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Shipman & Goodwin LLP has named five attorneys as partners in the Hartford-based law firm: Moira Buckley, Corrine Burnick, Derek Mogck, Jill O’Toole and William Ronalter. Buckley practices in the areas of white collar crime, government investigations and corporate compliance. She is on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Burnick regularly handles restructuring and bankruptcy matters and represents banks in their role as escrow agent or trustee. She is the former president of the Hartford County Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Mogck practices in the areas of construction and business litigation. He is the past co-chair of the trial evidence subcommittee of the American Bar Association and member of the Board of Directors of the University of Hartford Construction Institute. O’Toole is a member of the firm’s business litigation and the government investigations & white collar criminal defense practice groups. She serves on the firm’s E-Discovery and Information Governance Group. Ronalter’s practice is devoted to personal injury and wrongful death cases, and he has extensive experience with insurance coverage analysis. He is on the Board of Governors for the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association and has served as a guest lecturer at the University of Connecticut School of Law’s trial practice class.

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Kristen Hayes of Windsor has joined Youth Villages Massachusetts as a family intervention specialist for the Intercept intensive in-home services program, which helps children with emotional, behavioral and mental health issues and their families in their own homes.

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Mike Bellhouse and Jim Nikolis have joined The Pert Group. Bellhouse will be group director for the health and beauty aids vertical. He had been a vice president at Millward Brown. Nikolis joins the company as a senior account director for the finance/industry vertical. He most recently served as a national account manager at Survey Sampling International. He began his research career more than 15 years ago at Millward Brown.

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Leah Mayor has joined the Connecticut field office of American Farmland Trust, where she will serve as the working lands alliance project director and New England project manager. She is the founder and principal of Taking Root, an ecotourism initiative devoted to stimulating local economies, building community viability, and celebrating our connections to food and culinary history. She also blogs about food and agricultural systems for a number of online platforms, including the Huffington Post. Mayor’s work at AFT will focus on policies needed to sustain local farms and protect diminishing farmland throughout New England, with an emphasis on Connecticut.

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Peter Tomsheck has been promoted to service manager at Jamestown Technologies. He is a 15-year veteran of Jamestown Technologies’ field service staff and will have supervisory responsibility for field service staff in Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, Eastern New York State and Rhode Island. Also, Chris Blessing has been promoted to field service technician for New London and New Haven counties and parts of Fairfield County. And Ken Pfeiffer has been added as a service technician in Hartford and its surrounding counties. Founded in 1972, Jamestown Technologies specializes in the evaluation, design, installation and maintenance of the full range of water treatment programs for cooling and boiler water equipment for commercial, institutional, industrial and power generation operations. It is a division of Azure Water Services LLC in West Haven.

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Jeffrey D’Ambrosio has been appointed assistant controller at Quinnipiac University where he will help coordinate the single-audit requirement for grants and financial aid, as well as the audit of the university’s retirement plans. Previously, D’Ambrosio worked as an assistant manager of fund services at SS&C Technologies, Inc., in Windsor, and at UHY LLP/Marcum LLP as a senior accountant in Hartford. Also, Mary Glynn has been appointed information analytics manager. She will be responsible for performing technical tasks for administration, configuration, updates and custom William Ronalterprogramming for the university’s data warehouse and overall reporting environment. She has worked as an application technology specialist at Wesleyan University and as a support specialist at Yale University. And Joseph Huong has been appointed enterprise resource planning systems analyst. Before coming to Quinnipiac, Huong was a senior programmer analyst and system administrator at Monroe College in the Bronx, N.Y.