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Dennis J. Hickey was recently promoted to chief financial officer at Colgate-Palmolive Company. He has been VP and corporate controller since 1998.
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Baruch College Fund Trustee Joseph M. Leone has been appointed to the board of directors of Alliqua, Inc., a biomedical products company. Leone, who spent more than 24 years with CIT Group, is an expert in commercial lending to the small and midsize business market. Richard Rudder (MBA) has joined Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel’s Banking and Finance Group as partner in asset-backed securitization. Previously he was at Baker & McKenzie.
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In addition to practicing law in Garden, City, Long Island, Thomas F. Liotti has served as part-time judge in Westbury since 1991. He is a past chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the New York State Bar Association and editor of the section’s journal. He has also served as president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Nassau County and as chair of the Nassau County Bar Association Civil Rights Committee.
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Kenneth S. Hackel is founder and president of CT Capital LLC, an institutional investment advisory firm specializing in the analysis of corporate cash flow and cost of capital in investment decision making. His latest book is Security Valuation and Risk Analysis: Assessing Value in Investment Decision-Making (McGraw Hill).
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Donald Gutman has joined Aronson & Company, the accounting and consulting firm, as quality control officer. He was formerly a partner with Ernst & Young, with over 30 years of experience in public accounting.
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Matthew C. Blank (MBA), chairman and CEO at Showtime Networks, has been appointed to the board of directors of Geeknet, Inc., the online network for the global geek community. Last year, former Governor David Paterson appointed David Branfield (MBA) to the New York State Interagency Coordinating Council for Service to Persons Who Are Deaf, Deaf-Blind or Hard of Hearing. The former computer engineer and longtime advocate for those with disabilities also serves on the advisory board for the group ARISE. Vincent Burke (MBA) has joined WeiserMazars LLP’s financial services consulting practice group as partner in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Alan Gaines has been appointed chairman of the board of Strategic American Oil Corporation. With approximately 30 years’ experience as an energy investment and merchant banker, Gaines currently serves as founder and executive chairman of the board of directors of Dune Energy, Inc., and Dune Operating Company.
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Norman Burak was named group director and senior VP at Signature Bank, as part of its new private client banking team. He previously served as VP and branch manager for the bank’s Jamaica, N.Y., location. Tony D’Agnese, who owns the Bagel Tree Café in Roseburg, Or., is the author of Grandpa’s Journey: Lessons from the Kitchen in the Art of Living Well. Howard C. Gelbtuch (MBA) is a principal of Greenwich Realty Advisors Inc., a New York City-based real estate valuation and counseling firm. He recently co-edited Real Estate Valuation in Global Markets, 2nd edition, published by the Appraisal Institute.
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Kevin O’Brien was named president and CEO of the Inland Marine Underwriters Association (IMUA). He was previously sales manager at Maran Corporate Risk Associates, Inc. In December the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center named CPA Rhonda J. Tomlinson to its board of directors. The president and CEO of RJ Tomlinson & Associates, LLC, she is the founder and co-chair of the Women in Business Group, part of the Baltimore/Washington Corridor Chamber (BWCC).
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Richard L. DiNardo is the author of Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign, 1915, the first English-language study of one of World War I’s critical campaigns on the Eastern Front. Thomas Mehnent (MBA) is principal consultant at Mehnent & Associates LLC, a full-service health care consultant firm, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.