Catapult Announces New Board Members
October 14, 2008 – Catapult, the Seacoast’s young professionals networking group dedicated to providing young professionals with unique and valuable opportunities to enhance personal and professional development, announces three new Board members. Jamila Taylor, Phil Cohen and Phil Lewis will each join the Catapult Seacoast leadership team and contribute to communications, internal organization and special projects as the group wraps up this year and prepares to launch into 2009.
A Media Relations Associate at Calypso Communications, Jamila Taylor’s expertise is in strategic marketing and communications. She will help generate publicity for Catapult’s various personal and professional development series of events and help manage website, collateral and e-newsletter content. Taylor will work closely with the event committee and member communications manager. Taylor also volunteers with the United Way of the Greater Seacoast’s C2 Marketing committee and sits on the New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility’s Programs & Services committee.
Phil Cohen is joining Catapult’s Board as the Treasurer. Cohen works for Ocean National Bank and will lend his management proficiency to Catapult’s internal organization, as well as accounting and reporting. He will also work in tandem with the Sponsorship Chair for Catapult. In addition to Ocean National Bank and Catapult, Cohen is actively involved with the affordable housing effort in Portsmouth.
With well-rounded expertise, Phil Lewis will contribute to project management and business development in his new Board membership role with Catapult Seacoast. He will be the special projects expert, helping to see ideas and events to fruition, and partnering with the Events committee. Lewis currently works at Liberty Mutual as a Business Process Management Analyst, and has background experience in construction, manufacturing, IT network support, software developement, and operations management.
Other current Catapult Board members include Chair, Helen Donington of Lincoln Vale; Events Chair Becky Barbour, of UNH Whittemore School of Business; Secretary Lexi Manus, of Planet Fitness; Director of Internships Lisa Landry of Print Savvy; and Member Communications Jared Lemos of Pannaway Networks. Amy Morris of Pannaway Networks is a Catapult Seacoast Ambassador who will work on community relations.
Catapult currently has over 1100 members and will be celebrating its two-year anniversary this November. Please check out the website www.catapultseacoast.org for more information about events, sponsorship or how to become a member.
About catapult
Catapult, the Seacoast’s Young Professional Networking group, is an organization designed to promote professional growth in the Seacoast marketplace through networking opportunities. Personal and professional development is enhanced through catapult’s valuable career development programs that include leadership training, seminars, CEO roundtables and more. To find out more about catapult, visit www.catapultseacoast.org.
