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R&R Partners and the Glenn Group were big winners in the 2012 ADDY Awards program held March 24 at the Hard Rock Café. The annual advertising-industry competition is sponsored by the Las Vegas chapter of the American Advertising Federation.
R&R Partners won seven gold ADDY awards — including a “Best of Show” award for its “Protect the Moment” multimedia campaign — for work done on behalf of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
The Glenn Group won four gold awards for work done for clients the Smith Center, the Mob Museum and Bally Technologies, and a total of 20 awards overall — the largest number among entrants in the competition.
The awards, the agencies earning them and the advertiser/clients:
Gold multiple winners — R&R Partners, seven awards, all for LVCVA; the Glenn Group, four awards, for Bally Technologies, the Smith Center and the Mob Museum (2); MGM Resorts International, two awards, for corporate international marketing and for corporate strategic relationship marketing; Olicity, two awards, for Highbar Miami and for Red Rock Fertility Center.
Gold single-award winners — 1010 Collective, for its own campaign; Canyon Creative, for Aloft Wine; Proof Interactive, for Rock Honey Studio; eurie creative, for Casa de Luz; Caesars Entertainment, for Bally’s Las Vegas; MGM Grand, for its own campaign; and Brandhaus, for St. John’s Hospitals.
Silver multiple winners — the Glenn Group, five awards; the Venetian, four; 1010 Collective, two; R&R Partners, two; MGM Resorts International, two. Other silver winners — Theorem Creations; Cox Business; 3 Martini Lunch Advertising & Design; Swan Advertising; and Olicity, all one each.
Bronze multiple winners — the Glenn Group, 11 awards; Caesars Entertainment, three; R&R Partners, three; Brandhaus, two; 1010 Collective, two; MGM Resorts International, two; and Luxury Las Vegas, two. Other bronze winners — Virgen, Inc.; Station Casinos; Carvalho Creative; Theorem Creations; 3 Martini Lunch Advertising & Design, all one each.
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Miranda Du has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next U.S. District Court judge for Nevada. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley — Boalt Hall School of Law, Du joined McDonald Carano Wilson in 1994. She was named a partner in 2002 and grew to be a strong leader in the firm, including serving as chairwoman of its Employment & Labor Law Practice Group. Du remains active in the Nevada community, serving in recent years as a board member of the Nevada Women’s Fund and a member of the Nevada Commission on Economic Development.
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Clay Archey has been promoted from controller to chief compliance officer and chief operating officer at TriCor Financial. Archey’s responsibilities will include leading enterprise compliance efforts, designing and implementing internal controls, policies and procedures to assure compliance and applicable local, state and federal laws, regulations and third-party guidelines. He also will lead day-to-day management.
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Victoria Guerra
Grant Beck
Dermatologist Victoria E. Guerra, M.D., of HealthCare Partners Medical Group announced she has moved her dermatology practice to HealthCare Partners’ specialty clinic at 2285 E. Flamingo Road No. 105. Podiatrist Grant L. Beck, D.P.M, of HealthCare Partners Medical Group, also announced he has moved his podiatry practice to HealthCare Partners’ specialty clinic.
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Joe Vassallo jr
Three V Enterprises (3VE), a corporation devoted to developing platforms to honor, educate and inspire architects, designers, builders, manufacturers and developers worldwide, has named its 2012 board of directors. Joining founders Joseph M. Vassallo, CBP, and Mary B. Vail, OSG, will be pool industry executive and GAVA advisory board member Joseph A. Vassallo, CBP.
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Paul Hamilton is president and CEO of The Greenspun Corporation. Hamilton, a founding principal of Province Advisors, has more than 15 years’ experience providing advisory services to privately held companies repositioning them for growth and creating long term value.
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John Hou, M.D., is an internist at the HealthCare Partners Medical Group’s facility at 4275 S. Burnham Ave. No. 220. Dr. Hou is board certified in internal medicine and affiliated with the American College of Physicians.
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Phil Ralston is president of the American Nevada Company. Ralston joined The Greenspun Corporation in 1992, and moved to the real estate company in 1995, where he has been chief financial officer and more recently added the duties of chief operating officer.
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Cynthia L. Alexander, a partner at Snell & Wilmer’s Las Vegas office, has been elected treasurer of the Nevada Public Radio board of directors. Alexander has been on the board since June 2006.
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Kate Lowenhar-Fisher has been accepted as a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL). She shares this honor with many of the world’s top gaming attorneys, regulators, compliance officers, tribal leaders and educators, and is the first Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck attorney to be admitted to IMGL.
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Dante Pistone has been appointed to the board of directors of Southern Nevada Public Television, which raises money for and promotes the services of local public broadcasting affiliate VEGAS PBS, Channel 10. As manager of public affairs for National Security Technologies, Pistone brings more than 30 years of executive public relations experience to the board.
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Piercy Bowler Taylor & Kern announced that one of its principals, Howard B. Levy, who is director of technical services, has been appointed to the Auditing Standards Committee of the New York State Society of CPAs. Levy has been a member of the New York State Society of CPAs for 42 years.
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Dana Serrata, executive director of Helping Hands of Vegas Valley, has been elected to a one-year term on the Alliance for Nevada Nonprofits’ board of directors. Since joining Helping Hands in 2009, Serrata has worked to streamline programs and processes to double the amount of clients the agency helps daily by providing food and transportation to disadvantaged and homebound seniors.
