Larry Brown of Horton International has been elected president of The Hartford Club. This will be Brown’s third non-consecutive term as the club’s leader.
Other officers elected at the downtown Hartford club include Brien Beakey, Heath Consultants Group, first vice-president ; Karen Reich, The Hartford, second vice president; Scott Trenholm, Grant Thornton, treasurer; Jim Heffernan, Travelers, secretary, and Margaret Lawson, assistant secretary.
Elected to three-year terms as directors are Michael O’Connell, O’Connell, Attmore & Morris; Richard Boccaccio, Brokerage Risk Management; Diane Wright, Pullman & Comley; Pat Sheehan, Stifel, Nicolaus & Co.; Gary Dunn, Spiritus Wines.
Mark A. Caplan of KPMG is the outgoing president.
DECD cited for Tronox role
The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development has been honored for its economic development efforts by the Site Selectors Guild, a professional association of site selection consultants.Â
The organization presented DECD with an Excellence in Economic Development Award for its work with Tronox Inc., a chemical company that announced last June it was locating its world headquarters in Stamford.
The project will result in a $10 million capital investment and up to 100 jobs within three years. DECD is supporting the project with a $3 million loan.
McCarter & English honored
McCarter & English was named the Law Firm Volunteer of the Year by the Pro Bono Partnership after 40 of the firm’s lawyers volunteered through the Partnership over the past two years, undertaking 44 matters for 28 different nonprofit organizations.
Each year more than 150 corporations and law firms and as many as 900 individual attorneys respond to the Pro Bono Partnership’s call to provide free legal assistance to its clients — nonprofit organizations serving the poor or providing other important social and community services in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
McCarter’s projects through the Partnership included providing a broad range of employment advice to Bethsaida Community in Hartford. That work was previously honored as the Partnership’s 2011 Nonprofit Project of the Year.
McCarter also helped establish a regional, centrally-located, multi-agency shared space for the Connecticut Association of Nonprofits where many non-profits could locate — a project done in partnership with attorneys from Pratt & Whitney.
GoECart honored for service
Bridgeport e-commerce provider GoECart won a gold prize as the ‘Customer Service Department of the Year’ in the seventh annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service competition.
The award was in the computer software category for companies with up to 100 employees and recognizes the achievements of call center, customer service, and sales professionals worldwide.
Last October, Hurricane Sandy put the GoECart customer service team to the ultimate test. GoECart’s Bridgeport headquarters had to be evacuated for four business days with no power but all client-facing software systems maintained 99.9 percent uptime and no support case service level agreement was violated.
