Worcester Business Journal

18 Worcester Business Journal | June 12, 2017 | wbjournal.com IAN CATLOW was promoted to vice president at Tighe & Bond. Based out of the firm's Worcester office, Catlow has 20 years of experience in water and waste- water design, and has worked on projects across New England, including combined sewer sep- aration work in Boston, and water reuse systems at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. A licensed engineer in Massachusetts and Connecticut, Catlow is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in environ- mental engineering. He lives in Princeton. JENNIFER RAMIREZ has joined the Garvin Center for Geriatric Psychiatry at Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer as nurse manager. She has more than 10 years of experience in geriatric nursing and transitional care settings. She joins NVMC from Westford House in Westford, where she oversaw operations for 41 beds, including both traditional and long- term care. She is a graduate of Rivier University in Nashua, N.H. and is working towards a master's degree for family nurse practitioner and leadership. HAROLD "RAY" CHESSON III, VINCENT LUCCHESI, and TRACY OPALINSKI were elected to the board of trustees at North Brookfield Savings Bank. Chesson is the president of Gavitt Wire & Cable Co. in West Brookfield, where he has worked since he graduated from Clark University. He started as production coordinator and advanced to operations manager before becoming president. He lives in East Brookfield. Lucchesi is CEO and owner of Graphite Insulating Systems in Gardner, a position he has held since 1999. Before that, he was operations manager for Norton Co. – now Saint-Gobain – for nearly 20 years. He is a graduate of Alfred University in New York and a resident of Oakham. Opalinski, a Ware resident, was recently elected to her town's board of selectmen. She holds various titles and positions in her community, including trustee of the Edward & Barbara Urban Foundation, vice president of the Ware Business & Civic Association and member of the Ware Community Development Authority. CHRISTINA DiRUSSO, DONNA DAIGLE, MARC OSTBERG and SUSAN RHEAULT were all promoted to assistant vice presi- dent at bankHometown in Oxford. DiRusso, a Leominster resident, was pro- moted to assistant vice president, com- mercial lending. She has been with the bank since 2014 and works out of the Leominster branch, covering the North Central market as a commercial lender. She is a committee member of the North Quabbin Loan Fund and North County Community Development Corp, and an active member of BNI Group in Leominster. Daigle, a resident of Lunenberg, is now assistant vice presi- dent, branch manager of the Leominster office. A 20-year veteran of the banking industry, she started at the bank in 2014 as a branch manager in Leominster. Ostberg, who has been with the bank since 2013, was promoted to assistant vice president, branch manager of the Athol office. He is a board member of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce and of the Economic Development & Industrial Committee in Orange, where he lives. Rheault, who has worked for the bank for about nine years, was promoted to assistant vice president, operation. She started as a teller before moving to bookkeeping in 2009 and operations in 2013. She became opera- tions supervisor in 2015, and oversees deposit operations for all 13 branches. She lives in Putnam, Conn. ANA SUJATA MADARIYA joined Reliant Medical Group's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and will see patients in Worcester and Webster. She received her medical degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina and stayed in Buenos Aires for her intern- ship at Hospital de Clinicas Jose de San O N T H E M OV E M o v e r s & S h a k e r s | A c c o l a d e s & H o n o r s | F r e s h B e g i n n i n g s | C h a r i t a b l e W o r k s M O V E R S & S H A K E R S CHESSON OPALINSKI LUCCHESI DiRUSSO OSTBERG DAIGLE RHEAULT MADARIYA CATLOW Martin. She then completed a residency at Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. DAN COBB, a Worcester resident, is now advanced technology/life sciences man- ager at Erland Construction in Burlington. He has more than 10 years of experience in construction, mostly focused on build- ing and renovating cleanroom facilities and specialized lab environments, as well as installing tools and other sensitive equipment in occupied production suites. He is a graduate of Fitchburg State University. A C C O L A D E S & H O N O R S Wegmans Food Markets, with a store in Northborough and one coming to Natick next year, was recognized as a Safer Choice Retailer by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the third year in a row. It means the store has committed to offer cleaning products meeting certain human and environmen- tal health criteria NorthStar Construction Services Corp. F R E S H B E G I N N I N G S The new Homewood Suites by Hilton Worcester at 1 Washington Square is accepting reservations for June 25 and beyond. The newly constructed, six-story, 118-room hotel features a swimming pool, hot tub and fitness center. The hotel is expected to employ 35 full- and part-time workers and should generate more than $350,000 in property taxes and local hotel tax revenues. Westborough-based public accounting firm AAFCPAs of Westborough has joined accounting firm association PrimeGlobal. The move will coordinate resources from the association's roughly 300 independent member firms, broadening the reach of AAFCPAs' clients. W of Shirley was named a Platinum Safety, Training, and Evaluation Process (S.T.E.P.) award recipient by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Massachusetts. The award is given each year to a company continuing to raise its standards of safety, training and education. C H A R I T A B L E W O R K S W W The Communicators Club of Worcester presented a $1,000 Elaine Cencak Memorial Scholarship to Isabella Sansone, a Nichols College student who will be a senior in the fall. She is majoring in business administration with concentra- tions in marketing and psychology. Shrewsbury-based Central One Federal Credit Union is donating a $750,000 naming sponsorship gift toward the Shrewsbury High School synthetic turf field project. It is the largest gift in the school's history. The improved field will benefit local youth sports programs. Electric provider Unitil awarded six $5,000 scholarships to New England students in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM), for their first year of college. This year's recipients included Laura Jenny of Lunenburg, a Leominister High School student who will study biological sciences at Harvard University in Cambridge; and Bradford Remse of Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School, who is headed off to study computer sci- ence at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Members of the REALTOR Association of Central Massachusetts in Auburn held a shoe drive for the month of May, in col- laboration with the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Worcester, which runs a shelter in the city for those that don't qualify for state funding. Nearly new foot- wear was dropped off at participating real- ty offices around the region. Hudson-based Avidia Bank donated $1,000 to the Court Appointed Special Advocates Project of Worcester County (CASA). For the third year in a row, employees of D'Ambrosio Eye Care – with five offices in the Central Massachusetts area – have supported Comic Relief Red Nose Day by purchasing and wearing a red nose to eradicate childhood hunger. More than $400 was raised. Pictured are employees with their red noses gather at the Lancaster office. W

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