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Harrisburg Young Professionals announces 2020 leadership team

Ioannis Pashakis//January 14, 2020//

Harrisburg Young Professionals announces 2020 leadership team

Ioannis Pashakis//January 14, 2020//

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Renee Custer, COO of The Custer Group in Harrisburg, was appointed to be Harrisburg Young Professionals’ 2020 president. (Photo Provided)

Harrisburg Young Professionals appointed its latest suite of leaders, including a new president, for the upcoming year.

Renée Custer, the nonprofit’s former executive director, will be rejoining the young professionals group, or HYP, as its president for 2020.

Custer originally joined HYP in 2011, where she was a key part in growing partnerships and programming and helped move the nonprofit away from a volunteer structure, the organization wrote in a press release on Tuesday.

Harrisburg Young Professionals has operated in the city for 21 years and has over 1,000 members. The group hosts book clubs, philanthropy events, socials and co-ed sports events for its members, all under the age of 40.

“HYP is a special organization, and I am honored to work alongside our leadership team this year to continue the mission of making Harrisburg a better place to live, work and play, while developing and retaining future leaders,” said Custer.

Custer resigned as HYP’s executive director in 2015 and is currently the COO of The Custer Group, a Harrisburg-based construction firm specialized in luxury homes, interior design and remodeling.

HYP’s new president has been featured numerous times in the Central Penn Business Journal as a 2018 recipient of the Women of Influence award and a 2016 recipient of the Forty Under 40 award.

HYP appoints a new group of leaders every year to guide the nonprofit.

Along with Custer’s appointment, the organization also announced Mary Kate Grimes, of Hershey’s Ice Cream and Faniel Yemane, of iDrive Interactive as vice presidents.

Monika Kohli of anculture was appointed as the organization’s secretary and Nick Barbera, of SunStone Consulting, as treasurer.