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38 Hartford Business Journal • December 7, 2015 www.HartfordBusiness.com OF NOTE HARTFORD HEALTHCARE EXECS RECEIVE NATIONAL RECOGNITION Two Hartford Healthcare executives were recently recognized by leading industry publications. Elliot Joseph, Hartford Healthcare's pres- ident and CEO, has been named by Becker's Hospital Review as one of its "130 Nonprofit Hospital and Health System CEOs to Know." Joseph was recognized for his continued focus on creating and sustaining organizational cultures that reward innovation, accountability and engagement in ser- vice to patients and families in need. Meantime, Hartford Healthcare's Chief Investment Officer David Holmgren has been named healthcare CIO of the Year by one of the world's leading business publishers, Institutional Investor, and the Investor Intelligence Network. Over the past five years, in difficult financial times, Holmgren has main- tained a strong investment strategy that is the backbone of the orga- nization's financial health. • • • MARLBOROUGH CPA RECEIVES 2015 SUSTAINED CONTRIBUTION AWARD Edward Bader, partner at Bader & Associates in Marlborough, recently received the American Institute of CPAs' (AICPA) 2015 Sustained Contribution Award. The award recognizes members of the Institute who have contributed measurably to the AICPA and the CPA profes- sion through their volunteer service. Bader has served on an Institute volunteer group for 20 or more years and has served at least once as a chair of an AICPA committee, task force or resource panel. • • • USI CONSULTING GROUP RECEIVES BEHAVIORAL FINANCE INNOVATOR AWARD Glastonbury-based USI Consulting Group has received the Behavioral Finance Innovator Award from the Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance. Shlomo Benzarti, of UCLA's Anderson School of Management, present- ed the award at a dinner hosted in Newport Beach, Calif. USI was rec- ognized for incorporating behavioral finance concepts into client meet- ings, which has helped clients make changes to their plan designs. USI Consulting Group is one of the nation's largest retirement and benefit consulting and administration firms. • • • INSURITY'S DATA INTEGRATION PROGRAM WINS INSURANCE INNOVATION CHALLENGE Hartford software/data analytics firm Insurity was recently recognized with a data management award by Insurance Networking News, in partnership with analyst firm Celent. Insurity won the Vanguard in Insurance Practice award in the "data management" category for its Insurance Enterprise View software, which supports more than 11,000 insurance data attributes and more than 30 lines of business by providing detailed transaction and full reporting and business intelligence to insurance companies. Please Note: All electronic submissions for Accolades should be sent to accolades@HartfordBusiness.com. For more information about the Hartford Business Journal's Accolades Page, please visit www.HartfordBusiness.com. ▶ ▶ Glastonbury-based GoodWorks Insurance recently gave a $10,000 grant to Community Health Programs (CHP), which provides medical and dental services to all, regardless of insurance status or residence. Additionally, CHP's family support services offer a safe, welcoming environment for all families with children under six and parents who are expecting. GoodWorks's grant will go directly to helping provide critical services to patients. Pictured (from left) are: Bryan Ayars, CEO, CHP; Edward Ryan, senior vice president, GoodWorks Insurance; Michelle Derr, CHP director of family services; and Jenn Wilkinson, CHP director of performance improvement and compliance. ▶ ▶ The employees of Voya Financial Inc. recently chose Grace Academy as the recipient of $25,000 through the company's crowdfunding program. Grace Academy is an accredited, tuition-free middle school for low-income girls from Hartford. Voya's employees were attracted to the school's culture, which emphasizes a holistic academic program that includes extended days and weeks as well as mandatory four-week summer school. (Pictured left) Jennifer Centrone, Voya senior vice president and head of HR Retirement and Annuities, presented the $25,000 check to the students of the school's Maya Angelou 5th grade class. SUSAN G. KOMEN CT HONORS PINK TIE GUYS IN HARTFORD GOODWORKS INSURANCE DONATES TO COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS VOYA EMPLOYEES CHOOSE GRACE ACADEMY AS CROWDFUNDING RECIPIENT ▶ ▶ The Susan G. Komen Connecticut breast cancer foundation recently honored 23 local men as the 2015 class of Pink Tie Guys. Pink Tie Guys are an exclusive group of local men committed to the fight against breast cancer in Connecticut. Honorees included Hartford Hospital's Dr. Andrew L. Salner, selected as Honorary Pink Tie Guy, and WFSB's Mark Zinni and Senior Vice President and General Manager Klarn DePalma. Sen. Steve Cassano, Rep. Prasad Srinivasan and Interim Susan G. Komen CEO Lori van Dam joined the honorees for the class picture as well as Richard Campbell and Dr. Mark Melendez, members of the Komen Connecticut board of directors. ACCOLADES & MORE Elliot Joseph David Holmgren