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Changing Places
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Tatara Systems Inc., an Acton-based femtocell integration company, has named Gerry Cafaro as vice president of channel sales. Most recently, Cafaro was the national sales vice president of strategic accounts for Alcatel-Lucent. He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Jacksonville University and an MBA in marketing from Fairleigh Dickenson University.
Life sciences
Watertown-based Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc. has named pharmaceutical industry veteran David M. Madden as Dicerna’s independent chairman of the board. Douglas M. Fambrough, a general partner with Oxford Biosciences Partners, and previous chairman, remains on the current six-person Dicerna board. Madden most recently served as interim chief executive officer for Adolor Corp. Prior to Adolor, Madden served as co-chief executive officer for Royalty Pharma AG. Before joining Royalty Pharma, he was president, chief executive officer and director for Selectide Corp. In addition, he is a founder and principal with Narrow River Management LP, and he spent a number of years as a vice president with PaineWebber Development Corp.
Health-care IT services firm Concordant Inc. has named Christopher Harding as the company’s president and CEO. Harding most recently served in the role of senior vice president of field operations at the North Billerica-based company. Previously Harding served as senior vice president at Palladium. Prior to Palladium, he co-founded CXO Systems Inc., which was acquired by Cisco Systems Inc. Earlier, he worked for Cambridge Technology Partners and co-founded Breakaway Solutions as senior vice president of field operations.
Finance
Specialty investment bank Covington Associates LLC of Boston has hired Steven A. Mermelstein as managing director and David E. Wood as vice president to augment its health-care deal team. Mermelstein joins Covington from his managing director role at Ferghana Partners. Prior to Ferghana, he was a partner at Asanté Partners LLC. Before joining Asanté, Mermelstein was a director at Wasserstein Perella & Co. He began his career, and spent over 10 years, at Chase Manhattan. He also co-founded KnightBridge Capital Partners LLC, an investment advisory boutique. Wood most recently worked at Ferghana Partners as a senior associate. Before joining Ferghana, he worked at America’s Growth Capital as a senior biotechnology analyst. Wood also worked as a senior biotechnology analyst at Rodman & Renshaw and as an associate analyst for Stephens Inc.
Services
Veteran commercial broker Catherine Minnerly has joined NAI Hunneman, a Boston-based provider of commercial real estate services to corporations, institutions and the private market, as an executive vice president and principal. Prior to joining NAI Hunneman, Minnerly served for the past seven years as senior director at Cushman & Wakefield of Massachusetts. In 2001, she was the Top Commercial Broker for NAI Hunneman, and she was NAI Hunneman’s leader in transactions volume from 1996 to 2001. In each of the past six years, CoStar Group and Real Estate Forum named Minnerly a Boston Power Broker based on leasing transaction volume.
Jones Lang LaSalle has added three employees to its retail outsourcing services group in the Northeast. Dennis Maher will be based in Boston, Bill Miller in New York and Michael Stanley in Philadelphia. Maher brings 20 years of retail and corporate management experience and was previously real estate development and asset manager with Starbucks Coffee Co. Miller spent nine years at Starbucks Coffee Co. and was most recently responsible for strategic real estate development and asset management in the New York Metro market. Stanley was previously an account executive for Coldwell Banker Commercial Bennett Williams Realty Inc.
Submit your news and photos of new hires, promotions and board appointments to Rodney Brown at rbrown@masshightech.com.
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