beverly, Gloucester, Ipswich and Manchester.
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Peabody Financial Services will celebrate its 10-year business anniversary on June 1. Chief Executive Officer Rudolf Van Oeveren has previously served as director and president of the Peabody Area Chamber of Commerce and president at Eminent Solutions Inc.
New business
The Salem Toy Museum, owned by Frank Sarcia and James Eveleth, will open on June 2 inside the Museum Place Mall. It will feature vintage toys from the 1950s to 1980s, as well as some 1990s toys, and a gift shop.
Giving
Eastern Bank’s Charitable Foundation donated nearly $1.2 million in grants to 98 nonprofit organizations recently at its annual Community Quarterback Award Ceremony. Local award recipients included Beverly Main Streets, Children’s Friend and Family Services, Citizens for Adequate Housing, Danvers Community Council, Enterprise Center at Salem State University, Haven From Hunger, North Shore Community Action Programs, North Shore Community College, and Salem State University.