Patricia Andrade has been promoted to manager/assistant treasurer at the Fall River branch location of BayCoast Bank. more

Elizabeth Francis has been named executive director of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. more

Peter Balint has been appointed president of the EIFS Industry Members Association. more

Jessica David has been named vice president of strategy and public affairs at The Rhode Island Foundation. The Rhode Island Foundation more

Kathi Crowe, the executive director of South County YMCA, has also been appointed director of the West Bay Family YMCA. more

Molly Champagne Burke has been named compliance and privacy officer at CharterCARE Health Partners, where she will be involved in all facets compliance, privacy and ethics policy for CharterCARE and its affiliates. more

Karen Rezendes has been promoted to news director for WPRI-TV. more

Richard M. Locke has been named director of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. more

Stephen Stewart has been named small-business advocate at Naval Undersea Warfare Center, where he will be responsible for guiding small businesses through the complexities of government contracting requirements. more

Jamie Worrell, president of GPS Investment Advisors and managing director of 401(k) Advisors, was recently named one of the country’s 100 top retirement-plan advisers by PlanAdvisor Magazine. Worrell has more than 20 years of industry experience and currently leads a team of employees focused on creating successful retirement-plan experiences for employers and employees. In the past, Worrell has also been recognized as an inductee into the PlanAdvisors’ Hall of Fame and was voted as the 2011 Retirement Plan Advisor of the Year by PlanSponsor Magazine. Worrell holds a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. more