Friday, October 24, 2008

Changing Places

Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?

By Mass High Tech Staff

Networks
Ntirety Inc., a Dedham-based remote database administration company, has named Philip J. Kubat Jr., as chief information officer. Prior to joining Ntirety, Kubat was chief technology officer at CBE Technologies, a provider of managed information technologies to the government, commercial, health care and education sectors. Also, Kubat co-founded and served as president of OdiOne Technology Group, a provider of fully managed and hosted IT services, which merged with CBE Technologies in 2001.

Energy
Constellation NewEnergy has named Leighton J. Wolffe as vice president of alliances and strategy, in the company’s Boston office. Wolffe is a former consultant with more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry. Recently Wolffe has been providing expert consultation to private equity firms in evaluating and assessing investment opportunities in companies involved in building integration and distributed energy technologies. Wolffe attended New England College in Arundel, England.

Network security
Security and compliance company eIQnetworks Inc. of Acton has hired Jim Geary as president and Mike Rothman for the newly created senior vice president of strategy and chief marketing officer role. Geary previously was president and CEO of Pedestal Software, which was acquired by Altiris for $74 million in 2003. He was the president of intrusion detection vendor Haystack Labs and vice president of marketing and international sales for seven years at Security Dynamics before it became RSA Security, now a division of EMC Corp. Rothman started his career as a programmer and a networking consultant, working as a vice president at META Group. He left META in 1998 to found SHYM Technology and then took vice president of marketing roles at CipherTrust and TruSecure. In 2006, Rothman founded independent research firm Security Incite.

Biotech
Biotech firm Pulmatrix Inc. of Lexington has named John P. Hanrahan as senior vice president and chief medical officer. Hanrahan joins Pulmatrix from Sepracor Inc., where he most recently held the position of executive medical director for pulmonary products. Prior to joining Sepracor, he held various leadership positions in clinical development and medical affairs at Boehringer-Ingelheim and Muro Pharmaceuticals. Hanrahan began his career at Harvard Medical School as a full-time tenure-track faculty member in pulmonary and emergency medicine and researcher in pulmonary epidemiology, while holding corresponding hospital appointments at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Services
Waltham-based Accounting Management Solutions Inc. has named Scott Posnick and Carmen Addario to the newly created position of engagement managers. Posnick, a certified management accountant, joined AMS in 2000. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Babson College and an MBA in finance and systems from Suffolk University. Addario, who joined AMS in 2005, has served as interim CFO at a Boston-area hospital. In addition he has worked as a controller and director of finance and has expertise in financial reporting, planning and analysis, cash flow, re-engineering, systems and process implementation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in public administration/health administration from Suffolk University.

Submit your news and photos of new hires, promotions and board appointments to Rodney Brown at rbrown@masshightech.com.