On the Record / September 5, 2008
Hires/Promotions/ Honors
Superior Staff Resources president and CEO Lynne Marie Finn was named as national chair for the “Economic Blueprint—The Women Business Owners Platform for Growth” by the Women Impacting Public Policy. The Economic Blueprint outlines the public policies necessary to help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses in the 21st century. Superior Staff Resources is a national staffing company headquartered in Williamsville.
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RobsonWoese Inc., an Amherst consulting engineering firm, named Michael B. Turri project manager. Turri has 30 years of engineering and management experience. He holds an MBA from the University at Buffalo and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Manhattan College and is a registered professional engineer in New York State.
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ATSI Inc., an Amherst-headquartered consulting engineering firm, promoted Peter D. Sortisio to director of engineering. Sortisio is responsible for engineering activities at the company’s Amherst, Chicago and Pittsburgh offices. He joined the company in 1984 as an associate engineer in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Sortisio holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Brisbane Consulting Group, a Buffalo business valuation and management consulting firm, appointed Paula Cawley a director. Cawley, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, was formerly with First Niagara Bank.
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Horizon Health Services named Randyll P. Bowen of Niagara County Community College; Christina Pearl of Wells Fargo Financial; and Dennis Walczak of Catholic Charities of Buffalo to Horizon Health Services and Horizon Village boards of directors for three-year terms.
Company items
Evans Bank opened a new branch at 925 Elmwood Avenue in the Elmwood Village community, representing its 12th bank branch in Western New York. Concurrent with this branch opening, the bank unveiled its new identity designed by The Martin Group, a Buffalo-based advertising agency, including a simplified name, new logo featuring a contemporary orange mark in the shape of a circle, accentuated by a lowercase white ‘e’ and a new tagline— “Experience. A Better Way.”
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Brompton Heights Assisted Living and Memory Care Residence in Williamsville, recently opened Independent Living at Brompton Heights, a retirement community consisting of 10 one-bedroom apartments designed for self-sufficient seniors. Additional information is available by calling 634-5734 or visiting: www.bromptonheights.com/apartments.html . •••
Kathabar Dehumidification Systems, a Buffalo provider of engineered energy-efficient solutions for humidity control, recently introduced the Economic Value Comparison (EVC) program to assist owners and engineers in the selection of dehumidification systems. The evaluation compares liquid and dry desiccant dehumidification systems with conventional refrigeration using first cost, installation cost, and operating costs.
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Southtowns Radiology at 3050 Orchard Park Road in Orchard Park was named a Breast Imagining Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.
Patents
Title: “Resorbable laminated repair film and method of using same” No.: 7,417,174 Inventors: Hicks Jr., Wesley L. (Angola); Bizios, Rena (Troy); Bright, Frank V. (Williamsville); Gardella, Joseph A. (Buffalo); Hard, Robert (Buffalo); Lwebuga-Mukasa, Jamson S. (Getzville); Cartwright, Alexander N. (Williamsville); Koc, Bahattin (Amherst) Assignee: The Research Foundation of the University at Buffalo (Amherst) Date issued: Aug. 26, 2008
