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TRANSACTIONS, HIRES, AND PROMOTIONS

PAUL ALEXANDER, MD, MPH
VICTORIA HURLEY-SCHUBERT
CORY K. KESTNER
NICHOLE F. LOPRESTI
BARRY D. SZAFERMAN, ESQ.

Creative The New Jersey
Marketing Alliance
1964 to honor the memory
Apartment our irm and our clients as
guidelines to implement
of Judge Learned Hand for
Association
we continue to expand our
some of my own ideas for
his extensive range of deci-
services in this market.”
helping tenants achieve
Jude Martin-Cianfano
has accepted the position
sions which he tendered
The trade association
Puentevella has 15 years
their goals and to create a
of marketing account
in more than 2,000 cases
representing the state’s
of experience in project
stronger sense of commu-
throughout his lifetime,
management, business
nity at the Princeton Pike
executive, and Victoria
multifamily housing indus-
Hurley-Schubert has
especially those centering
try has named Nichole F.
development, real estate
Corporate Center.”
accepted the position of
on questions of constitu-
LoPresti as the organiza-
development, and prop-
Horizon Blue Cross
tional rights and antitrust
erty management. Prior to
public relations account
tion’s senior vice president
Blue Shield of
executive. Prior to joining
legislation. The irm also
of government affairs and
joining CW Solutions, he
New Jersey
CMA, Martin-Cianfano was
announced the promotion
special events. She comes
worked for an investment

the event manager and
of two associate attorneys
to NJAA with more than
services company.
Paul Alexander, MD,
new business develop-
to partner status: Benja-
a decade of government
Prism Capital MPH, has been appointed
min T. Branche, Esq.,
Partners LLC
vice president and chief
ment specialist at the
affairs experience. In her
MIDJersey Chamber of
and Eric M. Stein, Esq.
new role, LoPresti will over-
medical oficer of govern-
Commerce, and Hurley-
Mason, Grifin see the NJAA’s govern-
Richard Margerison
ment programs at its
Jr. has joined the team as
wholly owned subsidiary
Schubert was the event
& Pierson, P.C.
ment affairs and special
and media coordinator at
events departments.
senior property manager.
Horizon NJ Health. With
the Princeton Regional
Cory K. Kestner has
CW Solutions
In his new position, he’s
more than 20 years of

Chamber of Commerce
joined the Princeton
heading management
health plan experience,
and a journalist at the
law irm as an associate.
Alvin Puentevella
of the commercial real
Dr. Alexander has led
Princeton Packet.
Kestner received a JD
has joined the company
estate owner/operator’s
global and national cross-

Szaferman Lakind
from Albany Law School.
as a railroad specialist.
Princeton Pike Corporate
functional teams with
He was law clerk to the
He’s working as a liaison
Center, an eight-building,
improved outcomes. He
The Central New Jersey
Honorable Lawrence M.
between utility clients and
800,000-square-foot Class
has a strong background

Region of AJC honored
Lawson, AJSC, and has
railroad companies to
A ofice park in Lawrence-
in the life sciences and
Barry D. Szaferman,
earned the Rising Stars—
expedite projects involving
ville. “The focus at Prism
managed market sectors

Esq., co-founder and
Eminent Domain Honor for
railroad permitting and
is on improving property
with speciic expertise in
managing partner of the
the past four years. He’s a
rights of way. “We are ex-
value and providing great
the areas of population
law irm, with its prestigious
member of the New Jersey
cited to welcome Alvin to
spaces for businesses,”
health, quality and medical

National Judge Learned
State and American Bar
our team,” says Stacie Cur-
Margerison notes. “I ap-
management, clinical care
Hand Award on Dec. 15
Associations and practices
tis, president and founder.
preciate the company’s
integration, network and
at the Hyatt Regency
in the areas of litigation,
“His depth of real estate
entrepreneurial approach,
risk management, and

Princeton. The award was
real estate, and zoning and
experience and knowl-
which empowers me to
revenue maximization
established by AJC in
planning law.
edge will positively beneit
work within a lexible set of
strategies.

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TRANSPORATATION

TRANSPORTATION REMAINS KEY TO NEW JERSEY’S ECONOMY, AND WHILE THE OUTLOOK

IS STRONG, DIFFICULT CHALLENGES NEED TO BE SUCCESSFULLY MET TO ENSURE THE

STATE’S ECONOMIC FUTURE, ACCORDING TO EXPERTS AT NAIOP NEW JERSEY’S ANNUAL
TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS UPDATE. EMPHASIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE

INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE ECONOMY, RICK HAMMER, ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF THE
HOURS
NEW JERSEY DOT, SAYS THERE’S A CONSTANT NEED TO INVEST. “MAINTENANCE NEEDS TO
CONTINUE TO GROW, AND IT HAS BEEN A STRUGGLE TO KEEP UP.” HE NOTES THAT THE RESULTING

CONGESTION COSTS NEW JERSEY’S AVERAGE DRIVER 52 HOURS AND $1,500 PER YEAR.

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