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Rick Argo has joined Baumer Ltd. in Southington as a regional sales manager overseeing product sales for the company’s sensor and motion lines in the southeastern United States. For the past four years, he served as East Coast regional sales manager for Contrinex, a Swiss sensor manufacturer with U.S. operations based in Old Saybrook. He supervised sales in 22 states. Prior to Contrinex, Argo represented EE Controls of Brewster, N.Y., for seven years as a regional sales manager with responsibility for sales in 16 states. The Baumer Group, headquartered in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, produces precision sensors, motion control, and vision technology for the automation market.
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Melina Rudman has joined Leadership Greater Hartford as program director for Summit, a new leadership program for senior-level executive leaders in the for-profit, nonprofit, academic, and government sectors. Rudman is also working with the School Governance program and other consulting and training projects. Rudman’s expertise is on community building and is the founder of two servant leadership ventures.
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Bankers’ Bank Northeast in Glastonbury has promoted Monique Angell to operations specialist. She has been with the bank since 2003 as an administrative assistant. In her new position, she will be involved with the daily operational activities associated with processing domestic and international wires, as well as the processing of Federal Reserve and STARS settlement transactions for clients. Bankers’ Bank Northeast is a correspondent bank serving more than 200 community banks and credit unions throughout New England and New York State. It is one of 16 bankers’ banks in the country.
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Tami Santucci has been promoted from account supervisor to senior account supervisor at Cronin and Company LLC. She’s been with the Glastonbury-based marketing communications agency since 1997. Also, Sarah Melnitsky has been promoted from senior account executive to account supervisor in the agency’s public relations group. Melnitsky joined the public relations team in 2006. And
Charlene Durham has been promoted from senior account executive to account supervisor in public relations. Durham has been a member of the Cronin team since 2008. Cronin and Co. has offices in Glastonbury as well as in Albany, N.Y.
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Daniel P. Elliott, an associate at Murtha Cullina LLP, has been selected to chair the Construction Law Committee in the Young Lawyers Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. He will also sit on the section’s executive committee. The Young Lawyers Section is comprised of Connecticut Bar Association members who are age 37 or younger or who have been admitted to the bar for less than six full bar years. Murtha Cullina has more than 115 attorneys in six offices throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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Elena Trueworthy has been appointed director of the Hartford Area Child Care Collaborative at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, replacing Judith Goldfarb, who has retired after 20 years as director. Most recently, Trueworthy was special services senior manager for the Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc. Head Start and school readiness program. The collaborative is a 300-member, public/private partnership of child care providers, educators, advocates, funders, consumers, policy makers, and business leaders who work to improve the quality of child care in Greater Hartford.
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Michael W. Fischer has joined Glastonbury’s USI Consulting Group as a defined contribution consultant, based in New York City. He has over 12 years of broad-based retirement planning experience covering client service, marketing, product development and sales. Fischer was a business development consultant at Chernoff Diamond & Co. and has worked at AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. and New York Life Investment Management.Â
