Hires/Promotions/ Honors

Jamestown Community College appointed Jean “John” Sayegh vice president/dean of the Cattaraugus County Campus, continuing education and external partnerships. Sayegh most recently was director of economic development, planning and tourism for Cattaraugus County. He served as chief operating officer of the Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce and the Cattaraugus Empire Zone Corp. from August 2001 to June 2009. A graduate of Miami Dade Community College, Sayegh received a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Florida International University and a master’s degree in business administration from St. Bonaventure University.

The University at Buffalo School of Management’s Kee H. Chung, the Louis M. Jacobs professor of financial planning and control and chairman of the department of finance and managerial economics, was cited as one of the most prolific authors in financial literature for the past 50 years in a study published in the Journal of Finance Literature. Chung ranked No. 35 on a list of authors appearing most frequently in 26 finance journals and No. 73 on the list of seven leading finance journals.

BB&T, a bank based in Winston-Salem, N. C., promoted Mark Newbigging to senior vice president. The Kenmore native received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Buffalo State College.

Company items

Reichert Ophthalmic Instruments, a Depew designer and manufacturer of diagnostic eye care instruments at 3362 Walden Ave., recently acquired the Foresee Preferential Hyperacuity Perimeter from Notal Vision. The Foresee PHP is a non-invasive visual field analyzer for monitoring age-related macular degeneration and early detection of conversion to choroidal neovascularization.

Hauptman-Woodward Institute of Buffalo will assume management of an experimental station at the Advanced Photon Source, a synchrotron at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, in January. Synchrotrons are large, centralized facilities that generate intense X-ray beams. The APS provides the brightest of these beams in the Western Hemisphere. Hauptman-Woodward scientists make use of these facilities along with scientists from around the world.

Patents

Title: “Rectifier assembly with enhanced air cooling” No.: 7,612,474 Inventors: DePetris, Peter Salvatore (Niagara Falls); DePetris, Timothy Christopher (Niagara Falls) Assignee: Electric-Dyn Choke Corp. (Niagara Falls) Date issued: Nov. 3, 2009