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16 Hartford Business Journal • October 12, 2015 www.HartfordBusiness.com MOVERS & SHAKERS HBJ names ad accounts manager Katharine Ortiz has joined the Hartford Busi- ness Journal as an advertising accounts manager. She comes to the HBJ after five years in the adver- tising department of the Hartford Courant/CTNow, during which time she specialized in entertainment related media solutions and assisted with product development. In addition to focusing on print, digital, and special events, she is passionate about engen- dering creative solutions for clients, including social media solutions. She also serves on the committees of several local nonprofits and arts organizations, including: Hartford Fashion Week, Open Studios, Share Our Strength, and the Mayor's Charity Ball. Tecton Architects announces hiring of two managers Tecton Architects in Hartford has hired Christopher Roof as senior project manager, specializing in academ- ic facilities but with a quality-control role across markets and Jennifer Saari as marketing manager, supporting communications and business development initiatives. Roof has more than 30 years of experience in architecture, construction administration and owner representation services. Prior to joining the firm, Roof was president of Hartford-based Phoenix Ar- chitectural Management. Saari comes to Tecton by way of the data com- munications industry, serving most recently as mar- keting manager for Legrand of New London. O, R & L Commercial adds broker in Rocky Hill O, R & L Commercial, which represents landlords, tenants, buyers and sellers in the office, retail, medi- cal, industrial and investment markets, announced Luke Massirio has joined the Rocky Hill office as a commercial broker. Massirio has been in the Con- necticut real estate market since 2013. He has closed a variety of residential and com- mercial real estate transactions; has owned and managed his own business, which operated out of the Xfinity Theater in Hartford; and also has experi- ence in the banking industry. First Niagara Financial Group promotes SVP for business banking First Niagara Financial Group has promoted David Cantor to senior vice president and business banking team leader for the New England region. With more than 25 years of experience, he leads a team of relationship managers and portfolio ad- ministrators that serve commercial customers throughout Connecticut and western Massa- chusetts. Cantor joined First Niagara in 2011 as business banking team leader for the southern Connecticut market. His promotion expands his oversight responsibilities to include First Niagara's entire New England region. Quinnipiac names VP of academic innovation Quinnipiac University has promoted Annalisa Zinn to the newly created position of vice president of academic innovation and effectiveness. Zinn will lead the university's new office of aca- demic innovation and effectiveness, which will focus on empowering students and faculty as learners; facilitating and supporting innovation in student and faculty learning; and assisting students, faculty and administrators with strengthening and demonstrating the effectiveness of a Quinnipiac education. United Bank names mortgage loan officer in Glastonbury United Bank announced that Mark D. Illing- sworth has joined the bank's mortgage banking team as a mortgage loan officer. Illingsworth is on the community banking team responsible for cover- ing the bank's new full-service branch at 2670 Main St. in Glastonbury. Illingsworth comes to United from Bank of Amer- ica, where he spent the last three years as a mort- gage loan officer. Hartford Healthcare at Home names director of community and government relations Hartford Healthcare at Home recently named Karen A. Pagliaro as the director of community and government relations. Pagliaro is based in the Wethersfield office of Hartford Healthcare at Home. In this new position, Pagliaro oversees numerous community programs, including Meals on Wheels, Nurturing Families Network, influenza and wellness clinics, and the fund division, and serves as a liaison for government affairs. Gaylord Specialty Healthcare names director of neurobehavioral medicine Wallingford-based Gaylord Specialty Healthcare recently announced the appointment of Dr. Joseph Trettel as the new director of neurobehavioral medicine. In his role at Gaylord, Trettel will assess and treat cognitive, behavioral and emotional problems. Most recently, Trettel completed a two-year clinical fellowship in behavioral neurology and neuropsychia- try at the Center for Brain/Mind Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in conjunction with Harvard Medical School. Glastonbury digital software and marketing firm adds staffers Glastonbury's Solidify recently announced the addition of two new staff members: Abigail Googel as interactive project manager and Eddie Hollen- beck as interactive art director. Googel was previously a Web content editor at The Loomis Chaffee School. Hollenbeck came to Solidify from iDevices in Avon and has close to 15 years of design experience. Mark D. Illingsworth Annalisa Zinn David Cantor Katharine Ortiz Karen A. Pagliaro Subscribe online: www.HartfordBusiness.com/hbjdelivers or call: 845-267-3008 Delivering Business. When you need information to grow your business, we deliver! Subscribe today to receive weekly issues in print and digital, plus special publications and full online access! 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 31, 2014 Volume 22, number 19 $3.00 subscribe online June 5, 2014 Only 10 weeks until C T B E x p o . c o m Index ■ Reporter's Notebook: PG. 5 ■ Week in Review: PG. 6 ■ The List: PG. 10 ■ Deal Watch: PG. 11 ■ Nonprofit Notebook: PG. 19 ■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 20 Faces oF Business Main Street Mainstay Manchester's Bray Jewelers has survived for almost 100 years. Read about the family business' secrets to success and what makes customers keep coming back. PG. 3 Focus: economic DeveloPment Social Entrepreneurship Hartford business accelerator aims to nurture socially conscious businesses. PG. 8 Music copyright lawsuits cost restaurants unexpected thousands By Matt Pilon mpilon@HartfordBusiness.com A few years ago, nine songs were played inside Shelton's Vazzy's Cucina restaurant that ended up costing owners John Vazzano and Vincent L. Noce $18,000. That's because an agent of licensing giant Broadcast Music Inc., which represents the artists who owned the tracks, attested to being present when the tunes were played and sued Vazzano and Noce for copyright infringement, claiming the restaurant's music qualified as a public per- formance. Under federal copyright law, that meant the restaurant had to pay for the rights to play the songs, BMI said. Vazzano said he thinks a private party actually played the tunes. Broadcast Music Inc. • Founded in 1939 • Represents more than 600,000 songwriters and publishers with more than 8.5 million songs. • Distributed 85 cents of every dollar in licensing revenue in royalties — that amounted to $814 million in fiscal 2013. By Gregory Seay gseay@HartfordBusiness.com B y late May, the Corporation For Independent Living (CIL) expects to have in its hands title to the derelict Capewell Horse- nails factory in Hartford's South End in a bid to convert the idle eyesore into 72 apartments and an adjacent parcel into 24 affordable townhomes. If it does, it will open another fruit- ful chapter for a South End nonprofit that has leveraged — and exported — its talent as a group-home developer to shelter a diverse swath of central Connecticut's population. It, too, will be one of the final swan songs before the yearend retirement of its first and only chief executive. Since its launch in 1979 to finance, build, lease out — then ultimately give away — supportive shelter for thou- sands of the state's physically and mentally disabled, CIL has invested $458 million to construct or convert 2,205 dwelling units into shelter for 7,200 residents in Connecticut and Massachusetts. For at least a dozen years, CIL has applied that same skill set to its expand- ing for-profit realty development opera- tions that include Capewell, and a neigh- boring nonprofit-office-space cluster. In February, CIL announced it bought and will resume work on the $3.34 mil- lion Depot Crossing mixed-use project John Vazzano, owner of Vazzy's Cucina in Shelton, was upset when his restaurant had to pay $18,000 to settle a music copyright lawsuit. P h O t O | P a b l O R O b l e s Continued on page 16 Continued on page 15 Martin "Marty'' Legault, president and CEO, Corporation For Independent Living (CIL) With Legault, developer CIL soars as landlord Sued for a ong

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