New hires and promotions from the Dec. 22, 2008 issue of the WBJ
Worcester-based Fallon Community Health Plan has promoted PATRICIA H. FORTS to senior director of strategic planning. In her new position, she will head up service area expansion, corporate planning and business development for both the health plan operations and senior care services divisions. Forts has worked for FCHP since 2004, holding positions including director of compensation and benefits, director of marketing communications and director of strategic planning.
Workscape Inc. of Marlborough has promoted MIKE SMITH to vice president of outsourced benefits administration sales from his previous job of Northeast OBA senior sales and business development leader. In his new position, Smith will lead new sales activities for Workscape’s outsourced benefits and administration business. Smith has 20 years of experience in employee benefits, including a stint as corporate sales manager of benefit services for ADP before moving to Workscape.
SUSIE KIM RILEY, CTO of Marlborough broadband support company Camiant Inc., has been chosen as one of CableFAX magazine’s top women in cable tech. Riley was chosen for her efforts in helping Camiant become a leading provider of policy control to broadband operators. Others chosen for the honor represented companies including Bright House, Comcast, Cox and Time Warner.
Westborough IT company Virtusa Corp. has added WILLIAM K. O’BRIEN to its board of directors. O’Brien is an independent director and serves on the board’s audit committee. He was chairman and CEO of Andover-based computer network company Enterasys Networks from 2002 until 2006. Before that, he worked for 30 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He also serves on the boards of directors of Camp Dresser & McKee and Mercury Computer Systems Inc.
The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts has elected three new trustees and four officers. The new trustees are: Townsend lawyer JOHN B. BARRETT; PETER K. HAZEL, the vice president of Monadnock Community Bank’s Winchendon branch; and HENRI L. SANS of LeBlanc & Sons law firm in Gardner. All three were elected to three-year terms ending in 2011. DEBORAH C. PHILLIPS, of the law firm Nickless and Phillips in Fitchburg, was chosen as board chair for a one-year term. RICHARD W. NOBILE of Holden was elected vice chair; STEVEN L. STONE of Sterilite Corp. in Townsend became treasurer; WILLIAM E. AUBUCHON III of W.E. Aubuchon Co. Inc. in Westminster was elected clerk and PHILIP M. GRZEWINSKI was chosen as president and recording secretary.
Dr. TRUNG LE has joined New England Plastic Surgery and Aesthetics at Worcester Medical Center. Le graduated from the State University of New York’s Brooklyn School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at the State University of New York in Buffalo. He did further training in plastic surgery at Duke University.
JUDITH FLEMING, a Worcester resident and director of human resources and special projects at Easter Seals Massachusetts, has been elected to the board of the Employers Association of the NorthEast. Fleming is also an adjunct faculty member at Assumption College and a past vice president of corporate human resources for Allmerica Financial.
Maynard construction management company J.M. Coull Inc. has hired THOMAS DUBE as vice president of its pre-construction group. The job is a new position, which the company said will allow it to offer more pre-construction phase services without distracting the company’s president from long-term business development and company growth. Dube moves to Coull from Worcester’s Cutler Associates where he most recently worked as director of operations for the scholastics division.
CHARLES P. BOWLES, CEO of GFA Federal Credit Union in Gardner, will retire at the end of the year. He will be replaced by Tina Sbrega, who is currently the credit union’s president and chief operating officer. Bowles has held the position since 1984. He will continue to serve on the board of directors in a volunteer capacity.
MARY A. TANONA has joined the law firm of Lane, Green, Murtha & Edwards LLP in Worcester. Her main areas of practice will be real estate and business law. Tanona, a city resident, formerly served as general counsel of the Providence and Worcester Railroad Co.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has appointed Rutland resident ARTHUR HEINRICHER as its new dean of undergraduate studies. Heinricher has been at WPI for 16 years, most recently serving as its first associate dean for the first-year experience. He joined the university in 1992 as a faculty member in the mathematical sciences department, where he now serves as a professor. In his new position, Heinricher will oversee undergraduate education at WPI, helping to make changes to curriculum and program structure.
PAUL B. HOWARD, a senior vice president at the engineering firm Tata & Howard Inc. in Marlborough has been elected president of Massachusetts Water Works Association in Acton. MWWA is a membership organization supporting the drinking water profession. Howard has been a member of the group since 1975 and has served on several of its committees and its board of directors.
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