Fairfield County Newsmakers, 4.14.2014

Mooney signs on as group director at Signature

Signature Bank named Thomas P. Mooney group director and senior vice president leading a three-person team that has worked together for seven years.

Mooney spent the past 10 years at JPMorgan Chase. Most recently, he was Northeast region recruiting manager, handling recruitment for the entire Northeast for nearly two years.

Richard Carr was named associate group director and vice president on Mooney”™s team, bringing 25 years of financial services expertise to the Bank. He had served for eight years as branch manager and vice president for JPMorgan Chase in Ridgefield.

Joseph Cambareri, with 12 years of banking experience, joins Mooney”™s team as relationship manager, focused on serving commercial clients and providing operational support.

The team will temporarily be based at the Bank”™s White Plains, N.Y., private client banking office until its newest office in Greenwich opens later this year. The new office constitutes Signature”™s 28th office space.

YMCA receives $200K pool challenge from Cohens

The Stamford Family YMCA at 10 Bell St., Stamford, announced it has received a $200,000 challenge grant from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation, in support of its recently launched Pool Infrastructure Project to replace the pool and it”™s mechanical systems.

The Cohen Foundation has already donated the initial $100,000 to ensure the costs of the most pressing needs are met immediately, with the remainder contingent upon the Y raising matching funds throughout the community.

Overland named chiropractor of the year

The American Chiropractic Association honored past president Keith Overland, of Norwalk, with the “Chiropractor of the Year Award” during its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes “exceptional service, achievement and/or leadership to the profession.”

Overland served as president of ACA from September 2011 to March 2014.

Overland, a Wilton resident and 1981 graduate of New York Chiropractic College, has served the Norwalk community in private practice for more than 30 years, and has been named Connecticut Chiropractor of the Year three times. He has served as co-chairman of the Connecticut Governor”™s Committee on Physical Fitness, among other professional associations.

Skystream adds new adviser

Skystream Markets Inc., a provider of institutional transaction services for Renewable Energy Certificates and other environmental markets, announced Satish S. Nandapurkar”™s appointment to the company”™s board of advisers.

Nandapurkar previously served as president and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange, overseeing business operations and market development as well as its subsidiary, the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange. He served as a U.S. Air Force officer, leaving as a captain in 1993. He holds degrees from MIT (undergraduate) and from Boston University (graduate).

BHHS names two as tops for sales

BHHS New England Properties announced the top sales executives in its Norwalk office. In March, top honors went to Jane Walters as “Top Listing Agent” and Mark Namm won the Top Selling Award.

Stanwich students fight cancer with bake sale

Five sixth-grade Stanwich School students held a bake sale in March with all proceeds going to Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, with another sale planned for later this spring. The young philanthropists ”“ Celia Daigle, Winnie Marion, Grayson McIntyre, Sydney Pittignano and Elizabeth Raezer ”“ crafted signs, promoted the sale over morning announcements and baked the treats, including marble cake and snicker doodles, themselves.

The girls set up shop on Greenwich Avenue, sharing their sweets and mission with passers-by. The $220 raised will go directly toward ACGT”™s current funding innovative at Stanford University, University of Maryland and elsewhere that offers hope to children diagnosed with brain cancer. In conjunction with an earlier bake sale, the girls have donated a total $450 to ACGT so far.

Cabaret contest raises $30K for children’s services

“Turn Up the Music” was the theme of the 23rd Annual Kennedy Center Cabaret, an evening of music based on the TV hit ”˜The Voice.” Four men and seven women vied for votes to win the voice contest. The evening benefitted Children”™s Services at The Kennedy Center and raised $30,000.

Elayne Cassara won the top prize performing “A Little Piece of My Heart” and “Perfect.”Â The winner for the men, and voice runner-up of the evening, was Bobby Harden, a New York City singer.

The Kennedy Center is a nationally accredited, nonprofit, community-based rehabilitation organization that currently serves 2,400 individuals annually. Since its inception more than 20 years ago, the Auction/Cabaret has raised more than $1 million for the benefit of Children”™s Services at The Kennedy Center.

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