William W. Ginsberg, president and chief executive officer of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, will be honored with an associate degree from Gateway Community College (GCC) at the school’s May 23 commencement ceremony at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport.
Ginsberg has headed the Community Foundation since 2000. He serves on the boards of organizations including New Haven Promise, Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Connecticut Council on Education Reform, and the John B. Pierce Laboratory and Foundation.
Ginsberg served in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 2000. He was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate in 1994 as assistant secretary for economic development in the U.S. Department of Commerce, serving from 1995-96 as chief of staff to the late Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown. The former development administrator under Mayor Biagio DiLieto from 1984 to 1988, he was responsible for all development-related activities of New Haven’s municipal government. Ginsberg was also president of the Science Park Development Corp. from 1988 to 1994.
A 1976 graduate of Trinity College, Ginsberg earned a law degree in 1980 from Columbia Law School.
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Gateway Terminal in New Haven has named longtime employees Mark Augur and Bob Ober co-chief operating officers. The company, Connecticut’s largest port terminal operator, was recently acquired by Enstucture, a Wellesley, Mass.-based bulk terminals and logistics company. The new partnership has expanded Gateway’s footprint to eastern Connecticut after the Connecticut Port Authority awarded the company the contract to operate the New London State Pier, effective May 1. Founded in 1985, Gateway currently operates five terminals on 75 acres in and around the port of New Haven.
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Dana R. Bucin, partner and chair of the immigration group at Murtha Cullina LLP, has been named “Attorney of the Year” by the Connecticut Law Tribune. The award was presented at the publication’s Connecticut Legal Awards event May 16 in Hartford. Bucin represents clients in employment-based and family-based immigration matters. As an immigration attorney with a business/ corporate legal background, Bucin’s experience includes counseling foreign investors and entrepreneurs on setting up businesses in the U.S. or investing in existing U.S. ventures and obtaining a visa or green card. In 2018 Bucin was appointed to serve as the Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut.
