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80 Hartford Business Journal • November 26, 2012 www.HartfordBusiness.com Celebrating 20 Years of Business News HONORED those DaNiel paperMaster Forty Under 40, 1997 and 2000 Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, and Daniel Papermaster were forever linked in Hartford history when a 1996 presidential debate was held at The Bushnell Theater. The debate coming to Hartford was basi- cally the then 31-year-old lawyer's idea and he pulled together all the resources to make it happen. It earned him a Greater Hartford Convention & Visitor Bureau "Bring It Home" award. But his career has been more than that one shining political moment. Papermas- ter is managing partner of Bingham McCutchen's Hart- ford office and co-chair of the firm's Transactional Finance Group. He focuses on corpo- rate finance, primarily rep- resenting various types of financial institutions, hedge funds and large corporations in financing and restructuring transactions. Papermaster is also involved in community activities. He serves on the board of directors of Camp Laurelwood and has been the chairman of Hartford's Mark Twain Days Festival. He also served on the original steering committee of the Connecticut Capitol Region Growth Council for the Millennium Project and on the board of directors of the Com- munity Relations Council of Greater Hartford Jewish Federation, the Mark Twain House and the WKND Greater Hartford Initiative. roBert patricelli Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011 Robert Patricelli has had a major influence in reshaping the health care industry on both the state and national level through businesses he has founded and run. He is chairman and CEO of Women's Health USA, which provides administrative and back- room business services to a branded network (including Women's Health Connecticut) of obstetricians and gynecologists in New York and Connecticut. After leaving Cigna in 1986, where he rose to be executive vice president – and president of the health care group, he co-found- ed Value Health, a purveyor of mental health and prescription drug expertise and endless paperwork and processing to HMOs and other group health delivery systems. Patricelli, before finding success in Connecticut's cor- porate environs, served as a White House Fellow, minority counsel to a Senate subcom- mittee, deputy undersecretary for policy at the old Depart- ment of Health, Education and Welfare; and an administrator at the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. As observed in the profile of Patricelli when he received his Lifetime Achievement Award, "The most accurate snapshot of the Life and Times of Patricelli may well be the new Patricelli Center for Social Entrepre- neurship at Wesleyan University. It will combine the keen interest in public affairs and policy that Patricelli fosters, along with the reality that even social service agencies and non-government agencies need to learn the busi- ness nuts-and-bolts, ranging from how to write a grant pro- posal to how to make sure the checks don't bounce." eDDie perez Forty Under 40, 1997 It's been an up-and-down 15 years for Eddie Perez since being named to the Forty Under 40 Class of 1997 at the age of 39. At the time, he was director of community and government relations at Trinity College. In 2001 he was elected the first Latino mayor of Hartford. He then worked to change the city charter to make the formerly ceremonial position the chief executive officer of Hartford with more responsi- bilities. The former gang leader would acquire more power through the years, eventually chairing the city's Board of Education as well. Then it all came tumbling down. In January 2009, he was arrested and in June 2010 convicted of five corruption charges, including taking a bribe and attempted extortion, according to an Associated Press report at the time. The trial focused on allegations that Perez accepted home improvements from a city contractor in return for keeping him on a lucrative $2.4 million construction project, and tried to extort a developer into pay- ing $100,000 to a political ally. He was sentenced in September 2010 to three years in prison fol- lowed by three years probation. He has not begun serving his sen- tence pending appeals to higher courts. paMela trotMaN reiD Women in Business, 2010 Pamela Trotman Reid, the president of the University of St. Joseph, has taken the former St. Joseph College in West Hartford through a growth spurt since assuming her position in 2008. The most prominent change under her administration is the institu- tion's becoming a university in June 2012. She initiated and launched the university's first profes- sional doctoral program by creating a School of Pharmacy in downtown Hartford. Under her leadership, the size of the graduate program in education tripled with the introduction of off-site classes throughout Connecticut. She has received a number of honors, including being named among 100 most influential blacks in the state by the Connecticut State Conference of the NAACP (2009, 2011); and Hartford's 50 most influential people by Hartford Magazine (2010). She also received a 2011 Polaris Award from Leadership Greater Hartford, and a 2011 Maria Miller Stewart Award from the Connecticut Women's Educa- tion and Legal Fund. curtis roBiNsoN Healthcare Hero, 2010 As observed in a profile in the Hartford Business Journal when Curtis D. Robinson was named a Healthcare Hero for his work in pros- tate cancer prevention, his story reads like a Hollywood screenplay. He was born in 1942 in segregated Alabama and came to Hartford a penniless teen. He worked two full-time and one part-time jobs and by age 22, he owned a restaurant, a grocery store, a dry cleaner, an apartment building and a construction supply company. He is now president of C&R Development Co. Inc. in Hart- ford, the largest minority con- struction management com- pany in the East. The story continued, "Rob- inson was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997. While he was able to receive prompt treatment…, he did his home- work and found that black men are felled by this disease at an alarming rate. They are under-diagnosed because many have no insur- ance or are uncomfortable with being examined and tested. "He started his foundation, The Curtis D. Robinson Men's Health Institute at St. Francis, with a few hundred thousand dollars but that sum has increased to $1 million." Robinson is on the board of St. Francis Hospital, St. Fran- cis Corp., St. Francis Foundation, University of Hartford, and Harvard Medical School. He won the Hartford Business Jour- nal's Diversity Award in 2009. But, for him, the crowning glory of his awards is the Tuskegee George Washington Carver Humanitarian Award presented to him and his wife in 2010. Patricelli, before finding success in Connecticut's corporate environs, served as a White House Fellow, minority counsel to a Senate subcommittee, deputy undersecretary for policy at the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and an administrator at the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Hartford Business Journal, 2011

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