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Alton A Grange Sr. of Prudential Connecticut Realty’s Windsor office has earned the Accredited Buyer Representation designation by the Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council Inc. of the National Association Of Realtors. Grange joins more than 32,000 real estate professionals in North America who have earned the ABR designation.
Rick Cool joined Select Telecom, a telecommunications provider, as a senior account executive covering Fairfield, New Haven and Hartford counties as well as southern and western sections of Massachusetts. A Naugatuck resident, Cool is a member of the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce and the membership director at Valley Business Network. He formerly was a senior account executive at Business Electronics Inc. in Cheshire.
The Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence announced that Erika M. Tindill is its new executive director. She was formerly deputy director for New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc. Before coming to Connecticut in 1998, Tindill was an assistant state attorney specializing in domestic violence prosecution in Dade County, Fla. She also served as co-president of the board of Domestic Violence Services of Greater New Haven and is on the board of the Rape Crisis Center of Milford.
Barnum Financial Group announces that Christopher Pisarz has joined the firm as a financial services representative working out of its Wethersfield office. In addition to holding his Series 6 securities registration, he is licensed to sell life, accident and health insurance in Connecticut. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an accounting concentration from Merrimack College.
Matt Ruminski has been hired as the SMART grant career advisor with the Connecticut Community College System. Ruminski spent three years on the CTWorks business services team as a manufacturing consultant.
Attorney Steven M. Basche, who has been practicing law in the Hartford area for 22 years, recently opened a general practice law firm in Glastonbury offering legal services and counseling to individuals and small businesses. Basche has a specialty in commercial litigation, and practiced for 16 years in the firm of Jacobs, Walker, Rice & Basche in Manchester.
Attorney Anthony C. DeFilippis Jr. has joined Pepe & Hazard as a partner in the law firm’s new administrative and regulatory practice area. He brings more than two decades of experience handling matters related to government affairs and complex litigation to the position. Prior to joining the firm, DeFilippis was the principal of DeFilippis Associates in West Hartford where he represented businesses and their associations before the Connecticut General Assembly and several state agencies that affected their industries.
The Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority has appointed Jeffrey A. Asher as its executive director. Asher previously served the authority as acting executive director and as managing director and chief financial officer.
Triple Frog, a full-service design firm in Middletown, has hired a new art director, Heather Williams. She will provide creative expertise on a range of projects that include printed publications, merchandise design and packaging, as well as Web site design and development for clients including Kidcity Children’s Museum, Connecticut Baptist Homes, Westfarms Mall, and Nub Cigar. She brings more than six years of experience to Triple Frog, previously serving as senior designer at WondriskaRusso where she worked on creative materials for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Danbury Hospital and University of Hartford.
Law firm Wiggin and Dana has expanded its insurance practice with the addition of Michael Menapace in its Hartford office. Before joining Wiggin, Menapace practiced with Dewey & LeBoeuf in Hartford where he represented insurers in disputes throughout the United States. Menapace has experience in complex commercial litigation in various jurisdictions, with an emphasis on assisting clients in the insurance/reinsurance industry and financial institutions.
