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On the Move: Pegma Technologies
Emmanuel Odumosu has founded a company that can function
as the IT department for medium-sized companies, providing such
services
as network planning, installation and security, NT systems upgrade,
systems migrations, Lotus notes, outsourced help desks, and wireless
connectivity.
He and Franklin James, senior vice president of technology, used their
savings to bankroll the company. They currently do their marketing
by making cold calls and buying yellow page and online advertising.
Soon they plan to hire three field engineers.
Odumosu grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, where his father was an
entrepreneur
in a hospital equipment business. He graduated from Northeast London
University and came to this company to earn an MBA in information
technology and management at Pace University. He has 16 years in the
IT field and has been working part time for his own clients for eight
years but opened this business full time last summer.
“I came to Trenton because not too many companies are providing
these services downtown,” says Odumosu, who is married and has
three children. “I love technology. Technology is the future.”
Pegma Technologies, 36 South Broad Street, Trenton08608. Emmanuel A. Odumosu, CEO. 609-656-0297; fax, 609-656-0298.Home page: www.pegmatech.comTop Of PageLeaving TownLiving Abroad Publishing/ProAct Technologies, TomFinstein, interim CEO. 800-422-3307. Home page:www.proacttechnologies.comAfter a dozen years of publishing information for Americanexpatriates,Louise Guido sold her company, Living Abroad Publishing, to ProActTechnologies, and the office has moved from the fourth floor at 32Nassau Street to 120 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, New York 10605,914-872-8000; fax, 914-872-8100. Two employees from Princeton tookjobs with the new firm.Formerly known as Consumer Financial Network (CFN), ProAct has 100employees and it provides human resources software solutions forFortune100 and Fortune 500 firms. Now it can offer the Living Abroadinformation— detailed information about travel policies, fees for owninga television, money and education questions, and relocation vendors— which used to be assembled in notebooks and is now availableonly online. “A number of corporations have expat members, andwhen they are about to go abroad, they appreciate getting thatinformation,”says Maribeth Whitehouse, operations manager. The basic packageincludes25 countries and the premiere level offers information on 100countries.Among the ProAct software products are Health Pages, an online servicefor employees to find providers on their health plan; BenefitsCommunicator,which explains policies and procedures interactively; BenefitsEnrollment,and Wealth Statement, which gathers all of an employees’ benefitstogether and puts them in one place.Georgia Gulf Corp. (GGC), 133 Franklin Corner Road,Second Floor, Lawrenceville 08648. R. Edward Steele, regional salesmanager. 609-895-1177; fax, 609-895-0135. Home page:www.georgiagulf.comAt the end of September R. Edward Steele will retire and the salesoffice of the chemical manufacturing company will close. Calls arebeing taken by the company’s headquarters in Atlanta at 770-395-4500.Xios Biosciences Inc. (formerly Icon Genetics Inc.), 1 Deer Park Drive, Princeton Research Center, Suite C, MonmouthJunction 08852. Newell Bascomb, president and CEO. 732-329-1600; fax,732-329-1616. Home page: www.xiosbio.comIcon Genetics, reorganized as Xios Biosciences, was bought by apharmaceuticalcompany in Florida and has shut down, says Newell Bascomb. Thisoffice,which was working on production technologies for immune responseproteins,was founded by Bascomb (U.S. 1, December 6, 2000).Top Of PageCrosstown MovesSmartmark Communications LLC, Box 3038, Princeton08543. Juliet Shavit, president. 215-504-4272; fax, 215-504-1743.Home page: www.smartmarkcommunications.comJuliet Shavit has moved her two-year-old firm from 12 Roszel Roadto a Pennsylvania location and has a new phone and fax. She doespublicrelations and marketing for high technology companies (U.S. 1,December21, 2001).Princeton University Communications Office, 22Chambers Street, Suite 201, Princeton 08542. Lauren Robinson-Brown,director. 609-258-3601; fax, 609-258-1301. Home page:www.princeton.edu/pr/In July the communications and publications office moved from StanhopeHall to an office on Chambers Street, former quarters of RockwoodSpecialties, the chemical firm that moved its headquarters toPrincetonOverlook.Top Of PageName ChangesTotal Infosystems (DSQ Software), 204 North CenterDrive, North Brunswick 08902. Ramen Soliman, CFO. 732-297-9977; fax,732-297-9382. Home page: www.totalsystems.comA two-year-old office of DSQ Software on North Center Drive is nowknown as Total InfoSystems. This 10-year-old IT consulting firm hasnearly a dozen offices in the United States plus five in Europe andthree in Asia. It has such Fortune 500 clients as Sprint, BMW, andVolkswagen.Wachovia Securities, 989 Lenox Drive, Building1, Suite 200, Lawrenceville 08648. Brian J. McGrath, senior vicepresident.609-896-0200; fax, 609-896-0714.Now that First Union Bank and Wachovia Bank are implementing theirmerger, the signs will begin to change. The private client group,known locally as Wheat First, will be the first to change from kellygreen to Wachovia’s gray, silver, and dark blue. This investmentadvisorygroup is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, and it will stay there.”They found that the systems and the talent was significant inthat area, so they are moving some of the other operations of theprivate client group to Richmond,” says Brian J. McGrath, whohad opened the initial Wheat First office on Lenox Drive. For allother banking operations, the headquarters will be in Wachovia’s hometown of Charlotte.Top Of PageContracts AwardedSaphire Associates, 20 Nassau Street, Suite 301,Princeton 08542. Joseph Saphire, president. 609-921-3935; fax,609-921-0288.Saphire Associates has completed renovation of the 23,000-foot dininghall and food-service area for Rider University at a cost of $2million.It has a contract for a 35,000-foot education center of the Churchof St. Ann in Lawrenceville.Top Of PageManagement MovesMiercom Inc., 410 Princeton-Hightstown Road,PrincetonJunction 08550. Robert J. Smithers, president. 609-490-0200; fax,609-490-0610. Www.mier.comThe founder of the 14-year-old Miercom Inc., Ed Mier, has retired,having sold his interest to Robert J. Smithers Jr. Smithers joinedMiercom in 1995 and has been president for two years. “Despitethe unfavorable market conditions, the company continues to grow eachyear,” says Smithers, who moved the firm to 15,000 square feetat its current location.The company developed methodologies for testing products from ATMswitches to voice-over-IP equipment and is the Business CommunicationsReview preferred lab for “Best-in-Test” reviews. It doesconsultingfor business continuance, testing of security, Voice over IP, VPN,network management, storage networks and other technology areas.Pride Center of New Jersey Inc., 1048 LivingstonAvenue, Box 5130, New Brunswick 08903. Ellen J. Gilio, executivedirector,2002. 732-846-2232. Home page: www.pridecenter.orgEllen Gilio is the first executive director for this eight-year-oldcommunity center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendercommunity.A finance major at Villanova, she has a law degree from Rutgers andhas had experience in general practice law and banking.Previous StoryNext StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
