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G r e at e r H a r t f o r d ' s B u s i n e s s n e w s w w w. H a r t f o rd B u s i n e s s . c o m for more B2B news visit March 2, 2015 Volume 23, number 14 $3.00 subscribe online Friday, March 20th, 2015 8:30am – 1:00pm Hartford Hilton L e a r n i n n o v a t e C o L L a b o r a t e S a v e SUMMIT ANNUAL 's Index ■ Week in Review: PG. 6 ■ The List: PG. 9 ■ Deal Watch: PG. 12 ■ Reporter's Notebook: PG. 16 ■ Nonprofit Profile: PG. 18 ■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 20 Focus: Tax season Health Reform Headaches Employers are bracing for major tax changes related to the Affordable Care Act. Find what the new rules are and when they go into effect. PG. 8 Diversification Play One small Connecticut community hospital is dipping its toe into the venture capital game. Find out who and why. PG. 3 Gays, lesbians join Connecticut businesses for their LGBT inclusion By Brad Kane bkane@HartfordBusiness.com W hen Pennsylvania native Robert Udell graduated from Penn State in 2005 and was looking for a place to work, he ranked potential employers on two criteria: • Ability to apply his information-technology education and rise in the management ranks. • Inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. "Aetna was at the top of that short list," Udell said. Udell, who is gay, moved from Pennsylvania to Connecticut nine years ago and has spent his entire professional career working at Aetna and in Hartford. He has risen up the ranks of the insurer to be a program manager in its Innovation, Technology, and Service Operations department. He's also an advisor and past chairman of the company's LGBT employee resource group. In a country where only 18 states provide non-discrimination protections for LGBT employees and 23 states still don't allow gay marriage, Connecticut's progressive stance on LGBT rights (includ- ing being the third state ever to allow same-sex unions in 2008 and adopting a slew of workplace protections) has made some Nutmeg CUs rub up against banks in their new-member quest By Gregory Seay gseay@HartfordBusiness.com S ince 1936, Enfield Commu- nity Federal Credit Union has prospected for cus- tomers from among three gen- erations of town residents. Courting its first members from workers at the nearby car- pet mill in the Thompsonville section of town, and later other accountholders who lived and worked in other parts of Enfield, the former Bigelow Sanford Main- tenance Federal Credit Union thrived. Nearly eight decades later, however, managers of the 3,800 member, $24 million credit cooperative say recruiting new Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union's mobile branch will visit New Haven County mem- bers until its opens a permanent one there. Continued on page 16 Continued on page 14 P H O T O | C O n T r i b u T e d P H O T O | P a b l O r O b l e s Out & Equal Out & Equal Robert Udell moved from his native Pennsylvania, a state with only mid-level LGBT inlcusion, according to the Movement Advancement Project, to Connecticut, a high-level LGBT state.