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Manuel Joaquim (MBA) is president and CEO of Golconda, LLC, a consulting company offering small businesses assistance in developing and implementing growth strategies. He and his wife, Erika, live in Sarasota, Fla.
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Richard DeSimone was appointed president of XL Insurance’s U.S. Ocean and Inland Marine unit, based in New York. He was previously president of the Travelers Insurance Companies’ Ocean Marine unit.
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Anthony Ghiozzi was one of 10 Staten Island Advance employees inducted into the newspaper’s 25-Year Club. He is a district manager is the newspaper’s circulation department. CPA Bruce Kramer, a partner with J.H. Cohn and a member of the firm’s medical industry practice, has been appointed to the board of trustees of Monmouth Medical Center, in Long Branch, N.J. Kramer is VP of the board of the New Jersey Medical Group Management Association as well as a member of the executive committee of the Greater Monmouth Chamber of Commerce. Fred Lichtenberg is the author of murder mysteries Hunter’s World (Five Star), published in May, and the recently penned Double Trouble. He also wrote and directed a one-act play about finding love in a nursing home, The Second Time Around . . . Again, for the Lake Worth (Fla.) Playhouse.
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In July Millie García was appointed to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics by President Obama. She is president of California State University, Dominguez Hills, the first Latina president in the California State University System. She holds a Doctor of Education as well as a Master of Arts in higher education administration from Teachers College, Columbia University. Stephen J. Pearlman (MBA) has joined Molinaro Koger, the global hotel-exclusive real estate firm, as managing director, Capital Markets Group. He was previously senior managing director at Beacon Hospitality Partners. Pearlman is an adjunct professor in the MS program of NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.
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The Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CSCPA) has appointed Carlota I. Grate to its advisory council for the organization’s 2011–12 activity year. She is the CFO of the Wheeler Clinic, Inc., in Plainville.
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Alan Gaines was hired as CEO of Signature Exploration and Production Corp. He is founder and former CEO of Dune Energy, Inc., serving since 2001 as the company’s executive chairman of the board of directors.
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After working as an accountant in Brooklyn for 24 years, Krishna Harry has a new career as a realtor in Plantation, Fla.
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Deborah J. Levinson has been hired as COO for accounting firm Berdon LLP. She had been executive VP and CFO at Forest City Ratner.
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Lifestyle brand and footwear company Xsovt Brands, Inc., has named Stephen R. Brown executive VP, CFO, treasurer, and secretary. He most recently served as CFO of IDT Corporation.
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