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Cora Harkins has been named as business development manager for municipal construction services at KBE Building Corp. in Farmington. She has nearly twenty-five years of experience in business development. Harkins was with the national corporate sales team for West Haven-based The Lighting Quotient and has served as a regional consultant for Nevamar.
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Christopher Steele has been named as executive chef for the 393-room Hilton Hartford hotel. In his new role, Steele will be responsible for the daily culinary operations of the Hilton and the hotel’s M&M Coffee Shop. He had previously served as a restaurant and banquet chef at the Hilton Hartford from 2005 to 2007, and re-joins the hotel after serving as head chef for the Prospect Café in West Hartford. He previously held chef positions at Geronimo’s Bar and Grill in New Haven, the Compass Group in Windsor, and Jordan Caterers in New Britain as Executive Chef for the Whinstone Tavern.
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Mintz & Hoke Communications Group in Avon has hired Kory Checca as user experience architect. In this new position, Checca will work with internal and external customers, strategists and analysts to define the most effective experiences for online communications. He had been at The Hartford as a user experience architect in the digital marketing department. Prior to that, he worked for Travelers Insurance in the business intelligence department. Both companies are located in Hartford, Conn.
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John J. Osowski, a hospitalist, has joined the medical staff of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Albany Medical College and served as a resident and chief resident in internal medicine and pediatrics at Albany Medical Center Hospital. Osowski holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., and worked as an analytical chemist at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, in Groton, for two years before entering medical school. He is practicing as a member of the Saint Francis Medical Group.
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Robinson & Cole LLP have added 10 attorneys across the firm’s practice sections. Laura Himelstein joins as counsel in the business transactions practice group. Previously, she was with Greenwald Doherty LLP in Stamford. New associates in the litigation section include J. Tyler Butts, who received his J.D., Order of the Coif, from The College of William & Mary School of Law, and Kathleen E. Dion, who received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Western New England College School of Law. Brian J. Wheelin joins the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Group as an associate. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Quinnipiac University School of Law. Associates joining the health law practice group are Meaghan Mary Cooper, who received her J.D., cum laude, from Quinnipiac University School of Law and her master of public health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Pamela H. Del Negro, who received her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Joining the business section as associates are Taylor A. Denis, who received her J.D., with honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Travis R. Searles, who received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Western New England School of Law. And joining the landlaw section are Evan J. Seeman, who received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Emilee Mooney Scott, who received her J.D., with high honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Robinson & Cole has 225 attorneys and 225 professional staff in nine offices.
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Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Connecticut and Westchester County, N.Y., has made two appointments. Laura Rittenberg becomes regional vice president of Fairfield County, responsible for the company’s 15 sales offices there. Rittenberg had served as the company’s senior vice president of field operations and was responsible for driving the mortgage and title insurance portions of the business as well as overseeing the operations of the corporate and sales offices. In 2000, Rittenberg sold her Denver-based company to Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Colorado and joined the company’s executive team. She served as senior vice president and general sales manager for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s operations in Long Island and Queens. Also, Kathy Danais has joined the South Windsor office as a sales associate. Danais specializes in high-end residential real estate sales and has earned the Coldwell Banker International Diamond Society award, which is presented to the top 7 percent of approximately 90,000 sales associates worldwide in the Coldwell Banker system. Prior to starting her real estate career, Danais worked for the town of South Windsor’s Youth and Family Services.
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Chad Francis has joined the corporate and residential relocation division of William B. Meyer, Inc. in Stratford. He brings experience managing multiple worldwide corporate moves for Fortune 500 companies. He has served as operations manager of a moving firm and is a graduate of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics.
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Fairfield University has named Donald E. Gibson as interim dean of the Charles F. Dolan School of Business. He takes over from Norm Solomon, who recently announced his decision to step down as dean after serving in the role for a decade. Gibson, a Fairfield faculty member for the past 10 years, is chair of the Management Department. He will hold the post until a national search for a new dean is complete. Gibson is a leader in his field of organizational behavior research. Last year, he was named the university’s Robert E. Wall Faculty Award winner for his research, and received the Faculty Recognition Award for Extraordinary Excellence in Research and Scholarship.
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