{"id":28577,"date":"2014-09-10T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2014\/09\/personnel-briefs-sept-2014.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:52:07","slug":"personnel-briefs-sept-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2014\/09\/personnel-briefs-sept-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Personnel Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Awarded to all graduates of the Institute In addition, Towne, Ryan & Partners PC announced that, Firm principals Claudia A. Ryan<\/strong> (employment In addition, Ryan and DeFio Kean were It is the third consecutive year Ryan has appeared Towne has appeared annually on the Upstate Associates of Glens Falls Insurance recently She began with the company at the beginning A native of Ballston Spa, she is a graduate of Crozier is an active volunteer with Big Brothers\/ The Law Firm of McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Stanton received her J.D. degree, summa During law school, Stanton interned with She received her B.S. degree in chemical After attending Bryant In 2012, she opened BodyWise Fitness Ryan has over 20 After selling her real estate firm, she relocated Saratoga Hospital welcomed pulmonary Iannuccillo earned his medical degree from Couch White LLP, a law firm with an office Over the past 29 years, Higgins has prepared He has been recognized by the New York He has lectured at bar association seminars He is also a past president of the Albany Daniel Sullivan<\/strong> has joined the law firm of Sullivan brings years of experience to the Siegel is the deputy He is a trial lawyer in the state and federal Only a single lawyer in each practice area The company also had three attorneys from The firm also said two attorneys are included Saratoga Hospital welcomed hematologist\/ Prior to joining Saratoga Hospital, he worked Mongan earned his medical degree from Mongan is board certified in hematology and McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, PC They include Glen P. Doherty<\/strong>, employment Also, firm shareholders Mathew P. Barry<\/strong>, Berkshire Bank has created a small business Joining Berkshire are Karen Zalewski- The new Small Business Banking team, The team will be responsible for managing Leonard D’Arrigo<\/strong>, a partner with Whiteman Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding He specializes in corporate and professional As an investigative Wright served in the 1018th Quartermaster Wright recently received a bachelor of science The Institute for Organization Management, the professional development program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, announced that John Marcantonio, membership director, of the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, has graduated from the program and has received the recognition…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":15671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-28577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personnel-briefs","tag-personnel-briefs"],"yoast_head":"\r\n
\nThe Institute for
\nOrganization Management,
\nthe professional
\ndevelopment program
\nof the U.S. Chamber
\nof Commerce Foundation,
\nannounced that
\nJohn Marcantonio<\/strong>,
\nmembership director,
\nof the Saratoga
\nCounty Chamber of
\nCommerce, has graduated from the program
\nand has received the recognition of IOM.<\/p>\n
\nprogram, the IOM recognition signifies the
\nindividual’s completion of 96 hours of course
\ninstruction in nonprofit management.<\/p>\n
\nparticipants can earn credit hours toward
\nthe certified chamber executive (CCE) or
\ncertified association executive (CAE) certifications.
\nNearly 1,000 individuals attend Institute
\nannually.<\/p>\n
\nfor the fifth year in a row, five attorneys at the
\nfirm have been recognized in the 2014 New York
\nSuper Lawyers Magazine, a Thomson Reuters
\npublication, as being in the top 5 percent of
\nattorneys in Upstate New York.<\/p>\n
\nand labor), Susan F. Bartkowski<\/strong>
\n(franchise\/dealership), Elena DeFio Kean<\/strong>
\n(government\/cities\/municipalities), and
\nJames T. Towne Jr<\/strong>. (business litigation), and
\none attorney of counsel to the firm, John F.
\nMoore<\/strong> (employment litigation defense), were
\nnamed to the Upstate New York Super Lawyers
\nlist as top attorneys in Upstate New York.<\/p>\n
\nnamed to the list of the Top 25 Women Lawyers
\nin the 2013 New York Super Lawyers. They,
\nalong with Towne, appear on the list of the Top
\n25 Hudson Valley Lawyers in the same edition.<\/p>\n
\non these lists, the second consecutive
\nyear on these lists for DeFio Kean, and Towne’s
\nfirst appearance on the Top 25 Hudson Valley
\nLawyers List.<\/p>\n
\nNew York Super Lawyers list since 2007;
\nDeFio Kean annually since 2009; and Ryan,
\nBartkowski and Moore have appeared annually
\non the list since 2010.<\/p>\n
\nhired Amanda L. Crozier<\/strong> of Saratoga Springs
\nas new marketing executive.<\/p>\n
\nof July and will handle new business marketing
\nand renewals for AOGF. Crozier has been
\nin the insurance industry for five years and was
\npreviously employed with Cool Insuring Agency.<\/p>\n
\nEmmanuel College in Boston with a Bachelor
\nof Arts in sociology\/philosophy and a graduate
\nof the Hartford School of Insurance. She
\ncompleted the New York State Department
\nof Financial Services’ licensing course for
\ninsurance brokers and holds CISR (certified
\ninsurance service representative), CRIS (construction
\nrisk and insurance specialist) and
\nCLCS (commercial lines coverage specialist)
\ndesignations.<\/p>\n
\nBig Sisters.<\/p>\n
\nWilliams PC announced that Dana P. Stanton<\/strong>
\nhas joined the firm as an associate, working in
\nthe environmental law, land use law, energy
\nlaw, commercial litigation and criminal defense
\npractice areas.<\/p>\n
\ncum laude, from Albany Law School of Union
\nUniversity in 2013. She was an associate editor
\nof the Albany Law Review.<\/p>\n
\nAlbany Law School’s Domestic Violence Prosecution
\nHybrid Clinic, the Family Violence
\nLitigation Clinic, the Immigration Project, the
\nUnited States Attorney’s Office for the Northern
\nDistrict of New York, and the state Office of the
\nAttorney General’s Environmental Protection
\nBureau.<\/p>\n
\nengineering from RPI in 2007. Prior to attending
\nlaw school, she worked as an engineer
\nfor General Electric, and graduated from the
\nOperations Management Leadership Program.
\nStanton is a member of the New York State
\nBar Association, the Albany County Bar Association,
\nand the Capital District Women’s
\nBar Association.<\/p>\n
\nRoohan Realty announced
\nthat Joanna
\nRockwood<\/strong> and Frances
\nRyan<\/strong> joined the
\ncompany as real estate
\nsalespersons.<\/p>\n
\nCollege in Rhode
\nIsland, Rockwood
\nmoved to Boston to
\nwork in the financial
\ndistrict. After returning to Malta and purchasing
\na home, she began working in real estate
\nas a property manager for a few family-owned
\nhomes.<\/p>\n
\nStudio in Malta and recently added Island
\nMist Tanning. For the past two years they
\nhave participated in
\nthe Saratoga Tour de
\nCure, a cycling event,
\nraising money for the
\nAmerican Diabetes Association.
\n
<\/p>\n
\nyears’ experience as a
\nRealtor, having owned
\na residential real estate
\nfirm on the North
\nShore of Boston, in the
\nCape Ann area of Massachusetts, serving the
\ncommunities of Gloucester, Rockport, Essex,
\nManchester and Beverly.<\/p>\n
\nto Colorado for five years, where she was
\na licensed real estate broker and worked in the
\nvacation rental area of real estate.<\/p>\n
\nmedicine physician Dr. Anthony Iannuccillo<\/strong>
\nto the medical staff and to Saratoga Center
\nfor Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, a
\nmember of the hospital’s Saratoga Regional
\nMedical Group.<\/p>\n
\nSackler School of Medicine in New York City.
\nHe completed a residency and a fellowship in
\npulmonary medicine, both at Albany Medical
\nCenter. He is board certified in internal medicine
\nwith subspecialty certification in pulmonary
\nmedicine.<\/p>\n
\nin Saratoga Springs, announces that Patrick
\nJ. Higgins<\/strong> has joined the firm as a partner.
\nHiggins comes to Couch White with more
\nthan 29 years of practice in civil litigation. He
\nwas a partner at Powers & Santola in Albany.<\/p>\n
\nand tried to verdict numerous cases in state
\nand federal courts. He has defended claims
\nagainst architects and engineers, and represented
\nclients in Superfund and navigation law
\nactions. Higgins also has represented clients in
\nnumerous civil actions, including a variety of
\ncomplex personal injury matters.<\/p>\n
\nState Bar Association as a distinguished author
\nand editor in the field of trial practice.<\/p>\n
\nacross the state on civil procedure and trial
\ntactics. His articles have appeared in national
\ntrial magazines and the New York State Bar
\nAssociation Journal. In the fall of 2013, he
\ncreated and chaired a six-city seminar on Trial
\nPreparation for the New York State Academy
\nof Trial Lawyers which received the Academy’s
\n2014 President’s Award.<\/p>\n
\nCounty Bar Association, and a past member
\nof the New York State Bar Association’s House
\nof Delegates. A graduate of SUNY Buffalo Law
\nSchool, with a J.D., Higgins is admitted to
\npractice in New York.<\/p>\n
\nWilcenski & Pleat PLLC to work in its Medicaid
\ndepartment.<\/p>\n
\nposition, having worked in both government
\nand private institutional settings before joining
\nthe firm.<\/p>\n
\nArthur J. Siegel<\/strong> of
\nthe Bond, Schoeneck
\n& King PLLC law firm
\nwas named the Best
\nLawyers’ 2015 Albany
\nPersonal Injury Litigation
\n– Defendants
\n“Lawyer of the Year.”<\/p>\n
\nmanaging member and
\nhead of the litigation practice for the office.<\/p>\n
\ncourts and has successfully defended Fortune
\n50 companies in multi-million dollar product
\nliability, environmental, commercial and premises
\nliability claims, and represented numerous
\nschool districts, corporations and individuals
\nin complex construction, business and other
\ngeneral litigation.<\/p>\n
\nin any community is honored as the “Lawyer
\nof the Year.”<\/p>\n
\nthe firm’s Albany office are listed in the 2014
\nNew York Super Lawyers Upstate Edition.
\nNicholas J. D’Ambrosio<\/strong> is listed in the
\nfield of employment and labor; and Stuart F.
\nKlein<\/strong> and Arthur J. Siegel<\/strong> are listed in the
\nfield of business litigation.<\/p>\n
\nin the 2014 New York Super Lawyers Upstate
\nRising Stars list. Michael D. Billok<\/strong> is listed
\nin the field of employment and labor and
\nMatthew A. Young<\/strong> is listed in the field of
\nhealth care. These attorneys were selected by
\ntheir peers from among the top up-and-coming
\nlawyers, defined as 40 years of age and younger,
\nor in the practice of law for less than 10 years.<\/p>\n
\noncologist Dr. John P. Mongan<\/strong> to its medical
\nstaff and to Saratoga Hematology\/Oncology, a
\nmember of the hospital’s Saratoga Regional
\nMedical Group.<\/p>\n
\nat York Hospital in York Maine.<\/p>\n
\nPhiladelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
\nin Philadelphia. He completed an internship\/
\nresidency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
\nCenter in Lebanon, N.H. and a hematology\/
\noncology fellowship at Strong Memorial Hospital
\naffiliated with the University of Rochester
\nMedical College.<\/p>\n
\nmedical oncology.<\/p>\n
\nsaid 10 of its attorneys were named to the
\nUpstate New York Super Lawyers list as top
\nattorneys for 2014.<\/p>\n
\nand labor; Kevin Laurilliard<\/strong>, construction
\nand surety; Christopher Massaroni<\/strong>, business
\nlitigation; Amy S. O’Connor<\/strong>, elder law;
\nPeter A. Pastore<\/strong>, bankruptcy and creditor\/
\ndebtor rights; Scott C. Paton<\/strong>, business litigation;
\nJohn J. Privitera<\/strong>; environmental litigation,
\nenvironmental, land use\/zoning; Timothy
\nB. Thornton<\/strong>, estate planning and probate;
\nBruce J. Wagner<\/strong>, family law; and David J.
\nWukitsch<\/strong>, business litigation.<\/p>\n
\nApril M. Dalbec<\/strong> and Jeremy H. Speich<\/strong> are
\nlisted as 2014 Upstate New York Rising Stars by
\nSuper Lawyers magazine. The list is comprised
\nof no more than 2.5 percent of attorneys in the
\nstate, under age 40 or practicing law for 10
\nyears or less. Barry was recognized in the business
\nlitigation practice area, Dalbec in family
\nlaw, and Speich for corporate and business law.<\/p>\n
\nbanking team as part of its services and hired
\npeople to fill roles on the team.<\/p>\n
\nWildzunas<\/strong>, vice president, business banking
\nteam leader; Tracey Costanza<\/strong>, vice president,
\nbusiness banking officer; Eric Navarra<\/strong>, vice
\npresident, business banking officer; Gregory
\nNovitsky<\/strong>, vice president, business banking
\nofficer; and Michael Stefanik<\/strong>, vice president,
\nbusiness banking officer. The new team’s market
\nfootprint in New York includes the following
\ncounties: Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer,
\nSaratoga, Columbia, Greene, Fulton and
\nMontgomery.<\/p>\n
\npreviously with First Niagara Financial Group,
\nwill be based out of Berkshire’s regional headquarters
\nat 41 State St., Albany.<\/p>\n
\nand developing Berkshire’s small business
\naccounts and lending portfolio in the Capital
\nDistrict New York region, working closely with
\nthe New York Business Development Corporation
\n(NYBDC) and the Small Business Administration
\n(SBA).<\/p>\n
\nOsterman & Hanna, was recently named
\none of Super Lawyers’ New York Rising Stars.<\/p>\n
\nlawyers from more than 70 practice areas who
\nhave attained a high-degree of peer recognition
\nand professional achievement.<\/p>\n
\nimmigration involving employment-based immigrant
\nand nonimmigrant petitions, labor
\ncertification, and family-based immigration.<\/p>\n
\nAlliance Worldwide
\nInvestigative Group
\nInc. added Jessica L.
\nWright<\/strong> to its Pre- and
\nPost- Employment
\nScreening\/Background
\nInvestigations Department.<\/p>\n
\ncoordinator, she conducts
\ncounty, state
\nand federal background investigation
\nsearches on applicants. Wright schedules
\napplicant drug screenings and conducts
\nemployment, education and reference
\nverifications, ensuring compliance with all
\nlegal mandates including the Fair Credit
\nReporting Act. In addition, she serves as a
\nliaison between employers, service providers
\nand court systems, gathering information
\nand verifying accuracy during the applicant
\nvetting process.<\/p>\n
\nCompany of the U.S. Army Reserves as a
\nunit supply specialist. Her training included
\naccredited course work in marksmanship,
\nmilitary science, computer applications and
\ninventory management and control.<\/p>\n
\ndegree in criminal justice from SUNY
\nPlattsburgh, where she was a member of the
\nAlpha Phi Sigma Honor Society and a liberal
\narts degree from Hudson Valley Community
\nCollege with a focus in Criminal Justice
\nwhere she graduated with academic honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"