Hartford Business Journal

16 Hartford Business Journal • January 12, 2015 www.HartfordBusiness.com Movers & shakers NoNprofit profile The Connecticut Forum 750 Main St., Hartford | www.ctforum.org Mission To encourage the free and active exchange of ideas in forums that inform, challenge, entertain, inspire, and build bridges among all people. Top ExEcuTivE sErvicEs richard sugarman, Founding President Live, unscripted panel discussions among renowned experts and celebrities, and community outreach programs. FY 2013 suMMarY 2013 2012 Total Employees 14 15 Total assets $567,150 $626,761 Total Liabilities $452,780 $461,845 rEvEnuEs contributions & Grants $936,371 $1,031,898 program service revenue $368,997 $553,423 investment income $1,334 $2,489 other $0 ($4,013) ToTaL $1,306,702 $1,583,797 ExpEnsEs Grants $0 $0 Member Benefits $0 $0 salaries/Employee Benefits $597,769 $660,938 Fundraising Fees $0 $0 other $759,479 $931,823 ToTaL $1,357,248 $1,592,761 MarGin $(50,546) $(8,964) Top paid ExEcuTivEs (FY2013) Base salary Total compensation & Benefits richard sugarman, Founding President $139,612 $151,289 doris sugarman, VP and Executive Director $140,442 $150,016 S o u r c e : G u i d e S t a r i r S 9 9 0 t a x F o r m Sports Advisory Board appoints longtime athletic director Meiser as chair Longtime University of Hartford athletic director, Patricia H. Meiser, has been appointed chair of the Connecticut Sports Advisory Board, a division of the Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau. The advisory board works with the CTCSB sales team to attract international, national and regional sporting events to Connecticut. Meiser recently retired as the athletic director and special assistant to the president at the Uni- versity of Hartford in West Hartford, after leading the Hartford Hawks program for more than 20 years. Meiser has been a member of the Connecticut Sports Advisory Board since 2012. Post-n-Track names new COO Rocky Hill's Post-n-Track, which provides health- care management information logistics services, has appointed Jeff Goodman as the company's chief operating officer. Prior to joining Post-n-Track, Goodman held se- nior leadership roles at General Electric and IBM. He also served as CEO of IBAX Healthcare Systems. Goodman has been an advisor to the senior team of Post-n-Track since 2007 and a member of its board of directors since 2010. KardasLarson adds new consultant Avon human resource consulting firm KardasLar- son announced that Lois Krause has been named a consultant. Previously, Krause was director of human resourc- es at Capewell Components Co. in South Windsor. She is on the board of directors of the Human Re- source Association of Central Connecticut (HRACC), where she serves as the co-chairperson of the com- munity relations committee. FIA names wealth advisory services associate director Windsor investment consultancy Fiduciary In- vestment Advisors LLC has hired Andrew Salak as associate director of wealth advisory services. In this role, Salak will focus on wealth manage- ment, financial planning and client relations for pri- vate clients. Prior to joining FIA, Salak spent the last five years at Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor in their wealth management division. MacDermid, Reynolds & Glissman P.C. adds lawyer Susan Babcock White has joined Hartford law firm MacDermid, Reynolds & Glissman P.C. White previously served as general counsel of FirstLight Power Resources and Realty Finance Corp. She also worked in private practice at two re- gional law firms where she specialized in commer- cial real estate transactions. Reid and Riege adds three Law firm Reid and Riege P.C. has added three new attorneys to its Hartford office: John Paul Cal- lahan, Katherine Coleman and Desmond Ryan. Callahan is a member of the firm's business law and nonprofit organizations practice areas. Coleman is a member of the firm's individual cli- ent services practice area. Ryan is a member of the firm's litigation practice area. Webster promotes new SVP Webster Bank in Waterbury announced the pro- motion of Kara Williams to senior vice president and director of internal audit. Williams joined Webster in 2012 from Pricewa- terhouseCoopers, where she served as senior man- ager in its Northeast Assurance practice. Tolland IT firm hires one OpenSky Corp., an information technology con- sulting firm in Tolland, has hired Mark Coderre as the national practice director for security services. Before joining OpenSky, Coderre was the execu- tive director of security strategy and risk manage- ment at Aetna. Coderre has also served on customer advisory boards for Stonesoft Corp., Netegrity, CA Technolo- gies Inc. and IBM/Tivoli. Redding senior living community names new sales, marketing director Roberta Godden has been named director of sales and marketing at the Meadow Ridge senior living community in Redding. Previously, Godden served as regional sales manager for Present Seniority Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif., where she recruited, hired, trained and man- aged sales teams. VeraCore Software Solutions appoints client services director Rocky Hill's VeraCore Software Solutions Inc. has named Erika Youmans director of client services. In her new role, Youmans will manage the firm's team of product support specialists and will oversee support and training for VeraCore's order fulfillment software. Hoffmann Architects promotes two Hoffmann Architects, an architecture and engineer- ing firm specializing in the rehabilitation of building ex- teriors, announced the promotion of two members of its Connecticut staff. Maureen Dobbins has been promoted to director of business development from senior business develop- ment manager. In her new role, Dobbins will be in charge of business development, sales, and company-wide marketing ef- forts across all three of the firm's offices. Deborah Costantini has been promoted to senior architect from project architect. In her new role, Costantini will be responsible for leading project teams as well as working with the busi- ness development department. Kara Williams Erika Youmans Desmond Ryan Katherine Coleman John Paul Callahan Patricia H. Meiser NoNprofit Notebook United Bank CEO Bill Crawford, shown above, right, presented a $5,000 donation on behalf of the Rockville Bank Foundation to Connecticut Children's Medical Center. The money will be earmarked for purchas- ing specialized toys and other resources for the hospital's Occupational/Physical Therapy Program, which is designed to help children participate in normal activities, engage in play and sports and return to home or school. The check was made to Rob Keane, left, assistant vice president of development at Connecticut Children's Medical Center. • • • Leadership Greater Hartford's Com- mon Ground youth leadership program has received a $5,000 grant from the Lincoln Financial Foundation. Common Ground is a 15-week program that trains Greater Hartford high school students in leadership, diversity awareness, and community prob- lem solving. Since 1988, a diverse group of 40 students, from urban and suburban high schools throughout the region, has partici- pated in Common Ground. • • • The National Fund for Workforce Solu- tions recently awarded a $145,000 Social Innovation Fund grant to Workforce Solu- tions Collaborative of Metro Hartford. Workforce Solutions is a funders' collabora- tive and network of public/private stakeholder organizations that helps meet area employer needs for a skilled workforce with a focus on unemployed and lower-income wage earn- ers. Workforce Solutions will direct this new $145,000 toward partnerships in areas of health care, manufacturing, and transportation. • • • Community Health Center Inc.'s Weitzman Institute has received a $299,997 grant from Pfizer's Independent Grant for Learning & Change. This funding will allow Weitzman Institute to establish an online pro- fessional learning community, called Pain- NET, focused on chronic pain management in the primary care setting. The goal of Pain- NET is to provide the highest quality of care to medically underserved patients, and in particular to those experiencing disparities in healthcare outcomes. • • • Girl Scouts of Connecticut has received a $60,000 grant from The Trav- elers Cos., to deliver the College Pathways program for girls in grades 9 -12 in Hartford. This grant will help fund the many offerings of the College Pathways program, which encourages the educational and career goals of urban Hartford girls. College Path- ways is an out-of-school activity that has meetings on a regular basis.

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