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OCTOBER 2, 2017 • HARTFORD BUSINESS JOURNAL | 57 When Kelly retired last March after a dozen years as president of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, she left behind quite a legacy. On her watch, assets in the 90-year-old foundation reached a record high of $934 million while HFPG set grantmaking records and expanded its outreach to minority communities. Kelly focused the Foundation's efforts on education, workforce development and nonprofit capacity building. Kelly, a graduate of UConn's School of Law, came to the nonprofit sector after work in banking and government. She was senior vice president and general counsel of Shawmut Bank Connecticut and assistant secretary and regulatory counsel of its corporate holding company, Shawmut National Corp., before serving as the state's deputy commissioner of banking. She also served as a commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control. Kelly has been a director of both the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy and MetroHartford Alliance. She also has chaired the Connecticut Community Foundation CEO Network. Kelly, founder and senior principal of the powerful Updike, Kelly & Spellacy law firm, likes a big stage, even a global stage. In the political arena, he's headed the national fundraising efforts of the Democratic party and been an advisor to Bill Clinton and Al Gore. He is a founder and former chairman of the Center for Democracy and for more than 30 years led the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, a role that has seen him consult on elections in 135 countries around the world. He also points with pride to the Prime Policy Group, the first bipartisan public affairs firm in Washington, which started life as Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healy. Closer to home, he is passionate about bringing health care to the underserved communities and his vehicle is the Malta House of Care Foundation. Kelly and Jean-Pierre van Rooy came up with the idea of a mobile care clinic to serve Hartford in 2006. The concept has spread to more than 40 cities. In 2012, Kelly received HBJ's Lifetime Achievement Award. Lazowski, Hartford's parking king, is the definition of a self-made man. As a student at UConn, the son of a rabbi saw an opportunity in parking cars at the old Frank's restaurant downtown. That was 1981. Soon, he had dozens of employees and was parking cars for four sites, including the Hilton. Now, 36 years later, Lazowski is the founder, chairman and CEO of LAZ Parking, a $1-billion-plus parking management company with more than 10,000 employees managing 2,600 locations in 338 cities across 28 states. The sites range from Bradley Airport to the streets of Chicago and events like the Oscars. The company has 13 regional offices but still calls Hartford home. Through the LAZ Parking Charitable Foundation, he has been a tireless fundraiser for local causes. President Obama named him to the Holocaust Museum Council. Lazowski serves as chairman of the National Parking Association. HBJ gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. For a dozen years, Lundgren was CEO of Stanley Black & Decker (2004-2016) and held the additional title of president from 2010-2013. Under his leadership, the New Britain toolmaker The Stanley Works spread its wings, merged in 2010 with Black & Decker and emerged as a multibillion-dollar global player in tools, storage, security and industrial equipment. Average revenue growth was 12 percent annually and the company put shareholder returns at more than 300 percent, the company reported. It wasn't bad for Lundgren either. In 2015, CNN listed his $32.6 million total compensation as No. 5 in the nation. Lundgren came to New Britain in 2004 from Georgia Pacific, where he had spent 25 years, culminating as president of European consumer products. He has served as a trustee of the Connecticut Science Center and a national trustee of The First Tee. His wife, Tamara, is CEO of Schnitzer Steel. In 2016, Lundgren received HBJ's Lifetime Achievement Award. For more than 50 years, McHugh has been shaping education in Connecticut — first in a 20- year career as a teacher and the first football coach at Xavier High School, then as a member of the board overseeing the State University System and finally as chairman of the UConn board of trustees. He's had a hand in a string of major developments that have reshaped UConn: Bioscience CT and the Jackson Lab partnership, NextGen CT, the hiring of Susan Herbst as the first female president and the move to a downtown Hartford campus. And he did it all while maintaining his day job as president of the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce, one of the largest membership organizations in the state. At the end of June, McHugh announced that he would be stepping down from the UConn board. In 2014, Xavier named its new football field after McHugh. Peter Kelly John Lundgren Linda Kelly Alan Lazowski Larry McHugh 25 Newsmakers