5th Street Advisors appoints Cabral
Stamford”™s 5th Street Advisors LLC, an investment firm, appointed Maurice Cabral as an investment adviser representative. Cabral most recently served as CFO for Stamford”™s Lake Partners, with responsibilities including client reporting, accounting, trading, compliance and control functions. He holds a bachelor”™s degree in business administration from the University of Connecticut in Storrs and is a registered investment adviser and licensed life and health insurance agent.
BDO announces tax principal
BDO, an accounting firm with an office in Stamford, appointed Jonathan Forman as a tax principal there. Forman is the leader of BDO”™s research and development credits and incentives practice for the eastern and southwestern U.S. regions and the director of the global research and development center of excellence. Prior to joining BDO, Forman spent six years working with Big Four firms in the U.S. and Canada.
Epstein launches Salivation
Joseph Charles Epstein of Westport is the inventor, president and CEO of Salivation, an online cooking app offering tutorials on how to recreate restaurant-quality meals at home. The application, which was scheduled to launch June 22 on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website, enables users to cook with chefs, including Jonathan Wu, owner of Fung Tu in Manhattan.
Epstein holds a master”™s degree and has taught at the college level in the field of computer game and activity-based learning.
For more information, contact Kim Demers kim.salivation@gmail.com.
Webster Bank promotes two
Waterbury-based Webster Bank announced that two members of its CFO Group have been promoted to senior vice president.
Lynn Ryan, senior vice president, assistant controller, CFO Group, joined Webster in 2007. She was promoted to assistant controller in 2013, assuming responsibility for internal and regulatory reporting, in addition to her loan accounting duties. She is a CPA with a degree from Babson College.
Fred Smith, senior vice president, assistant controller, CFO Group, joined Webster in 2005. He was promoted to assistant controller in 2013 and assumed responsibility for external reporting. Smith is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor”™s degree from Bentley University.
Littlejohn elected president of ASCRS
Charles Littlejohn, chief, division of colorectal surgery at Stamford Hospital, was elected president of the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons. His selection marks the society”™s first appointee from the state of Connecticut. Littlejohn has worked for Stamford Hospital since 1984. He holds a medical degree from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and completed his fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at UMDNJ ”“ Rutgers (now Robert Wood Johnson Medical School).
Frederik Belden House sold
Berkshire Hathway HomeServices New England Properties, a real estate firm with offices in Connecticut and Rhode Island, recently sold the Frederick Belden House on the Norwalk Green East for $250,000. Built circa 1850 by wealthy hatmaker Frederick Belden, the house had at least two families of servants living there until it was sold after Frederick Belden”™s death. Ray Rumer acted as listing agent and Ellie Balazs and Jeff Byington acted as selling agents for the transaction.
Connecticut presence for SomruS
Chicago-based SomPriya Fine Spirits, announced its premier product SomruS, an Indian cream liqueur, is available in Stratford, distributed exclusively through Connecticut Distributers Inc. Since its launch less than a year ago, Connecticut marks the fifth state to carry this liquor, joining New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Massachusetts.
People”™s United helps 26,000 students
Bridgeport-based People”™s United Community Foundation, the philanthropic arm of People”™s United Bank, awarded $100,000 to donorschoose.org for a “Uniting Cash for Classrooms” campaign. A charity created to support public school teachers, donorschoose.org provides schools with an online venue to submit classroom project requests describing needed school supplies for their students. The public can then browse the projects and choose those they wish to support.
O”™Leary awarded RP designation
Stamford-based Asset Management Group Inc. announced that the College of Financial Planning has awarded Jennifer M. O”™Leary the registered paraplanner designation. Individuals who hold the RP designation have completed a course study encompassing the financial planning process, the five disciplines of financial planning and general financial planning concepts, terminology and product categories.
O”™Leary is a graduate of Boston University with a bachelor”™s degree in international relations and economics.
McShane elected to National Speakers Association
Kathy McShane, CEO of Ladies Launch Club, was named president-elect of the Connecticut chapter of the National Speakers Association, a national organization for professional speakers. Ladies Launch Club is an organization that supports women entrepreneurs in their journeys to launch or expand a business.
Upstairs-downstairs at Lockwood-Mathews via $25K grant
Norwalk”™s Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum received a $25,000 grant from the Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, for a new exhibition that will open to the public Oct. 14 with a gala preview Oct. 10, a Saturday. The exhibit is titled “The Stairs: Below: The Mansion”™s Domestic Servants, 1868-1938” and will run through Oct. 30, 2016. For the exhibit, the museum intends to open the mansion”™s servants”™ quarters to visitors, creating an educational tour about the people who worked there. The exhibit will explore themes including immigrant experience, housing, social justice, the role of women and the relationship between the elite and the working classes.
For more information, email info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com.
FCA”™s annual benefit yields success
More than 300 guests attended RE-IMAGINE 2015, Family & Children”™s Agency”™s (FCA) annual benefit at The Loading Dock in Stamford, May 30. The event featured cuisine from Abigail Kirsch, performances from Broadway star Liz Callaway and live and silent auctions. The evening”™s co-chairwomen were FCA board members Jill Dimitrief and Sharon Sullivan, both of Westport, and Lisa Lillie of Wilton.
The event was titled “RE-IMAGINE” as FCA”™s annual IMAGINE benefit was reinvented to highlight how the agency builds better lives. For more information, email Marion Herbert at mherbert@fcagency.org.
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