LIMELIGHTS, CAREER PATHS

INSURANCE

Gem-Young Insurance & Risk Management recently hired Stacy Scheckelhoff as an insurance agent. She will be specializing in personal and commercial lines clients in the Cranberry Township, Pa., and western Pennsylvania territory.

TEAM NEO

The governing board of directors of Team Northeast Ohio recently selected Jim Clay, chairman and CEO of Westfield Group, to assume the role of chairman for the region’s business attraction, growth and technology-based business development organization. He succeeds Ward J. “Tim” Timken Jr., chairman, chief executive officer and president of TimkenSteel Corp. and David T. Abbott, executive director of the George Gund Foundation, who served as interim co-chairmen during the organization’s transition to begin to implement the regional strategy.

FINANCE

Joel D. Matthews, a private wealth adviser with Ameriprise Financial, has qualified for the company’s 2014 Circle of Success annual recognition program and will be honored for this achievement in this year. His office is at 4137 Boardman-Canfield Road, Suite 107A, Canfield.

Thomas P. Shortreed, a private wealth adviser for Ameriprise Financial, also qualified for the 2014 Circle of Success annual recognition program. His offices are at 3378 State Route 5, Cort-land, and 972 Youngstown-Kingsville Road, Vienna.