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Ellen Barton Harriman has joined Diversified Project Management as business development manager in the Hartford office. Most recently, she served as manufacturers’ sales representative for C.A. Rose Associates in Middlebury. She also has worked in sales for Koroseal Interior Products in Wilmington, Mass.; in business development for Righter Group Inc. and with several companies as a senior interior designer.
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Beverly Annello has rejoined Murtha Cullina LLP as director of human resources. She will be based in the law firm’s Hartford office, but will divide her time among the three other offices in Connecticut and two in Massachusetts. For the past eight years, she was head of U.S. human resources for an international law firm. Her career spans other industries as well including manufacturing and software engineering companies.
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Chernoff Diamond & Co. LLC has named Garry Straker a principal partner, following the merger of his benefits, compensation and human resources business, PSL Consulting, into Chernoff Diamond. With offices in Glastonbury, Straker joins Chernoff Diamond’s compensation and human resources practice. Straker founded PSL Consulting in 2002, following a career in corporate advertising at Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. Straker lived and worked in London for 10 years, representing American brands for an international marketing communications consulting firm. Earlier, he worked in theatre production as a stage manager in regional theatres throughout the United States. Chernoff Diamond is a Garden City, Long Island-based benefits and risk management consultant.
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Karen Rankin has joined the customer service team at TAB Computer Systems in East Hartford. She had been at United Blackboard Specialties. TAB is a full service IT technology firm.
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Paula Siebers has joined TD Bank as merchant service representative in Glastonbury. As an assistant vice president, she is responsible for working with business partners and TD Bank retail stores to generate merchant services sales, including credit and debit cards, gift cards, electronic checks and EBT, throughout Connecticut. She has worked as a small business specialist at Bank of America in Avon and a national sales executive at First Data Merchant Services.
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Jane Von Holzhausen has been appointed sales manager at the Avon office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Connecticut and Westchester County, N.Y. She will be responsible for the oversight of 50 sales professionals serving Avon, Bristol, Canton East Granby, Farmington, Litchfield, Torrington and the surrounding communities. Von Holzhausen has served as a sales agent, office manager and regional vice president. Active in numerous community and professional organizations, von Holzhausen was a founding director of The Simsbury Bank & Trust Co. and served on the bank’s board of directors for 13 years. She also served on the boards of the Simsbury Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors, and Gifts of Love, a nonprofit agency that provides food, clothing, furniture and household items to people in Greater Hartford. In addition, von Holzhausen is a former president of the local MLS and served as treasurer of the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors. She has also served on the Connecticut Association of Realtors board of directors.
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Richard Pigott has joined Recordsforce Inc. as a senior account executive. He spent over a decade in Connecticut business development roles at SourceCorp/Micromedia and has worked at Anacomp. Recordsforce is a New Hampshire-based provider of intelligent document scanning services and document scanning systems throughout New England and the Midwest.
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Charter Oak Insurance and Financial Services Co. has added five agents to its team of financial services professionals. Joining the Southbury office are John Auerbach, Eric Poellot and Christopher Traester. Joining the Hamden office are Karen Bellamy and Yvonne Sourragh. Charter Oak is among the largest agencies of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., with nearly 200 representatives.
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Antinozzi Associates has hired Saiful Kassim as an architectural designer and Jesus Martinez as a job captain. Kassim has experience in municipal and K-12/educational projects at several architecture firms in Connecticut. Martinez created the site plans and controlled all project information for Mount Vernon Group in Massachusetts. He has worked with various architectural companies in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Antinozzi Associates is based in Bridgeport and provides architecture and interior design services.
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Charles Bellingrath has joined ARC Excess & Surplus of New England as cyber liability lead broker, responsible for product development and production. He recently served as the head of the cyber/technology division of a regional wholesale brokerage house. His responsibilities included assessing the exposures of companies involved in the technology/media industry and those traditional companies managing their information technology exposures. He specializes in the placement of cyber, security & privacy policies including technology errors & omissions, internet liability, media liability, and miscellaneous professional liability. ARC Excess & Surplus of New England is based in Plainville and is a subsidiary of ARC Excess & Surplus LLC, a national wholesale broker with offices across the country.
