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Who’s What, Where
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Business New Haven
6/18/2001
By: BNH
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First Union National Bank has promoted Richard J. DeMayo to senior vice president for commercial banking. He will continue to manage commercial market relationships in the New Haven area. During DeMayo' s 28-year banking career, he has held positions with Centerbank, Founders Bank, Connecticut National Bank and First New Haven National Bank. DeMayo holds a B.A. in economics from Southern Connecticut State University and an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven.
General DataComm Industries has named George Best vice president of sales, North America. Best will contribute to GDC's strategic planning, sales direction and business focus. Best previously founded and ran several telephone companies, served as vice president of marketing with Develcon, as vice president of sales and marketing for Gandalf, and most recently as president and CEO of TIA Advisory. He is a veteran of both wireless and broadband industries and has previously worked with investment banks in connection with startups and turnaround situations.
Two new sales associates have joined H. Pearce Co.'s North Haven industrial and commercial division. Vin Scarpitti comes to H. Pearce Co. after a 33-year career in the aerospace industry, where he worked in manufacturing operations and business unit management. He also has extensive experience in the relocation of manufacturing operations, including plant, process, equipment and personnel movement, which influenced his decision to seek a new career in real estate. Edward O'Neill was previously a health-care executive, having been a vice president for the Saint Raphael Healthcare System in New Haven and as executive director for the Cardiothoracic & Vascular Group. O'Neill' s experience in commercial real estate includes serving as a general partner in a real estate limited partnership and as property manager for several medical office buildings, as well as negotiating leases for medical offices locally.
Thomas Pollard will join the Yale University faculty this autumn in the department of molecular, cellular and developmental biology. A graduate of the Harvard Medical School, Pollard was president of the Salk Institute from 1996 to 2000 and remains a member of the Salk faculty. He began his career at Harvard, where he taught for five years, and then directed the department of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Pollard is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.
Two new directors and five corporators were elected at Liberty Bank's annual meeting on April 16. The Middletown bank named William T. Christopher a director. Christopher has been president and CEO of Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London since 1988. Director Mark R. Gingras is president and CEO of G&G Distributors of Yalesville. New corporators are: Richard A. Brvenik, president and CEO of Windham Hospital; James M. McManus, chairman and CEO of the S/L/A/M Collaborative; Nancy B. Meyers, a retired non-profit executive, whose career included 18 years with the Connecticut Trails Girl Scout Council in New Haven; Ronald W. Nossek, a certified public accountant with Kostin, Ruffkess & Co.; and Brenda J. Simmons, executive director of the Middlesex County chapter of the American Red Cross.
Cesarina Thompson of Oxford, chairwoman of the Southern Connecticut State University nursing department, has been named a director of the Griffin Health Services Corp. in Derby She is an RN who worked at Griffin before joining the SCSU faculty in 1986.
Yale University's Office of Cooperative Research has hired two new directors, one based at Yale Medical School and the other for the physical science departments, to help identify promising technologies and bring them to market. John Puziss, who works at the medical school office for OCR, holds a doctorate in microbiology from the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill and was a post-doctoral fellow in molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University. John Demlein Jr. will handle technology transfers in the physical science departments. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.A. and M.A. in systems engineering, Demlein was most recently executive director of the Submarine Force Library & Museum Association in Groton.
Brian F. Dreyer has been named executive vice president for commercial banking at Bridgeport's People's Bank. Dreyer will direct all commercial loan and commercial mortgage lending at the bank. He has been with People's since 1991, when he joined the bank as senior vice president for commercial lending. Before joining People's, Dreyer was executive vice president and senior lending officer at New Haven's now-defunct First Constitution Bank, responsible for that bank's commercial lending and commercial mortgage divisions.
Directors of the United Way of Eastern Fairfield County have named Merle Berke-Schlessel president and chief professional officer. Berke-Schlessel was previously executive director of Women & Family Life Center in Guilford. He received his J.D. from the Quinnipiac University College of Law.
Two new directors of Market New Haven Inc. were recently named. Anthony J. Vallillo, president and chief operating officer of the United Illuminating Co., and Karen Dawes, senior vice president and business group head of Bayer Corp.'s Pharmaceutical Division.
Tom Ficklin, previously editor-in-chief and CEO of the Inner City newspaper has joined Empower New Haven Inc., as director of marketing and communications. Ficklin will be responsible for internal and external information network, community event strategies and media relations.
Mary Ellen Johnson, RN, has been promoted to director of health center operations at the Whitney Center in Hamden. Johnson began her career at Whitney Center in 1995 as assistant director of nursing. A graduate of Holy Cross School of Nursing in South Bend, Ind., she was previously resident care coordinator at Milford Health Care and charge nurse as Madison House.
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