Business in brief

Lyft has named Henrico native Cabell Rosanelli as market manager for Richmond. Rosanelli, a graduate of Freeman High School, will lead Lyft’s efforts in the city to grow its driver and passenger communities, build local partnerships, and promote Lyft’s mission to decrease the number of cars and traffic on the road and bring safe and affordable rides to the entire country. He began his new post in January. Rosanelli received a bachelor’s degree in economics from The College of William & Mary, a master’s degree in political science from Georgetown University, and an MBA from The University of Virginia – Darden School of Business.

Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer recently announced the following lease transactions in Henrico County: My Salon Suite – leased 7,205 SF in Colonnades West Shopping Center at 10901-10973 W. Broad St.; and Foresters Financial Services, Inc. – renewed its lease of 3,491 SF in East Shore III at 140 Eastshore Dr.

Henrico County has appointed Travis M. Sparrow to serve as director of the Department of Information Technology, effective Feb. 17. Sparrow has worked for Henrico since 2012, serving first as an information technology systems engineer and more recently as the information technology manager. He also served as network administrator for Richmond Public Schools from 2005 to 2011. Sparrow will succeed Thomas L. Owdom, who is retiring after 41 years of service to Henrico, including seven years as director of Information Technology. As director of Information Technology, Sparrow will oversee a department responsible for serving the computer-oriented information-processing needs of county agencies, including equipment selection, application development, software and hardware maintenance and data and telecommunications network development and support. Information Technology operates the county’s computer center and its IT Help Desk. It also oversees the county’s security cameras, telephone systems, mobile devices and E-911 system as well as its Geographic Information System. The Department of Information Technology has a 97-position staff and a budget of $14.5 million in fiscal 2017-18.

The Bon Secours heart team recently began using a new device for patients in need of bridge-to-transplant or bridge to myocardial recovery – the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device. It provides patients living with their device benefits such as improved blood flow in a pump that uses full magnetic levitation to reduce trauma to blood passing through the system. Bon Secours has used the HeartMate II since 2010. The HeartMate 3 is smaller and easier to implant. In a clinical study, of which Bon Secours was part, patients who received a HeartMate 3 had significant improvement in their heart failure status, an 83 percent increase in their walk distance and a 68 percent improvement in quality of life at six months. Patients receiving HeartMate 3 also had an 86 percent survival rate with freedom from disabling stroke and reoperation to replace the pump at six months. More than 5.7 million people in the U.S. suffer from heart failure and approximately 915,000 new patients are diagnosed with the disease each year. For advanced heart failure patients who can no longer rely on earlier stage treatment options, a LVAD can help their weakened heart pump blood through the body and provide support as patients await further treatment, including heart transplants.