22  LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • APRIL 2020  
 PRESS BUSINESS 
 MOVERS & SHAKERS: 
 NEW HIRES, PROMOTIONS 
 Kaitlin Friedman  
 SterlingRisk  Insurance, 
   one  of  
 the  nation’s  top  
 i n d e p e n d e n t l y  
 owned  insurance  
 brokerages, has  
 hired Friedman as alternative market  
 leader. A licensed property and  
 casualty insurance broker, she also  
 provides wholesale  support  to  the  
 SterlingRisk programs department. 
 Andrew Lagnado 
 Friends of Karen, the  
 not-for-profit  that  
 provides support to  
 critically ill children  
 and  their  families,  
 named  Lagnado  to  
 itsLong  Island  advisory  board.  He  
 is the principal at Copiague Middle  
 School and serves as a trustee to the  
 Woodbury Jewish Center.  
 A n n e - M a r i e  
 Hudley Simmons 
 Simmons was elected  
 President  of  the  
 National Association  
 of Negro Musicians,  
 Inc.  the  country’s  
 oldest  organization  dedicated  to  
 the  preservation,  encouragement,  
 and advocacy of all genres of African 
 American music.  
 Eric Post 
 Post was appointed  
 Long  Island  director  
 of the American  
 Jewish  Committee,  
 which  combats  
 antisemitism,  promotes  
 Israel’s  place  in  the  world,  
 counters extremism, and promotes  
 pluralism. He has worked at the organization  
 over four years and has  
 been involved since 2002. 
 Colleen Duffy 
 Girls  Inc.  of  Long  
 Island  appointed  
 Duffy  to  its  board  
 of directors. She is a  
 managing  director  
 in  BDO’s Nonprofit  
 Advisory  Services  practice  and  
 brings more than 20 years of experience  
 as a finance, operations, and  
 technology advisor. 
 Jeremy M. Musella 
 T h e  Uni on - 
 dale-based law firm  
 of Forchelli Deegan  
 Terrana  LLP  welcomed  
 Musella to its  
 corporate and mergers  
 and acquisitions and veterinary  
 practice groups as an associate. Prior  
 to joining FDT, he was an associate at  
 Cullen and Dykman LLP in Garden  
 City. 
 Saskia Thomson 
 Girls  Inc.  of  Long  
 Island  appointed  
 Thomson  to  its  
 board of directors.  
 Prior  to Ms.Thomson  
   joining  
 Planned Parenthood, she served on  
 the executive leadership teams of the  
 Tourette Association of America and  
 the YMCA of Long Island. 
 Jeff Boyd 
 The Nor thwell  
 Health  Cancer  Institute  
 recruited  
 Boyd,  a  renowned  
 expert  in  cancer  
 genetics  research  
 and clinical molecular diagnostics,  
 as vice president and chief scientific  
 officer and director of the institute’s  
 Center for Genomic Medicine. 
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