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Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has named two new executives. Arthur W. DeTore has been named senior vice president and chief physician executive, effective March 7. Dr. DeTore will be responsible for developing physician integration strategies including the establishment of strategic alliances with primary care physician organizations, development of collaborative primary care group practice offerings, physician recruitment, creation of a medical home model, and ambulatory care center facility designs. He most recently served as executive vice president, strategic direction and business development at Parkview Health, Fort Wayne, Ind., a community health system serving northeast Indiana, where he was responsible for strategic leadership and planning for a tertiary medical center, four community hospitals, a specialty orthopedic hospital, and 200 employed physicians. He previously was vice president and director of strategic planning and knowledge management at Lincoln Re, a life reinsurance organization. Also, John N. Giamalis has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer, also effective March 7. He will oversee the fiscal operations of Saint Francis Care Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates, with responsibility for strategic financial planning as well as operational budget, revenue, and investment management. Giamalis spent 14 years with The Hartford, where he was senior vice president and treasurer, and senior vice president and controller. Prior to that, he served as chief financial officer at InteliData Technologies Corp. and at Connecticut National Life Insurance Company. He was also the director of corporate financial planning at The Travelers. He has been a member of the Saint Francis Care Inc. Board of Directors since 2002 and has chaired its finance committee for several years. Saint Francis is a teaching hospital licensed for 617 acute inpatient beds and 65 bassinets. It is the largest Catholic hospital in New England.
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Megan Desso has been named to the newly-created position of enterprise risk manager at Bankers’ Bank Northeast. She also chairs the bank’s internal risk council and will continue to serve as its compliance officer. Before joining Bankers’ Bank Northeast, Desso was an internal auditor and privacy officer at a multi-billion dollar Connecticut Bank. Bankers’ Bank Northeast, based in Glastonbury, serves more than 200 community banks and credit unions throughout New England and New York State.
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Vertex Inc. of New Britain has added Scott Pearson and John Armstrong as senior systems technicians; Brian Bardelli, Gail Loczewski and Karen Fisher as senior project managers; and Tim Cramer, Sheryl Kopel, Steve Donnelly, Rey Llenes and Teja Gottimukkula as business analysts. Vertex is in its 20th year of providing software and services to the life and annuity industry.
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Mark S. Flynn has joined Virtus Investment Partners Inc. as executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer. In this role, he is responsible for all of the company’s legal affairs, provides counsel on a range of related issues including corporate governance, transactions and regulatory compliance programs, and oversees outside counsel. Flynn previously was chief legal officer and corporate secretary for iBasis, Inc., an international telecommunications carrier. Before that, he served as vice president, general counsel and secretary for Imagistics International Inc., a document imaging equipment company, and earlier as a partner in the business practice group of Wiggin & Dana, LLP.
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Joe Kuzma has been named senior director, corporate programs for the Connecticut Region of the American Red Cross headquartered in Farmington. In that capacity, Kuzma works with businesses and other organizations to implement the Red Cross’ business readiness model, designed to enhance a community’s stability and sustainability in times of emergency/disaster. The Connecticut Region serves 168 communities.
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Joan Danziger has been named operating officer of Allied Community Services, Inc. She will have administrative oversight responsibilities for the corporation’s Allied Rehabilitation Centers subsidiary in Enfield. Danziger will report directly to Allied President and CEO Dean Wern and assume her duties on May 1. For the past seven years, Danziger has been serving as a vice president at the Corporation for Independent Living (CIL) in Wethersfield, directing all human resources functions as well as leading strategic planning, program development and fundraising activities. Allied Community Services and its subsidiaries have offices, program sites and residential facilities in Enfield, East Windsor and South Windsor. The Allied group employs some 200 staff members and 80 consumer-employees. The group’s combined operating budget is approximately $10 million.
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The Marriott Hartford Downtown has made a series of changes in its management staff:
• Pradheep Shankar becomes director of food and beverage, overseeing all culinary operations of the AAA Four-Diamond hotel and Zagat-rated restaurant, VIVO Seasonal Trattoria. Shankar was executive director of rooms division/food and beverage at the Waters Edge Resort & Spa in Westbrook; general manager food service for Compass Group Americas and director of operations at the Trumbull Marriott Hotel.
• Ali Dezfoli becomes service excellence manager. Before joining the Marriott Hartford Downtown, he was the residential concierge for the Ritz-Carlton in Boston.
• Ashley McFetridge has been named event manager. Most recently she worked as a project manager for TRUevents, an events and marketing agency in Bloomfield. She also has been an event supervisor for the athletic department at Eastern Connecticut State University.
• Candy Iannucci-Guay has been named catering sales manager. She 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.
