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wbjournal.com | April 15, 2019 | Worcester Business Journal 5 B R I E FS Disruptor Beam adds CFO, CPO Framingham mobile video game de- veloper Disruptor Beam has added two executives to help the firm as it prepares to launch new games and a new plat- form for operating live mobile games. Claire Wadlington will serve as chief financial officer, and Trapper Markelz will serve as chief product officer. Wadlington comes to the company from the venture capital world, where she was an investment banking manager and startup CFO in soware, internet, digital health, ed- tech and robotics. Markelz brings to the company 20 years of product devel- opment. He was CEO of MeYou Health, a Boston wellness technology firm. e company, which has released popular games Game of rones Ascent, e Walking Dead: March to War and Star Trek Timelines, has three unan- nounced titles in development. Franklin Street mill complex sells for $2.4M Four buildings at 300,000-square-foot Franklin Street mill complex in Worces- ter have changed hands aer a court action that began in November. Land records show the building was sold for more than $2.4 million on April 1 to an entity registered to Ed Russo, owner of steel caging company for bio- tech companies Labex of MA, but Russo told WBJ the property will eventually be sold to David Clark Co., a headset communications systems maker for the aviation industry that's based on the site. Russo is also the owner of Canal Dis- trict restaurant Lock 50. Worcester Blades fold e Canadian Women's Hockey League and the Worcester Blades will discontinue operations next month. e six-team league announced the decision of its board due to a business model proven to be unsustainable. Attendance for the Blades was about 300 fans per game. Continued on Page 6 Worcester business are LGBTQ friendly Worcester businesses Hanover Insurance Group and manufacturer Saint-Gobain each received high marks for their LGBTQ workplace inclusiveness from civil rights group Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index. The survey scored companies on educational offerings, workplace equality, parity between different-and-same-sex spouses, coverage for doemstic partners of enrollees, removal of transgender exclusions from benefit plans and inclusion of LGBTQ suppliers. When polled online, nearly 9 out of 10 WBJ readers say their businesses are friendly to diverse populations F L AS H P O L L Is your company LGBTQ-inclusive? 4% Somewhat. We offer anti- discrimination training but lack similar benefits for LGBTQ. Yes. We welcome all members of the community and have all benefits available to them. 87% S M A L L B U S I N E S S YOU LIVE AND BREATHE YOUR BUSINESS. SHOULDN'T YOUR HEALTH PLAN DO THE SAME? TUFTSHEALTHPLAN.COM/ALLBUSINESS 9% No. LGBTQ workers routinely say they feel unwelcome at our company. Claire Wadlington, CFO, Disruptor Beam