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SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc., the Windsor-based provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software, has named James Ramenda as its new senior vice-president, enterprise risk. He will focus on further expansion of SS&C’s risk management market presence and support of its growth plan internationally. Ramenda spent 22 years as co-founder and managing director of Northington Partners Inc., an investment firm in Avon. Prior to that, he held management positions with Conning & Company and CIGNA.
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Anuradha Kapur, a Glastonbury hospitalist, has joined the medical staff of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and served as a resident in internal medicine at the University of California at Davis Medical Center.
She has been a practicing hospitalist for more than 10 years, she most recently at Southern Maine Medical Center, Biddeford.
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Janis C. Jerman has been appointed to the new position of chief operating officer at Employee Family Protection Inc. in Glastyonbury. Jerman will be responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of EFP’s finance, human resource, case administration, new business, external service, sales support, training, and technology functions. She most recently served as chief operating officer of a statewide professional association and its non-profit affiliate. Before that, Jerman was a labor and employment attorney with her own firm in Hartford. EFP is an employee benefit enrollment and communication firm.
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Scott Hastie has been named regional manager of Competitive Resources Inc. in Wallingford. He is responsible for all of the firm’s energy efficiency projects in New England and for the Wallingford office’s daily operation of the energy efficiency company.
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William McDougall has joined The The Elliott Insurance Group in Southington as agency business and sales consultant. McDougall has been co-owner of Murphy & Scarletti’s restaurant in Farmington. His background includes public accounting at Ernst & Whinney followed by 20 years in banking, culminating in his leadership role as president of First Bank of West Hartford.
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Vantis Life Insurance Co. has restructured its field operations. Lou Mastroianni, based in the company’s home office in Windsor, was named regional vice president, national accounts. He had been regional vice president for the northeast. Wilmer Little, based in Texas, was named regional vice president, business development. He had been regional vice president for the southern, midwest and western regions. Christopher Kelly was named manager of national wholesaling and business development manager, northeast, in Windsor. Kelly spent 24 years with The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is based in the company’s headquarters. Christine Stark, who had been an internal wholesaler is now senior internal wholesaler and project manager.
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Mark Hayes has been named senior vice president and head of the Connecticut market for Hobbs Madison, a management consulting and technology advisory firm. He will be based in Hartford. Hayes was most recently an executive at The Hartford, where he provided strategic leadership on assessing and pursuing growth opportunities for property casualty. He also had been with Aetna, as head of Tricare Overseas. He is a member of board of The Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and held prior leadership roles with the Connecticut World Affairs Council and the Greater Hartford Juvenile Diabetes Chapter.
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Mike Madsen has joined the South Windsor Chamber of Commerce as an account executive. He brings a background in finance, most recently as a loaned executive from the United Way.
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The Connecticut Convention Center has named Julia Miller as its new director of catering. She has handled such events as Governor Malloy’s Inaugural Ball and annual events such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundations Promise Ball, the St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center’s Miracles Gala, and Cherish the Children Foundations Starbright Ball. Miller joined the Convention Center in 2006 as catering sales manager. She serves on the Connecticut River Valley Chapter of Meeting Professionals International as vice president of finance, and will be talking over the role of president-elect later this year. She has held positions as catering sales manager at the Top of the Hub Restaurant & Skywalk at the Prudential Tower; and as a restaurant manager at the Fleet Center (formerly the Boston Garden).
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Gerry Salontai, recently retired as chairman of the board and CEO of the Kleinfelder Group Inc. in San Diego, is one of the new faces on the board of BL Cos., the architectural, engineering and environmental firm based in Meriden. Kleinfelder, like BL Cos., is an employee-owned company. Waite Dalrymple, elected to the board last June, was elected chairman of the board. He is the cofounder and former pesident and CEO of Parametrix. The new internal board member is Rainer Muhlbauer, BL’s co-director of architecture. BL Cos. Has seven offices in the northeast.
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Mohegan Sun has promoted Trevor Newman to director of table games and Ricky Landry to poker manager at its Uncasville casino operation. Newman started as a dealer when the casino opened in 1996. Landry is also an original employee, starting as a table games supervisor.
