Movers & Shakers from the June 21, 2010 Issue
SHAUN SUHOSKI has been named town administrator for the Town of Sturbridge. He previously held the same position in Ayer. He has a bachelor’s degree from Fitchburg State College and a law degree from New England Law School. He started at his new job in Sturbridge April 12.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has appointed KAREN KASHMANIAN OATES as its first Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences. Oates is now the deputy director of undergraduate education at the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Studies. She will start the new job at WPI in August. In her new position, she will fill one of three academic deanships being created at WPI.
Worcester’s Seven Hills Foundation has appointed ROBIN M. FOLEY as assistant vice president for Seven Hills Family Services. Foley previously worked as the project director for special education projects at the Federation for Children with Special Needs, a Boston-based organization. In her new position, Foley will oversee various programs at Seven Hills’ clinical affiliate.
Enterprise Cleaning Corp. of Worcester has promoted VAL TOIGO to vice president of operations. Toigo has worked for Enterprise since 2005, most recently as operations manager. Toigo lives in Worcester with his wife Edilane and son Christian.
The Milford National Bank and Trust Co. has elected MICHAEL A. DIORIO as chairman of its board of directors. Diorio recently retired as executive director of the Milford Housing Authority. Before taking that position, he was the founder and managing partner of a certified public accounting practice, starting in 1975. He has served on the bank’s board since 1996.
BOB FRANCE, president of Shirley’s Senate Construction Corp., has been named chairman of the Builder Advisory Council of Chief Buildings Inc. in Nebraska. The advisory council works with Chief Buildings to improve its delivery systems and products. Senate Construction is a 20-year-old company that offers design/build services for manufacturing and industrial companies in Central Massachusetts.
Clark University in Worcester has hired ANTHONY BEBBINGTON, currently on the staff of the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales in Peru, as director of the Graduate School of Geography. Bebbington will begin his new position, leading the geography school and serving as Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, on July 1.
Southbridge Savings Bank has hired KEITH R. KIRKLAND as vice president and commercial loan officer. Kirkland has 22 years of experience in banking. In his new position, he will work with businesspeople in Worcester County and Northeastern Connecticut.
Exercise equipment maker Cybex International Inc. of Medway has promoted PAUL DOLAN to director of sales education. Dolan has worked for Cybex for more than a decade in various positions. He has also worked in sales for Healthetech and Gym Source.
PHIL A. BENVENUTI was named senior director of internal audit at Worcester-based Fallon Community Health Plan. He previously worked at the Rhode Island accounting firm Sansiveri, Kimball & McNamee LLP and at Hanover Insurance in Worcester.
Two Worcester physicians, LYNDA M. YOUNG and RICHARD AGHABABIAN, have been elected as officers of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Young, a pediatrician with Chandler Pediatrics and chief of the division of community pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Children’s Medical Center in Worcester, was chosen as the MMS’s president-elect. Agha-babian, an associate dean of continuing medical education at UMass Medical School and a professor of emergency medicine at UMass Memorial Medical Center, was elected as the MMS’s vice president.
The Training Associates of Westborough has hired WARREN CLARKE as manager of corporate trainer solutions. Clarke spent 15 years doing technical support work at Automated Assemblies Inc. in Clinton. In his new position, he will work with the firm’s public sector clients.
DONNA COX of Dynamx Financial Solutions in Northborough will serve as chair of the board for the Corridor Nine Area Chamber of Commerce in the 2010-2011 year. Cox has chaired the organization’s school business partnership committee.
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