🔒Movers & Shakers: Sept. 16

LIZA PAUQUETTE of Ashburnham is the new home loan specialist at Fidelity Bank in Leominster. Pauquette brings more than six years of experience originating loans in the mortgage business at firms including Leader Mortgage Co., which merged with Leader Bank in Arlington. Before switching careers, she worked in a law firm for 10 years after earning a pre-law degree at UMass Amherst.

Cutler Capital Management, a Worcester investment firm, has hired BILL FEINGOLD as a senior convertible analyst and BRYAN R. LEGAULT as a client service associate. Feingold’s role at Cutler Capital includes providing research and analysis of the U.S. convertible market. He is an author of three books on convertibles and the financial markets, and he has an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University. Legault previously served as an investment specialist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Maine.

JOHN BRISBOIS, a principal at the Sullivan Insurance Group of Worcester, has been appointed to the executive committee and in charge of programming at The Venture Forum, a Worcester nonprofit aimed at helping entrepreneurs. Brisbois has served as the president of the Greater Gardner Chamber of Commerce and held leadership roles with Heywood Hospital, Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation and the United Way of North Central Massachusetts. 

ALEX ZEQUEIRA of Worcester has been appointed to the Quinsigamond Community College board of trustees. Zequeira, a headmaster at Saint John’s High School in Shrewsbury, will serve as a member of the board’s audit and oversight committee. He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester and Boston College, where he earned his master’s in educational leadership.

Anna Maria College in Paxton has named three new members to its board of trustees: DAVID P. TRAINOR, vice president of human resources at Boston College, and ROBERT PAULSON JR., senior vice president and senior lending officer at UniBank, and YVETTE E. BELLEROSE, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Anne, the founding order of Anna Maria College. Trainor has a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of the Holy Cross and a law degree from New England Law. Paulsen, a member of the Worcester Economic Club, has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Nichols College and an MBA from Anna Maria College. Bellerose, a former chair of the Anna Maria board, joined the faculty of Anna Maria College in 1978 and became a full-time faculty member in 2000 where she taught religious studies and theology. She has a bachelor’s degree from Anna Maria and a master’s degree from Duquesne University.

DAVID GRANT is the new chief marketing officer at Nasuni, a cloud computing company with offices in Marlborough and Boston. Grant has more than 20 years of marketing experience at software companies including VMware and joins Nasuni from Switzerland-based Veeam Software, where he was the senior vice president of global marketing.

MutualOne Bank in Framingham has promoted four employees. BRIEN MAGINNIS of Bourne has been promoted to executive vice president and chief financial officer. Maginnis joined the bank in 2011 and most recently served as senior vice president and controller. He holds a bachelor’s degree from McDaniel College in Maryland and is a graduate of the New England School for Financial Studies. KEVIN CHANDLEY of Natick has been promoted to senior vice president and treasurer. Chandley joined the bank in 2012 and most recently served as vice president. He has a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, holds a master’s degree in business from Babson College in Wellesley, and is a graduate of the New England School for Financial Studies. CARMELA CANAL of Hopkinton has been promoted to first vice president. Canal joined the bank in 1988 and most recently served as vice president. She earned a degree in business management from Newbury College in Boston and is a graduate of the New England School for Financial Studies. KIMBERLY TYLER of Northborough has been promoted to vice president and controller. Tyler joined the bank in 2014 and most recently served as assistant vice president and controller. She is a graduate of Assumption College in Worcester, holds a master’s degree in business from Framingham State University and is a graduate of the New England School for Financial Studies.

The Worcester Railers Hockey Club has promoted CONNOR HAYNES to manager of group sales and club memberships after Hayes spent more than two years in various full-time ticket capacities. The team has also hired MATT DASILVA as senior account executive for tickets and membership. He joins the Railers from the Manchester Monarchs hockey team in New Hampshire. BEN BROUILLARD is the new youth hockey account executive, joining the team after spending last season as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Jr. Flyers.

JANEL MAYSONET has been named the new chief marketing officer at Avidia Bank in Hudson. She joins Avidia from Northern Bank, where she was vice president of marketing. Maysonet, who has 15 years of marketing experience, has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Salem State University and a master’s in marketing from Southern New Hampshire University.

MARY M. CHIECKO has been promoted by Worcester addiction treatment provider AdCare to director of community services. Chiecko joined AdCare in 2016 as community services representative for Western Massachusetts. She has a degree in marketing and communications from American International College in Springfield.

JEREMY THOMPSON is the new manager of policy and planning for the 495/MetroWest Partnership, a public-private economic development nonprofit group. Thompson, a Framingham native, joins the partnership from Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business in Boston, where he oversaw the application process and managing recruitment/yield events for graduate programs. He has a master’s degree in urban and regional policy from Northeastern and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Emmanuel College in Boston.

JUSTINE M. DeNORSCIA has been promoted to executive vice president at UniBank in Whitinsville. DeNorscia continues in her role as director of government banking, with responsibilities including oversight of deposit operations, cash management, government banking, UniBank Fiscal Advisory Services, Inc., and UniPay. DeNorscia, who has been with UniBank for 15 years, as a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from Assumption College in Worcester.

DEBORAH ENOS has been elected to the board of directors of Fallon Health in Worcester. Enos has more than 30 years of experience in health insurance and health care, including 10 years as president and CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan, and positions at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cambridge Eye Doctors and Hospital Corporation of America. Enos has a master’s degree in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Dartmouth College.

Dr. ERIN O’SHEA PAUDEL has joined Reliant Medical Group’s pulmonology department and is seeing patients at Reliant’s office at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester. O’Shea Paudel received her doctorate from the University of New England in Maine, and completed her internship and residency at Saint Vincent Hospital. She also had fellowships in sleep medicine at Saint Vincent and in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine at UMass Medical School in Worcester.

MARTIN F. CONNORS JR., the president and CEO of Rollstone Bank & Trust, has been elected to the board of directors of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, which represents approximately 145 commercial, savings and co-operative banks and savings and loan associations. His three-year term began July 1.

JEFF KINNEY is the new chief of staff at Worcester nonprofit Ascentria Care Alliance for president and CEO Angela Bovill and the agency’s chief of external relations. Kinney is a former chair of Ascentria’s governing board, was previously a regional vice president at Wells Fargo in Boston and a senior vice president at Wachovia Bank. He has an MBA in finance from DePaul University in Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Wittenberg University in Ohio.

GEOFF GREEN of Northborough has been promoted to assistant vice president and Berlin branch manager for Clinton Savings Bank. Green has been with Clinton Savings Bank since 2010 as an assistant manager in Bolton before becoming that branch’s manager. He moved to the Berlin branch in 2015.

ERICA ROBERT is the new vice president of community services for Open Sky Community Services of Worcester. She was previously Open Sky’s vice president of mental health services, when she helped develop the agency’s adult community clinical services. In her new position, Robert is responsible for overseeing more than 100 programs and around 2,000 individuals annually.

JEFF TOWLE is the new vice president of operations at R.H. White Cos. in Auburn, managing day-to-day operations of the company’s five business units. Towle has more than 25 years of construction industry leadership experience including at Cianbro Corp., Northeast Utilities and Burns & McDonnell. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

MICHAEL R. SULHAM of Holden is the new relationship branch manager at UniBank’s Uxbridge branch. Sulham returns to UniBank, which he first joined in 2010 as assistant branch manager, and in his new job he is responsible for daily operations, business development and community involvement. He has a bachelor’s degree from Assumption College in Worcester and more than 13 years of banking experience.

BO DALEY is the new area relationship branch manager of UniBank’s Whitinsville Main and Whitinsville Plaza branches, with responsibilities including operations, growth and development of consumer and business relations at the two branches, and representing UniBank in the community. Daley, the president of the Rotary Club of Metro Providence, has more than 18 years of banking experience and has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Becker College in Worcester.

The Worcester physicians network UMass Memorial Medical Group has added radiologist Dr. DAVID GERSON, pathologist Dr. SALWA KHEDR and psychiatrist Dr. LARRY SCHIBUK. Gerson specializes in interventional radiology at UMass’ University Campus, Marlborough Hospital and at HealthAliance-Clinton Hospital’s Leominster campus. He earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, completed a diagnostic radiology residency program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, an interventional radiology fellowship at Tufts Medical Center and a cardiovascular imaging fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Khedr specializes in anatomic, clinical, pediatric and hematopathology. She earned her medical degree from Cairo University School of Medicine in Egypt, completed a pathology residency program at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, a perinatal and pediatric pathology fellowship program at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, and a hematopathology fellowship program at UMass Medical School in Worcester. Schibuk specializes in the care of acutely ill psychiatric patients at Marlborough Hospital. He earned his medical degree from the Boston University School of Medicine and completed a psychiatry residency program at McGill University in Montreal.

BRIANA-ALLYN AMISSAH is the new director of diversity and inclusion at Anna Maria College in Paxton, responsible for the creation of informative and engaging cultural awareness programs to educate and expose the campus to cultures represented at the college. Amissah has a bachelor’s degree in human services from Old Dominion University in Virginia and a master’s degree in higher education and student affairs from Virginia Tech.

MARIO PASSI of Framingham has joined ERA Key Realty Services of Northbridge as a Realtor. Passi was a rental agent and property manager with Jordan Property Solutions in Marlborough and a Realtor with Keller Williams Realty in Westborough. He worked in marketing, design and photography at All Terrain in Waltham, and as a digital and design specialist, and a customer service representative at AlphaGraphics in Waltham.

Dr. KRUPA PATEL has joined the Nashoba Valley Medical Center and Lunenburg Family Practice-Steward Medical Group. Patel, a family medicine physician, provides primary care services to patients of all ages and is accepting patients at SMG Lunenburg Family Practice. She received her medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada and her family medicine residency at Stamford Hospital/Columbia University in New York City.

SEAN J. O’CONNELL has been promoted to director of business and consumer banking at UniBank in Whitinsville, responsible for the strategic oversight and management of the consumer banking division. O’Connell has been at UniBank for three years, and has 10 years of banking experience. He has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Westfield State University and is working toward his MBA from Nichols College in Dudley.

SHEILA KING-GOODWIN of Worcester is Fidelity Bank’s new senior vice president and chief retail banking officer, leading the Leominster bank’s efforts in retail, client care, investments and insurance. She has 30 years of banking experience, including 13 years as senior vice president of retail at PeoplesBank in Holyoke. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Assumption College, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Stonier School of Banking.

PETER BEECHER of Medway is the new vice president for commercial lending at Milford Federal Bank, responsible for generating new business and building relationships in the Milford area. Beecher previously worked for Milford National Bank for 28 years as a vice president and commercial loan officer, and most recently worked at Rockland Trust.

ArtsWorcester, a nonprofit art center, has added four new members to three-year terms on its board: JEANIE CONNOLLY, vice president of commercial lending at Bay State Savings Bank; JENNIFER IRVINE, director of marketing and business development for Worcester law firm Bowditch & Dewey; BETTY BLUTE, a development associate at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts; and VANESSA CALIXTO, a coordinator for the Clemente Course in the Humanities education program and a co-founder of The Creative Minds Collective.

CHRISTAL C. BROWN of Athol has joined GFA Federal Credit Union of Gardner as assistant vice president and director of marketing, leading the marketing department and strengthening the credit union’s brand in traditional and digital platforms. Brown previously worked at Clinton Savings Bank and has an MBA in marketing and new media design from Southern New Hampshire University.