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Who's What, Where
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Business New Haven
5/14/2001
By: BNH
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More than 500 members of the New Haven-area business community were at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale April 19 for the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce's 207th annual meeting to see Diane L. Wishnafski become the group's new chairman. Wishnafski is executive vice president and chief lending officer of New Haven Savings Bank, where she has been employed since 1985.
SNET of New Haven has named Bill Blase, a 22-year veteran of SBC Communications Inc., its new president and chief executive officer. Blase will have full responsibility for all wireline operations issues in Connecticut, including network services, consumer and business sales and external affairs. He previously served as president of SBC subsidiary, Pacific Bell, with responsibility for all regulatory, legislative, government and external affairs in California and Nevada. Throughout his career, Blase held a variety of posts in SBC and the company's subsidiaries, including marketing, finance and regulatory relations.
R. David Rosato, senior vice president and treasurer of Webster Bank, has been named treasurer of Webster Financial Corp., the bank's holding company. Rosato joined Waterbury-based Webster Bank in 1999 and has 15 years of experience in treasury management and capital markets. Before joining Webster, he spent 13 years at Allfirst in a variety of positions, most recently responsible for management of assets and liabilities as well as the bank's treasury risk-control division. Rosato's new duties as treasurer include responsibility for Webster's Government Finance department.
At its 105th annual meeting and dinner on April 18, the Greater Meriden Chamber of Commerce named officers for 2001-02: chairman is Lynn Faria, director of Community Health and Wellness, the Alliance, and owner of Classic Communications Consulting; vice chairman James Ieronimo of Meriden School-Business Partnerships; secretary Leonardo H. Suzio, Suzio/York Hill Cos.; treasurer Donato G. Lupacchino of Lupacchino Financial and Associates; president Sean W. Moore. Immediate past chairman of the chamber is Molly H. Savard of the Bradley Home. The chamber also named four new directors: James Snow, manager of Westfield Shoppingtown in Meriden; Eric Wexler, executive vice president & chief operating officer at MedState Medical Center; William Gemme, general manager of the Ramada Plaza Hotel & Conference Center in Meriden; and Arthur Santilli, president of the Masonic Geriatric Health Care Center.
Hamden mayor Carl Amento has announced appointments to the newly formed Mayor's Elderly and Disabled Tax Relief Advisory Committee, which will study and make recommendations concerning a new program of elderly and disabled tax relief for the coming fiscal year. The committee members are: co-chairpersons and town couniclors Anne Ramsey (D-1) and Betty Wetmore (R-at large); Robert Zaorski, former Hamden finance director; Marin Graicerstein, program chairman of the local chapter of the American Association of Retired People; and local business owner Michael Brooks.
Yale University has named Nayan Chanda director of publications for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Since 1996, Chanda has been editor-at-large of the Far Eastern Economic Review, an Asian business magazine. He joined the Review in 1974 as Indochina correspondent. He has also served as diplomatic correspondent, Washington correspondent, and deputy editor. Chanda is author of several books on foreign policy and conflict resolution.
James Appiah-Pippim, M.D., has been named medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven. Pippim will be responsible for overseeing patient care, teaching and leadership in the quality-improvement process for the MICU, as well as providing coverage for the pulmonary consult service and the pulmonary clinic. He earned his M.D. at the University of Ghana Medical School and completed his internship and residency at Good Samaritan Hospital in Maryland. Pippim is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical-care medicine and occupational medicine.
Directors of Bridgeport's Barnum Museum Foundation have elected Craig R. Frew chairman and Elinor U. Briggs vice chairman. Frew has been president of Shelton-based Iroquois Pipeline Operating Co. since 1994 and has been a member of the Museum Foundation since 1995. Biggs - the great, great, great granddaughter of legendary circus and museum founder P.T. Barnum - is the Connecticut and Rhode Island district sales leader for Doncaster Inc. She has been a board member since 1991.
HealthIs of Wallingford has named Debra Harris and Patrick Doyle national sales representatives for the southern and mid-Atlantic regions, respectively. Harris has been in the medical industry since 1989 and has worked in accounting, hardware management, software training and sales. Doyle has experience in HMO provider relations and marketing. Recently he served as territory manager for a national orthopedic/sports medicine manufacturer.
Also at HealthIs, Mike Panzo, Dana Powell and David Lusk have been named local sales representatives for Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, where they will serve clients seeking practice-management solutions.
Mascola of New Haven has named Benjamin Quinn art director. Formerly art director for MCS Advertising in West Hartford, Quinn will be responsible for the design and concept of many of Mascola clients including Vanguard Sailboats, Heritage Valley and Navtec. Casey Caine has also been named an art director. Formerly with Keiler & Co. in Farmingtoon and the Creative Group in Hartford, Caine will work with clients including Centerprise Advisors, Connecticut River Valley and Shoreline Visitors District, and NetKey. Vanessa Fleming has joined Mascola as account coordinator in the account services department.
People's Bank in Bridgeport has named Heather L. Mackenzie vice president for consumer deposit products. She will manage the People's Plus Banking product line, as well as retail retirement products for the consumer deposit products department and People's Securities Inc. Mackenzie joined People's in 1988 as a management trainee and became assistant manager of the Manchester branch in 1989. Since 1998, Mackenzie has been manager of retirement markets for People's Securities Inc.
Mary Kay Fenton has been named director of corporate finance for Achillion Pharmaceuticals in New Haven. She will be responsible for management of transactional support and financial reporting. Formerly with PricewaterhouseCoopers, she served as senior manager in the Connecticut Technology Group for ten years. Fenton has a B.A. in economics from the College of the Holy Cross and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Connecticut.
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