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58 Hartford Business Journal • November 26, 2012 www.HartfordBusiness.com Celebrating 20 Years of Business News 1994, when he joined the faculty of the Hartford Seminary. He was named its dean in March 1999. Loomis was 75 when appointed to the position. He also has had a long history of supporting a variety of philan- thropic organizations including the American Red Cross, the Hartford Public Library and Riverfront Recapture Inc. He was also a trustee of Trinity College. John F. lundGren John F. Lundgren is president and CEO of Stanley Black & Deck- er, headquartered in New Britain. One of the 100 highest paid CEOs in 2011, according to Forbes, his job title was much shorter when he first started in his role in 2004 as CEO of Stanley. He oversaw the merger with Black & Decker in 2010 that resulted in him being president of the new company (with Nolan D. Archibald, Black & Decker's former CEO, being named executive chairman of the merged company). Stanley was the smaller company when it proposed the $4.5 bil- lion merger through a premium price paid for Black & Decker stock. Lundgren has continued to oversee both acquisitions and sales for the new company. Recently announced deals include acquiring the Hong Kong-based fastener manufacturer Infastech for $850 million and selling its hardware and home improvement group – which makes residential locksets and faucets — for $1.4 billion to Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. dAniel mAtos Daniel Matos, principal and founder of The Matos Group, a region- al real estate development company based in Hartford, left a success- ful legal career, where his practice focused on the development and finance of large multi-use real estate projects with both public and private components, to start his company, which has much the same focus. Matos has acquired or developed many commercial, industrial and multi-family projects throughout the United States. Matos is best known for the development he is trying to jointly build with UTC at Rentschler Field: a 1,000-acre mixed-use develop- ment. Matos has been working since before 2005 on making Rent- schler more than just the UConn football stadium. He was success- ful in bringing sporting goods giant Cabela's to the site and has told the mayor of East Hartford it may be 25 years before the site is fully completed. "The important thing to remember here is the vision is very large," Matos said. "It's not simply to develop the property as quickly as pos- sible and at the highest and best use being, perhaps, an industrial park, but rather to do something that takes patience, investment and good decision-making." timothy moynihAn Timothy Moynihan combined his skills as a real estate broker and politician for a successful 14-year run as president of the Metro- Hartford Chamber of Commerce, now known as the MetroHartford Alliance. During his tenure (1986 to 2000), Moynihan played a role in dispa- rate projects like Riverfront Recapture and the original takeover of Hartford's public schools by the state. A native of East Hartford, he served as one of its state representatives for 10 years while having a career as a real estate broker. He helmed the State Democratic Party. Moynihan was praised at the time of his departure by former Gov. William O'Neill who said in a Hartford Courant article, "Tim has a way of bringing people together because they believe what he says -- and they should, because he's an honest man." mArie o'Brien Marie O'Brien has mixed a successful private and public career that has touched many major projects and policies in Connecticut as both president of the Connecticut Development Authority and manag- er of business development at UTC Power, a unit of United Technolo- gies Corp. that develops and markets distributed power generation products, including fuel cells. O'Brien has also worn the hat of lobbyist for UTC as the conglom- erate's director of state and local government affairs. She directed all advocacy efforts on legislative and policy issues with state and local legislative bodies and business organizations. After completing her bachelor's degree in chemistry at the Uni- versity of Connecticut, O'Brien began her career at Pfizer in Groton in biochemical pharmacology. She later earned her MBA, also from UConn, and went on to hold positions with StanChem, Inc., the Uni- versity of Connecticut and the UConn Health Center, and the Ameri- can Association of University Professors. O'Brien was appointed presi- dent of the Connecticut Devel- opment Authority in Septem- ber of 2004. O'Brien is the first woman to serve in that role. lowell weicKer No governor in the past 20 years made more of an impact on the state's business commu- nity than Lowell Weicker did after being elected as indepen- dent candidate in a three-way race among himself, Demo- crat U.S. Rep. Bruce Morrison and Republican U.S. Rep. John Rowland (who acquire his own notoriety in July 2004 when he resigned from office). Weicker stabilized the state's revenues by insisting on the implementation of an income tax that eventually lowered the state's corporate and sales taxes. But it came at a price as the income tax made him a political pariah among voters. Members of the Repub- lican Party also held a grudge because of his decision to run as an independent. Weicker, a former two-term U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator, only ran for one term and has had little political impact since then. g Dan Matos talks about his plans for Rentschler Field from the April 19, 2010 edition. PEOPLE the No governor in the past 20 years made more of an impact on the state's business community than Lowell Weicker... who is forever linked to the introduction of a state income tax. Lowell Weicker P H O T O S / S T E V E L A S C H E V E R