NEW HIRES

Sarah Ruef-Lindquist of Camden has joined the financial services division of Allen Insurance and Financial.
Ruef-Lindquist spent more than four years as the CEO of the Maine Women’s Fund. She also worked with the Maine Community Foundation, Union Trust, Colby College, Pen Bay Healthcare Foundation and Planning for Good, a consulting firm she founded.

Idexx Laboratories has hired Pat Venters as vice president and chief marketing officer.
Venters brings 25 years of experience in health care marketing, most recently at GE.

Freeport Community Services has hired Paula Paladino as its new executive director.
Paladino comes to FCS from MaineHousing as manager of homeless initiatives and special projects coordinator. Her career spans 25-plus years of government and nonprofit experience in social programs.

Zoë Alexis Scott was hired as director of development at the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland.
Scott spent the last three years as managing director of Seattle Public Theater in Washington, where she raised the financial and artistic profile of the organization.

Aroostook Aspirations Initiative recently hired Nicole Duplessis as development and communications assistant.
Most recently, Duplessis worked as a reporter at WAGM-TV, where she was an intern prior to her senior year of college. She was also a freelance writer for The Star Herald and The Aroostook Republican during part of her college career.

Carolyn Krahn was hired as an account executive with Artforms in Brunswick.
Krahn, of Freeport, brings experience including apparel and advertising specialty sales at both Maine Coast Marketing and Winter People. She was most recently with the Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce.

Matthew Coy joined MEMIC as a senior director of information technology. Prior to MEMIC, Coy worked as director of application development for Aetna.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New England has hired Angie Adrien as a sales associate.
Adrien will provide residential real estate services in Kennebunk as well as the surrounding communities of York County and Greater Portland.