BUSINESS
Kevin McCotter joined U. L. Coleman Companies on Sept. 11 as the general manager. He will be manage various business operations of the company including supervising office operating procedures, employee policy, marketing and public relations. McCotter has an master’s in business administration from Tulane University and has completed several professional development programs including the LSU Executive Program in Baton Rouge, Leadership Louisiana and the University of Colorado School of Banking. McCotter has vast experience from leadership roles with Citizens National Bank, BellSouth Telecommunications, Northwestern State University and most recently as the vice president of corporate development with Chesapeake Energy. The U. L. Coleman Companies provide a full range of commercial real estate and multi-family residential services throughout Shreveport, Bossier City and the Southern region.
Vintage Realty Company has welcomed three new brokerage and leasing agents that will enable them to establish market footholds all across the Southeast in commercial real estate and multi-family brokerage. Michael Morrison joined Vintage Realty Company in 2013 in their commercial sales division. He brings with him 20 years of experience in the Shreveport/Bossier City market with sales and leasing of all types of commercial properties, as well as rural farms and lake properties. Morrison spent 10 years as an exploration geologist in the Ark-La-Tex and works with local oil and gas companies in their pursuit of their real estate needs. He plans to continue in commercial leasing and sales with a focus on new commercial development in the Southern region. To contact Morrison, call 222-2244 or email him at [email protected].
John A. Hamilton is a graduate of Louisiana State University in Shreveport in business and administration. After spending his first three years after graduation with a local Shreveport firm, he started Hamilton & Associates Real Estate Companies that specialized in the brokerage and development of all classifications of multi-family. Hamilton now brings his expertise to Vintage Realty Company to offer the full complement of consulting, development, brokerage and management to all his multi-family clients across the Southeast. Hamilton is licensed in Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. To contact Hamilton, call 222-2244 or email him at [email protected].
Brian Williams kicked off the 2013 year with Vintage Realty Company. His preceding occupational history brings forward a diverse real estate practice to Vintage Realty Company, which entails commercial real estate investment sales, real estate development, federal construction contracts and commercial leasing. He has a 17-year track record practicing as a commercial real estate investment sales broker in two markets Louisiana and Florida. His sales competence embraces self-storage facilities, multi-family, commercial office, nursing homes, real estate development and commercial leasing. He is an associate broker at Vintage Realty Company and is a licensed Florida Real Estate Broker as well. To contact Williams, call 222-2244 or email him at bwilliams@ vintagerealty.com.
Otto N. Grozinger has been named a member of the 2013 President’s Council of New York Life. Members of the President’s Council are among the top 8 percent of New York Life’s elite sales force of 12,250 licensed agents. Grozinger has been a New York Life agent since 2004, and is associated with New York Life’s Shreveport General Office. He is a fellow of the Life Underwriter’s Training Council and received a bachelor’s degree from the Pennsylvania State University. He resides in the Shreveport-Bossier City area with his wife, Keri and two children.
Annella Bennett Nelson, director of the office for sponsored programs and technology transfer and office of research at LSU Health Shreveport, has been selected to serve on a new LSU System committee created to find ways to enhance the system’s research efforts. The president’s technology transfer committee is made up of representatives from each of the LSU research campuses. LSU President F. King Alexander has asked the group to come together to develop strategies to more closely collaborate on research projects that could be developed commercially. Nelson earned a master’s of business administration degree from LSU Shreveport and completed undergraduate studies at Stephen F. Austin State University. She joined the health sciences center in 1997.
Ray Tromba joined Vintage Realty Company in August 2013 as general manager of the commercial property management division and is responsible for overseeing more than one million square feet of office and retail space. Prior to joining Vintage, he most recently served as general manager of the Louisiana Boardwalk for the past seven years and oversaw its rise to the region’s top tourist attraction. There he managed the day to day operation of 570,000 square feet of office and retail space on 56 acres of land, including oversight of all real estate development, leasing coordination, tenant construction, marketing and public relations, security, maintenance, landscaping and janitorial. In addition, he worked close with the Bossier City administration who are equity partners in the Louisiana Boardwalk. Prior to the Louisiana Boardwalk, Ray was the General Manager of Louisiana Downs Racetrack for 16 years overseeing its rise to national prominence in the racing and gaming industry along with being appointed by the Governor to the Louisiana State Racing Commission. Ray also serves on several boards including the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourism commission and as past President of the Bossier Parish Community College Foundation and a current member. Ray received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nebraska.
Dr. Anthony Sin, assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at LSU Health Shreveport, was invited to give a talk titled, “Idiopathic Pediatric Scoliosis Treatment Using Segmental Instrumentation and Correction – Learning Curve for a Neurosurgeon,” at the 2013 Society of University Neurosurgeons meeting held in Malaga, Spain this June. Department of Neurosurgery Chairman Dr. Anil Nanda also attended the meeting and spoke on: “Microsurgical Management of Giant Intracranial Aneurysm: A Single Surgeon Experience from LSU, Shreveport.”
