Martha J. Crawford will become the new dean of the Jack Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University, effective August 5.
Crawford, of Cambridge, Mass., has both a business and academic background, having served as senior vice president of Research & Development for several multinational companies (Air Liquide, Areva and L’Oréal) based in France. In those roles, she fostered technological innovation, sponsoring internal innovators, coaching and helping to develop tech startups with VC partners and creating new startups with innovation partners.
In 2016, after living and working in France for 20 years, Crawford repatriated to the United States to accept a teaching position at the Harvard Business School. Since 2016, she has taught the MBA core-curriculum course, “Leadership and Corporate Accountability,” which covers legal and ethical aspects of corporate responsibility. In addition, she developed a course — “21st-Century Energy” — that earlier this year was nominated for a national prize by the Harvard Business and Environment Initiative.
Crawford earned a master’s degree in business administration from the Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris in 1998. Before that, she was awarded MS and doctorate degrees in environmental and chemical engineering from Harvard University (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) in 1994 and 1997, respectively.
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Elin Swanson Katz | Photo Courtesy Hartford Business Journal
The state’s consumer counsel, Elin Swanson Katz, will leave her position with the state effective July 5. Before joining the OCC in 2011, Katz was a lawyer at law firms in Hartford, Boston and Washington, D.C. She also served as assistant counsel at the former state Department of Environmental Protection and taught at Trinity College in Hartford. She is vice chair of the West Hartford Board of Education. The Office of Consumer Counsel is an independent state agency with statutory responsibility to represent customers of Connecticut’s regulated utilities primarily in matters that go before the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
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Lyuba Konopasek
Lyuba Konopasek, MD of New York has been appointed senior associate dean for education at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. Konopasek has spent more than two decades at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, most recently as director for physician engagement and well-being programs. Konopasek earned her medical degree from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, and her bachelor’s degree in biology from Brown University. She completed her residency training in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Avangrid Inc. has nominated four new director candidates for election at its 2019 annual meeting, to take place June 27 in Boston. The nominees, who will join 10 current directors standing for re-election, are:
• Robert Duffy, president and CEO of the Greater Rochester (N.Y.) Chamber of Commerce
• Teresa Herbert, chief financial officer and SVP of Independence Holding Co.
• Patricia Jacobs, president of AT&T New England
• Sonsoles Rubio Reinoso, internal audit director of the Iberdrola Group. If elected at the annual meeting, the addition of these four would increase the percentage of women on the Avangrid board to nearly 36 percent and the number of independent board members to 50 percent. Avangrid has added six new directors over the past four years.
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Kitchen Brains, a Stratford developer of controllers, timers, sensors and software solutions for commercial kitchens, has named Dave Jendal vice president of global business solutions. Jendal has more than 30 years of experience in engineering, marketing and solutions development in the food-service industry, most recently as vice president of engineering and technical service at Standex.
