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Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Business Notes for Nov. 8, 2026

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Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor. New hires GreatAmerica has hired Abby Johnson as sales support, development; Amber Hammer as portfolio manager; Damian Hernandez as security operations analyst; and Brooke Fischer as credit analyst. Feed Iowa First has hired Alora Kraus to be the organization’s new executive director. Events Annual meeting: Greater Iowa City Inc. will reflect on the past year and look ahead to 2027 during its annual meeting Nov. 18 at Hyatt Regency Hotel in Coralville. The featured speaker will be Dr. Peter Kaboli, a researcher and healthcare leader serving as professor of internal medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and as executive director of the Veterans Health Administration Office of Rural Health.

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