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Reuben J. Pettiford (MPA) was named executive director of the Franklin C. Fetter Family Health Center Inc., in Charleston, S.C. He had been the CEO of federally qualified health centers in Michigan and Illinois for the past 13 years.
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Timothy Elwell (XMBA) was named CEO of Qualidigm, the national health care consulting company based in Rocky Hill, Conn. He comes from Misys Open Source Solutions in White Plains, N.Y., where as VP he led the development of the world’s first standards-based, open-source Health Information Exchange.
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Joseph Edge (MBA) has been hired as associate principal at Arup, a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm. His main responsibility as senior project and program manager is overseeing the New NY Bridge Project (Tappan Zee Bridge), the first design-build transportation project in New York State. Ralph Gonzalez is the training and compliance manager for patient financial services at Hackensack University Medical Center. He is a certified hypnotist and conducts self-hypnosis presentations to hospital staff and patients and their families. An advocate of life-enhancing techniques, Gonzalez recently wrote an ebook, I Believe. Mojiva, Inc., a global mobile display advertising company, has appointed Bennett Theimann (MBA) COO. He most recently served as CFO at Target Spot, Inc., and as senior VP/chief procurement officer at Hachette Filipacchi Media. Teresa Zerilli-Edelglass (MPA) has written Thrown Under the Bus: The Rise and Fall of an American Worker, a biographical account of workplace harassment.
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Elizabeth C. Jordan has joined Penton, the business-to-business media company, as senior online marketing manager, based in the company’s New York City headquarters.
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Jonathan B. Justice (MPA) is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy & Administration at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on public budgeting and finance, and he teaches graduate courses on public economics and economic development.
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Adrienne M. Holloway (MPA) has been named by Governor Pat Quinn to the Northeastern Illinois Public Transit Task Force, an independent panel of transit, finance, and government leaders. Holloway is an assistant professor of political science in DePaul University’s School of Pubic Service. In 2012 Luis Rodriguez Jr. (MBA) was appointed adjunct law professor at New York Law School and, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. His article “Equity Swaps and the Withholding Tax: Potential for Tax Avoidance” was published in the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions. Tsien-Shien (James) Tu (MBA), founder, CEO, and CIO of 5 Elements Global Advisors, an investment advisory and management company, has been appointed executive chairman of the board of Energy Focus, Inc.
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April Leong is the founding principal of Liberation Diploma Plus High School, an alternative school in Brooklyn that enrolls students at risk of dropping out. After working 17 years for the city’s Department of Education, she opened the school in 2007. Perizaad Zorabian-Irani (MBA) runs her family’s India-based poultry business, Zorabian Chicken, which markets preservative-free packaged chicken and has expanded into ready-to-cook entrees. She and her family’s business ventures were featured in the Mumbai Mirror in June. Zorabian-Irani is married and has two children: daughter Zaha and son Zayaan. Daniela Zustovich, of commercial real estate advisory firm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, has been appointed building manager of W&H Properties’ 1400 Broadway. She previously served as building manager at W&H’s 1359 Broadway.
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Rym Bedoui Ayari (MBA) was named chair of the Tunisian American Friendship Association. Long involved in the food industry, Ayari has been secretary general of the Tunisian American Chamber of Commerce since 2011. Victor Baev has been promoted to managing director at Two Harbors Investment Corporation. He has been a member of the mortgage-backed securities team at affiliate Pine River Capital Management L.P. since 2009. Michael Lambert (MBA) has been hired as executive director of the Bed-Stuy Gateway Business Improvement District (BID). He most recently served as executive director of the Jerome-Gun Hill BID and deputy director of the Mosholu Preservation Corporation in the Bronx. Howard Schnuer (XMBA) has joined the Small and Medium Business (SMB) Division at Infogroup, a provider of data and multichannel marketing solutions, as VP of marketing.
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Max Calicchio is the owner/chef of Max’s Es-Ca restaurant, which features continental-Italian cuisine, in Staten Island. Jacqueline Hernandez (MBA) has been the COO for Telemundo Media since 2008. Named one of Multichannel News’ “Wonder Women” in March, she sits on the board of the Advertising Education Foundation and the Ballet Hispanico, as well as the council advisory board of the New York Restoration Project and the Latin Media and Entertainment Commission. Katina Rojas Joy (MPA) is deputy director in the Office of Business Liaison, U.S. Department of Commerce. Her primary focus is executing Secretary Penny Pritzker’s international trade missions. Debra J. Perez (MPA) has been appointed VP for knowledge support at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. She was formerly interim VP of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s research and evaluation unit. Giuseppe Rappa is VP, exchange traded funds, at BNY Mellon. He has been with the company for 15 years.
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Informa Global Markets has appointed Stephen Carter (MBA) senior analyst, focusing on the high-yield new issue bond market. He was previously senior analyst at IFR Markets, where he managed the U.S. credit team. Michael Weissman (MS) is a principal at Aspiriant, a wealth-management firm formed partially by the acquisition of Deloitte Investment Advisors, where he had been employed since graduating from Baruch.