Hartford Business Journal

HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM | JUNE 2, 2025 23 Movers & Shakers — NATALIE CARPENTER, ATTORNEY TESTIMONIAL "I am so honored to be a part of the Reid & Riege team as we celebrate 75 years. Reid & Riege provides a collaborative environment that encourages a strong work-life balance while supporting your growth as an attorney. Our staff is friendly, professional, smart, dedicated, and eager to assist. I am looking forward to seeing Reid & Riege reach that 100-year mark next!" JOIN A FIRM THAT VALUES EXCELLENCE — AND EACH OTHER. At Reid & Riege, we're more than a law firm — we're a team. With over 75 years of trusted legal service, we're committed to delivering top-tier results for our clients while fostering a culture of collaboration, respect, and long-term career growth. Ready to make a move? Visit rrlawpc.com for opportunities. Law firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani has hired Kelley Mahoney as a partner in the firm's Hartford office. Mahoney concentrates her practice on general liability, product liability, toxic tort and premises liability cases. She has represented a broad range of clients in state and federal courts, including manufacturers, distrib- utors, contractors, premise owners and various businesses. She earned her law degree from the Univer- sity of the Pacific, and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Harris Beach Murtha has hired Eboné L. Luciano, who has experience conducting federal civil rights investi- gations, as senior counsel in its labor and employment practice group. She is admitted to practice in both Connecticut and New York. Luciano will focus on employment law and litigation, including conducting investi- gations; responding to administra- tive complaints at the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, New York State Division of Human Rights and Equal Employ- ment Opportunity Commission; and defending employers in state and federal courts. Luciano will also draft employer handbooks, policies and procedures. Luciano's experience in investigations includes working for the U.S. Depart- ment of Education's Office of Civil Rights as a supervisory general attorney, mediator and attorney/investigator. Farmington CPA firm HarperWhitfield P.C. announced that Gregg Lionetti has rejoined the firm as a senior manager. Lionetti, a CPA, brings over 15 years of experience in public accounting, providing tax, accounting and consulting services to closely held businesses, their owners and nonprofits. His background includes work in industries such as construction, manufacturing, investment advisory, architecture, wholesale distribution, real estate and professional services. Prior to rejoining the firm, Lionetti served as senior tax manager at a regional public accounting firm. Law firm Cummings & Lockwood announced that Charles W. Pieterse and Wyatt R. Jansen have joined the firm's litigation practice and will be based in Stamford. They both came from Greenwich law firm Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLC. Pieterse will serve as co-chair of the fiduciary and probate litigation group. A Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, his trust and estate litiga- tion experience includes representation of corporate and individual trustees, executors, beneficiaries, conser- vators, guardians and attorneys-in-fact, in disputes involving all aspects of probate and trust and estate litigation. Jansen brings more than a decade of experience handling trusts and estates litigation, as well as complex business litigation matters. Law firm Pullman & Comley LLC announced the addition of retired Judge Theodore R. Tyma to the firm as an alternative dispute resolution practice member. Tyma has experi- ence in mediating a broad spectrum of civil matters, including personal injury, professional liability, employment, probate and commercial disputes. He will be based in the firm's Bridgeport office. Tyma retired from the bench in May 2025, after 21 years of service. Stephen Lewis, president and CEO of Thomaston Savings Bank, has joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council (CDIAC). The CDIAC is comprised of 12 members located across Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, who share local insights to the Boston Fed. The West Hartford-based Aurora Women and Girls Foundation, a nonprofit focused on fostering racial and gender equity, has named a new chair and four new members to its board of directors. The new board chair is Amy Miller, a senior vice president and advisor at Wealthspire Advisors, a financial planning firm in West Hartford. She succeeds Meghan Burns, a partner at Ruel Ruel Burns Feldman & Britt, who served as chair for three years and will remain on the board. The four new members are: Samia Ameur, who works at RTX as a senior analyst specializing in international tax compliance; Heather Lashway, a managing director at global accounting firm PwC; Trisha Pitter, director of community learning and engagement/ instructional designer at the UConn Health Disparities Institute; and Teesia Renée Williams, owner of Simply Chef Renée. Kelley T. Mahoney Eboné Luciano Charles W. Pieterse Theodore Tyma Stephen Lewis Amy Miller

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