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Business New Haven
6/12/2000
By: BNH
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Masonicare of Wallingford has named Stephen B. McPherson vice president and chief financial officer. McPherson joins Masonicare with nearly 30 years' experience in health care financial management, including most recently nine years as vice president and chief financial officer of the Saint Raphael Healthcare System. Previously he held management positions with Blue Cross & Blue Shield in North Haven. McPherson earned his MBA from the University of New Haven, and a B.A. from New England College. He is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and a diplomat of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is also a lecturer on healthcare economics and financial management at the University of New Haven graduate program.
John F. Bartley, CPA, CFP has joined the Wallingford firm of Helming & Co., PC. Bartley provides financial and management consulting services as a financial generalist in planning and analysis, including optimizing business processes, product-profitability analysis, budgeting and reporting and manufacturing strategy. Bartley has been a CPA for more than 20 years, working principally in a variety of manufacturing-intensive industries and companies including LEGO Systems and the Gillette Co. Most recently Bartley was controller-North America for a consumer products company with operations in several states, as well as Canada and Mexico. Bartley earned a bachelor's in accounting from Western New England College.
At its 49th annual meeting directors of the Kennedy Center of Trumbull elected officers and new directors: chairman Charles A. Fried of Fairfield executive vice president of finance and administration for the Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute in New Haven; vice chairman Douglas R. Brown of Norwalk, attorney with Brody, Wilkinson & Ober, P.C. in Southport; secretary Mary G. Brown of Bridgeport, a retired Bridgeport Central High School mathematics teacher; and treasurer Gil C. Kellersma, Jr. of Fairfield, vice president of end-user sales for Pan American Worldwide Trading Ltd., Westport.
Paul Philpott has been named executive vice president at R.L. Natt Associates of Shelton. Philpott most recently was executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Physicians Health Services in Shelton, where he was instrumental in the development and implementation of HealthCare Solutions, a joint venture with the Guardian covering 250,000 lives and generating some $700 million in annualized premiums. In four years, he grew the company's membership from 140,000 to 600,000.
Don Kotouc has joined the Institute for Bioanalytics Inc. (IBA) in Branford as assistant vice president for business development. Kotouc brings more than 30 years' experience from the pharmaceutical and contract research organization fields. He worked in an array of commercial assignments for Hoechst Marion Roussel and served most recently as director of business development for Quintiles Transnational Corp. Kotouc's responsibilities at IBA (previously known as the Institute for Diagnostic Research) will include marketing and sales for pre-clinical development services, including bioanalytical assay development and validation, and predicative toxicology for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostic clients. Kotouc holds a B.S. from Indiana University and an MBA from Xavier (O.) University Graduate School of Business.
James R. Messina has joined Fairfield-based Leask & Leask, PC as a staff accountant. In his previous position with another accounting firm, Messina performed general-ledger postings, reconciled and balanced accounts, managed payroll data and related returns, generated W-3, W-2 and 1099 statements for clients, and prepared individual tax returns. A graduate of Iona College, Messina holds a BA in accounting. Previously he worked as director of data services for Long Star Industries and earlier as manager of computer operations at Clairol Inc.
Four national and international leaders on environmental management will join the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies next year. Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the World Conservation Union and an expert on biodiversity and sustainable development, was most recently minister of the environment in Ecuador. She is a director of the Ford Foundation and the World Resources Institute, and she will be at the school through 2001. James Lyons, U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for natural resources and environment since 1993, has played a major role in reshaping the nation's forestry and conservation policies including directing development of President Clinton's Northwest Forest Plan. Robert Repetto, the Tim Wirth Senior Fellow at the University of Colorado and a widely published authority on the economics of sustainable development, has served as associate professor of economics at Harvard and, from 1983 to 1997, as senior economist and vice president of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. Xuemei Bai, research fellow at the Institute for Global Strategies in Japan, is one of the world's leading authorities on the environment in Asian cities.
Harry N. Mazadoorian of New Britain has been named distinguished professor of dispute-resolution law from practice at the Quinnipiac College School of Law. Mazadoorian recently retired from Cigna, where he managed commercial litigation. He had been with Cigna for 25 years and served as the legal division's coordinator of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs. Previously he was in private practice and handles a wide variety of business and consumer matters. Mazadoorian, a graduate of Yale College and the Yale Law School, has written numerous articles on ADR and has made numerous ADR presentations to American Bar Association groups as well as to state and local bar associations.
Directors of the Greater Bridgeport Area Foundation has named Cindy S. Kissin as president and CEO. Previously she was executive director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Kissin has also worked as a nonprofit management consultant in Connecticut and New York. She was a founding member and vice chair of the New Haven Arts Industry Coalition. A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Kissin also holds an MA from SUNY/Stonybrook.
Ronald McMullen, a Quinnipiac College business professor, has been named a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow for the Students in the Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team at Quinnipiac. Under his direction, Quinnipiac's SIFE team was named regional champion and earned cash awards at the recent 2000 SIFE Regional Exposition and Career Opportunity Fair in Hartford. McMullen joins over 300 Sam M. Walton Fellows named nationwide that train and motivate more than 30,000 SIFE Team members annually. Celebrating it's 25th year on more than 700 college campuses internationally, SIFE is a non-profit organization named after Samuel More Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, to apply classroom education to community outreach projects.
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