Hartford Business Journal

www.HartfordBusiness.com • May 14, 2018 • Hartford Business Journal 19 The Travelers Cos. Inc. invested more than $22 million in community support throughout 2017. Funds were distributed to programs and organizations that focus on improving academic and career success for underrepresented students, creating and maintaining thriving neighborhoods and enriching lives through arts and culture. The Connecticut Main Street Center received a $12,500 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain to further transit- oriented development planning in Kensington. The grant is among more than $250,000 in grants announced by the Community Foundation for 2018. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $26,329 to Goodwin College as part of an announced $18.6 million in grants for 199 humanities projects across the country. The Goodwin College grant will be used to integrate humanities content into the college's career- focused programs in business, manufacturing, homeland security and criminal justice. Reynolds' Subaru of Lyme recently donated $30,000 to Middlesex Hospital Cancer Center's new Westbrook location. The donation will help ensure that cancer patients have access to the best possible treatments and care team. Middletown-based Community Health Center said it's opened a Denver, Colo., office for its Weitzman Institute, which is CHC's first physical location outside Connecticut. CHC, a not-for-profit organization, said the Denver office will better connect institute staff to its customers and programs in 37 states. Weitzman's new Denver office will be overseen by Matt Vinikas, who is chief operating officer of Community eConsult Network, which helps primary care providers receive electronic consultations from specialists for underserved patients and is among Weitzman's myriad programs. Nonprofit Notebook NONPROFIT PROFILE Connstep Inc. 1090 Elm St., Suite 202, Rocky Hill | connstep.org Mission: To help Connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques. Top Executive: Bonnie Del Conte, President Services: Business consulting. FY 2017 SUMMARY 2016 2017 Total Employees 31 34 Total Assets $3,524,897 $3,775,264 Total Liabilities $1,139,049 $1,180,446 REVENUES Contributions & Grants $2,959,167 $2,952,494 Program Service Revenue $1,817,528 $2,052,536 Investment Income $2,729 $2,569 Other $0 $0 Total $4,779,424 $5,007,599 EXPENSES Grants $0 $0 Member Benefits $0 $0 Salaries/Employee Benefits $2,981,984 $3,248,372 Fundraising Fees $0 $0 Other $1,377,505 $1,550,257 Total $4,359,489 $4,798,629 Margin $419,935 $208,970 TOP PAID EXECUTIVES (FY 2017) Base salary Comp. & Benef. Bonnie Del Conte, President $218,787 $255,915 Mark Paggiolli, Director Sales & Marketing $134,583 $150,815 Martin Karbassioon, Field Engineer $121,826 $135,688 Source: Guidestar IRS 990 Tax Form Movers & Shakers Darlene Smith has been appointed vice president and general manager of Kaman Aerosystems' Air Vehicles and MRO division. Smith will lead Kaman's aircraft original equipment manufacturing operations, including sales, production and support of the K-MAX helicopter and support for the worldwide fleet of SH-2G Super Seasprite naval helicopters. Smith has more than 35 years of experience in the aerospace industry, including more than 20 years with Pratt & Whitney, where she held a number of increasingly responsible positions. She joined Kaman in 2001 and most recently served as Kaman's vice president-supply chain and enterprise performance. Stephen Dow has been promoted to senior vice president, director of Small Business Administration and specialty banking at Webster Bank. Dow joined Webster in 2013 in the corporate strategy group. Most recently he was Webster's head of corporate strategy and was responsible for leading the annual long-range planning process and advising senior management to develop economic profit-maximizing strategies. William Tourtillotte recently became operations manager of East Granby- based Newgate Instruments LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Joining Industries. Tourtillotte oversees daily operations for the company, which designs and manufactures devices for remote pipeline monitoring in the energy industry. Tourtillotte joined Newgate Instruments in 2016 as an electrical engineer and was promoted to product development engineer in 2017. David F. Hurley, a licensed environmental professional, recently joined Cheshire-based consulting firm Milone & MacBroom Inc. as director of brownfield redevelopment. Hurley will use his 30-plus years of environmental project experience to assist private developers, state and regional agencies, and municipal clients in the redevelopment of abandoned and underutilized properties. Timothy A. Ryor has been hired as senior vice president and practice leader of defined benefits-actuarial services for USI Consulting Group in Glastonbury. Ryor will be responsible for working with the firm's actuaries and staff to provide professional advice, analysis and administrative services for clients' retirement and post-retirement medical programs. With nearly 30 years of experience, Ryor has provided actuarial consulting and plan design advice to national and international corporations, not-for-profit organizations and governmental plan sponsors. Linda Hicke has joined the The Jackson Laboratory as vice president for education. Hicke will lead JAX's educational mission to advance genetic and genomic literacy for internal and external audiences. She will oversee JAX's graduate and post-graduate education and training, high school and undergraduate student and teacher programs, and online and distance-learning platforms. Jeffrey Sargent has been appointed chief compliance officer of Northstar Wealth Partners (NSWP), a financial and wealth management firm headquartered in West Hartford. Sargent joins the firm with more than 18 years of compliance supervisory experience and more than 25 years in the financial services industry overall. Sargent most recently served as chief compliance and administrative officer for Westport Resources Management & Investment Services. Dana Neves has been promoted to vice president and general manager at WFSB-TV, Channel 3, Meredith Corp.'s CBS affiliate serving Hartford/ New Haven. She will report to Patrick McCreery, Meredith local media group executive vice president. Neves is a Channel 3 veteran. She began her career as an intern in 1995 and worked her way up, eventually becoming news director in 2006. Neves replaces Klarn DePalma, who was recently promoted to executive vice president of MNI Targeted Media Inc. in Stamford. Lindsay Silcox has been hired as a project engineer for the wastewater department at Manchester-based Fuss & O'Neill, effective in May, when she earns her degree in civil engineering from Central Connecticut State University. Darlene Smith Stephen Dow Linda Hicke Dana Neves Jeffrey Sargent David F. Hurley

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