Senior-level hires and promotions in South Florida for the week of Nov. 2, 2020
BANKING
Vania Laguerre has been named local market executive in Miami for Bank of America. Laguerre has been with the company since 1988; for the past eight years, she has been senior resident director for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in Aventura. Laguerre has a bachelor’s in finance and international business from Florida International University.
BUSINESS ADVISORY | TAX SERVICES
Yvette Garcia has joined EisnerAmper as a commercial audit partner. She will focus on audit & assurance, mergers & acquisitions, public offerings and capital formation. She was a partner at MBAF. Garcia has a bachelor’s in accounting from Connecticut State University and a master’s in accounting from Florida International University.
CONSTRUCTION
Jason Niemiller has joined Moss Construction as vice president of solar environmental health and safety. He was most recently director of safety at Strata Solar in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. He has a bachelor’s in environmental health and safety from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from Franklin University in Ohio.
SPIRITS
At Bacardi Limited, Mauricio Vergara has been appointed president and chief operating officer of PATRÓN. He was most recently managing director for Bacardi-Martini Australia and New Zealand. The company is based in Bermuda.
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MOVER’S SPOTLIGHT
Name: Dr. Marcos Mestre
New position: Vice president and chief medical officer for Nicklaus Children’s Hospital.
About: Dr. Mestre joined the hospital’s parent organization, Nicklaus Children’s Health System (NCHS), in 2005 as a pediatric hospital medicine physician. He went on to become director of the division of hospital medicine and president of the medical staff. Most recently, Dr. Mestre was senior medical director, pediatric services and section chief for pediatric hospital medicine for Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists, the NCHS clinical group practice.
Education: After earning his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine, Dr. Mestre completed his pediatric residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He also holds an executive MBA in health sector management and policy from the University of Miami and is board-certified in general pediatrics.
Best advice: My University of Florida College of Medicine Dean, Dr. Hugh Hill, told me, “Always remember the 3 A’s in medicine: Availability, Affability and Ability,” and that has always stuck with me.
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This space lists promotions of executives at the director level and above who are based in Broward, Miami- Dade or Monroe counties. Announcements, also at miamiherald.com, are for full-time, paid positions. Send items, with a high-resolution jpeg of a head shot (not in a zip or other file that must be opened) to movers@miamiherald.com. Most items won’t be published without a head shot. Include the position (company, title) most recently held before the new job. Educational background is also desirable.
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