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Rob Ronning has joined PAAS LLC in Plainville as director of operations, responsible for custom third-party logistics, supply chain and material handling services, including shipping and distribution, sales and retail support, and literature fulfillment. He moves from director of operations for Office Furniture Rental Alliance, a division of BKM Total Office. PAAS was established this year by the owners and senior managers of World Fulfillment LLC.
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Todd E. Cusano has joined Business Risk Partners in Windsor as the underwriting manager for professional liability. Cusano has served as an assistant vice president for Allied World Assurance Company/Darwin National Assurance Co. and was an executive underwriter and claims consultant with The Hartford. He began his career practicing law with Updike, Kelly and Spellacy in Hartford. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal and served as one of the youngest mayors in the state of Connecticut for the town of Rocky Hill. He was named to the Hartford Business Journal’s 40 under 40 class of 2011.
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Thomas S. Santa, president & CEO of Santa Energy Corp. in Bridgeport, was elected chair of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association’s board of directors. He will serve a one-year term, succeeding Ramona Carlow, AT&T’s vice president of public policy and strategy. Elected vice chairs are Donald R. Droppo, Jr., president and CEO of Curtis Packaging in Sandy Hook; and James P. Torgerson, president and CEO of UIL Holdings Corp. in New Haven. New members of the board are: Eric D. Albert, president, Albert Bros. Inc., Waterbury; Kevin J. Cunningham, president, Bank of America — Connecticut, Hartford; Mary Kay Fenton, senior vice president and CFO, Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc., New Haven; Charles V. Firlotte, president and CEO, Aquarion Water Co., Bridgeport; Mary P. Fitzgerald, president, Acme Wire Products Co., Inc., Mystic; Joe Singh, executive vice president, PCC Technology LLC, Bloomfield; Craig L. Sylvester, president, Reid & Riege P.C., Hartford; Martha R. Temple, president, New England region, Aetna, Hartford; Jeffrey J. Tengel, senior executive vice president, commercial banking, People’s United Bank, Bridgeport; Chris Ulbrich, chief operating officer, Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc., North Haven; and Richard H. Wheeler, president, Capewell Components Co. LLC, South Windsor. CBIA is the state’s largest business organization, with 10,000 member companies throughout Connecticut.
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Paul R. Pellerin joined the tax staff at Federman, Lally & Remis LLC in Farmington. He was previously a shareholder at Pellerin & Associates P.A. in South Portland, Maine.
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David Hughes has been named vice president of marketing, research and development at Dur-A-Flex in East Hartford. Hughes is a former business director of BASF Corp. and a business line vice president for Ciba specialty chemicals.
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Christopher Friday has been promoted to senior vice president of information systems and chief information officer at Mohegan Sun. Friday had been vice president of customer relationship management. Previously, he had been director of program management.
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Joshua M. Hager and Alexandria O. Kebalo have joined the sales team at RE/MAX 2000 in Marlborough. Hager brings to eight years of experience in real estate lending, formerly as an underwriter. Kebalo is a recent graduate from the University of Connecticut.
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Richard Liljedahl has joined Simsbury Bank as a mortgage loan officer, focusing in West Hartford. Liljedahl brings more than 20 years’ experience in residential and commercial mortgage lending includes work at Liberty Bank, Konover & Associates and Connecticut National Bank.
