Kerry M. Moss
Howard K. Shafer
Paul R. Michaud
Paul Murphy
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AGC Inc. of Meriden announced the appointment of Paul Murphy as senior vice president, sales and marketing. He will be responsible for the original equipment manufacturer and maintenance, repair and operation sales and marketing functions of the company. Murphy joins AGC with more than 30 years of aerospace industry experience.
Prior to joining AGC, Murphy was corporate business development manager at EDAC Technologies; chief executive officer of Senior Aerospace Sterling Machine; president of Stowe Machine, and general manager and partner at Precision Speed Manufacturing. Murphy is the president of the Aerospace Components Manufacturers, an aerospace organization composed of more than 60 Connecticut and southern Massachusetts aerospace manufacturers and support companies.
AGC Inc. is a premier supplier of precision metallic and non-metallic aerospace components serving original equipment manufacturers, as well as aftermarket aircraft segments.
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Paul R. Michaud has joined Murtha Cullina LLP as counsel in the firm’s energy and environmental practice groups. He is a former counsel for the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and has extensive experience in the renewable energy industry. He will focus his efforts on expanding the firm’s renewable energy and energy efficiency practice.
The Robert E. Nolan Co., a management consulting firm specializing in insurance and health care, announced that Dennis Sullivan has been named chairman and CEO. Sullivan holds a masters degree in business from the University of Rhode Island and has been with Nolan for 28 years. He is credited with being instrumental in expanding Nolan’s services to the insurance and health payer industries.
Webster Bank has named Robert Kostraba as its senior vice president, secondary market trading and Barbara Hart as its senior vice president, government banking, based in Hartford. Within Webster’s consumer finance organization, Kostraba now has responsibility for managing all residential loan pricing along with secondary market activities. He also leads the secondary markets group and oversees originations, pricing, and portfolio versus sell strategy and execution for first mortgage products. Kostraba joined Webster in 2001 and served as vice president, secondary market trading manager, before his appointment to senior vice president. In her position, Hart is responsible for the cash management-related activities in the government banking group and acts as liaison to the bank’s cash management group. She is responsible for overall government banking account relationships and provides customized municipal finance packages to a broad range of government clients across Connecticut and the region.
Daniel Dupre has joined TD Bank as a vice president in Glastonbury. As a commercial portfolio manager, he is responsible for managing all aspects of middle market banking relationships, focusing on companies with annual sales of more than $20 million. Dupre has 20 years of experience in lending and financial services. Prior to joining TD Bank, he served as a portfolio manager at Webster Business Credit in Farmington.
Howard K. Shafer of West Hartford has joined the law firm of Robinson & Cole LLP as chief financial officer. Shafer has 20 years of experience in financial management, including 12 in the legal services industry. He was with Day, Pitney, LLP (formerly Day, Berry & Howard LLP), from 2000 to 2005 as chief financial officer and as executive director from 2005 to 2007. He owned a small start-up business from 2007 to 2009.
Kerry M. Moss, MD, of Simsbury, has joined the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and its Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Dr. Moss comes to Connecticut Children’s from the University of Colorado/The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, CO, where she completed her fellowship in hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation. Dr. Moss received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Virginia, and her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. She completed an internal medicine and pediatrics residency with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Comcast has promoted Kristen Roberts to vice president of public relations and community investment for its Western New England region. Comcast employs 2,000 individuals and serves more than 800,000 customers in Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, Vermont and the Carmel, N.Y. area. In this role, Roberts will be responsible for all public relations and community investment initiatives for the region. She will also continue to serve as a company spokesperson and oversee external communications of key business initiatives. Roberts has been senior director of community and public relations.
French MBA Student Now a Bakery Entrepreneur
Alexandra Litor, 32, is more than just a Fresh Face. She’s a fresh French face in West Hartford Center, where she is known for selling fresh croissants and other bakery items at the store she co-owns with her husband, Romeo Litor. The shop — La Petite France — is the second for the duo. The other is in Stafford Springs.
Litor, a native of Paris who discovered Connecticut when she came to the University of Connecticut to earn her MBA, is the brain behind the business while her husband works his wizardry in the kitchen. She enjoys the greenery and slower-paced, less-stressed life she discovered in Connecticut. “It’s horrible how people are over there [Paris]. People are more friendly here, but I miss the shopping,” Litor said.
Alexandra Litor
Kristen Roberts
