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8 Hartford Business Journal•November26,2012 www.HartfordBusiness.com Celebrating 20 Years of Business News From our Leadership Sponsors: A Full Service Approach to Event Management From Brass Bonanza to Company President On what was supposed to be a routine "High School Stu- dent Job Shadow" with the Public Relations office of the Hart- ford Whalers, an employee who called in sick turned into the opportunity of a lifetime! It was this night that I sat next to the announcers handing them statistics in order to keep pace with the necessary information and provide the television/radio audiences with the numbers of the game. Quickly realizing the power of information and importance of its accuracy, my profession choice had become clear. Additionally, I recently learned that if you added up all of the printed material from the beginning of time to the end of year 2003, you would have the amount of data that is now produced approximately every 2 days. So why on earth would anyone want more data or information you might ask? The answer is quite simple actually, to make informed deci- sions and have the ability to track progress along the way. The secret sauce however is finding the right information and knowing how to use it. Whether your role consists of managing internal employees, external customers or assessing a market for new products of services, having the right information about what drives satisfaction (or more importantly dissatisfaction), preferred methods for communication, and what is truly expected of your organization are just a few examples of mission critical information which can lead to developing a successful action plan for the future. John & Sally Rider Rider Productions Michael Vigeant President, The Center For Research, Inc. Photo/J. Fiereck Photography Rider Productions has been proudly supporting the busi- ness community in the region for almost 10 years. The compa- ny expanded rapidly as the demand for a full service approach to event management grew. Rider Productions produces and manages events throughout the northeast, from New York to Boston, and operates offices in North Granby, CT. Their facil- ity houses a fully equipped state-of-the art studio enabling the company to provide clients with complete audio and video taping services for any event. Rider Productions has the depth and experience to handle top draw public events and smaller private gatherings. John and Sally Rider bring a combined forty five years of event production and management to Rider Productions, a business they began in 2003. Sally spent more than a dozen years coordinating corporate events for Fleet Bank up and down the east coast prior to launching the com- pany, and John has spent his professional life performing and producing rock concerts and shows across the country. He is the bass guitarist and founding member of Max Creek, one of the region's premier bands for the past forty years, and brings a career of sophisticated, high tech audio-visual, lighting, stag- ing and space design expertise to Rider Productions. Sally's corporate, John's rock 'n' roll, their talents merge to bring expertise to the corporate setting in a full service way that satisfies every company's event objectives. The Rider's team up with clients from the very beginning of a project to support the organization's goals for the event, from helping with bud- geting to site selection, identifying themes and messages, right through to event production, entertainment, décor, technical needs and follow-up. Congratulations to the Hartford Business Journal on their 20th Anniversary, Rider Productions is very proud to be their exclusive event management company! In this issue celebrating the Hartford Business Journal's second decade in business, we'd like to take a moment to thank some of the people who have made our success possible: Our advertisers. When it comes to B2B marketing in this the land of Steady Habits, we are pleased and proud to have become just that … a steady habit for so many of you. One thing we all know … in business, you can't have too many friends. With that in mind, we extend this warm thanks to all our advertisers now and then. And to all of you who were there in the beginning, who had faith in us and who have continued to support us over the last 20 years, we say congratulations! We've made it. Together. We hope you will think of this issue as your celebration, too. By the way, we ran this very same message in our tenth anniversary issue. It is even truer today. Gail Lebert, Publisher Hartford Business Journal Friends We like to keep 'em. For more B2B news visit N o v e m b e r 1 9 , 2 01 2 w w w . h a r t f o r d b u s i n e s s . c o m V o l u m e 2 1 n u m b e r 2 $ 3 . 0 0 Subscribe online First project Jackson Lab starts bicoastal experiment. Focus: PG. 10-11 20 Y e a r s o f t h e r e g i o n' s B u s i n e s s n e w s 20 YEARS 1992 2012 Index ■ Accolades: PG. 22 ■ Business Strategy: PG. 6 ■ Deal Watch: PG. 5 ■ Focus: PG. 10-11 ■ Q&A: PG. 8 20th Anniversary edition Next week, subscribers will receive a special 20th anniversary edition of the Hartford Business Journal. Watch your mailbox for this 92-page treat. Windsor property caught in legal tangle Investors allege $2.6 million in rental income missing By Greg Bordonaro gbordonaro@HartfordBusiness.com T he Addison Corporate Center in Windsor has been an attractive property over the years, playing home to major corporate tenants like Alstom Power and Ace Insurance and luring tens of millions of dollars from banks and wide-eyed investors from across the country. But behind the scenes recently things haven't been so pretty for the 585,222-square-foot office and industrial complex located at 175 Addison Rd. Unpaid bills and fraud allegations against an investment company involved in the purchase of the property in 2006 have put the complex on an uneven financial footing. It has also led to a flurry of lawsuits from investors and major brokerage firms, who allege that millions of dollars in prop- erty rental income have gone missing and that hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees haven't been paid. Nonprofit health plans to shift market dynamics By Greg Bordonaro gbordonaro@HartfordBusiness.com T wo new nonprofit health plans are expected to begin offering insurance coverage in Connecticut over the next year or so, giv- ing the state its first new players in the market in years. The sudden, new competition, experts say, is a result of a rising customer base for health insurance that is expected to occur over the next few years as a result of health care reform. President Obama's Affordable Care Act, which requires individu- als to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty and establishes insurance exchanges, is expected to increase the number of insured residents in the state by up to 200,000 people, creating a sizable new market for insurers to compete for. Massachusetts's Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and HealthyCT of Wallingford have each filed applications with state regulators to start health plans in Connecticut. They will be the first nonprofit insurers in the state since 1999 when Farmington- based Connecticare converted from a nonprofit to for-prof- it company. Advocates who have been pushing for more competi- tion from nonprofit insurers say the new health plans should be a good thing for the state, particularly for small group employ- ers and individuals. "From a con- sumer perspective, competition through Legislative energy leadership changing as long-term policy fight begins By Brad Kane bkane@HartfordBusiness.com W ith Connecticut's policymakers set to debate a long-term, compre- hensive change in energy strategy during the upcoming legislative session, the foremost energy leaders in the General Assembly likely will be replaced by their sec- onds-in-command, industry sources say. At least one and possibly both co-chair positions on the powerful Energy & Technol- ogy Committee will be changed over before January. One of the current co-chairs — Rep. Vickie Nardello (D-Prospect) — was turned out by voters, and the other — Sen. John Fonfara (D-Hartford) — is considering mov- ing to chair the Finance Committee. The likely candidates to fill the Energy co-chair roles are Rep. Lonnie Reed (D-Bran- ford) and Sen. Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) — the current vice-chairs of the committee. 2010 CT Health Insurance Market Share Breakdown Direct Written Rank Company Premiums 1 Anthem Health Plans $2.3B 2 Health Net of CT $921.9M 3 Connecticare Inc. $772.8M 4 Aetna $252.8M 5 Aetna Better Health $229.8M 6 Oxford Health Plan $143.3M S o u r c e : c o n n e c t i c u t i n S u r a n c e D e p a r t m e n t Continued on page 13 Continued on page 14 Continued on page 15 20 Years of Business News History The Addison Corporate Center in Windsor, pictured above, is ensnarled in a messy lawsuit brought by nearly three dozen investors who are accusing New York-based Cabot Investment Properties, its managers and subsidiary units, of misappropriating funds and not paying utility bills or debt service. p h o t o / S t e v e L a S c h e v e r 1992–2012