business & professional Teddie Olender, financial adviser and accredited asset management specialist with Wells Fargo Advisors in Farmington Hills, has earned the designation as a Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist granted by the College for Financial Planning. Olender, a partner in the Olender Olender Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, is a graduate of the University of Michigan and resides in West Bloomfield. The intellectual property law firm of Rader, Fishman & Grauer is pleased to announce that Lisa Rycus Mikalonis has joined its Bloomfield Hills office as a partner. She will enhance the firm's growing IP litigation practice as she brings more than 25 years of litigation Mikalonis experience. Mikalonis earned a J.D. from University of Oregon School of Law and a B.A. in English from University of California, Berkley. Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller P.C., a Southfield-based law firm, announced the promotion of Sheryl K. Silberstein of Commerce Township to shareholder. She con- centrates her practice primarily in commercial real estate law, includ- ing financing, acquisitions, sales and development of shopping centers, industrial and office buildings, zon- ing and land use, in addition to residential transac- tions. Prior to joining the firm in 2000, she had 14 years of experience in the real estate industry in the corporate sector. Beaumont Gifts Special Defibrillator To JARC ARC, a Farmington Hills orga- nization serving people with disabilities, received a donation from Beaumont Health System to purchase a special Automatic Melissa Garrett, JARC volunteer External Defibrillator coordinator, Carla Schwartz, (AED) device that is director of community affairs and used when training advocacy at Beaumont Health deaf staff members. System, and Rosemary Langevin, The AED device is spe- JARC supervisor for its program cially designed for this serving people who are deaf purpose, has written instructions, as opposed to verbal recorded instructions, and is now used as part of JARC's annual employee CPR and emergency treatment measures training program. This new AED equipment is critical to ensure that all JARC staff receive the training necessary to provide quality care to all those that JARC serves. A special thank you to Beaumont Health Systems was given at JARC's Bingo night at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township recently. limp 1 Best Lawyers has named Eugene Driker as Detroit Antitrust Litigation Lawyer of the Year for 2014. He is a founding member of Barris Sott Denn & Driker and spe- cializes in complex business and antitrust litigation, and in corporate and business counseling. Driker Driker serves as a special mediator in the city of Detroit bankruptcy and on the Wayne State University Board of Governors. 1 Starfish Family Services in Inkster named Lori Fidler as its Special Projects Coordinator. Her initial project is planning the annual fun- draiser, May 1, at the Henry. Early childhood programming and non- profit management are her pas- sions. Her professional experience Fidler includes advising in the field of child development for three universities, co-owning a private preschool and as executive director of the Oak Park Business & Education Alliance. ❑ Silberstein • THE FORMATIO 0 F SCHECHTER INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC LED BERNIE KENT JD, CPA, PFS BY: JOHN STEIN MBA, CFA Schechter Wealth, an investment advisory and advanced life insurance design firm, is expanding its investment services and we're happy to welcome Bernie Kent and John Stein to lead the team. Nationally renowned financial planner Bernie Kent spent 32 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was the Midwest regional BERNIE KENT JD, CPA, PFS Chairman, Senior Advisor Schechter Investment Advisors partner in charge of the personal financial services group. John Stein, a former director of PwC's Investment Advisory Practice, has more than 17 years of investment advisory experience. JOHN STEIN MBA, CFA CEO, Senior Advisor Schechter Investment Advisors SCHECHTERWEALTH Knowledge Creates OpportunityTM 248.731.9500 I BIRMINGHAM, MI NEW YORK, NY WWW.SCHECHTERWEALTH.COM For information about registration status and business operations, please consult Schechter Investment Advisors' Form ADV disclosure documents, available on the SEC's Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov . 42 March 13 • 2014