Hartford Business Journal

16 Hartford Business Journal • July 4, 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com NONPROFIT NOTEBOOK NONPROFIT PROFILE Connstep Inc. 1090 Elm St., Rocky Hill | www.connstep.org MISSION To help CT manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques. TOP EXECUTIVE SERVICES Bonnie Del Conte, President Manufacturing consulting. FY 2015 SUMMARY 2014 2015 Total Employees 27 31 Total Assets $3,063,038 $3,114,878 Total Liabilities $1,348,325 $1,148,965 REVENUES Contributions & Grants $2,069,371 $2,760,973 Program Service Revenue $1,732,500 $1,518,564 Investment Income $3,338 $2,928 Other $0 $0 TOTAL $3,805,209 $4,282,465 EXPENSES Grants $0 $0 Member Benefits $0 $0 Salaries/Employee Benefits $2,496,430 $2,778,386 Fundraising Fees $0 $0 Other $1,253,401 $1,252,879 TOTAL $3,749,831 $4,031,265 MARGIN $55,378 $251,200 TOP PAID EXECUTIVES (FY 2015) Base Salary Total Compensation & Benefits Bonnie Del Conte, President $190,572 $226,635 Matin Karbassioon, Business Growth Consultant $113,056 $127,351 William Caplan, Business Growth Consultant $112,301 $125,333 S O U R C E : G U I D E S T A R I R S 9 9 0 T A X F O R M Cronin and Co. promotes five Glastonbury marketing communications agency Cronin and Co. LLC has promoted five employees: Adrianna Bigard, Kristen Ganci, Tracy Klimkoski, Elise Prairie and Nicole Stavola. Bigard has been promoted from assistant account executive to account executive on the agency's public relations team. She joined Cronin in 2013. Ganci has been promoted from junior interactive art director to interactive art director on the creative team. She joined the agency in 2014. Klimkoski moves from associate media director to director, media and analytics on the media and analytics team. She joined in 2003. Prairie goes from assistant account executive to account executive on the account service team. She joined in 2014. Stavola advances from interactive project man- ager to senior interactive project manager on the interactive team. She joined in 2014. Savings Institute Bank & Trust promotes director of retail lending Willimantic-based Savings Institute Bank & Trust recently announced that Gene Michael Deary, di- rector of retail lending, has been promoted to senior vice president. Deary joined the bank in 2014 and has been in- strumental in growing the consumer and residential lending portfolio, and expanding the bank's prod- ucts to meet customers' needs. Hygrade Precision Technologies adds six to team Plainville's Hygrade Precision Technologies, a con- tract manufacturer specializing in aerospace, medi- cal and automotive components, has hired Jason Rousseau, Brandi Taylor, Randy Cochran, Ken Zakrewski, Gary Gallagher and Thomas Bieluch. Rousseau is a process engineer responsible for designing and assisting with manufacturing process and quality controls for current and new projects. Taylor is production control coordinator who will facilitate contract review, order processing and scheduling for flat lapping and grinding operations. Cochran, Zakrewski and Gallagher are machinists responsible for product manufacturing and meeting quality and on-time delivery expectations. Bieluch is a third-year intern with responsibilities in manufacturing, engineering, production control, quality, sales and marketing, and finance. VantagePoint appoints information-security specialist Hamden-based VantagePoint Healthcare Advisors, which provides consulting services to financial and legal advisers, physician practices and healthcare organizations, has named Brian Hadley as director of network and information security to increase its capability in the area of HIPAA compliance services. He will assist healthcare industry clients with risk analysis and security assessments, focusing on the information systems they use to create, receive, store and transmit protected health information. Hadley has managed clients' implementation of HIPAA security policies and procedures since 2009 at VantagePoint. USI Consulting Group names VP and actuary Glastonbury-based USI Consulting Group said David Woodmansee Jr., has joined the company as vice president and actuary in the defined-benefit practice. Woodmansee has almost 30 years of experi- ence in the actuarial and defined-benefits field. He has experience in all aspects of pension consult- ing, including cash-balance transition, early retire- ment windows, creation of non-qualified plans and assisting in developing liability-driven investing strategies. Prior to joining USI Consulting Group, Woodmansee was an enrolled actuary at a major insurance company for 16 years. Motorlease promotes longtime employee to VP Farmington-based Motorlease Corp., which provides outsourced fleet management to small and mid-sized fleets, has promoted Bradford Lutz to vice president. Lutz began his career with Motorlease, and has been responsible for the design and development of its leas- ing software program for the past 30 years. He has served on Motorlease's board of direc- tors since 2000 and was president of Wavecrest Technology, a Motorlease affiliate, from 2000 until 2015. As vice president, Lutz will continue to over- see technology, but also will be responsible for cus- tomer support. MOVERS & SHAKERS Adrianna Bigard Nicole Stavola Randy Cochran Tracy Klimkoski Jason Rousseau Gary Gallagher Kristen Ganci Gene Michael Deary Ken Zakrewski Elise Prairie Brandi Taylor Thomas Bieluch The Bank of America Charitable Foun- dation has donated $7,500 to Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters, a Hartford-based youth mentoring organization. The donation is designated for mentoring programs for Hartford youth. Pictured (from left) are: Constantine Andrews, senior vice president, Bank of America; Andy Fleischmann, president and CEO of Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters. In addition, Bank of America announced $465,000 in grants to be distributed to nonprofits throughout Connecticut. About $255,000 will be given to 25 nonprofits work- ing to increase educational and workforce development opportunities in the Greater Hartford area. • • • The city of Hartford has drawn an extra $2.2 million in donations, plus sever- al million more in state and federal grants – $5.5 million altogether – to initially hire 200 underserved city youths to perform North End cleanup and beautification assign- ments, the mayor says. "The single most powerful tool for build- ing a better future for Hartford is to help give Hartford's young people opportunities for meaningful employment," Mayor Luke Bronin said recently. He announced $2.2 million given by various philanthropic groups, plus $1 mil- lion from the state Department of Housing's Urban Revitalization Pilot program to oper- ate the Hartford Youth Service Corps. That's on top of a $2 million youth- employment grant the city previously secured through the federal Department of Labor, said Bronin, who broached the idea for the corps during his mayoral campaign. Set to launch in July, the corps will provide Hartford's opportunity youth — defined as out-of-school, out-of-work youth ages 16 to 24 — with the chance to earn a paycheck while strengthening neighborhoods. Bronin said he aims to expand the num- ber to 500 in 2017. Youth Service Corps members, in col- laboration with Rebuilding Together Hart- ford, will renovate between 10 and 20 prop- erties within a designated neighborhood of the North Hartford Promise Zone, the mayor said. Five organizations, he said, donated most of the corps' funding of funding to the program: The Hartford; Barbara Dalio and the Dalio Foundation; Aetna Foun- dation; Travelers Foundation; and New- man's Own Foundation. P H O T O | C O N T R I B U T E D

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