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Charles T. Lanigan has joined Lindberg & Ripple as a principal in the Windsor financial consultancy. His expertise is in developing disability income and long-term care programs for executive groups and corporations. Prior to joining Lindberg & Ripple, Lanigan was an independent disability, long-term care and risk management consultant. Previously, Lanigan has been a senior vice president, disability income strategic business, for Mass Mutual; a vice president of risk management for The Hartford Financial Services Group, and held executive positions at Connecticut Mutual and Paul Revere Life.
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St. Joseph College has appointed Douglas Nelson as vice president for institutional advancement. His responsibilities include overseeing the cultivation and solicitation of gifts; recommending and implementing policies and procedures for fundraising; alumni relations; and managing day-to-day resource development activities. He most recently served as vice president of institutional advancement at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. He also has been assistant vice president for leadership gifts and operations at DePaul University in Chicago and vice president and treasurer of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation. He also spent two years as a senior vice president for Fidelity Investments, and 11 years at UCLA, as executive director of financial services and assistant vice chancellor of finance and information management for the University, and as vice president of finance for the UCLA Foundation.
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Our Piece of the Pie, a youth development agency based in Hartford, has named Hector M. Rivera as its chief operating officer. Rivera will lead the 40-person program staff and manage the agency’s youth development, educational and employment services. He joined the agency in 2000 as a youth development specialist and most recently served as vice president of pathways to success, the agency’s signature program.
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Key Air, an aircraft management and executive jet charter service based in Oxford, has hired Mark Dennen as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Dennen had been senior vice president of finance for TAG Aviation and its successor companies. He spent 13 years integrating several acquisitions and managing business aviation fleets in excess of 200 aircraft. He is a member of the National Business Aviation Association’s Tax Committee.
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Cynthia Vroom has been appointed associate vice president for recruitment at Quinnipiac University. She will be responsible for all hiring across the university. Most recently, she was president and chief talent consultant at Cyntal International, an executive recruitment and talent acquisition advisory firm in New York City.
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Jaclyn Carey has joined Mason Inc. as brand manager at the Bethany-based marketing communications firm. She had been working in sales support, B2B, and sales management at AT&T.
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Stephanie Flynn Clason has joined Mintz & Hoke as business development coordinator for the Avon communications firm. She had been at Experian QAS in Boston, where she managed corporate events, projects and executive administration. Before that, she was an account executive at Dennehy Public Relations, Medway, Mass.
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Jean-Ann Pavoni-Biller has been named national sales manager at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. Pavoni-Biller will be responsible for the convention market including, but not limited to national associations in the fields of financial/banking, insurance, pharmaceutical/pharmacist and Connecticut State Associations. She joined the Convention Center in 2007 as a corporate sales manager. Previously, she was the director of sales and marketing at GameWorks in Las Vegas. She also has been director of sales at the Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. The center is managed by Waterford Venue Services.
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The Marriott Hartford Downtown has appointed Candy Iannucci-Guay as corporate sales manager and Jayne Fletcher as group sales manager of the AAA four-diamond-rated hotel. Iannucci-Guay most recently worked as an event manager at the Marriott Hartford Downtown, sales manager at the CT Expo Center, and in event management at several Boston hotels. Fletcher was with the Stamford Marriott where she managed business travel and group sales. Prior to that, she was owner of a travel management firm. The hotel is managed by Waterford Hotel Group.
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