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54 | HARTFORD BUSINESS JOURNAL • OCTOBER 2, 2017 Dadlez has been on the front lines of the battle for scale, synergy and market share in health care. From his post as president and CEO of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, he was a central figure in the 2015 creation of Trinity Health Of New England. Now president and CEO of the new entity, he leads a group of Connecticut hospitals consisting of St. Francis; Johnson Memorial Medical Center in Stafford Springs; St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury; inpatient Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital in Hartford; an ambulatory and post-acute care network; plus Sisters of Providence Health System/Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Mass. The group is one of 21 regions in the national Trinity Health system. Dadlez called the formation of the nonprofit Trinity Health Of New England "a game-changer" for Connecticut health care. Trinity becomes the second largest Catholic healthcare group in the nation. During his tenure, the hospital opened the Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity, the first of its kind at a hospital. Dadlez announced plans to leave his CEO post at the end of the year. David became president of United Technologies Corp. in 1992, the same year HBJ began publishing. Two years later, he became CEO and in 1997 added the title of board chairman before retiring in 2009. He was working at Otis Elevator in 1976 when UTC bought the company. He told the New York Times years later that he had feared he'd be fired. "I was overtitled, overpaid, and underexperienced," he said. It was one of his few miscalculations. By 1986, David was president of Otis and on his way to bigger things. On his watch, UTC acquired Hamilton Sundstrand, supplied fuel cells to the Apollo space program and dabbled in fuel cell cars with South Korea auto maker Hyundai. He oversaw a series of restructurings and decentralizations that trimmed jobs in Connecticut while improving the bottom line. In 2000, Forbes magazine named him one of America's most powerful people. He also plays hard. As a competitive yachtsman, he set a record in the Newport-to-Bermuda race, a year after being rescued when his yacht capsized in another race. Decko served as president of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association for 26 years and saw the state's economy transition from 1980 to 2006. "When I started at CBIA, Connecticut's economy was the envy of the nation," he wrote in a farewell message to the CBIA's 10,000 members. "We had major defense plants and other large manufacturing facilities. We were the insurance capital of the nation. And we had many Fortune 500 companies, whose CEOs often hailed from our state." Decko began his career as an attorney with the CBIA's predecessor, the Manufacturing Association of Connecticut, which merged with the state Chamber of Commerce. He was an advocate of the state's unpopular income tax that lowered the sales tax rate and cut corporate taxes. A D V O C A C Y W R I T I N G | C O N T E N T D E V E L O P M E N T | M E D I A R E L A T I O N S C R I S I S C O M M U N I C A T I O N S | P R O J E C T M A N A G E M E N T w w w . c t b y t h e n u m b e r s . n e w s info@express-strategies.com | 860.729.3021 w w w . e x p r e s s - s t r a t e g i e s . c o m F o l l o w @ C T n u m b e r s | S u b s c r i b e T o d a y ! E V E R Y N U M B E R T E L L S A S T O R Y N e w s e v e r y w e e k d a y m o r n i n g , p e r s p e C T i v e o n w e e k e n d s . BY THE NUMBERS CONNECTICUT George David Christopher Dadlez Kenneth Decko 25 Newsmakers