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Who's What, Where
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Business New Haven
1/19/2004
By: BNH
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John Pepper, former chairman of Procter & Gamble (P&G), has been appointed vice president for finance and administration at Yale University. His responsibilities include financial operations, facilities construction, human resources and administrative services. Pepper has served as a member of the Yale Corporation for eight years, including service as senior fellow for the last 18 months. Retired from P&G last year after 39 years of service to the company including work as general manager at P&G Italia, group vice president and member of the board of directors, Pepper served as president since 1986. Pepper was involved in the creation of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, a program that provides youth employment, mentoring and college scholarships. He also chaired the Greater Cincinnati United Way campaign in 1994 and has been involved in the creation of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Pepper is a director of the Xerox Corp., Motorola Inc. and Boston Scientific and formerly served as chairman of the U.S. Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
Roland W. Betts, chairman and chief executive officer of Chelsea Piers, LP, has been named senior fellow of the Yale Corporation. He was elected an alumni fellow of the university's governing body in 1999. Betts developed and operates the Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex in New York City. He is founder and president of Silver Screen Management Inc., which has financed and produced more than 75 films with the Walt Disney Co. Betts is also director of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. In this capacity, Betts has primary responsibility for rebuilding the World Trade Center site. Betts taught public school in Harlem and trained teachers as part of the Teachers Corporation, a not-for-profit organization, and wrote Acting Out: Coping with Big-City Schools, based on his experience as a teacher and assistant principal. From 1989-98, Betts was majority owner of Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers. He is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School.
Christopher R. Skomorowski, executive vice president, COO and director of Lydall Inc., has been elected chairman of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA). He will serve a one-year term. Skomorowski is a trustee of the Hartford Courant Foundation and a member of the board of electors of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. He is a certified public accountant with a B.S. in business administration from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
John A. Klein, chairman, president and CEO of People's Bank, Bridgeport and Roger Joyce, vice president of engineering for the Bilco Co., West Haven have been elected as vice chairs of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA). Klein is chairman of the board of directors of Bridgeport Hospital, serves as chairman of the Bridgeport Economic Development Advisory Council, Inc. and is co-chairman with Gov. John G. Rowland for the Governor's Prevention Partnership. Joyce has served on the CBIA board of directors since 1999. He is a member of the advisory board of the New Haven Inner City Business Strategy Initiative of the Governor's Council on Competitiveness and the University of New Haven School of Business.
Sovereign Bank has named David M. Hobart senior vice president and senior corporate banker with the bank's corporate banking development group. He will be responsible for the bank's middle and upper-middle market business activities in Connecticut, western Massachusetts, southern Vermont and upper eastern New York. Hobart previously served as senior vice president and team leader for Sovereign's Commercial Banking group in western Massachusetts.
The Bridgeport Regional Business Council has announced the election of new directors. Serving a three-year term are Charles Firlotte, Aquarion Co.; Brendan Kerrigan, Oxford Health Plans; David Mastanduno, Fletcher-Thompson Inc.; Kevin Murphy, Fleet Bank; and William Stapleton, Health Net of the Northeast.
Also, cited by the BRBC as area Emerging Leaders are Eileen Auen, Health Net of the Northeast; Michael German, Southern Connecticut Gas Co.; Stephen Finger, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.; Charles Firlotte, Aquarion Co.; and Michele Macauda, SBC SNET.
Jennifer Marks, BL Companies' (BLC) director of land surveying, has been elected for a second term as president of the Connecticut Association of Land Surveyors. She has more than 19 years of professional experience in land surveying and mapping and is a licensed surveyor in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine. Marks earned her B.A. in geology from Boston University.
Hamden resident Paul N. Kuehn has received the Wendi A. Mahan Circle of Life Award for 2003 from the United Way of the Capital Area. The award is presented to a loaned executive who exhibits characteristics including enthusiasm, determination and teambuilding. Kuehn, a customer relations team leader for Northeast Utilities, assisted with the 2003 United Way Community Campaign in the capital area. He earned his MBA from the Rensselaer at Hartford branch campus.
Yale-New Haven Hospital's Mutual Respect Committee and employees chose Paulette Fricke, an environmental associate in the hospital's General Clinical Research Center, as an outstanding employee. She was awarded for her reliability and organization.
Ellen Peck Nathanson, ABR, of Press/Cuozzo Realtors (PCR) has been presented with the Quarterly Achievement Award by the Greater New Haven Association of Realtors. A consistent multi-million-dollar top producer at PCR, Nathanson has been a full time Realtor since 1978.
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