Neil C. Livingstone, lead director for Erickson Air-Crane in Central Point, has joined the advisory board for NeoStem Inc., the first company to specialize in the collection, processing and storage of stem cells from healthy adult donors for personal use in times of critical medical need.
Livingstone has noted expertise on national security, and is the author of nine books on terrorism. He has served on advisory panels to the secretary of state, the chief of Naval operations and the Pentagon. Livingstone is chairman and chief executive officer of ExecutiveAction LLC in Washington, D.C.
COBI Digital HD has named Erika Bishop general manager.
Bishop was an executive producer at the Food Network for six years and before that was an executive producer for Lifetime Television in New York and a producer for the Joan Rivers Show.
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She succeeds Mark DuMond, who is leaving California-Oregon Broadcasting Inc. to become a freelance writer and producer.
Jon Sapper has been elected president of the SHN Consulting Engineers & Geologists Inc.'s board.
Sapper has been a business consultant since his initial involvement with the firm, which has offices in Northern California and Southern Oregon, in the late 1980s. Sapper graduated from Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.
Court-Appointed Special Advocates of Jackson County Inc. has made three new hires.
Kristin Cutherbertson, volunteer coordinator, previously worked at Oak Grove Elementary, where she was an early reading intervention assistant. She earned a bachelor's degree in business from Southern Oregon University.
Noelle Sakraida, assistant volunteer coordinator, taught English as a second language in Quito, Ecuador. Sakraida holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish with a minor in psychology from Seattle University.
Sally Wise, event and community liaison, worked for United Way in California and at Women's Fitness as a yoga instructor as well as having owned her own yoga studio.

