The Greater Meriden Chamber of Commerce has presented Protein Sciences Corp, with the chamber’s annual Large Business Leadership Award.
Protein Sciences, with roots in Meriden dating back almost 30 years, has grown rapidly in the past two years, more than doubling its workforce. In January, the FDA approved its influenza vaccine, Flublok. Meriden residents were some of the first to have access to Flublok when the company hosted several local vaccination clinics in February.
The award will be presented to Protein Sciences as part of the chamber’s 117th annual meeting and dinner, held this year at the Four Points by Sheraton in Meriden.
Ray Coombs, president of Westminster Tool in Plainfield, has been named one of the nation’s top advocates for manufacturing by Frost & Sullivan’s Manufacturing Leadership Council.
Coombs, who was instrumental in the formation of the innovative Quinebaug Manufacturer’s Institute, will be honored May 15 at a gala that follows the ninth annual Manufacturing Leadership Summit in Palm Beach, Fla.
Frost & Sullivan is an international market research, training and consulting firm based in Mountain View, Calif.
Robinson & Cole insurance lawyer Stephen O. Clancy has been appointed to a pair of significant posts.
He has joined the board of corporators of The iQuilt. The Hartford redevelopment initiative seeks to attract more people to the city’s many cultural destinations, to improve the city’s cultural network, and to strengthen its economy and workforce. It envisions a downtown Hartford that better uses Bushnell Park with a vibrant and innovative pedestrian network creating a more walkable, sustainable, and welcoming downtown.
Clancy has also been named program co-chair for the spring meeting of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Property Insurance Law Committee. As program co-chair, Clancy is overseeing the coordination of speakers and panels for the meeting, which is focused on exclusions and extensions of coverage under the all-risk property policy. The meeting is May 16-18 in Palm Beach, Fla.
Two Connecticut students were among four high-school seniors who won four-year scholarships in the University of New Haven’s College of Business Scholarship Challenge competition.
The quartet, who will enter UNH in the fall, are part of a nationwide competition that required them to write a business plan, create a Facebook page and justify a business idea.
Evan Souza, of Sherman, invented a company called AutoScore Technologies, which would intercept the infrared signals sent from the scorer’s table/booth at a sports event and store them in a database in the information technology cloud. Once in a database, the information could be used in many ways, most notably to make official reports to athletic conferences that require teams to report their scores after a game is over. The data also could be used for analysis by coaches.
Demetri Smith, of Bridgeport, a rap performer, is developing a record label called Velocity Music Group.
Lauren Ritchie, of Fort Worth, Texas, developed a plan for The Percussion Pad, which would provide drummers with practice space and equipment.
And Mitchell Fliss, of Sparta, N.J., developed Behaviorism Inc., which would use mobile technology to provide consumers with sale information and incentive deals at nearby stores while they are shopping.
