AdvanceCT, an organization aimed at promoting Connecticut to businesses, has named new co-chairs of its board of directors.
On Monday, AdvanceCT announced that Adam Norwitt, CEO of Amphenol Corp., and Judy Olian, president of Quinnipiac University, will lead AdvanceCT’s board.
Norwitt has served as CEO of Amphenol, a Fortune 500 company based in Wallingford that produces electronic and fiber optic connectors, since 2009.
Olian, who has a Ph.D. in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, became the ninth president of Quinnipiac University in 2018.
Both served on AdvanceCT’s board for several years.
They will succeed current co-chairs Margaret Keane, former CEO of Synchrony, and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown Professor in Management Practice at the Yale School of Management. Keane and Sonnenfeld will continue to serve as board members.
In addition, Louis Lu, senior vice president at ASML in Wilton, will join AdvanceCT’s board.
AdvanceCT is a New Haven-based nonprofit that works to engage, retain and recruit businesses in collaboration with the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
