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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, November 10, 2010
Changing Places
Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?
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Storage
Sepaton Inc., a Marlborough diskless storage technology company, has named Joe Forgione as senior vice president of business development and product management. Most recently, Forgione was CEO of mValent, a data center applications management software company, where he formed a major reseller partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co., and subsequently negotiated mValent’s acquisition by Oracle in 2009. He also served as CEO for Eprise, a content management startup. Forgione has also held positions in general management and product management with Novell, Lotus/IBM and Data General.
Networking
Atrion Networking Corp. of Warwick, R.I., has named Liz Malloy as business process manager and Kimberly Denton as information services programs director. In her new role, Malloy will work with the company’s leadership team to enhance business process and strategy across all aspects of Atrion’s internal operations. Malloy began her career at Atrion in 2004 and has served in leadership roles including project manager, service delivery, contract management and, most recently, director of sales operations. In her newly defined role, Denton will improve the alignment between the company’s corporate and departmental goals, as well as provide strategic focus on business analysis, program and portfolio management initiatives. She joined Atrion full-time in 2004 and has served in her roles including project manager, senior project manager and, most recently, PMO director.
Alternative energy
Billerica’s Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc. has hired Robert Schafer as vice president of sales and marketing. In this position, Schafer will head the sales and marketing group within Nuvera, with a primary focus on the material handling and logistics sectors. Previously, Schafer spent more than 14 years with NACCO, a manufacturer of forklifts and industrial equipment, as managing director of national account sales and vice president, national accounts and government sales.
Services
Boston-based marketing agency Arnold Worldwide has hired three new people and promoted one in its digital operations at its Boston headquarters. Todd Vanderlin has been promoted to director of creative technology from creative technologist. Graham Cousens joins the company as senior vice president, director of digital production. He joins from Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder, Colo. Steve Caputo joins Arnold as vice president, creative director. He spent seven years at R/GA in New York. Tom Morhous joins as vice president, creative director. He spent five years at AKQA in the New York and London offices. Keith LaFerriere has been named vice president, director of user experience. Prior to joining the agency, LaFerriere co-founded the company Visual Activity LLC, in Boston.
Law firm Foley & Lardner LLP has added Joseph Teja Jr. as a partner in the Boston office, working with the intellectual property department in the electronics practice and with the emerging technologies industry team. Prior to joining Foley, he was co-chair of the cleantech practice at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks PC. Additional areas in which Teja has technical experience are optoelectronic devices and optical communications. Prior to law school, Teja spent over 10 years as a researcher and engineer in electronics and optics. He previously served as an electrical engineer with Rheometrics Inc. and went on to perform research at Hoechst Celanese Corp.
Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has named Selçuk I. Güçeri as its inaugural Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering. For the past 10 years, Güçeri served as dean of engineering at Drexel University, leading the nation’s largest engineering college among private universities. He will join WPI in early 2011. Born in Turkey, Güçeri earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees in mechanical engineering at Middle East Technical University in Ankara and completed a Ph.D. as a NATO Fellow at the North Carolina State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Before joining Drexel, he was professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to that, he served on the mechanical engineering faculty at the University of Delaware. WPI created the Gordon Deanship with an endowment gift from Bernard M. Gordon, founder of Analog Corp. and NeuroLogica Corp., a member of the WPI Board of Trustees and a 2010 Mass High Tech All-Star.
Medical devices
Carrot Medical, a Boston-based developer of medical audio and video integration systems, has named Richard Stewart as vice president of global services and Jeremy Wiggins as vice president of product development and strategic marketing. Stewart joins Carrot Medical after previous work with medical device companies such as SeaMED, SonoSite, Confirma, Merge Healthcare and GE Healthcare. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Carleton University and has been trained as a nuclear power plant operator on U.S. Navy submarines. Wiggins has held senior positions at medical companies such as ATL Ultrasound, Philips Medical and SonoSite. He has also provided consulting services for many other medical companies. He attended the University of Washington and Washington State University and holds a degree in diagnostic medical ultrasound, as well as several patents in that field.
Software
Boston-based PHT Corp. has named software industry veteran and 2005 Mass High Tech Women to Watch honoree Elizabeth Ricci as vice president of product development. Prior to joining PHT, Ricci was senior vice president, products, at Kadient, a SaaS company in sales force automation. She spent five years at talent management company Authoria, where she was senior vice president of global products. She also held senior positions at MatrixOne and NetManage. Ricci earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Northeastern University and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick.
Life sciences
The New England Healthcare Institute, a Cambridge-based national health policy research organization, appointed Jason Hillenbach to the newly created role of vice president, business development, with responsibilities for expanding NEHI’s national membership base. Hillenbach has more than a dozen years of professional experience in the life sciences and healthcare industries. Most recently, he was associate director in Ernst & Young’s Global Life Sciences Center, where he helped guide E&Y’s life sciences strategy within business development, network expansion and knowledge, and also spearheaded the operations of E&Y’s medical technology practice. Hillenbach has also held business development positions at Schering-Plough and Purdue Pharma, as well as marketing roles at Dental Benefit Providers.
Cleantech
Veolia Energy North America, a Boston operator and developer of sustainable energy systems, has named Vincent Martin as president of SourceOne, its energy management and advisory services subsidiary. SourceOne has a national reach and capability, and it currently maintains four offices across the continental U.S., in Boston, New York, Hartford and Los Angeles. Prior to leading SourceOne, Martin had been Veolia Energy North America’s chief technical officer since 2008. From 2001 until 2008, he was the corporate technical director for Dalkia, the European brand name for Veolia Energy. In this position, Martin was responsible for the development and execution of the company’s technical policy on a worldwide basis. Martin joined the company in September 1995. He started his career with Alstom and earned an engineering degree from École Supérieure d’Électricité in France.
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