Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | January 6, 2020 | Worcester Business Journal 31 We're proud to have been voted Best Bank for Business in Worcester Business Journal's 2019 Best of Business poll. It confirms that our community approach to business banking is working. To those of you who voted for us, thank you. To those of you who don't know us yet, we invite you to contact us to find out what we can do for your business. For more information, call 1.800.578.4270 today, visit us online at www.unibank.com or stop by any UniBank branch office. Your local bank. Your community bank. And once again, your Best Bank Member FDIC/Member DIF M OV E R S & S H A K E R S operations coordinator at the research firm Lightspeed GMI in Washington. She has a degree in psychology with a concentration in statistics and research from Columbia University in New York City. Oldfield now has day-to-day implementation of strategy and cultural initiatives within the business. He was previously the director of client services. He has an MBA from Fitchburg State University. Synspira Therapeutics, a Framingham clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company for those with cystic fibrosis and other rare diseases, has appointed ALEXEY MARGOLIN and ROBERT K. COUGHLIN to its board of directors. Margolin is the board chairman and co-founder of Allena Pharmaceuticals in Newton, and previously its CEO. Since 2007 Coughlin has been the president and CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, advocating for the state's life sciences industry. SCOTT JENNINGS has joined Centage Corp., a Natick cloud financial software firm, as senior vice president of sales. Jennings has more than 20 years of experience in technology, sales and leadership. His work at corporate performance management software companies includes 12 years at Board International of Switzerland, where he was the managing director of North America. He has a bachelor's degree in finance from PETER RUSSELL of Southborough has joined the Sullivan Insurance Group in Worcester as a principal. Russell has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry and joins Sullivan Group after having worked for two national insurance carriers and two international insurance brokers. He has a bachelor's degree in political science from Boston College. Research Results Inc., a Fitchburg market research firm, has hired ELLEN PIEPER as its new chief client officer and promoted STEPHEN OLDFIELD as its chief operations officer. Pieper, now in charge of driving business growth across the company and implementing strategies, was previously the chief revenue officer for Symmetric, a sampling firm in Texas, and account executive and client RUSSELL PIEPER OLDFIELD COCHRAN DIBENEDETTO NORDNBERG HAMAR Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. UMass Memorial Medical Group in Worcester has added emergency medicine physicians Dr. IAN COCHRAN, Dr. JARED DIBENEDETTO and Dr. ALEXANDRA NORDBERG, and maternal and fetal medicine physician Dr. BENJAMIN HAMAR. Cochran earned his medical degree from the University of New England in Maine and completed his emergency medicine residency at the University Hospital-SUNY Upstate Medical Center in New York. Cochran specializes in emergency medicine at the UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus and at Marlborough Hospital. Dibenedetto earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York and completed his emergency medicine residency at the State University of New York at Buffalo – Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in New York. Dibenedetto specializes in emergency medicine at the UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus and Marlborough Hospital. Nordberg earned her medical degree from New York Medical College and completed an emergency medicine residency program and emergency ultrasound fellowship at UMass Medical School in Worcester. Nordberg specializes in emergency medicine on the UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus. Hamar earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and completed his obstetrics and gynecology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and a maternal fetal medicine fellowship program at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut. Hamar specializes in maternal and fetal medicine at the UMass Memorial Medical Center Memorial Campus. Primary care physicians Dr. ELVIS APONTE-RIVERA and Dr. MESSALINA AQUINO have joined Nashoba Valley Medical Center and Lunenburg Family Practice-Steward Medical Group and are now seeing patients at the Lunenburg Family Practice office. Aponte-Rivera is a graduate of the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, and he completed his residency at the Hospital Universitario Dr. Ramon Ruiz Arnau, both in Puerto Rico. Dr. Aquino received her medical degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in the Dominican Republic and completed her residency at the Hospital Universitario Dr. Ramon Ruiz Arnau in Puerto Rico. W

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