LP Building Solutions chair and CEO Brad Southern has been named 2024 North American CEO of the Year by Fastmarkets. This marks the second time in five years Southern has received this recognition.

Southern was selected by analysts who cover the North American and global pulp and paper industry. He was noted for his focus, determination and success in transforming LP from a commodity to a specialty producer.

He has served as LP’s CEO since 2017 and board chair since 2020. He joined LP in 1999 and has held various leadership roles, including executive vice president and chief operating officer, executive vice president and general manager of OSB, senior vice president of siding and vice president of specialty operations. Southern also is a board member of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Forest Products Association of Canada and the Nashville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Southern holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in forest resources from the University of Georgia and began his career with MacMillan Bloedel as a forester.

Lifepoint Health elevates 2 physicians to new roles

Lifepoint Health has appointed two physician leaders to key roles for the organization.

Chris Frost, M.D., is taking on an expanded leadership role as senior vice president, chief medical officer and chief quality officer, effective immediately. In addition to his current quality and clinical operations responsibilities, he will oversee the development of specific clinical- and quality-focused processes to enhance safety and ensure optimal outcomes for patients.

Frost most recently served as senior vice president and chief medical officer of Lifepoint communities, and before that served the company as national medical director, hospital-based services.

Klaus Boel, M.D., has been named senior vice president physician services, effective Aug. 5. Boel will oversee the operations of Lifepoint’s provider practices, leading the team that is working on continuing to enhance ambulatory care quality, patient access, provider recruitment and growth. He will also focus on the development of local provider leadership and culture.

Boel has served in a number of leadership roles at Lifepoint during his tenure. He most recently was national medical director of ambulatory and post-acute services and will maintain those responsibilities in addition to taking on his new role.

He previously served as medical director for the employed physician group at Clark Memorial Health, a former Lifepoint Health facility located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, 2008-2019, before becoming the chief medical officer for the hospital.

Hartley named TN’s asst. adjutant general, air

Col. Martin “Lee” Hartley has been selected as the Tennessee Military Department’s assistant adjutant general, air.

Hartley has served as the commander of Knoxville’s 134th Air Refueling Wing since 2018 and will begin his new role in August. He began his military career in 1991 after graduating from the United States Air Force Academy and then served on active duty as an instructor pilot at various duty stations.

In 1997, he joined the Tennessee Air National Guard and the 134th Air Refueling Wing at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base as a KC-135E pilot. His numerous assignments in the wing include maintenance squadron commander, maintenance group deputy commander, 151st Air Refueling Squadron commander and vice wing commander, until taking command of the Wing.

Hartley has deployed numerous times to Europe, Southwest Asia and the Pacific throughout his career flying aerial refueling missions and more than 60 combat missions for operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, Freedom Sentinel and Inherent Resolve.

Hartley succeeds Col. Jason Glass, who will retire from the Tennessee National Guard after serving as assistant adjutant general, air, since 2018 and with more than 36 years of military service.

Tennessee A4LE chapter announces 2024 officers

The Association for Learning Environments Tennessee Chapter today has announced its 2024 leadership slate, with Beth Meadows, AIA, CDT, RA, associate at Wold Architects and Engineers, serving as president.

Other officers include:

• Chase Turpin, AIA, CCS, CDT, associate with Goodwyn Mills Cawood and former A4LE Tennessee treasurer, president-elect

• Johnny Metoyer, associate director at Turner & Townsend Heery, director of communications

• Scott Lockyear, PE, building envelope manager with Georgia-Pacific, past president

Meadows, who joined Wold in 2012, has worked on a wide range of education projects during her time there, including new facilities and renovations. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and serves as treasurer of the Tennessee Architecture Foundation and as board member of the Tennessee Subcontractors Association.

Turpin is a Nashville native and Tennessee-licensed architect with a wide range of project management experience overseeing all phases of the building process, from pre-design to construction administration. He has worked on a variety of project types across the United States, including K-12 schools, commercial, retail and health care facilities. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Metoyer has over two decades of experience working in construction and project management. His family ignites his passion for serving the education sector as he looks to create learning opportunities with impactful design, with his elementary school children serving as his inspiration. After spending time in California, Arizona and Oregon, Metoyer returned to Tennessee in 2022 to serve as the business development and operations lead for Turner & Townsend Heery’s Tennessee office.

Lockyear has been involved in the design and construction community for more than 20 years.

TriStar Skyline selects asst. chief nursing officer

TriStar Skyline Medical Center has named Bruce Mitchell as assistant chief nursing officer. Mitchell will focus on elevating nursing strategy within the emergency department, including patient experience and quality initiatives.

Mitchell brings a wide-range of nursing experience to his role, especially in emergency nursing. In addition to working in intensive care units, Mitchell also has experience as a full-time flight nurse and paramedic. He was the director of emergency services for the only level 1 trauma center in West Texas, and he held the same role at HCA Florida JFK Hospital.

He holds an associate degree from the Southern Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, an associate degree in paramedicine from South Plains College, a degree in nursing from West Texas A&M, a master’s degree from Lubbock Christian University and a doctorate in nursing practice from Texas Tech University.

Bailey & Company hires, expands to New York, L.A.

Bailey & Company, a Nashville-based merchant banking platform focused on lower- and middle-market health care, technology and insurance companies, has expanded its investment banking team with the addition of four new managing directors: James Castro, James Metcalf, Ben Matz and Andrew Hewlett.

All four join Bailey & Company from B. Riley Financial Services. As part of the expansion, James Castro and James Metcalf have been named co-heads of the firm’s health care services practice.

Castro has more than 20 years of experience in his diversified professional background. Most recently, he was senior managing director at B. Riley. Castro has led mergers and acquisitions transactions within multiple health care service categories, including behavioral health, dental, physician practice management, outsourced pharma and airway health. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, a master’s degree in health care leadership from Brown University and is completing a master’s degree in global health care from Oxford University.

Metcalf brings 20-plus years of experience executing strategic and financial transactions to his new role. Previously, he was senior managing director of health care and life sciences at B. Riley Financial. Metcalf earned a degree in accounting at Franklin and Marshall College and a master’s of business administration degree in finance from New York University.

Matz is an investment banker with more than 15 years of experience in M&A advisory, health care and health care services, restructuring and recapitalization, credit and asset and portfolio management in both advisory and lender/invested capital roles. His most recent position was managing director of health care and life sciences investment banking with B. Riley. Matz earned a degree in political science from Dalhousie University and a master’s in finance from New York University.

Andrew Hewlett also brings more than two decades of experience to the position. He joins from his prior position as managing director of health care and life sciences investment banking with B. Riley. Hewlett earned a degree in commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA in finance from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.