John Rugel has joined Hartford-based retirement and life insurance company Global Atlantic Financial Group as chief operations officer.
Rugel previously worked as the senior vice president of life and annuity operations at insurance company Allstate.
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Gereen Langmeyer was hired as vice president of payment products at Glastonbury digital payments vendor Payrailz, where she will oversee product design, pricing and promotion digital payment products.
Langmeyer most recently served as digital channels manager at Digital Federal Credit Union.
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Gerald “Jerry” Daly, senior vice president at Hartford-based pharmacy benefits manager Optum — a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary — has been elected to the board of directors of the New England Council, a non-partisan alliance of businesses, academic and health institutions, and public and private organizations.
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Liz Connelly has joined Capitol Consulting LLC, a full-service state government relations firm in Hartford, where she will serve as a government relations associate, and lobbyist.
Connelly most recently worked as the senior legislative and communications advisor to Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz.
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Farmington-based veterinary pet cancer therapy startup Torigen Pharmaceuticals hired Michael Lucroy as vice president of oncology business development, focusing on accelerating the company’s growth.
Lucroy previously worked as director of the Clinical Studies Center at MedVet, where he led research efforts.
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Donna Sodipo was appointed chief program officer at YWCA Hartford, where she will develop,
implement and evaluate YWCA Hartford Region programs.
Sodipo previously served as senior vice president of education at Connecticut Public, where she spearheaded the organization’s education strategy and learning initiatives to help advance the mission.
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Allison Tyropolis has joined Farmington-based environmental engineering and hydrogeology firm HRP Associates Inc. as senior consultant, and will be responsible for technical support of environmental and EPA projects, focusing specifically on air compliance.
Tyropolis is a graduate of the University of Connecticut where she received a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering.
