Maddison Sickels has been recruited to join Stream Realty Partners’ office leasing team in Nashville.

Sickels will serve as a vice president and be responsible for sourcing, winning and executing office business across all service lines, including leasing, investment sales and tenant and landlord representation. Sickels comes to Stream Nashville from Amazon, where she was an asset manager for the company’s worldwide real estate.

Before her role at Amazon, Sickels was part of the advisory and transactions services team at CBRE in San Diego for 4.5 years. She has worked with clients including Westcore, Clarion Partners, Prologis and Lincoln Property Company.

Sickels began her career in public policy and communications for Airbnb after graduating from Penn State University with a degree in political science and government. She was an intern for the Republican National Committee and the Office of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa in Washington, D.C., during her college tenure.

MP&F names 3 vice presidents

MP&F Strategic Communications has named longtime agency leaders Jessica Darden and Stacy Alcala and public relations professional Neysa Taylor vice presidents of the firm.

Darden joined MP&F in 2004 and during her tenure has worked for a number of different clients in various industries, including health care, retail, government and the nonprofit sector.

Alcala joined MP&F as a staff associate in 2007 and leads award-winning work in the health care, government and senior living industries. She specializes in leading large-scale event planning, integrated marketing strategy and crisis communications issues.

Taylor, the newest addition to MP&F, has 15-plus years of industry experience spanning roles with news outlets, government and corporate positions. She started her career as an assignment manager at WTVF NewsChannel 5. After leaving WTVF, Taylor spent five years as the director of communications for the Tennessee Department of Correction, where she led a team of 14 handling stakeholder engagement, media relations and oversight of TDOC’s dispatch center.

Before joining MP&F, she spent the last three years in senior positions with McDonald’s and Amazon.

Moseley chosen by Hendersonville Chamber

The Hendersonville Chamber has tapped Sumner County native Justin Moseley to lead Sumner Men in Business, an affiliate organization sponsored by the Hendersonville Chamber that provides a collaborative forum for male business owners, professionals and local leaders to help further the good of the community.

The group provides an opportunity for men of influence to learn from one another’s life experiences while helping to develop and promote integrity, professionalism, personal success and life balance.

Moseley co-founded Music City Health Center in Hendersonville. After surviving a near-death accident in 2018, he shifted from changing lives in his own clinic to changing lives of small-business owners, entrepreneurs, chiropractors and other professionals so they could achieve more success and abundance in their businesses and their lives.

Moseley is a TEDx speaker and has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX. He is the host of the “Power of Mindset Summit,” and the “Comfort to Calling Summit.” He also is a former radio show host and the founder of MindShift Masterminds.

Lawson promoted to VP, GM at Turner

Paul Lawson has been promoted to vice president and general manager of Turner Construction Company’s Nashville office, where he will provide executive leadership for all the company’s local construction projects. He joined Turner in 2005 as a project engineer and most recently served as business manager of the Nashville office.

As project executive, Lawson was instrumental in guiding Turner’s local portfolio of health care projects. As business manager, he served as an operational and technical resource for every Nashville project, including some of the office’s largest and most complex mixed-use, high-rise developments in downtown Nashville.

Now in his 18th year with Turner, Lawson’s new responsibilities as vice president and general manager include establishing and managing the office’s short-term goals and long-range strategic plans, directing all office activities, ensuring Turner’s profitability and longevity in the market, and maintaining an optimal culture for employees.

Lawson earned a degree in concrete industry management from Middle Tennessee State University. He is a board member of Associated General Contractors of Middle Tennessee, serves as a Building Finance Committee Member for the State of Tennessee, is a member of the Executive Workforce Council for the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce and is chairman of the Rutherford Works Construction Council.

Belmont’s Curb College selects Schaffer as dean

Belmont University has named Brittany Schaffer, Spotify’s head of artist & label partnerships Nashville, as the new dean for the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, effective May 1.

At Spotify Nashville, Schaffer co-leads Spotify’s music team in Nashville, with responsibility for setting the vision of the team, cultivating and nurturing industry partnerships across the greater Nashville market and leading the development and execution of Spotify’s global strategy to grow the country, Christian/gospel and Americana genres.

Before Spotify, Schaffer held the role of senior counsel for Nashville-based Loeb & Loeb, LLP, where she counseled established and emerging artists, songwriters and producers in contract negotiations and assisted with the development of legal and business strategies for music and entertainment content management and amplification.

A graduate of both Vanderbilt University and Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, Schaffer has been named among Billboard’s Country Power Players for the past four years and was noted in 2018 as one of “Six Emerging Executives Shaping Music’s Future.”

She serves on the board of directors for the Country Music Association and Country Radio Broadcasters and is a Class of 2022 Leadership Music graduate.

Belmont Med names Wills associate dean

Dr. Morgan Wills has been named associate dean of clinical education for Belmont University’s Frist College of Medicine and also will serve as an associate professor of internal medicine.

Wills earned graduated Princeton University before moving to Nashville to attend Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he later completed a residency in internal medicine. Years later, he earned a master’s in marketplace theology from Regent College in Vancouver, B.C.

In his new role, Wills will build, cultivate and maintain relationships with clinical affiliates, lead planning, implementation and oversight of the medical student clinical education experience, and serve as a resource for clinical affiliate faculty recruitment and development.

Wills will serve as an integral part of the College’s Liaison Committee on Medical Education Oversight Committee, preparing for the College’s upcoming LCME site visit and ensuring compliance with accreditation requirements.

Most recently, Wills served as president and CEO of Siloam Health, a faith-based, multisite nonprofit health center serving Nashville’s uninsured. He became Siloam’s first staff physician in 2000 and in his role as CEO, Wills oversaw an interdisciplinary team of 65 staff who cared for roughly 6,500 uninsured patients annually, 94% of whom are foreign-born immigrants or refugees coming from more than 70 countries.

Wills has also served as a longtime and award-winning clinical faculty at Vanderbilt, overseeing education programs at Siloam that have trained hundreds of future physicians and other health professionals in the art and practice of whole-person care for the underserved.

Wills will begin his faculty role March 31 and assume his associate dean role May 1 when Dr. Reuben Bueno, who has served in the role since 2021, leaves to begin his clinical practice in plastic surgery, hand surgery, and burn surgery at HCA TriStar Skyline Medical Center.

FBMM names new business manager

Entertainment business management firm FBMM has promoted Jason Leiss to business manager.

Leiss started his career at FBMM directly out of college as an office administrative team member in 2010. He has since worked his way through the ranks to his current position as business manager, the highest position at FBMM.

Leiss will continue to lead a team of five and oversee all financial facets for his clients, in both business and personal financial management. His team often collaborates with clients’ other professional advisers and utilizes the broad range of FBMM’s resources and knowledge to provide fully comprehensive service.

Leiss holds a degree in business with a focus in entrepreneurship. He obtained his Certified Financial Planner certification in 2023.

Music City Center chef gets Silver Plate Award

Music City Center Executive Chef Max Knoepfel is the recipient of the 2023 International Foodservice Manufacturers Association Silver Plate Award. The award recognizes extraordinary operator executives in various foodservice categories.

“Chef Max,” who has been with the facility since the doors opened in May 2013, is one of nine IFMA Silver Plate Award winners revealed at the association’s 2023 Chain Operators EXchange (COEX) in Tampa.

Dalton named to Hispanic National Bar Under 40 list

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP’s Alé Dalton has been named to the Hispanic National Bar Association’s 2023 “Top Lawyers Under 40” list.

The “HNBA/VIA Top Lawyers Under 40” list recognizes lawyers who have demonstrated professional excellence, integrity, leadership, commitment to the Hispanic community, and dedication to improving the legal profession.

Dalton is an associate in Bradley’s Healthcare Practice Group and was instrumental in helping establish the Nashville Hispanic Bar Association. She has worked with organizations to support the advancement of Hispanic families and students in the Nashville area.

Dalton also serves as vice chair of Bradley’s Lawyers of Color Resource Group and is a liaison for the firm’s Women’s Initiative. She is actively involved in the firm’s pro bono efforts and in staffing community legal clinics.

In 2022, Ms. Dalton was named the Nashville Emerging Leader Awards winner in the Legal Services industry category for her professional accomplishments, as well as for her commitment and contributions to the Nashville community. She also was recognized with Bradley’s Cameron J. Miller Award for Excellence and Community Service in 2021 and was named a recipient of the Alumni Promise Award by the University of Tennessee Knoxville Alumni Association.