Haley Duncan has joined Stites & Harbison in Nashville as a member of its real estate and banking service group.

Before joining Stites & Harbison, Duncan participated in the firm’s summer associate program in 2022, was a judicial intern for Hon. Judge Irv Maze of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in the summer of 2021 and was a legal research intern for MothersEsquire in 2023.

She earned her J.D. from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, and while there was a member of the University of Louisville Law Review, Volumes 60-61. She served as vice president of the Business Law Group and was a member of the Women’s Law Caucus, the International Law Society and the Entrepreneurship Clinic. Additionally, she is a recipient of the Samuel L. Greenebaum Public Service Fellowship.

Clarus expands team with regional VP of sales

Nashville-based Clarus has added Tom Luther as regional vice president of sales for the SaaS patient call management platform, which serves the physician office segment of the health care industry.

Luther joins Clarus, a Graham Healthcare Capital portfolio company, with more than 30 years of technology sales experience, the last 15 heavily focused in health care. He has worked with independent practices, hospital-owned physician organizations, IPAs, MSOs and ACOs to better align their service offerings with health systems and payers while properly preparing them for digital transformation in health care. He will be responsible for sales in the central region for Clarus.

Luther comes to Clarus from TML, a consulting practice he founded to provide general advisory services for various verticals, including health care, medical device, high-tech and manufacturing. Luther earned a degree in accounting and management information systems from Eastern Michigan University. He has held a Certificate as Practice Management Executive for 12 years.

Luther is the fourth regional vice president added to the company this year.

Veteran business manager joins FBMM

Business manager Jordan Josephs, who has more than a decade of experience in sports and entertainment business management and family office management, has joined FBMM.

Based in Los Angeles, Josephs works alongside FBMM’s director of West Coast Operations, Paul Barnabee.

Josephs has degrees from Syracuse University in both sports management and psychology. He is a member of AthletesTouch, Trusted Advisor and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Veterinary Innovative Partners selects new CEO

Veterinary Innovative Partners, a network of veterinarian-owned and -operated hospitals across nine states, has picked Chris Bishop as its new chief executive officer.

John Kuzmishin, outgoing CEO, will transition into a senior advisory role at VIP, where he will continue to serve on the board and leverage his expertise for future hospital acquisitions and contribute to the company’s growth goals.

Bishop brings more than two decades of health care experience to VIP, including a track record of driving strategic growth, orchestrating successful mergers and acquisitions, and building high-performance teams. In his new role, Bishop leads the development and execution of growth strategies for VIP, focusing on nurturing an environment aligned with the organization’s visionary goals, ensuring veterinarians deliver exceptional care and thrive professionally.

VIP’s network spans 37 hospitals across Tennessee, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

Bishop previously led Regent Surgical Health, the largest private surgery center operator serving the hospital joint venture market. During his tenure, he scaled Regent’s platform to serve 1,000 surgeons while treating 100,000 patients annually across 15 health system partnerships and 35 locations.

Bishop is an active member of the Nashville Leadership Healthcare Council and the C12 Executive Leadership Program, a founding board member of not-for-profit Cul2vate and serves on Nashville’s Faith Family board, a nonprofit dedicated to providing health care for lower income families.

Autism Tennessee hires adult program director

Autism Tennessee today has named Casey Davis to the position of adult program director. Davis will be responsible for all adult-focused initiatives, including managing the Connect Adult Social Networking Group, and will play a crucial role in fundraising initiatives for Autism Tennessee in its efforts to bridge the programming and service gaps for individuals on the autism spectrum, their families, and their surrounding community through support, advocacy and education.

Davis will oversee the relaunch of EmployMe initiative, which is tailored to empower and provide support for autistic teenagers and self-advocating adults as they navigate the path toward employment and independent living.

Davis earned a degree in history from the University of Southern Mississippi and completed her master’s degree in library information sciences at Louisiana State University. Over the course of a decade, Davis served as the project manager for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, collaborating with the Library of Congress and successfully securing over $25 million for programmatic goals and initiatives. She also teaches graduate courses in the School of Information Studies at LSU.

S3 taps Freeman to lead business development

S3 Recycling Solutions has named Nathan Freeman director of business development. As the youngest sales executive in S3’s history, Freeman successfully grew active and prospective clients by 35% after joining the Middle Tennessee-based electronics recycling firm full time in the Summer of 2022.

As director of business development, Freeman will lead a team of executives who are responsible for creating new business opportunities for S3 throughout the U.S and Canada.

Freeman serves on the board of Rotaract of Nashville, a service club for young professionals, is a board member at the Tennessee Environmental Council, is on the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce YP Council and he is a 2023 graduate of the Greater Nashville Technology Council’s Emerging Leaders in Tech program.

A native of Middle Tennessee, Freeman graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where he studied business management with a collateral in entrepreneurship at the Haslam College of Business. He began his tenure in the electronics recycling industry by interning with S3 as a warehouse worker in the summer of 2018, and he spent subsequent summers working with the firm.