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Edward Chang has been elected partner, consumer financial services and commercial litigation, at Blank Rome L.L.P., Philadelphia. He had been of counsel.

Heidrick & Struggles International Inc., Chicago, a professional-services firm focused on serving the leadership needs of organizations globally, has named Alyse Bodine as principal-in-charge of its Philadelphia office. Bodine also is a member of the firm's financial officers practice. The University of Pennsylvania alumna has been a principal with the firm for nearly 10 years.

The Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry, Malvern, named Guy Ciarrocchi president & CEO, effective Jan. 27. He had been chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley, director of public affairs for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Region III director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach.

TD Bank named Judith N. Exantus vice president, store manager of its Old City branch. She had been store manager of a branch in Feasterville.

DLA Piper said Carl Buchholz will become the chair of the firm's Philadelphia Litigation Group, stepping in for Carl Hittinger, who recently became cochair of the firm's U.S. Antitrust and Trade-Regulation Group. Buchholz joined DLA Piper in late 2012 from Blank Rome L.L.P., where he served as managing partner and CEO from 2006 to 2010.

James Bradley has been appointed professor of surgery at Temple University School of Medicine and chief of the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery in the department of surgery at Temple University Hospital. He held multiple titles at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, including director of craniofacial surgery, Bernard Sarnat chair of craniofacial research, chief of the division of plastic surgery at UCLA Olive-View Medical Center, and chief of pediatric plastic surgery at Mattel Children's Hospital.

NBN Group, a home health-care services company in Cherry Hill, named William J. Begley general counsel. He was a founding partner in Begley, McCloskey & Gaskill, later Begley & Gaskill.

Bancroft, a Haddonfield nonprofit provider of programs and supports for children and adults with autism, acquired brain injuries, and other intellectual or developmental disabilities, named Sean Ramsden director of communications and brand. He had been director of editorial services in the office of university communications at Rider University.

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