Central Massachusetts business organizations with recent hires and promotions include Oriol Health Care, GFA Federal Credit Union, and Bay State Savings Bank.
Get Instant Access to This Article
Subscribe to Worcester Business Journal and get immediate access to all of our subscriber-only content and much more.
- Critical Central Massachusetts business news updated daily.
- Immediate access to all subscriber-only content on our website.
- Bi-weekly print or digital editions of our award-winning publication.
- Special bonus issues like the WBJ Book of Lists.
- Exclusive ticket prize draws for our in-person events.
Click here to purchase a paywall bypass link for this article.
LINDSEY TROTTO has been promoted to AVP, digital payments manager at GFA Federal Credit Union in Gardner. She joined the credit union as a branch operations manager at its Peterborough location in 2019. She was promoted to branch manager and most recently Bank Secrecy Act and audit coordinator. In her new role, she will be responsible for activity involving automated clearing house, remote capture, and wire transfers.
Oriol Health Care in Holden announced the promotions of two employees. HARRY QUICK of Worcester has been promoted to administrator at Oriol’s Holden Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center. He started at Holden rehabilitation in 2016 as a resident life assistant and was promoted to resident life director in 2017. He took the role of assistant administrator in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and became a licensed nursing home administrator. TARA D’ANDREA is now director of operations at Oriol Health Care, where she will oversee Holden Rehabilitation, Oriol Therapy Services, and Oriol Home Health/Oriol At Home with the goal of streamlining the company’s coordination of integrated post-acute health care.
JANA BROMELL has been hired as vice president, branch manager, of the Burncoat Street branch in Worcester of Bay State Savings Bank. A 24-year veteran of the banking industry, she joins the bank from Country Bank in Leicester, where she worked as a retail banking officer. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College in Illinois and lives in Worcester with her son, Dylan.
The Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts has elected five new officers and two new members to its board of directors. JENNIFER JOHNSON, director of clinical services for Commonwealth Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, is the board’s new chair and president. A registered nurse and Auburn resident, Johnson is a Medical Service Corps officer for the U.S. Air Force Reserves. NICOLE MESSIER, the board’s first vice president, is the program manager for a classified program at manufacturer Raytheon in which she is responsible for $10 million in annual revenue. She is an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and lives in Shutesbury. BONNIE WALKER, second vice president of the board, is a Millbury resident and director of equity and inclusion at Worcester Academy. RYAN MATSON, secretary, is vice president of business development for Peregrine Property Management, which is based in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. SHERYL ZAROZNY, practice director at Change Healthcare Consulting, is the board’s treasurer. ANDREA AIELLO, board member at large, is the associate dean for academic and student services at Clark University’s School of Management. ELLEN FREYMAN, board member at large, is an attorney who specializes in commercial finance and real estate, acquisitions and sales, development, leasing, and financing.
Fidelity Bank in Leominster has announced Sutton resident MARINA TAYLOR as its new senior vice president, relationship manager. Taylor has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry, most recently at Clinton Savings Bank. In her new role at Fidelity Bank, she will advise commercial lending clients regarding industry risks, business cycles, and growth opportunities. A graduate of Dowling College and Nassau Community College in New York, she is a trustee on the board of trustees at Worcester State University and member of the board of directors at the Worcester Business Development Corp.
AAF Wealth Management in Westborough has promoted JONATHAN BLOOM to director, senior wealth advisor. A key member of AAF’s investment committee, Bloom has been instrumental in expanding investment access to include external investment strategies the firm can bring its clients, including environmental, social, and governance fund managers, hedging strategies, individual fixed-income managers, dividend paying stock strategies, and more. He serves on the board of The Whole Child, Inc., a nonprofit center for social-emotional learning based in Upton. He is a graduate of Bentley University in Waltham and lives in Marlborough with his wife and two young daughters.
Senior living community SALMON at Northborough has welcomed a new medical team. Dr. JESSICA BOATMAN DRAY, a 2014 graduate of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, is now the community’s medical director. She previously worked as an associate for SALMON’s skilled nursing and rehab in Worcester and at UMass Memorial Medical Center’s geriatrics clinic in Worcester. Dr. ZARA SHEIKH is SALMON’s associate medical director. She was previously medical director for SALMON’s Worcester location as well as a skilled nursing center in Shrewsbury and is currently an associate professor at UMass Chan Medical School’s division of geriatric medicine. KATYA OSTROVSKY is nurse practitioner at SALMON. She has been an adult nurse practitioner for various hospitals and skilled nursing settings, most recently at UMass Memorial Medical Center and Worcester Internal Medicine.
UMass Memorial Health – Harrington has elected two new members to its board of directors. GINA PLATA-NINO, an attorney at the Central West Justice Center in Worcester is now on the board. In her current job, Plata-Nino works on both the state and federal levels on matters impacting low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. She is the co-founder and president of the Oon-Jai Foundation, a Connecticut nonprofit organization seeking to alleviate poverty in Southeast Asia by promoting practical, sustainable, healthy living. SARAI RIVERA, a Worcester city councilor, has joined the Harrington board. She has extensive experience in the areas of community mental health, interventions for multicultural populations in urban settings, and has dedicated her life to issues of social justice.
VERONICA HOPKINS has been promoted to deposit services officer at bankHometown. Hopkins, a resident of Webster, has nearly 30 years experience in the banking industry, having joined bankHometown as a teller in 1993. She moved to the loan servicing department in 2000 and to deposit services in 2016, where she started as an assistant before being promoted to supervisor in 2018 and manager in 2020. She is based out of the bank’s office on Sutton Avenue in Oxford.
WILLIAM BOFFI is the new vice president of enrollment management at Assumption University in Worcester, following a nationwide search. Most recently, Boffi served as vice president for enrollment at Nichols College in Dudley. At Assumption, he will report to the president, serve on the school’s cabinet, and oversee the enrollment management division and athletics department.
ERA Key Realty Services of Worcester has hired ADAM MAYER as a Realtor. Mayer is assistant director of pre-collegiate outreach programs and undergraduate admissions at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has served as director of marketing and fundraising at KSDS Assistance Dogs, Inc, in Washington, Kan. and as an admissions counselor at Western Kentucky University.
BRIANNA GRIGNON has been appointed as assistant manager at Discern’d Cannabis Purveyors in Grafton, a retail operator educating consumers about the benefits of cannabis. Grignon has previous experience in the cannabis industry, including inventory management, sales floor supervision, product intake, and partner-relationship management. She worked with We Can Deliver, the first courier department in Massachusetts for adult-use cannabis delivery.
ADAM DUGGAN is now on the board of managers of Lighthouse Biz Solutions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of GFA Federal Credit Union in Gardner. He serves as the vice president of lifelong learning and workforce development for Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner. He earned a master’s degree from Boston College in higher education and a doctorate in higher education administration from Northeastern University in Boston. He lives in Acton.
GFA Federal Credit Union in Gardner has appointed DAWN MARINO as manager of its Hubbardston branch. She has more than 35 years of financial experience and previous leadership to coach her team and engage with their members and the community.
