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Who's What, Where
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Business New Haven
2/19/2001
By: BNH
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Tony Rossley has joined Citizens Bank in Middletown as a business banking officer. Rossley has 12 years of experience in merchant credit-card transactions, recently at BankBoston. He will be responsible for new business development, specializing in small businesses.
Kaye Insurance Associates of Westport has named Peter J. Page first vice president and John J. Butler vice president, charged with overseeing the expansion of the company's environmental insurance division in Connecticut. Page has 19 years of industry experience and currently heads the risk-management division in Connecticut. Butler is a 25-year insurance veteran.
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has named David DeFusco director of communications and external relations. DeFusco is responsible for media relations, publications, publicizing lecture series and special events, and forging strategic alliances with institutions that have complementary missions. Previously DeFusco was director of public relations for the Visiting Nurse/VNA Care Network, where he was the organization's spokesman and liaison to the media, edited and designed the network's newsletter, and managed its Web site.
Also at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, five national and international leaders in environmental management have joined the faculty. Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the World Conservation Union, is an expert on biodiversity and sustainable development. She was most recently minister of the environment in Ecuador and will serve as professor of biodiversity conservation. James Lyons, who has just completed a term as undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment, is a professor iof resource management. He played a major role in reshaping the nation's forestry and conservation policies. Neil Sampson, Frederick K. Weyerhauser Visiting Fellow and president of the Sampson Group Inc., is a leading authority on the health of forests in the U.S. and abroad. New associate professor Hilary Sigman is a Ph.D. economist from MIT. Michael Washburn, formerly the national coordinator of the Sustainable Forestry Partnership, will serve as a liaison between FES and the U.S. Forest Service.
Former Shelton mayor and Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce president Michael E. Pacowta has been named director of alumni affairs at Quinnipiac University. He will be responsible for fostering alumni relations with Quinnipiac's 20,000 graduates through activities that reflect university priorities and support fundraising. Pacowta will also serve as secretary to the Alumni Association's National Board of Governors.
Paul Pitts has been promoted from director of professional services to vice president of professional services at Westbrook Technologies. Pitts has worked for the Branford firm for nearly a decade and developed the professional services division from its inception.
HB Group of North Haven has promoted Blake Purnell to national trade-shows account executive. Purnell has been with HB for more than a dozen years, most recently as technical coordinator.
Yale University has named Barbara A. Shailor director of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Since 1996, Shailor had been dean of Douglass College at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, where she is also a professor of classics. She has long been associated with the Beinecke Library, having spent most of her summers and two sabbaticals in New Haven completing her magisterial three-volume “Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library”.
Village Retirement Communities has named David Wojack as retirement councilor for The Village at Kensington Place in Meriden. Formerly, Wojack worked for The Village at Brookfield Common in Brookfield, another Village Retirement Community residence.
Carol Myers Smullen, former director of communications for the Girl Scouts' Connecticut Trails Council of North Haven, has been promoted to director of advancement for the organization. She will be responsible for leading all fund development activity, communications and marketing at the council, functions formerly performed by two departments. Smullen, who has been associated with the Girl Scouts for 20 years, formerly worked for the United Way of Greater New Haven and taught at Richard C. Lee High School.
Paul Lawrence, former director of media production and training services at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, was named director of the Center for Media Initiatives at Yale University. Among other projects, Lawrence will be involved in the development of pilot programs for the University Alliance for Life-Long Learning. Over the past 15 years Lawrence has produced and directed documentaries, commercial work and interactive media projects
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Mason & Madison Public Relations has named Jennifer Milliken as senior account executive. Previously Milliken worked at a Connecticut-based high-tech public relations agency. Her experience also includes positions as an associate editor at TV Technology magazine and assistant editor of College Broadcaster magazine.
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