Friday, November 14, 2008

Changing Places

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

By Mass High Tech Staff

Software
Workscape Inc. of Marlborough has hired John Dunne as vice president of development, and has appointed Diane Albano as senior vice president of worldwide sales. Dunne joins Workscape from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care where he was deputy chief technology officer. Earlier in his career, he held leadership and technical positions at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, MFS Investment Management, Tech Data Corp. and Engineering Planning and Management. Dunne has also been an engineering supervisor for the U.S. Navy. Albano has joined Workscape from Fast Search & Transfer, a subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., where she was executive vice president of worldwide sales. She previously served as vice president of the Americas at Progress Software, a provider of leading application infrastructure software, and vice president of global account sales for Thomson NETG, a supplier of enterprise learning solutions. Albano also has held senior-level sales and marketing positions at Aspen Technology, Genuity, Digital Equipment Corp., Xerox Corp., Honeywell Corp. and Burroughs Corp.


Security
Lexington-based authentication and access management company Imprivata Inc. has named Tom Brigiotta as its new senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations. Brigiotta most recently served as the SVP of field operations for StreamServe Inc., a maker of dynamic enterprise publishing software. Prior to StreamServe, he was with Cadence Design Systems. Brigiotta began his career as a digital design engineer at Texas Instruments.


Finance
Michael Jenkins has joined health-care investment bank Leerink Swann as senior managing director and head of Leerink Swann Strategic Advisors. Prior to joining Leerink, Jenkins was a partner with Trinsum, formerly Marakon Associates, where he served clients in health care and financial services, and most recently led the firm’s private equity practice. Jenkins holds a MBA in management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Texas, Austin.


Services
CPA firm Vitale Caturano has named Aliza J. Cooperman as vice president in the firm’s tax practice, Gina Golden as vice president of learning and development and Robert A. Frattasio as vice president in the Boston-based firms’ assurance practice. Cooperman specializes in providing personal tax and financial services for high net worth individuals and families. She joined the firm’s tax practice after spending 6 years at Arthur Andersen. Prior to joining Vitale Caturano, Golden was a member of the mergers and acquisitions practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. She began her career at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Frattasio specializes in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for multinational organizations, enterprise-wide risk and control assessments, and internal audit outsourcing. Prior to joining the firm, he was a manager in the internal audit services group at Deloitte & Touche LLP.


Life Sciences
Genstruct Inc. of Cambridge has appointed Julian Ray as vice president of engineering. Prior to joining Genstruct, Ray was the chief technology officer at auctionPAL, a venture-backed business-to-consumer services company. From 2004 to 2007, he was the co-founder and CTO for C2GLogistics, an Internet startup providing a suite of web-based services and mobile applications with a large customer base in the life sciences industry. In 1999, he co-founded and held the position of CTO/VP of engineering for TransDecisions Inc., a software firm providing enterprise-class decision-support software. Ray has also served as a senior software scientist at Intergraph Corp. and director of the Transportation Research Center at the University of Tennessee.
 

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