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{Work Force} TRANSACTIONS, HIRES, AND PROMOTIONS
GABRIELLE COPPERWHEAT Creative
Marketing Alliance
Gabrielle Copper- wheat was promoted to association director of CMA Association Manage- ment. She will serve as a member of the CMA Lead- ership Team and manage association business activities focusing on finan- cial and strategic growth. She will lead association department staff and daily operations, as well as over- see organization structure, account assignments and staff development.
Josephine Crutchley
was promoted to project manager. She has been with CMA for almost three years. Last fall, she was awarded the highest level of recognition at CMA, a Crew Star. In her new position, she is responsible for full projects for her as- signed associations, which includes setting project objectives that align with her clients’ goals.
NICOLE LAUZON Nicole Lauzon was
promoted to client coordi- nator. She has been with CMA for more than seven years and has previously fulfilled select administra- tive functions.
First Bank
CEO Patrick Ryan was named Young Professional of the Year by the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Young Profession- als. He was honored at the group’s “All in Good Taste” event at the Stone Terrace.
Ryan serves on the strategic planning com- mittee of the Foundation
at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital. He is a member of the Hamilton Partner- ship, Mercer 200 Club, Ancient order of Hiberni- ans, and Friendly Sons and Daughters of Saint Patrick. He also volunteers at the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen and coaches Hopewell Val- ley Baseball and Nassau Hockey.
PATRICK RYAN Grounds
For Sculpture
Penelope Lattimer and Marco Cucchi were named to the 15-member board of trustees.
Lattimer, is the director of the Rutgers Institute
for Improving Student Achievement and The New Jersey School Develop- ment Council at the Gradu- ate School of Education. Cucchi, is the president and owner of Thomas Sweet Chocolate Compa- nies in Princeton.
Horizon Blue
Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
The company was selected as one of the nation’s top business technology innovators for the second straight year. BCBSNJ ranked No. 75
in the annual Information- Week Elite 100. Horizon received the award during a ceremony in Las Vegas.
PENELOPE LATTIMER Provident Bank
Flemington’s Brian Schoener joined the bank as a vice president and relationship manager for the business banking team. He is responsible for developing new com- mercial loan business and managing a portfolio of commercial loan custom- ers. Prior to joining Provi- dent, Schoener worked
at Sun National Bank and M&T Bank. He also spent 15 years at TD Bank/Com- merce Bank, where he was named “#1 Small Business Relationship Manager” for three consecutive years.
Rider University
Matthew Shaftel, Ph.D., was named dean for the Westminster College of the Arts, and Elad Granot, Ph.D., was named the dean for the College of Business Administration.
Shaftel comes to Rider from Florida State Univer- sity where he served as as-
MATTHEW SHAFTEL
sociate vice president for Academic Affairs, director of General Education, and associate dean of Under- graduate Studies. He was Florida State’s nominee for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s U.S. Professors of the Year program and a Distinguished Faculty Initi- ate at the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and he received the 2013 Florida State University’s Distinguished University Teacher award, the highest teaching honor offered to faculty at Florida State.
Granot worked at Cleve- land State University where he was an assistant dean for MBA programs and a special assistant to the Provost for eLearning Devel- opment, special assistant to the President for Global Initiatives, and director of Graduate and Undergradu- ate Student Services and Academic Recruiting, Advising and Support.
JERSEY FRESH
$100
THAT’S HOW MUCH THE FINE WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME OUT-OF-STATE FARMERS ARE CAUGHT TRYING TO SELL PRODUCE AS LOCALLY GROWN IN NEW JERSEY. THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PROPOSED RULES THAT WILL REQUIRE ANY PRODUCTS LABELED “LOCALLY GROWN” OR “LOCALLY PRODUCED”— INCLUDING FRUITS, VEGETABLES, MILK, AND CHEESE— TO STATE ALSO WHERE THEY ORIGINATED IF THEY CAME FROM A STATE OTHER THAN NEW JERSEY.
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