YWCA Nashville and Middle Tennessee has added eight members to its board of directors for the 2024-25 term. New members represent leaders in the business, finance, health care, government and insurance sectors.

In addition, the 125-year-old Nashville nonprofit named a new board chair and chair-elect and promoted three senior leaders.

The new YWCA board members include:

• Gail Alexander, community volunteer & philanthropist

• Roxianne Bethune, diversity consultant

• Tonya Hallet, vice president human resources | Amazon

• Adrienne Johnson, TN health and benefits managing director | Mercer

• Susie Mackie, community volunteer and philanthropist

• Elizabeth Millsaps, principal & founder | Millsaps Public Strategies

• Burley Nelson, senior vice president, CHRO | First Acceptance

• Chris Otillio, vice president – financial advisory private wealth management | Baird

Kendra Deas, SHRM-SCP, vice president human resources for HealthStream, is YWCA’s new board chair, and Marlene Moses, Esq., partner at GSRM Law, is board chair-elect.

Also, Latrina Adams, Michelle Mowery Johnson and Tamara Ambar have been promoted to chief financial officer and senior vice president of compliance, vice president of strategic communications & advocacy and senior director of grants, respectively.

Adams joined YWCA in 2018 as vice president of finance-controller. Mowery Johnson joined the organization in 2013 as director of communications most recently served as the senior director of communications & advocacy. Ambar joined YWCA in 2023 as grants manager.

MNAA names Farner board commissioner

Mayor Freddie O’Connell has appointed Glenn Farner to the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority board of commissioners to fill the remaining seven-year term of former commissioner Bill Freeman.

Farner has been the business manager and secretary-treasurer of the Southeast Laborers’ District Council since 2004, representing thousands of workers in the Laborers’ International Union of North America across the Southeast. His extensive career with LiUNA includes roles in workplace health and safety, labor-management relations, marketing and business development and contract negotiations.

Farner grew up in East Tennessee and earned a degree in environmental health from East Tennessee State University. His commitment to the Nashville community is reflected in his previous service as a board member of the Employee Benefits Study and Formulating Committee, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, WeGo Public Transit and the Metropolitan Sports Authority.

Hastings Architecture adds new principal, associates

Hastings Architecture has promoted Matt Spaulding to principal and Casey Estanislao, Christina Holden and Sam Wible to associate principal.

Spaulding joined Hastings in 2010 and has led numerous award-winning projects across several sectors including hospitality, multifamily and retail, including Thompson Nashville boutique hotel in The Gulch, which was named 2017’s Most Beautiful Hotel in Tennessee by Architectural Digest. He also led on Virgin Hotels Nashville, which opened in 2020, and Hyatt Centric Nashville, which introduced a contemporary hospitality experience to the SoBro neighborhood when it opened in 2021.

Estanislao oversees Hastings’ marketing and communications team in her position as director of strategy. She is a ULI Women’s Leadership Initiative committee member, sits on the board of AEC Power Women and is an active member of commercial real estate development association NAIOP and Society for Marketing Professionals.

As director of design technology, Holden is responsible for the continued advancement of the firm’s digital design, visualization, documentation and construction coordination capabilities, as well as overseeing Hastings’ proprietary software customizations.

Holden is nationally recognized in the building information modeling field – she is a founding member of the BIM Association of Nashville and has been featured on the BIM Thoughts and AEC Disrupters podcasts, on a panel for Women in AEC, and as a speaker at BIM software giant Autodesk’s national conference.

Wible has led the design, management and oversight of some of Hastings’ most complex and large-scale projects. His recent award-winning projects include GEODIS Park – home to Nashville SC and the largest soccer stadium in North America; Nashville’s newest public high school, James Lawson High School, and The Finery – a mixed-use complex in the Wedgewood Houston neighborhood.

Chabon joins Geodis Park as director of booking

Geodis Park and Nashville Soccer Club have hired entertainment industry veteran Jeffrey Chabon as head of booking.

Chabon’s primary role will be the booking of concerts and entertainment events in both Geodis Park in Nashville and Wicks Family Field at Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville, Alabama, which is the home of MLS NEXT Pro affiliate Huntsville City Football Club.

Geodis Park also has launched its new website, GEODISPark.com, a dedicated destination with enhanced resources for fans attending a Nashville SC match and other non-soccer related events. On any event day, GEODISPark.com will transform into a dedicated platform on which attendees will enjoy an enhanced experience with customized content and key information.

Chabon’s career spans four decades in with Fantasma Productions, Concert Productions International, World Entertainment Services (Concert West), Kings Entertainment (Carowinds), TBA Entertainment in Nashville, AEG Facilities (ASM), AEG Presents and SMG.

Chabon also was a venue consultant instrumental in the opening of CityPlace in West Palm Beach, Florida. He also brought revenue enhancing programs to not-for-profit venues such as the Maltz Jupiter Theater and the Lake Worth Playhouse, both in the Florida.