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Who's What, Where
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Business New Haven
10/16/2000
By: BNH
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Robert R. D'Amore has been named executive vice president for marketing and regional banking at People's Bank. D'Amore will be responsible for the transformation of People's branches to full financial services centers for People's 30-branch expansion plan, and for the execution of People's supermarket banking strategy. He is a 20-year People's veteran, most recently leading the bank's retail investor services.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. of New Haven has promoted Stephen P. Squinto to executive vice president and head of research, Christopher Mojcik to vice president of clinical development, and Scott A. Rollins to vice president or drug development and project management. Additionally, Samuel S. Chu has joined Alexion as vice president of manufacturing and process sciences. Louis A. Mattis, who has resigned as senior vice president and chief scientific officer to pursue other interests, has joined Alexion's scientific advisory board. Squinto, a co-founder of Alexion and formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer, will now head all Alexion research. Mojcik, who joined Alexion in 1998 as senior director of clinical development, will now head an expanded clinical development and operations group. Rollins, a co-founder of Alexion, joined as a staff scientist in 1992 and was most recently director of drug development and project management, responsible for managing the firm's alliance with Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. Chu joins Alexion with a 15-year track record in the manufacturing of recombinant proteins. Most recently, he was director of biotechnology development and Pilot Plant operations with Bristol-Meyers Squibb Corp., where he managed recombinant products, including monoclonal antibodies. At Alexion, Chu will supervise all aspects of process development and manufacturing of the company's product candidates.
Kim Brian Bushey has been promoted to vice president and business development officer at Fleet Capital Corp. Based in Glastonbury, Bushey is responsible for developing and structuring senior secured financing to middle-market companies in Connecticut. He joined Fleet Capital in 1982 and held positions of increasing responsibility in the Commercial Real Estate & Special Finance Division.
William Abrahamsen has been named vice president of human resources and organizational effectiveness at People's Bank. He is responsible for developing strategy and implementing initiatives in staffing, employee relations, compensation and benefits, as well as employee services. Prior to joining People's, Abrahamsen worked in the insurance and health-care industries. Most recently he was head of human resources for Kaiser Permanente's New England region. Abrahamsen has a bachelor's degree in biology from Rutgers and a master's in business administration from the University of Connecticut.
Michael E. Smith, M.D., formerly chief of the Section of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at Guthrie Clinic of Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., has been appointed chief of the division of trauma at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport. He also has been named chief of the section of surgical critical care, director of the trauma program, and director of the surgical ICU. Smith is a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey Medical School.
Also at St. Vincent's, Shannon Spalthoff, R.N., a five-year veteran of St. Vincent's emergency department, has been appointed trauma nurse coordinator. She will coordinate all activities of the trauma center, including administration, relationships with other hospitals, physician and staff liaison within the medical center and public education. Spalthoff holds a B.S. degree in nursing from Fairfield University.
James E. Dunn has been named director of employee communications at People's Bank in Bridgeport. He is responsible for all of the bank's communications vehicles, including electronic and printed publications, the company intranet and “town meeting”-like events, which People's employs to keep its 4,300 employees in touch with the company. Dunn has 15 years of communications experience, most recently as director of communications at Physicians Health Services in Shelton.
Former Stanford University President Gerhard Casper has been named a successor trustee of the Yale Corporation, the university's governing board. A graduate of Yale Law School, Casper is a professor of law and undergraduate education at Stanford and a senior fellow of Stanford's Institute for International Studies. He served as dean of the University of Chicago's law school from 1979 to 1987 and became William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law. As a scholar, Casper has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law and jurisprudence.
The Parents Foundation for Transitional Living Inc. of New Haven has promoted Luis Rodriguez to program director and Donna Fink to clinical director. Rodriguez has been with the organization since 1995 and formerly worked in human services in the Springfield area. Fink is a psychiatric nurse who brings experience in inpatient, outpatient and community-based settings to the organization.
Jan Morgan has been named nurse manager of the Village Retirement Community at Mariner's Point in East Haven. She will be responsible for managing the nursing staff and coordinating residents' individualized care plans. Morgan recently served as the assistant director of nursing at the Center for Optimum Care in New Haven. Also at Village, Audrey Vinci has been named administrator, responsible for day-to-day operations, including all resident services and staffing.
Genaissance Pharmaceuticals Inc. of New Haven has named Kenneth B. Kashkin as executive vice president and chief medical officer. He will manage clinical discovery and development programs with biopharmaceutical industry partners, and lead the in-house development of genomic studies. Kashkin was most recently vice president of clinical development at Knoll Pharmaceutical Co., prior to which he was director of pharmaceutical ventures at Abbott Laboratories.
Diane Smith of Norwalk has been named to the adjunct faculty in the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden. Smith will teach an undergraduate broadcast journalism class, along with Peter Sumby, assistant director of the Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center at Quinnipiac. Smith currently co-hosts the Morning Show on WTIC radio (1080 AM) with Ray Dunaway. In addition, Smith produces programs for Connecticut Public TV based on her series, Positively Connecticut.
James M. Staten will succeed H. Bart Price upon his retirement this fall and will become senior vice president for finance and chief financial officer of Yale-New Haven Hospital, as well as executive vice president for finance and corporate services of the Yale-New Haven Health System. Staten has extensive experience in hospital and health system financial management and health-care consulting, most recently as senior vice president for finance of New York Presbyterian Hospital and the New York Presbyterian Health Care System.
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