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STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR) has announced that Robert H. Johnson has joined the company as Area President of its Midwest Region (comprising all operations in Michigan and Indiana) and as head of its call centers for business, residential and Operator Services. In addition, he is responsible for four U.S.-based vendor centers focused on residential operations and the company’s Work-at-Home program. Bob Johnson is based in Fort Wayne, Indiana

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foundation Source hired Adriane Glazier as a Philanthropic Director. She will provide high-level advisory services to private foundations in the central region of the U.S.

SIMSBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. hires new Vice President of Human Resources

STRATFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Commercial kitchen technology firm Kitchen Brains is expanding into new domestic and international markets. Former VP of Operations brought back to lead the campaign.

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE: WRB) today announced the appointment of Scott Mansolillo to the office of vice president –chief compliance officer. In this new corporate role, he will be available to provide technical expertise and advice on a consultative basis to our operating units. The appointment is effective immediately. Mr. Mansolillo has over 25 years of legal, compliance and business experience, having served most recently as vice president and chief

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Joe Timko appointed Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Pitney Bowes

FT. MCMURRAY, Alberta & WALLINGFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CiDRA Oilsands Ltd. Creates New Business Unit and Appoints Asset Integrity Manager.

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Multiple Myeloma Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) today announced that Michael N. Needle, M.D., will serve as Chief Medical Officer.

BLOOMFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Susan Gaca has been named Cigna’s first chief nursing officer.

MILFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thinklogical expands sales organization with addition of new vice president of federal sales, Randy Ridley. He will be based in the metro Washington D.C. area.

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE: WRB) today announced the appointment of Thomas P. Boyle as vice president – corporate actuarial. The appointment is effective immediately. Mr. Boyle joined the Company in 2000, serving most recently as assistant vice president – corporate actuarial. He has over 25 years of property casualty actuarial experience. Mr. Boyle graduated from SUNY Albany with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics. Founded in 1967, W. R. Berkley C

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foundation Source hires John Libby as regional Managing Director in Chicago and upper Mid-West. He was formerly a Wells Fargo senior executive.

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The board of directors of Xerox (NYSE:XRX) recently elected new officers of the corporation.

WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glenn Van Deusen and Roy Levitt, co-founders of Van Deusen & Levitt Associates, brand strategy and design, are pleased to announce Kristyn Shayon Miller has joined VDLA as Director of Client Services.

MONROE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Osman Perksoy's appointment to Telenity as Vice President of Product Management and Marketing will drive growth and technology leadership as new innovative products are brought to mobile market.

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WWE® today announced the appointment of Andrew Judelson as Executive Vice President of Sales & Partnership Marketing

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charles (Chip) Blankenship named president and CEO of GE Appliances, succeeding James P. Campbell, who has elected to retire on Dec. 31, 2011 after 30 years of service to GE.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Leonard Vincent Group (TLVG) has opened a new office in Danielson, Conn and housing industry veteran Robert Rush will oversee the day-to-day business.

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dinesh Paliwal, President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of HARMAN (NYSE: HAR) was honored with the American India Foundation (AIF) Corporate Leadership Award at AIF’s 10th annual gala on Saturday, December 10. In its theme of “Celebrating a Decade of Impact,” the gala recognizes the outstanding leadership of individuals committed to creating long-term change and impact in India from both the subcontinent itself and the United States. Mr. Paliwal has bee

ENFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STR Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:STRI) today announced that Robert S. Yorgensen will succeed Dennis L. Jilot as STR’s Chief Executive Officer and President. Yorgensen, who currently serves as President of the Company’s solar business, will assume his new role commencing January 1, 2012. Mr. Jilot will continue as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Yorgensen has been President of STR’s solar encapsulant business for the past 14 years, during which time annual revenue gre

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foundation Source has brought on former Wachovia sr. executives Carol M. Yonack and Tony Rodriguez as regional Managing Directors to its national business development team in TX and FL respectively.

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Conning, Inc., a leading global provider of asset management solutions, services and research to the insurance industry, today announced the appointment of Woody E. Bradford, CFA as Chief Executive Officer of Conning. The appointment takes effect January 2, 2012. Mr. Bradford succeeds Salvatore Correnti, who will continue to serve in an advisory capacity as Vice Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of Conning. “The Board is delighted to name Woody as Ch

WESTERLY, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Washington Trust Wealth Management has appointed Drew J. Bottaro of Winchester, MA as Vice President and Senior Financial Counselor for its Wellesley-MA based Weston Financial division.

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Responding to increasing global needs to quickly and effectively integrate new talent, PrimeGenesis, a leading global executive onboarding and transition acceleration consulting firm, announces the addition of Roger Neill and Thomas Yang as partners, and new alliances in China and India. Neill, based in London, will focus on Europe, and Yang will concentrate on Asia, working with PrimeGenesis’ new allies Allen Ku of Illumination Works (China) and Vijay Karkare o

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charles H. Noski, vice chairman of Bank of America Corporation, today was appointed chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) for a one-year term beginning January 1, 2012. The Council advises the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the private-sector organization responsible for setting accounting standards for U.S. companies, on technical issues related to the Board’s agenda, project priorities, and other issues. Mr. Noski

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Neal Pilson, former president of CBS Sports, has joined LiveClips™, an innovator and pioneer in delivering live sports action via Internet-enabled and mobile devices, as a strategic media advisor.

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Re Corporation announced today that Michael Sweeney plans to retire as CEO of its subsidiary, United States Aviation Underwriters (USAU), at the end of the year. He will continue as Chairman until April 30, 2012. David McKay will become President and CEO of USAU effective January 1, 2012. “Under Mike’s leadership USAU became one of the premier aviation insurance providers in the United States. Mike is well known in the aviation business and has been a ti

MASHANTUCKET, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foxwoods Resort Casino® said today that it has named the former head of global marketing for Verizon Business to be its Chief Marketing Officer. Rebecca G. Carr has joined the Foxwoods executive team reporting directly to CEO Scott C. Butera. Her appointment is effective immediately. With more than 25 years’ experience marketing some of the world’s largest and most prestigious brands, Carr will play a key role in shaping Foxwoods brand identity as it prepare

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) announces that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Peterffy will present at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Securities Brokerage & Market Structure Conference on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 10:15 a.m. EST. Mr. Peterffy's presentation can be heard live via webcast on the Internet accessible from the company's web site, www.interactivebrokers.com/ir. Participants should log in approximately 10 mi

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Reinsurance Corporation announced that Pietro Toffanello has been promoted to Property/Casualty Treaty Manager of the Asia Pacific region and Managing Director of General Reinsurance Australia Ltd. Pietro has been with Gen Re since 1994. He will move to Sydney from London, where he currently holds the position of Property Facultative Regional Manager for the EMEA Region. Gen Re also announced that Martin Leitch has been named Property Facultative Regiona

Mintz & Hoke Promotes Kara Mitchell to Account Supervisor

AVON, Conn. . . Mintz & Hoke Communications Group has promoted Kara Mitchell to the position of account supervisor.

She reports to Dean Simmons,

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black Box Corporation Opening Office in Albany, NY

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CRT Capital Group LLC (“CRT”), an independent institutional broker-dealer based in Stamford, Connecticut, today announced that it will acquire a team of sales and trading professionals from Citadel Securities’ Institutional Mortgage Backed Securities Group. The team, led by Patrick Russell and Igor Vidrevich, will join CRT’s established Securitized Products Business, focusing on agency and non-agency residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, asset-b

LOS ANGELES & MILFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unicomm, LLC, a leading event management company, and The Bob Dowling Group announced today that Angry Birds’ maker Rovio Mobile’s David Maisel will be the Opening Keynote Speaker at the second annual 3D Gaming Summit: 3D Gaming and Beyond® presented in association with Variety, on Thursday, September 22, 2011, at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Hollywood, CA. Maisel will speak at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, September 22nd. Maisel, a veteran Hollywoo

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. (NYSE: UBA and UBP) announced today that Richard Grellier has been appointed to the Board of Directors. Mr. Grellier was appointed to serve on the Audit Committee, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and among the Company’s Class II directors until the next annual meeting of shareholders. His appointment fills a vacancy on the Board created by the resignation of Mr. Peter Herrick who stepped down, effective September 15,

MANCHESTER, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scan-Optics is pleased to announce that John Casanova has joined the Company as Director of Business Development, Document Process Outsourcing. Casanova will drive new sales initiatives for a wide variety of data capture, indexing, document processing imaging services, and hosted archive services to both commercial and government clients. Mr. Casanova has extensive sales development experience in the US for technology companies, most recently with Atalasoft, I

SIMSBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Michael S. Gregg has joined The Hartford as head of strategic markets in its Wealth Management business, the company announced today.

BLOOMFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation, Inc. has announced that Mark T. Bertolini has joined its Board of Directors. Mr. Bertolini is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Aetna, a Fortune 100 diversified health care benefits company with more than $34 billion in 2010 revenue, a workforce of approximately 33,000 and operations in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. “It is with great pride and anticipation that we welcome Mark to the Fidelco

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Reinsurance Corporation announced today that A. Morris Tooker has been promoted to Executive Vice President of General Reinsurance and Global Head of Property/Casualty Treaty business. Gen Re also announced that Chris Crowder has been named Senior Vice President and Head of Global Property Facultative business which includes Property, Marine and Engineering. John Cholnoky, President of General Reinsurance, commented, “We are excited about the intellect a

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WWE (NYSE:WWE) today announced that Michael Luisi has been named President, WWE Studios, effective immediately. In his new role, Luisi will oversee WWE Studios and all of its motion picture productions and initiatives worldwide. Luisi will continue to report directly to WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon. “Michael’s vast knowledge of, and experience in, the motion picture industry make him a tremendous asset for WWE Studios,” said Vince McMahon. “I am confident

NEW HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the promotions of Erin Duffy, Ph.D., to Chief Scientific Officer and Jarrod Longcor to Vice President, Corporate Development.

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global executive search and assessment firm Russell Reynolds Associates today announced the addition of Mariano Malvicino as Associate to the firm’s Industrial/Natural Resources sector. Mr. Malvicino will be based in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Malvicino joins the firm from McKinsey & Company where he served as Senior Associate. Providing counsel to top companies across a variety of industries, including manufacturing and assembly, basic materials, transporta

WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carolyn Miles, the long-time Chief Operating Officer of Save the Children, became the leading global organization for children’s first female CEO today, and immediately called for a concerted effort by the public, private, and volunteer sectors to address the continuing humanitarian crisis in Africa. Miles, who recently returned from a trip to the refugee camps in Kenya, said, “I witnessed human suffering on an unimaginable scale, with thousands more people arri

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Hartford has named David A. Carter, 48, as senior vice president of property insurance for Commercial Markets.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Continuity Control doubled its revenue in Q2 2011 and acquired My Compliance Info, hiring its founder, to better help clients meet the increasing regulatory compliance demands.

MASHANTUCKET, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Todd Greenberg has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer for Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise (MPGE), owner of Foxwoods Casino Resort® (“Foxwoods”). Foxwoods CEO Scott C. Butera made the announcement today. Mr. Greenberg, formerly a Senior Vice President at Foxwoods, has more than 15 years of gaming experience. Prior to joining Foxwoods, he served in key operating and strategic planning positions at Tropicana Entertainment and Ameristar Casinos. “I a

WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American Energy Group, Ltd. (OTC.BB: AEGG) announced today that Dr. Iftikhar A. Zahid has resigned from the Board of Directors of The American Energy Group, Ltd. effective immediately. Dr. Zahid, who also serves on the Board of Directors of Hycarbex-American Energy, Inc., the operator of the Yasin 2768-7 Block petroleum concession in the Sindh Province of Pakistan, will focus his efforts upon assisting Hycarbex-American Energy, Inc. and its parent company, H