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Jason M. Howey has been promoted to president of Okay Industries Inc. in New Britain. He had been executive vice president and chief operating officer of the contract manufacturer of high precision, complex metal components and assemblies for the medical device, automotive, firearms/defense, and general industrial markets.
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Gregg Clark has rejoined Ernst & Young LLP as the Americas leader for consumer products in the advisory services practice. Clark was most recently a partner at Accenture in the North American Consumer Products Client Group where he led the relationship with a number of leading Consumer Products and Retail companies. He first joined Ernst & Young in 1999 and has been Northeast consumer goods market leader at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. He will be based in Hartford but also will work in Stamford.
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Brian D. First has been named chief underwriting officer at Sparta Insurance Company in Hartford. First was part of the original team that launched Sparta Insurance in 2007 and has been chief marketing officer and a member of the company’s executive underwriting and corporate risk committees. First succeeds Brian P. Mulroy, who is retiring after 32 years in the insurance industry. Prior to joining Sparta, First was president of Discover Re’s specialty markets captive program division, and managing director and chief underwriting officer of The Hartford’s alternative markets division. SPARTA Insurance provides unbundled specialty program and risk transfer alternatives to the commercial marketplace.
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Candace M. Cunningham, an attorney with Robinson & Cole LLP, has been named president of CREW CT — The Real Estate Exchange for 2011. She has been a member of the Real Estate Exchange for more than 14 years and has served as chair of the Program Committee. She practices real estate law with an emphasis on affordable housing finance, commercial finance, and commercial leasing. CREW CT — The Real Estate Exchange is the Connecticut Chapter of the national organization known as CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women).
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Adams & Knight Inc has added Felicia Lindau as chief business development officer at the Avon marketing communications agency. Lindau held leadership roles on the agency teams that helped launch Amazon.com, Excite.com and MSN. Her career has taken her from Dallas to San Francisco and New York City, where she worked with FCB, Ammirati & Puris, Inc., Anderson & Lembke, Inc. and TracyLocke. She also founded and eventually sold Sparks.com, an e-commerce company. Over the past five years, Adams & Knight has increased its staff by 50 percent and recently expanded its creative offices.
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Capital Workforce Partners has announced the appointment of Charles M. Smith, director of human capital consulting at J.H. Cohn LLP, as chairman of its 40-member Workforce Investment Board. He was recently board treasurer, chairman of the finance and audit committee, and co-chair of the governance committee. He has served on the board since 2003. Capital Workforce Partners is a regional workforce investment board serving 37 municipalities in North Central Connecticut.
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Patricia L. Morgan has been named director of development for The Masonic Charity Foundation of Connecticut, Inc. She will lead the Wallingford organization’s annual giving programs and special events, and will also assist in furthering the foundation’s major gift efforts. Morgan was director of development for Hospice Southeastern Connecticut and director of annual giving for the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. The Masonic Charity Foundation of Connecticut Inc. is the fundraising affiliate of Wallingford-based Masonicare, the not-for-profit provider of senior healthcare and retirement living communities.
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David S. Abdelnour has been named business development manager for federal construction services at KBE Building Corp. in Farmington. He has over thirty-five years of experience in the federal government dealing with facility planning, design and construction. KBE Building Corp. is a $300 million full-service, single-source commercial construction company with regional offices in Farmington and in Columbia, MD.
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Susan Stoppelman has joined The Children’s Museum in West Hartford as director of development. She spent 12 years as Director of development and marketing at Greater Hartford Legal Aid, she also has served at Asnuntuck Community College, Middlesex United Way, and Latino Community Services.
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Camille Derosia has joined Aesthetic Medicine Center of Connecticut in Wethersfield as a laser and injectable specialist. Derosia, a registered nurse, has four years of experience in facial aesthetics. She received her master’s degree in nursing from the University of Connecticut.
