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New Britain-based Hospital for Special Care has named three women as senior vice presidents.
As senior vice president, administration, Lynn Ricci is responsible for HSC’s strategic planning, marketing and communications and employee relations. She also oversees outpatient services including therapies and physician clinics, pharmacy, lab and radiology services, community sports programs, Aquatic and Fitness Center, and skilled nursing operations. Ricci joined Hospital for Special Care in 2007.
Felicia DeDominicis becomes senior vice president, legal affairs and chief legal officer. In that role, she manages all legal affairs for the hospital and its various subsidiaries and affiliates. She also provides counsel and education to senior management and the Boards of Directors of all such entities on all legal matters including corporate governance, legal and regulatory compliance, contractual relationships, employment practices and general litigation matters. DeDominicis joined Hospital for Special Care in 2005.
Laurie Whelan becomes senior vice president, finance and chief financial officer. She will be responsible for Health Information Management of the admissions department. Her duties include general accounting, payroll, billing, budget and reimbursement functions for all of the center’s affiliates including Hospital for Special Care and Brittany Farms. Whelan joined Hospital for Special Care in 2003.
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Deb Gabinelle, owner of InSightful Solutions CT, LLC, has been elected secretary of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers, a not-for profit association dedicated to making the lives of their clients easier by transferring organizing skills. Gabinelle, a professional organizer with an MBA from UCONN, assists small business owners, company executives and home-based entrepreneurs in maximizing productivity and gaining efficiencies through organization of their time, work space and work flows. She is a member of the West Hartford, Farmington and Central CT chambers of commerce and served as director of marketing for the organizers chapter.
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Carmody & Torrance LLP has added two lawyers to the law firm’s Waterbury office.
Daniel P. Venora joins the firm as a partner in the energy and utilities practice. He brings more than 20 years of experience in the utility industry, including 18 years in the legal department at Northeast Utilities where he was assistant general counsel in charge of the company’s state regulatory legal practice group. Venora has extensive experience in energy and public utility law, including electric and gas rate proceedings and cost recovery, electric industry restructuring issues, utility transactions and power contracts, infrastructure siting, holding company mergers, utility system operations, supply planning, conservation programs and renewable energy. He is active in the American Bar Association’s Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Section and serves on the board of the Energy Bar Association’s Northeast Chapter. He serves on the executive committee of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Public Utility Law Section, and served as the chair of that section from 2002 — 2004.
Also at Carmody & Torrance, Mark Williams will serve as counsel in the labor and employment and business practice groups. He brings more than 19 years of employee benefits law experience from his tenure at a major life insurance company. Williams has extensive knowledge of the tax and ERISA issues arising from the design and implementation of 401(k), defined benefit, cash balance and non-qualified plans. He has also drafted welfare and fringe benefit plans, and created and implemented health plans and health savings accounts. His practice will focus in part on addressing for clients the challenges presented by the new health care reform legislation.
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Robinson & Cole, a Hartford-based law firm, has announced that labor and employment attorney, Rita B. Trivedi, has been appointed to the board of directors for the Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford. Trivedi will provide support, guidance, and assistance in making policy decisions regarding the agency. At Robinson & Cole, Trivedi works on employment litigation matters including terminations, retaliations, and claims of age, national origin, and disability discrimination; evaluates employment policies and handbooks; and assists unionized employers on matters concerning union relations, company restructuring, terminations, and grievance. She received her B.A. and M.A. in politics, summa cum laude, from Brandeis University and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law. During law school, Ms. Trivedi served as senior research editor of the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy.
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Don Bodell and David Gordon have accepted a position as a member of the Mott Corp.’s board of directors.Â
Bodell is the principal of Whitman Advisors, LLC, a boutique executive search and management consulting firm, which focuses on private equity and family-owned clients. Prior to forming Whitman Advisors, Bodell was president of Ingersoll-Rand’s engineered solutions division, a global manufacturing and distribution business with revenues in excess of $550 million. Previously, he held leadership positions at TRW, Asea Brown Boveri, and Combustion Engineering. Bodell is a director of the Milwaukee Gear Co., an advisor to the University of Connecticut’s Technology Incubation Program, and a member of the Executive Forum. He is a past director of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association.
Gordon is the president of Choicelinx Corp., a subsidiary company of Cigna Healthcare. Choicelinx is a technology and services company that develops and markets software for enrollment, plan comparison, and subscriber-level benefit plan configuration. He is a regent for the University of Hartford and serves as chair of the board of visitors for the Barney School of Business at the university.
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Attorneys Randa Hojaiban and Justine Rakich-Kelly, of the Children’s Law Center of Connecticut, have become coordinators of the Academies for Children’s Advocacy, one of four regional academies with the purpose of creating think tanks and working groups to support and educate attorneys representing children in family court.