Gannett | Paste BN NETWORK Celebrates Company Award Winners
Gannett | Paste BN NETWORK’s Unsung Heroes, Divisional Award winners and On Point Award winners celebrated.
Gannett | Paste BN NETWORK applauded the company’s Unsung Heroes and Divisional and On Point winners and finalists -- and the Chairman’s Award winner -- at the company’s annual On Point Awards Gala event yesterday. The program was webcast live to all employees from Gannett/Paste BN NETWORK headquarters in McLean, VA.
Chairman’s Award:
- Randy Lovely, Vice President/Community News, Paste BN NETWORK
On Point Award Winners:
- Diversity/Individual: Katherine Brede, Manager, Strategic Sourcing, Gannett Supply, Finance. Finalists: Peter Bhatia, Editor and Vice President/News, Detroit Free Press, Consumer; Brandon Griffin, Client Success Manager, Regional Multi-Location, Treasure Coast, Marketing Solutions;
- Diversity/Unit: GPS Recruiting (Syd Vernon, Manager, Talent Acquisition, People and Jack Saunders, Vice President, GPS). Finalist: Client Solutions (Tracy Sislen, Director, Client Solutions, Marketing Solutions, & Tiffanie Johnson, Director, Branded Content Product and Operations, National Sales, Marketing Solutions);
- Impact: Allen Jones, Vice President, Local Mid-Market Metro, Marketing Solutions. Finalists: Ryan Grothouse, Director/API Services, Platform Engineering, Product; Holly Moore, NETWORK Planning Director, Paste BN; Stephanie Tackach, Director, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Marketing;
- Innovation: Ekaterina (Katia) Hausman, Vice President, Product Management, ReachLocal. Finalist: Digital Storytelling Telling Team, led by Reid Williams, Consumer;
- Leadership: Silas Lyons, Executive Editor, Redding Record Searchlight. Finalists: Joanna Caballero, Delivery Director, SweetIQ, ReachLocal; Christian Kligora, Senior Director, Client Services, ReachLocal;
- Purpose/Individual: Estee Cross, Vice President, East Coast Sales, National Sales Team, Marketing Solutions. Finalist: Tovah Olson, Manager, Content Strategy, Business Intelligence, Consumer;
- Purpose/Unit: The Tennessean, Nashville. Finalist: The News-Press, Fort Myers, FL.
Divisional Award Winners:
- Consumer – Jessica Davis, Director, Digital Optimization Teams
- Consumer – Craig Holley, Senior Director, National Product Sales and Shared Services, Consumer Sales and Marketing
- Consumer – Maria Perez, Reporter/Watchdog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Finance/Finance – Dawn Fisher-Polomski, Senior Vice President/Financial Shared Services, Finance
- Finance/GPS –Bill Bolger, Vice President/Operations
- Finance/IT – Jon Van Treese, Senior Director, Enterprise Networking, Technology
- Law – Vince Floyd, Senior Counsel/Labor Relations
- Marketing – Aimee Jolley, Senior Director, Consumer Brand/Events
- Marketing Solutions – Shawna Devlin, Vice President, Local Metro, Naples
- Marketing Solutions – Chad Rader, Director, Client Success, Automotive Accounts, Client Solutions
- Marketing Solutions – David Wasserman, Regional Sales Manager, ReachLocal
- Newsquest – Dale Godliman, Sales Director, Worchester
- People – Syd Vernon, Manager, Talent Acquisition
- Product – Matt Rohland, Architect, Content Engineering (Presto)
- WordStream/Other entities – Elisa Gabbert, Director, Content Marketing and SEO, WordStream, ReachLocal
Unsung Heroes:
- Lakshmi Bobba, Data Engineer, Data Products
- Mary Bowerman, Paste BN, Network Social Media Editor
- James (Jim) Cole, Senior System Architect, IT Finance/Technology
- GPS Fort Myers Customer Service Team (Maritza Lopez, Distribution Services Assistant, Madeline Cordero, Distribution Services Assistant, Eileen Serrano, Distribution Services Assistant)
- Meredith Hagan, Director/Events Marketing, Corporate Events and Communications, Marketing
- Joshua Hunter, Principal Business Intelligence Analyst
- Chasidy Lapa, Custom Solutions Team Lead, ReachLocal, Marketing Solutions
- Mandy Lesshafft, Project Manager, Client Solutions, Marketing Solutions
- Kassie McLaughlin, Manager/Branded Content Partnerships, National Sales, Marketing Solutions
- Kathy McMinn, Executive Assistant, People
- Renee McQuinn, Senior Manager, Payroll, Finance
- Stacy Sullivan, Community Relations Director, Arizona Republic and AZCentral.com, Phoenix
- Anne Ward, Commercial Assistant, Bradford, Newsquest
- Yi (Connie) Kang, Director, Insights, Product