Awards & Honors
Yonkers, NY – The Association for Women in Communication of Westchester (NY) announced the honorees for the AWC 2007 Matrix Awards:
Super Women:
Darlene Rodriguez, Co-Anchor, WNBC's Today in New York
Courtney Gibbons, Group Head, Brand & Strategy Development, MasterCard Worldwide
Grace Bennett, Editor, Inside Chappaqua
Anne Bradner, Deputy Director, SUNY Purchase
Deborah Scates, Director of Marketing, The Westchester
Super Girl:
Christina Occhipinti, Assistant Account Executive, Robin Leedy & Associates
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This year, South Jersey resident Michelle Bunting, President & Co-Owner of Horizon Pediatric Systems, Inc. and President & Co-Owner Camden Shipping Corporation, is one of three leaders chosen for the distinguished 2007 AWIB Entrepreneurial Leadership award. Horizon Pediatric Systems, based in Bordentown, designs and implements pediatric healthcare programs and owns and operates the largest pediatric medical day facility in the State of New Jersey . The mission is to offer comprehensive health care delivery systems that meet the complex and broad based needs of medically fragile children from urban communities. |
Bunting also co-formed Camden Shipping Corporation (CSC) to fill a void in the American marine industry by expanding opportunities for women and minorities to meaningfully participate in the marine trades. CSC is the first all woman owned, all minority owned company in the history of the United States, to own its own dredge and demonstrate capacity to perform marine construction services.
Bunting is only one of 2 women in the United States certified as a Cutter Suction dredge operator. Bunting also serves on the Board of National Association of Women Business Owners, South Jersey Chapter and the New Jersey Commission on Early Childhood Education. Additionally, she’s a member of several national organizations including the Women Presidents’ Organization, the Healthcare Businesswoman’s Association, U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Child Care Professionals (NACCP).
Michelle Bunting, is available for interview, Q & A or photo ops immediately and may be contacted at 609-298-5991 or email mbunting@horizon4kids . (For a full background bio, please see www.camdenshipping.com)
AWIB’s Leadership Awards have received much critical acclaim, resulting in an unprecedented number of corporate sponsors, which attests to their positive experience working with and investing in AWIB. AWIB’s top sponsors this year are Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, NBC Universal/ General Electric and Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club, followed by AT&T, Aetna, The Bank of New York Mellon, Deloitte, Nationwide, Prudential Financial, Con Edison, Credit Suisse, FedEx, HSBC, Major League Baseball, MasterCard Worldwide, Morgan Stanley, State Farm and many more.
Michelle Bunting, President & Co-Owner of Horizon Pediatric Systems, Inc. and President & Co-Owner Camden Shipping Corporation, is one of three leaders chosen for the distinguished 2007 AWIB Entrepreneurial Leadership award. Horizon Pediatric Systems, based in Bordentown, designs and implements pediatric healthcare programs and owns and operates the largest pediatric medical day facility in the State of New Jersey.
Bunting is also co-founder of Camden Shipping Corporation (CSC), the first all-woman-and-minority-owned, company with its own dredge and capacity to perform marine construction services. She established the firm to fill a void in the American marine industry by expanding opportunities for women and minorities to meaningfully participate in the marine trades.
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New York, NY -- Ernesta G. Procope, chairman of E.G. Bowman Co., Inc., received the Minority Enterprise Development 25th Anniversary Minority Business Legacy Award.
E.G. Bowman ranks as the nation’s largest minority-owned and woman-owned insurance brokerage, serving many of America’s largest corporations from its Wall Street office. She founded the firm in 1953 as a storefront insurance agency. |
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Roseland, NJ -- Marcy LoCastro, CPA. CITP, MBA, managing director of SolomonEdwardsGroup’s (SEG) New Jersey market, was recently named one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business by NJ Biz. Additionally, LoCastro was elected president of the Executive Women of New Jersey. |
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Washington, DC -- WomenHeart, a Washington-based advocacy organization focusing on women with heart disease, recently appointed Lisa M. Tate as the organization’s new CEO. Tate, who previously served 14 years with the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), and six years before that with the American Academy of Pediatrics, is no stranger to public affairs in the health advocacy arena. |
New Positions & Promotions
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Christa Davies has been appointed EVP, Global Finance at Aon Corporation and will be named CFO in March,08. She was formerly CFO of the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft, the largest and most profitable division with annual revenue of $28.6 billion and operating income of $14.8 billion. Previously, Davies was Director of Business Development and Strategic Sales with ninemsn, an Australian joint venture with Microsoft. She earlier held positions with Cable & Wireless in London and McKinsey in Sydney, Tokyo and Seoul. |
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McLean-VA -- Laura L. Hollingsworth, general manager of The Des Moines Register, will become president and publisher of the newspaper on Sept. 7. She has been general manager of the Register since 2005, running the day to day operations as second in command to former publisher, Mary Stier who is starting a company to develop multimedia products for boomer women. Hollingsworth has worked for Gannett Co, which owns the Register for 18 years. |
Auburn Hills, MI -- Jan A. Bertsch has been appointed to lead Chrysler’s ITM organization as VP and CIO. She previously held the position of CIO for Chrysler Group and Mercedes-Benz in North America. Bertsch joined DaimlerChrysler in 2001 as Vice President of Finance for Chrysler Group's Global Sales and Marketing organization. She spent 22 years with Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation, where she held numerous positions, including Assistant Treasurer of Ford Motor Company and Treasurer of Visteon Corporation. As one of the few women in the auto industry to head up a global information technology organization, Bertsch is responsible for directing Chrysler's worldwide systems and computer hardware strategy, systems applications development, data center operations and telecommunications network operations. She reports to Ron Kolka, Chrysler's Chief Financial Officer. Bertsch was named to the 2005 Automotive News list of the "100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry." She holds a number of board positions with non-profit organizations, including Wayne State University School of Medicine, the Chrysler Women's Forum, among others.
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New York, NY -- Erika Faust has been named SVP of marketing. for TheStreet.com. She previously led business development and operations for Court TV Online, and oversaw its broadband strategy and product development. |
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New York, NY -- Pfizer has appointed senior executive Dr. Tanya Clemons as VP and chief talent officer, as well as a member of senior management and the company’s Human Resources Leadership Team. She is leaving Microsoft where she is corporate VP for People and Organization Capability. Dr. Clemons previously held leadership roles at IBM, Georgia-Pacific and Anheuser-Busch. |
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New York, NY --The Huffington Post has named Betsy Morgan, -the general manager of CBSNews.com as the political blog's new CEO. She will be also have equity in the organization, launched in May 2005. |
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Hartford, CT -- Patricia Farrell who has been with Aetna for 17 years, has been appointed Head of their National Accounts business. Her responsibilities will include Aetna Global Benefits and Medicaid. Patricia had been Head of Government and Global Business for the Company. She began her career there as director of financial reporting. |
Board Appointments
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Austin, MN -- Hormel Foods appointed Jody Feragen to its Board of Directors. Jody is SVPand CFO. She joined the company in 2000 as treasurer, assuming the title of vice president and treasurer in 2001. She was previously assistant treasurer for National Computer Systems. |
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Los Angeles, CA -- Vanessa Castagna, a retail veteran who was most recently executive chairwoman of Mervyns, has been elected to the Board of Levi Strauss & Co. She was previously CEO of JC Penney Stores, and earlier held senior positions at Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Target Group. |
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