Thomas A. O’Sullivan

The following is a list of achievements by businesses and individuals in the Ann Arbor area:

• Yeo & Yeo P.C. recently announced that CPA Thomas A. O’Sullivan has been promoted to senior manager. He provides audit services as well as business and tax consulting services with an emphasis on the manufacturing, retail and wholesale sectors. He is based in the firm’s Ann Arbor office.

• An ad campaign for Leon Speakers, headquartered in Ann Arbor, has received two regional awards. Their “I am Leon” campaign, created by Pryor Design in Ann Arbor, was awarded both the Judge’s Choice and People’s Choice ADDY Awards. The annual Ann Arbor Ad Club ADDY Awards Competition recognizes exceptional advertising created in the southwest Michigan market. The local ADDY awards are the first of a three-tier, national competition starting with local entrants vying for recognition in the southwest Michigan market. As a local winner, the “I am Leon” campaign will compete against other winners in one of 15 district competitions. District winners are then forwarded to the third and final tier, the national ADDY Awards Competition. To view the series of award-winning “I am Leon” ads, visit www.leonspeakers.com/ads.html.

• Packard Health, Washtenaw County’s nonprofit primary care practice, recently appointed Natalie Edmunds to its board of trustees. Edmunds led the drive to establish the Ypsilanti Historical District and co-founded both the Ypsilanti Heritage Foundation and the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival, for which she served as chair for 10 years.

• Laura Shope, a real estate agent with Prudential Snyder & Co., Realtors, has been named the recipient of the 2011 Environmental Awareness Award. Shope was the first Realtor in Ann Arbor to earn the EcoBroker designation in 2004 and is regularly consulted by EnHouse, the Clean Energy Coalition and the City of Ann Arbor for a Realtor's perspective on energy-efficient issues. In related news, Prudential Snyder & Co. recently added Jeffrey Post to its sales team.

• Masco Cabinetry, manufacturer of three national cabinetry brands and the DeNovae countertop brand, has been named a Smart Business Cleveland 2011 "Evolution of Manufacturing” award winner. The award is given to manufacturing companies located in Northeast Ohio whose organizations have demonstrated the ability to position themselves to take advantage of innovative opportunities for success in today’s economy. Masco Cabinetry is headquartered in Ann Arbor, but its primary KraftMaid manufacturing facilities are located in Northeast Ohio. Masco was one of 11 manufacturing companies to win the award. In related news, Jason Adams, an Information Systems project manager with Masco, was awarded the company's Employees Reaching Out award on Feb. 18 for his service as a youth pastor at the Bethel Community Church in Livonia. The Employees Reaching Out award is an annual Masco Cabinetry award recognizing employees who connect to the communities in which they live and work.

• Two University of Michigan professors are among the 118 researchers across the nation chosen as 2011 Alfred P. Sloan research fellows. Volker Elling, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, and Anne McNeil, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, each receives a $50,000 fellowship. Elling is working on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, an important area of applied mathematics. McNeil's research focuses on creating new and useful organic materials and exploring their synthesis, assembly and operation. In current work, she's developing methods to prepare new organic polymers that can be used in solar cells and is designing materials that could be used to detect pollutants in the environment.

• SRT Solutions recently promoted Kerry Colligan from director of sales and marketing to vice president of operations.

• The Institute for Supply Management, in conjunction with ADR, has opened a training office in Shanghai, China. A new joint venture firm, ADR-ISM Supply Management Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., specializes in customized in-company training, consulting and Development Needs Analysis learning assessments. The Shanghai location allows ADR-ISM to better serve multinational organizations with operations in China, as well as Chinese companies. ADR's North American headquarters are located in Ann Arbor.

• Live Well Chiropractic Center has opened on East Washington Street in downtown Ann Arbor, with Dr. Mark Chappell-Lakin providing care for the entire family, from newborns to grandparents.

• The board of directors of the Arts Alliance announced Feb. 28 the appointment of Susan Froelich as the president of the organization. Froelich has served as interim president since early January. For the past 13 years, Froelich worked at the University of Michigan, first in Government Relations, and then in major gift development for the last 10 years. She comes to the Arts Alliance with 20 years of experience in nonprofit arts administration, including nearly 11 years as director of the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, and six years as the Exhibit Gallery director at the Ann Arbor Art Center.

• The offices of Real Estate One are celebrating 40 years in the Ann Arbor area. At a recent awards event, agents were honored for sales production in 2010. Matt Dejanovich was honored as the top producer in the Ann Arbor office, and the Eric Pointer Team was the top producing team. Michelle Vedder was honored as the top producer in the Dexter office, Danielle Grostick was honored as the top producer in the Milan office, and Cheryl Clossick was honored as the top producer in the Saline office.

• Keller Williams Realty reported at its national convention that it ended 2010 with 79,315 associates, 701 market centers and associate profit share up 7.2 percent. CEO Mark Willis shared in his annual State of the Company address to more than 8,000 convention attendees that, since the real estate market’s sharp downturn in 2005, the company has grown 30 percent in agents, 40 percent in market centers, 21 percent in closed units and 11 percent in closed GCI. Additionally, it was announced that the Michigan - Northern Ohio Region finished third in agent growth nationally in 2010.

• Ann Arbor-based Domino’s Pizza recently announced that, effective March 14, Richard Allison will join its leadership team as executive vice president of its international division. Allison comes to Domino's after more than 13 years at Bain & Company Inc. In related news, Richard L. Federico was named to Domino's board of directors Feb. 23. Federico is chair and Co-CEO of P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc. In other news from Domino's, the company will encourage customers to celebrate Sparky the Fire Dog’s 60th birthday on March 18 by focusing on fire safety in the home. In participating markets across the country, Domino’s will use its pizza boxes to deliver the message of preventing home fires through its partnership with the National Fire Protection Association. Consumers can find safety tips and fact sheets at NFPA's website. • Andrew Hashikawa, a University of Michigan emergency room doctor specializing in pediatrics, is the newly named American Academy of Pediatrics’ child care health expert and contact person in Michigan. Hashikawa is a resident of Dexter.

• The Tea Council of the USA Inc. recently announced the winner of the Sip of Success contest, created to award a young entrepreneur a world-class business and cultural experience. University of Michigan MBA student Taylor Caldron, 21, submitted the winning video and essay. His winning submission, "The Breakup," cleverly conveys his choice of tea over coffee as his favorite beverage. Caldron will live and work on tea plantations in Kenya, Sri Lanka and India, from mid-May through July of this year. For the internship finale, he will work with global tea entrepreneur Tracy Stern, of SalonTea in New York City, for eight weeks, to learn the retail and wholesale ends of the business. Caldron is pursuing a master's degree at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, where he is the youngest student currently enrolled. He is also marketing manager of Ann Arbor organic tea shop Arbor Teas.

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