Callahan Creek has announced Joshua Barnes as the company’s new CRM strategist. Previously, Barnes worked for Engage Sciences and Vorpal Marketing. He has experience with marketing strategies, application innovation, platform analytics, reporting enhancements and digital and social media solutions.

— Let us spread the word about key hires and promotions, honors, business events and other business news of community interest. Send Business briefcase items to news@ljworld.com. The deadline for Monday publication is 10 a.m. Thursday.