Moving up in Southern Arizona

Nathan becomes VP at community foundation

Sandra Y. Nathan has joined the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona as vice president of community investment.

Nathan has more than two decades of philanthropic, nonprofit and government leadership experience.

She most recently was executive director for the Aids and Breast Cancer Emergency Fund in San Francisco, and has served as vice president of grants and loans at the Marin Community Foundation, senior vice president of Economic Security Social Impact Group at the National Council on Aging, president/CEO of the Richmond Community Foundation and deputy county executive of Santa Clara County.

She holds a master’s degree in public administration from National University in San Diego, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Diego.

She is a member of the Council on Foundations, and sits on a number of boards including Grantmakers in Aging.

Geico names Wheeler assistant VP of claims

Geico has named Shane Wheeler assistant vice president of claims at its regional office in Tucson. Wheeler will oversee Geico’s claims operations in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Washington.

He joined the company in 1999 as a management intern in San Diego, went on to work in liability claims, and was promoted to a liability claims manager at the Tucson regional office in 2007.

He most recently served as a liability director at Geico’s regional office in Dallas.

He holds an MBA from the University of Arizona and Chartered Casualty Property Underwriter and Senior Claims Law Associate designations.

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Housing-development corp. promotes three executives

PMHDC / PPEP Microbusiness & Housing Development Corp. has promoted three executives:

• Jay Diallo has been named executive director of PMHDC, after two years as a loan-review committee member there. He previously worked for Bank of Tucson, beginning as a teller and moving up to an assistant vice president for commercial lending.

Diallo holds a bachelor’s degree in political science, with a minor in economics, from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and a master’s degree in banking and leadership from Pacific Coast Banking School in Seattle.

He is current president of the Rotary Club of Tucson Sunrise and board chairman of the PPEP Inc. Foundation, and is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Global Children’s Fund.

• Roxana Gonzalez has been named executive director of PPEP Integrated Care. She has worked with PPEP for 14 years as a behavioral health clinical director and clinician.

Gonzalez previously was a supervisor with Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health Services, managing outpatient clinics, and she also held behavioral health management posts at Native Images and with the Pascua Yaqui tribe.

She is a state-licensed substance abuse counselor who holds a master’s from the University of Arizona in special education and rehabilitation counseling, and a UA bachelor’s degree in psychology. She received a Certificate of Achievement from the UA Hispanic Association and was a four-year recipient of the Gebbler Memorial Scholarship.

• Jacob Herrington is now executive director of property, insurance and housing for PPEP. He was named the Administrative PPEP Employee of the Year in 2012.

Herrington began his career in the multifamily property management industry in Tucson, working for 25 years in on-site management.

In 2008, he was one of two finalists for Manager of the Year awarded by the Arizona Multihousing Association.