Vision Advertising in Northborough has promoted CATRINA GARDNER to director of marketing and client relations. Gardner previously served as social media specialist and communications manager for Vision Advertising, having joined the agency in 2019. In her new role, she heads the firm’s marketing initiatives while supporting its clientele. Gardner graduated with her bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Lasell University in Newton.
Rockland Trust in Worcester has named two senior vice presidents. PETER STAITI has been promoted to senior vice president, regional executive for commercial banking. With more than 20 years of commercial banking experience, Staiti joined the banking institution in 2020 having previously served as a senior relationship manager at TD Bank in Worcester. He serves on the board of directors for the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Worcester State Foundation, an initiative of his alma mater Worcester State University. ROBERT PAULSEN has been hired as senior vice president, commercial banking center manager for the commercial bank’s Worcester Commercial Banking Center. With more than 30 years of banking and management experience, Paulsen will head Rockland Trust’s commercial team while fostering new commercial and industrial relationships throughout the Greater Worcester region. Paulsen earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Nichols College in Dudley and his master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from Anna Maria College in Paxton.
KAREN SHERRY was appointed curator of American art at the Worcester Art Museum. In her new role, Sherry will reinstall and interpret the museum’s galleries displaying American art from the 17th to 19th centuries to diversify the media to women and people of color, in order to promote a broader and inclusive understanding of American art. Previously, she was a senior curator at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond, and prior to that, she served as the curator of American art at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and as associate curator of American art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
