Hartford Business Journal

22 Hartford Business Journal • February 16, 2015 www.HartfordBusiness.com AccolAdes & More ▶ ▶ Willimantic community lender Savings Institute Bank & Trust recently donated $3,290 to the Windham Youth Food Network, a project coordinated by GROW Windham that will engage local youth in projects to promote access to healthy food throughout the community. GROW Windham is a program of the Windham Regional Community Council Inc. and the donation will help them cover expenses for program coordination. Pictured, from left, are: Demetrio Ricciardone, Savings Institute Bank & Trust; Sally Milius, GROW Windham; Rheo Brouillard, Savings Institute Bank & Trust; Bernadette Brandt, FoodCorps; Ricardo Alavez, AmeriCorps VISTA ; and Jeffrey G. Beadle, Windham Regional Community Council. SAVINGS INSTITUTE BANK & TRUST DONATES TO GROW WINDHAM PROJECT ▶ ▶ St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center employees combined with Button Up Connecticut/Siracusa Moving & Storage to donate more than 500 new and gently used winter coats to the hospital's pediatric and adult outpatient clinics. The annual giveaway is organized by St. Francis' Department of Volunteer Services in conjunction with the Joan C. Dauber Food Bank at St. Francis. Pictured, from left, are: Elsa Kortright; Lakeisha McFarland; Delores Meyers; and Tobye Karl, St. Francis's director of volunteer services. ST. FRANCIS DISTRIBUTES 500 FREE COATS IN ANNUAL GIVEAWAY MORGAN STANLEY CONTRIBUTES TO THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN oF NoTe ANTHEM PRESIDENT NAMED TO GOV'S PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP BOARD Jill Rubin Hummel, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, was recently appointed to the board of The Governor's Prevention Partnership, a nonprofit, public-pri- vate organization, whose mission is to keep Connecticut's youth safe, suc- cessful and drug-free. Hummel is responsible for the manage- ment of Anthem's local group and indi- vidual business, including sales, account management, provider relations and contracting, underwriting and product delivery, as well as executing tenets of the Affordable Care Act and maintaining strong customer relationships. • • • TWO BURNS & MCDONNELL EMPLOYEES NAMED TO TOP 20 UNDER 40 LIST Jason Cabral and Jason McCreary, employee-owners at Wallingford engi- neering firm Burns & McDonnell, were recently named winners of Engineering News Record New York's Top 20 Under 40 competition. Cabral, who lives in Wallingford, is a project manager in Burns' transmission and distribution division. He has man- aged some of the largest electric reliabil- ity projects in the country. Cabral recent- ly served as a project manager on the Greater Springfield Reliability Project, where he led a project team that logged over 2.9 million man-hours without one loss-time injury, and completed the proj- ect on time and under budget. McCreary, of Madison, is department manager in Burns' transmission and distribution engineering group. He has traveled around the world and helped manage over $7 billion in infrastructure improvement projects. Both winners were showcased in a Feb. 2 feature story in Engineering News Record. • • • KIM SYROP RECOGNIzED AS NEW LEADER IN BANKING Kim Syrop, senior vice president and director of fraud and loss management at Waterbury lender Webster Bank, has received the "New Leaders in Banking Award" from the Connecticut Bankers Association. Syrop was one of 14 recipients honored at a special awards dinner on Jan. 22 at Mohegan Sun, and will be featured in the next issue of Connecticut Banking magazine. Syrop was recognized for leading Webster's fraud prevention team and spearheading a year-long initiative to raise awareness about financial exploitation of the elderly. • • • CONSIGLI CONSTRUCTION NAMED TOP TRAINING SITE Hartford's Consigli Construction Co. Inc. has been named for the third year in a row to the Training Top 125 by Training magazine, a national business publication that ranks companies' excellence in employer-sponsored training and development programs. The Training Top 125 ranking is determined by assessing a range of qualitative and quantitative factors, including financial investment in employee development, the scope of development programs, and how closely such development efforts are linked to business goals and objectives. Jill Rubin Hummel Jason Cabral Jason McCreary Pictured, from left, are: Jeff Klaus, Webster's Connecticut regional president; Kim Syrop; and Tim Bergstrom, Webster's regional president of Greater Hartford. ▶ ▶ The Village for Families & Children received a $5,000 donation from Morgan Stanley that will be used to help vulnerable children and families in the Greater Hartford area. The local employees of the Morgan Stanley Hartford Region complex voted for The Village to be the recipient. Receiving the check on behalf of The Village is Ed Hackett, CFO and presenting is Cathy Galgano, Morgan Stanley executive director and complex manager with members of the Morgan Stanley Hartford office.

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