Middletown banker Chandler Howard and Farmington manufacturing executive Jerry Burris are among 13 executives elected to four-year terms on the board of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association.
The state’s largest business lobby with 10,000 member companies, CBIA says it relies on its board to approve the Hartford organization’s plans, policies, and strategies to make Connecticut more competitive.
In addition to Howard, president and CEO of Liberty Bank, and Burris, president of Barnes Group Inc. Precision Components, the 2009 board includes:
• John E. Adamou, head, U.S. business development and licensing transactions, Boehringer Ingelheim Corp., Ridgefield
• Joel S. Becker, chairman and CEO, Torrington Supply Co. Inc., Waterbury
• Amelia Caporale, managing partner, Ernst & Young LLP, Hartford
• Eileen Hasson, president, The Computer Co., Cromwell
• Michael S. Marcinek, managing principal and chief financial officer, Fletcher-Thompson Inc., Shelton
• Richard T. Mason, president, retirement services corporate markets, ING, Windsor
• Vicki A. O’Meara, executive vice president and chief legal and compliance officer, Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford
• David A. Rothberg, chairman and CEO, Laticrete International Inc., Bethany
• Joseph S. Schechter, president, Americas Outsourcing Group, CSC, New York
• Robert S. Sobolewski, president & CEO, ebm-papst, Inc., Farmington
• Andrew E. Uhl, vice president, medical nonwovens, Ahlstrom Nonwovens LLC, Windsor Locks
