BRUNSWICK — Modern Pest Services recently announced the hiring of Jack Wholey as general manager and the promotion of Paul Lavallee to training manager.

According to a news release, Wholey will lead the company’s Portland service center and comes to Modern Pest with extensive management and leadership experience. Along with overseeing the dayto day operations of the service center, developing his team and ensuring client satisfaction, Wholey’s background in sales and marketing will help further expand the company’s footprint in the southern Maine area.

Wholey has previously worked in financial process automation, retail sales, and telecommunications.

Lavallee fills a newly created position at Modern Pest and will be responsible for assessing and meeting the company’s procedural training needs through the development, coordination, and, at times, delivery of inhouse training.

For the past seven years, Lavallee was the HomeCare service manager at the Augusta service center. Prior to that, he held positions as a commercial sales professional and HomeCare service professional at Modern Pest.