Hartford Business Journal

18 Hartford Business Journal • May 15, 2017 www.HartfordBusiness.com NONPROFIT PROFILE Community Foundation of Greater New Britain 74A Vine St., New Britain | www.cfgnb.org MISSION To inspire philanthropy, manage permanent charitable assets, and address key community issues. TOP EXECUTIVE SERVICES James Williamson, President Public charity donations to community groups and organizations. FY 2015 SUMMARY 2014 2015 Total Employees 8 9 Total Assets $44,117,330 $41,562,739 Total Liabilities $526,271 $476,688 REVENUES Contributions & Grants $966,723 $1,126,520 Program Service Revenue $0 $0 Investment Income $3,001,323 $2,825,741 Other $39,628 $42,857 TOTAL $4,007,674 $3,995,118 EXPENSES Grants $1,043,002 $1,487,679 Member Benefits $0 $0 Salaries/Employee Benefits $648,071 $667,461 Fundraising Fees $0 $0 Other $887,772 $894,835 TOTAL $2,578,845 $3,049,975 MARGIN $1,428,829 $945,143 TOP PAID EXECUTIVES (FY 2015) Base Salary Total Compensation & Benefits James Williamson, President $130,500 $149,043 Robert Trojanowski, Vice President & CFO $93,850 $121,635 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 NONPROFIT NOTEBOOK Murtha Cullina expands intellectual property group Law firm Murtha Cullina LLP has added John H. Mutchler as a partner and Elizabeth A. Galletta as counsel in its intellectual property practice group. Mutchler, a professional engineer, has extensive experience with patent prosecution and re-examina- tion proceedings, IP licensing, U.S. government con- tracting, copyright and trademark consulting, as well as litigation relating to patent and trademark infringe- ment in the federal courts. He formerly held execu- tive and senior management positions with Northeast Utilities, ABB and Combustion Engineering. Galletta represents clients in all aspects of intel- lectual property law. Her practice includes counsel- ing on the procurement, maintenance and enforce- ment of intellectual property rights. She also has experience on the procurement of patent rights in the chemical, biological, and mechanical arts. CT Health Foundation appoints new communications director The Connecticut Health Foundation, an indepen- dent health philanthropy group, has hired Arielle Levin Becker as director of communications. Beck- er will be responsible for the foundation's media relations and strategic communications. Becker is an experienced healthcare reporter and policy expert. She joins the foundation from The Connecticut Mirror, a nonprofit news organization covering politics and public policy. Motorlease names account executive Farmington-based Motorlease Corp., which provides outsourced fleet management services for the small to mid-sized fleet leasing market, has hired Brian Doud as an account executive, serving clients in New York and New England. Prior to joining Motorlease, Doud worked for Connecticut-based Greenwich Bank & Trust as assistant vice president of portfolio management. Joining Technologies promotes two managers East Granby-based Joining Technologies Inc. — which specializes in precision fusion processes, including laser and electron beam welding — has promoted Greg Miller to general manager and Alex Wilson to engineering manager. Miller has overall management responsibility for the company's operations, which include delivering laser and electron beam welding, machining and supply chain services to customers. Miller joined the company in 2005 and most recently was opera- tions manager. Wilson is responsible for the company's engineer- ing services, including process development, manu- facturing engineering, and continuous improvement engineering. Wilson joined the company in 2010 and most recently was engineering coordinator. Decker Creative Marketing adds Donaldson Group employees to its team Jaye Donaldson and two other former em- ployees of The Donaldson Group in Simsbury have joined Decker Creative Marketing in Glastonbury as the two firms combine. Donaldson joined Decker as vice president, client development, Corey Hansen joined as senior ac- count executive and Ramona Mansfield joined as digital media developer. Donaldson, Hansen and Mansfield bring experience in branding, website de- velopment and digital marketing to comple- ment Decker's experience in creative, especially broadcast and video, as well as analytics, and project, production and budget management. Webster's Joe Savage to retire Veteran commercial banker Joseph J. (Joe) Savage is retiring June 30 as Webster Financial Inc.'s executive vice chairman. Savage will end a 40-year career, the last 15 spent at Webster, the bank said. He joined the bank in April 2002 as executive vice president, overseeing commercial banking. He was promoted to president in 2014, and named to his current post in Oct. 2015. Prior to joining Webster, Savage was executive vice president of the Communications and Energy bank- ing group for CoBank in Denver from 1996 to 2002. Alera Group expands employee benefits team with new principal in Hartford Alera Group, a national employee benefits, prop- erty/casualty, risk management and wealth man- agement firm, recently appointed Paul Grady as a principal to work with Alera Group firms C.M. Smith Agency in Hartford, CBP in Fairfield and Stamford, and Beacon Retiree Benefits Group in Plantsville. Formerly a partner at Mercer, Grady, who's based in Hartford, joins Alera Group to advise clients on innovative human resource initiatives, focusing on health and welfare benefits strategies. Grady is a co-founder of the Connecticut Business Group on Health and the Connecticut Choosing Wisely Collaborative, which are healthcare advocacy groups. CaroGen adds to board and discovery/ development team CaroGen Corp, a Farmington-based developer of immunotherapies for hepatitis b virus (HBV) as well as other infectious diseases and cancer, announced the addition of board member Jo Viney and three key senior executive level scientists — Stephen Mason, Doug Powell and Dr. Timur Yarovinsky — to its im- munotherapy discovery and development team. Viney, who holds a doctorate in immunology, is an entrepreneurial scientist and biotech executive with experience in autoimmune and inflammatory disease. Previously, she worked at Biogen in Cambridge, Mass., where she was senior vice president, drug discovery and a member of the senior research and development leadership team. Mason, who holds a doctorate in medical genet- ics, joined CaroGen as executive director, virology and leader of the HBV immunotherapy program. Since 2015, he has been a consultant in various capacities for small biotechs and potential startup companies and for almost six years was director of discovery virology at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Powell, who holds a doctorate in genetics, is di- rector of R&D and corporate development. He has more than 20 years of experience in vaccine re- search and biological development at Pfizer, Antigen Express and Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Yarovinsky, who had been CaroGen's immunology group leader and has been promoted to director of im- munology, has more than 16 years of research experi- ence in immunology and microbial pathogenesis. MOVERS & SHAKERS John H. Mutchler Alex Wilson Brian Doud Elizabeth A. Galletta Greg Miller The Farmington Bank Community Foundation recently presented the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation with a $4,000 grant (shown above) to support the organization's partnership program. Fidelco is a Bloomfield nonprofit that promotes increased indepen- dence to individuals who are blind by provid- ing them with German Shepherd Guide Dogs. • • • The Connecticut Children's Office for Community Child Health received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Hart- ford Foundation. The grant will fund a new initiative using the Strengthening Families framework developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy. The Office will train Hartford-based child-health and early childhood providers in the Strengthening Families protective factors approach. • • • UnitedHealthcare employees donated more than $12,000 to Make-A-Wish through its "Stars of Hope" campaign. The funds will help grant wishes for children in Connecticut with life-threatening medical conditions. • • • Community Mental Health Affili- ates was the winner of the first annual Hartford Brackets for Good tournament, a March Madness-style online giving chal- lenge among Hartford nonprofits. Through- out the five-week tournament, CMHA raised more than $46,000 and won the grand prize of $10,000. P H O T O | C O N T R I B U T E D

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