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Jim Culkin has been promoted to director of procurement in Connecticut for KBE Building Corp. in Farmington. Culkin will be responsible for the design/build work emanating from the Connecticut office. He has been a part of the KBE team for 15 years and has been in the construction industry for 26 years. Also, Tony Mancini and Tony Maselli have been named co-leaders of Connecticut field operations. Each had been a project executive overseeing multiple projects and their associated teams at KBE. They will continue to serve in that capacity in addition to their new roles and responsibilities. The regional design-build construction firm also has offices in Columbia, Md.
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Yvette Young, senior program director for the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility at The Village for Families & Children Inc., has been appointed to a new role as senior director of permanency services. Young began working for the Village in 2005. In her new role, she will work to provide permanent homes for children.
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Daniel Bendfeldt has been named a senior information management specialist for the Business Technology Services Group of Burns &McDonnell. He will be working out of the New England regional office in Wallingford. Most recently Bendfeldt was a business analyst for Computer Science Corp. of Norwich and had previously spent eight years with Northeast Utilities as an information technology business analyst.
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The Connecticut Farm Bureau, the voice of Connecticut agriculture, has named Ashley McCullough as its new director of membership and county support. McCullough was promoted to the position from her previous work as executive assistant to Connecticut Farm Bureau Executive Director Henry Talmage. The appointment is part of a focus on increasing the number of farm bureau members and improving the level of service members receive.
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Bruce Skyer, of Trumbull has been named chief executive officer of the National Kidney Foundation. He joined the foundation in April 2010 as chief operating officer. Skyer was previously chief financial and administrative officer for the Nonprofit Finance Fund.
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Ewa Wlaz has been named national sales director for Barker Specialty Co. in Cheshire. Wlaz joined the distributor of promotional products and merchandise in 2002 as an executive assistant. She advanced to sales coordinator, then to account executive, senior account executive and now national director of sales. In December, she expects to graduate from the University of Hartford with an MBA.
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Efrim Dragovic has joined Mintz & Hoke as an account executive, responsible for day-to-day project and media coordination for Mohegan Sun, CIGNA, and Quinnipiac University. Prior to joining the Avon communications firm, Dragovic was an account executive at Ryan Partnership in Wilton.
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Lisa McIntyre has been named director of sales for the Residence Inn by Marriott hotel in downtown Hartford. The 120-room is managed by Waterford Hotel Group, Inc. McIntyre joined Waterford Hotel Group in 2007 as executive meetings manager for the Marriott Hartford Downtown, and two years later was named sales manager for Waterford’s hotel portfolio in Hartford. Her previous hospitality experience includes working as event manager for the Courtyard by Marriott in Waterbury and sales manager/front office manager for the Best Western — Black Rock Inn in Fairfield.
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William “Trip” Todd has joined Jacobs Vehicle Systems in Bloomfield as business manager. Prior to JVS, he was the senior product manager for composites and automated systems with Gerber Technology, a subsidiary of Gerber Scientific, Inc. based out of Tolland.
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Ted Koppy has joined Waddell & Reed as a financial advisor in the New Haven area. Prior to joining Waddell & Reed Koppy, 44, was an anchor and general assignment reporter for News 8 where he had worked for seven yearS. Previously, Koppy also worked for KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona. Waddell & Reed has more than 250 offices nationwide offering investment products and services.
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Kristen Cusato and Heather Hitchcock have been named regional directors with the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter. Cusato joins the chapter from WTNH News 8 and Hitchcock brings 20 years of experience in long-term care.
