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18 Hartford Business Journal • August 17, 2015 www.HartfordBusiness.com MOVERS & SHAKERS Connecticut Historical Society elects new president, board members The Connecticut Historical Society recently elect- ed Bichop Nawrot as president and Larry Mowell and Don Williams as board members for 2015-16. Nawrot, the first U.S. immigrant to serve as CHS's president, has served on the board for more than a decade. He's a co-founder of Capital Strategies in Bloomfield. Mowell was an attorney for United Technologies Corp. from 1976 to 2008, and is currently the cor- poration's real estate consultant. Williams was a state senator from 1993 to 2014. He is deputy director of policy, research and reform for the Connecticut Education Association. Simsbury Bank adds deposit operations manager, mortgage loan adviser Simsbury Bank recently announced that Barbara Yelle has joined its team as deposit operations man- ager and Christian DeBerry has joined as a mort- gage loan adviser. Yelle previously held a variety of retail and operation- al management positions with community and regional banks, most recently with Rockville/United Bank as an assistant vice president and deposit operations officer. DeBerry will work with homebuyers, advising them on mortgage options and the application process. He has held a variety of mortgage and consumer lender and op- erations positions with regional and national firms. Three named to CRIS Radio board Windsor-based CRIS Radio, a radio-reading ser- vice for people who are blind or print challenged, re- cently named Gail Lebert, Kay S. Long and Nyema R. Pinkney to its board of directors. Lebert is the former publisher of the Hartford Busi- ness Journal. She is currently the director of partnership development at Klingberg Family Centers in New Britain. Long is a retired educator who worked in public education for 46 years, including as a French/Spanish teacher, counselor and school administrator. Pinkney, an employee of United Technologies Corp., is a CRIS listener and was appointed to the State Reha- bilitation Council by Gov. Dannel Malloy. Connecticut Forum announces promotion, new staff The Connecticut Forum has promoted Jamie Daniel to director of programming and named Jill Fletcher director of corporate advancement. Daniel assumes her role following a two-year planned transition in which she worked with out- going founding President Richard Sugarman on programming, including community engagement, special projects and panelist selection. Fletcher comes to CT Forum from CONNSTEP, a management consulting firm. She will help advance CT Forum's corporate relationships. Marriott Hartford Downtown names operations director Marriott Hartford Downtown has named Nick Lorusso as its new director of operations. Lorusso is responsible for overseeing all rooms and food and beverage departments. Lorusso most recently was director of food and beverage at the Sheraton Birmingham in Alabama. CT State Dental Association appoints new president, elects governors Dr. William Nash, a general dentist in Fairfield, was recently installed as Connecticut State Dental Association president for a one-year term. Nash is a former consulting dentist for the CLASP Home in Easton and Re-entry Ministry of Bridgeport. Also, elected to the CSDA board of governors were: Dr. Michael Ungerleider of Granby, president-elect; Dr. Jeffrey Simpson of Putnam, vice president; and Dr. Al Natelli of Southington, treasurer. Drs. Jeffrey Berkley, Anjanette Gjertsen, Neil Goodkind, Steve Hall, Tam Le, Laurence Levy, Gary Linker and Stephanie Urillo also were elected board members. Wright-Pierce expands ownership with shareholder elections Wright-Pierce, an engineering firm with an office in Middletown, recently announced that project manag- ers Dennis Dievert and Jon Hume were elected as new shareholders. Dievert, in Middletown, has more than 14 years of experience in wastewater engineering. He serves as project manager/lead project engineer oversee- ing planning studies, design, permitting, construction oversight and operations for many of the company's large wastewater facility upgrades projects. Hume is a project manager with nearly 20 years of experience in the planning, engineering design, startup and construction administration of water and waste- water treatment facility projects. Nick Lorusso Nyema R. Pinkney Kay Long Barbara Yelle Gail Lebert Don Williams Bichop Nawrot Larry Mowell For advertising information please contact Christian J. Renstrom, Advertising Director, at 860-236-9998 ext. 126, or email crenstrom@HartfordBusiness.com In Print. Online. In Person. www.HartfordBusiness.com Delivering Business. 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