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Top Of PageStart-Ups: Cycling Adventures
Princeton Touring Company, 20 Nassau Street, Suite511, Princeton 08542. Andrew Baine. 609-252-9950; fax, 609-252-9951.Home page: www.princetontouring.comAndrew Baine, a 23-year-old alumnus of PrincetonUniversity,has founded a company to offer cycling adventure tours for high schoolstudents. Pairs of Princeton University seniors will lead tours offrom 8 to 12 students, grouped by age. They camp out and shop andprepare their own food. The two-week tours, costing $2,200, include”Battlefields of the Civil War,” “Yellowstone toGlacier,””The Maine Coast,” and “San Juan Islands” in thePacificNorthwest. A four-week coast-to-coast trip costs $4,800. ValerieSimoneand Diane Backes of Backes Graphic Productions at Research Parkconceptualizedand produced Baine’s 20-page glossy catalog, including profiles ofthe trip leaders. For another outdoor company, Baine has led studenttrips, directed logistics, and conducted leader training. He isofferinga scholarship to a teen who lost a parent or older sibling in theSeptember 11 attack.Public Policy of New Jersey: New Jersey Reporter,36 West Lafayette Street, Trenton 08608. Mark Magyar, president andeditor. 609-924-9750; fax, 609-924-0363.The New Jersey Reporter, a magazine on policy, politics, andgovernment,had been published by the Center for Analysis of Public Issues locatedat 162 Nassau Street, but publication was suspended in April 2001.Now a brand-new think tank, Public Policy Center of New Jersey, hasacquired the magazine and restarted its publication in November. Thenew nonpartisan independent center is located at 36 West LafayetteStreet in Trenton, and is staffed by many of the same personnel —Sharon Naeole, Linda Holiday, Craig Donovan, and Lauren Otis —from the other center. The center publishes the New Jersey MunicipalAlmanac and a new quarterly, New Jersey Heritage. Annual subscriptionsare $50 for the New Jersey Reporter, $85 for the almanac (includingthe CD), and $20 for New Jersey Heritage.Americom Government Services, 2 Research Way,Princeton08540. Dave Helfgott. 609-987-4500; fax, 609-987-4411.When satellite communications firm GE Americom was sold to aLuxembourg-basedcompany in November, 2001, it had to divest itself of federalgovernmentcontracts. So it created a separate division, Americom GovernmentServices, headed by Dave Helfgott. This division was separated outin November and in January seven people moved next door, from 4ResearchWay to 2 Research Way.The purchasing company was Society Europeene des Satellites SA. Twohundred former GE Americom employees are still at work at 4 ResearchWay under the new company name, SES Global.”We are a wholly-owned subsidiary focusing on government business.We aren’t even allowed to be in the same building with SES,” saysHelfgott.edivise.inc, 109 Farber Road, Suite 5B, Princeton08540. Derek Smith, president. 609-919-9884; fax. Home page:www.edivise.comDerek Smith, who is married to a first-year student at PrincetonTheologicalSeminary, has opened an technology and Internet consulting business.The son of the executive director of a nonprofit organization inSpokane,he majored in computer science at Whitworth College in Spokane,Washington,Class of 1997 and before moving to Princeton last year, he was anIT manager in Atlanta, Georgia for the Injoy Group. He has clientsin Spokane and Atlanta and is looking for more clients in thenonprofitarea.”Most companies with less than 75 or 100 employees do not havea technology staff,” he says. “I work with them to provideexpertise in operations management (how to run an infrastructure ora help desk) as well as implementing new products or technologiesinto the business environment.”LPL Financial Services, 100 Overlook, Second Floor,Princeton 08540. Farida Mistry. 609-375-2352; fax, 609-375-2001.Homepage: www.lpl.comFarida Mistry has opened a financial planning office at PrincetonOverlook; she is a CPA, a licensed stockbroker and a licensedbrokerageprincipal.Mistry grew up in Mumbai (Bombay), where her father was an accountant,and she majored in accounting at Baruch College, Class of 1976. Sheworked at Coopers & Lybrand and started her own practice in Princetonin 1982. For a real estate investment, she developed the mixed use(office and residential) building at 330 North Harrison Street.From 1996 to 1998 she worked at Paine Webber as a stockbroker andfinancial planner and then opened an Edward D. Jones office inLawrenceville.”But I wasn’t doing the kind of financial planning that I reallywanted to do,” says Mistry, a single mother of two who is alsoan avid sailor and scuba diver. “So I reopened my own practice.I am now independent and can offer fee-based planning.”Sometimes her clients have only their 401k to invest, other use herservices as a stock broker. She also does tax planning and estateplanning.Top Of PageNew in TownMC Squared, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 1385,Plainsboro08536. Sashidhar Yendamuri, director sales. 609-936-0909; fax,609-936-0930.Home page: www.mcsglobal.comThe Virginia-based software consulting firm opened an office atPrincetonMeadows Office Center. It offers a wide range of services andtechnologies.The Spectator, 4599 Route 27, Second Floor,Kingston08528. Mark Barry, editor, owner, publisher. 609-921-8009;Mark Barry, the new owner, editor, and publisher of an independentSomerset County weekly, has combined the newspaper’s editorial andbusiness offices and the mailing operation in a second floor suiteover the Kingston Post Office.Barry went to Spring Garden College in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania,and worked at the newspaper in the early 1990s. Established in 1969,it goes to Kingston, Griggstown, Franklin, Montgomery, RockyHill, and parts of Hillsborough and Branchburg.Top Of PageRiegel Printing SoldKen Riegel has retired from his 72-year-old familyprintingbusiness and sold it to four partners — Kevin Brown, RobertStevens,Kathleen Atkins, and Zuzana Heath. Some other members of his familycontinue to work there.Brown and Stevens closed Computer Color Imaging (CCI) at 1613 ReedRoad in Pennington and moved into Riegel Printing’s 41,000 squarefoot Graphics Drive location. Meanwhile Atkins and Heath, owners ofa full-service advertising agency entitled AnyColor Inc., joined Brownand Stevens to take over the Riegel operation but keep the name.With about 45 employees, Riegel Printing is a commercial printer thathas the Educational Testing Service as a major account. AnyColor Inc.is located on Graphics Drive with Riegel (609-538-1222; fax,609-538-1218).CCI did prepress and printing, image retouching, and electronic pageassembly, and those operations continue on the Riegel site. Inadditionto offset printing capabilities, Riegel now offers Ricoh’s color printproduction of documents and proposals.Riegel Printing, 1 Graphics Drive, Box 7430, Ewing08628-7430. Kathleen Atkins, president. 609-771-0555; fax,609-771-0947.E-mail: ccikbrown@aol.comTop Of PageExpansionsIntegrated Data Solutions Inc., 16 Thomas RhodesIndustrial Drive, Hamilton Square 08619. Nancy Brenner, president.609-587-9961; fax, 609-587-9964. Www.IDS-Info.comThis family business, owned by Nancy and Blair Brenner, moved from1,865 square feet at 9B Princess Road to 2,000 square feet on ThomasRhodes Industrial Drive and has a new phone and fax. Eric Brenner,their son, is the office manager of the seven-person operation. TheBrenners started their business 10 years ago in their home. The firmdoes information processing — document imaging and scanning,surveys,data entry, analysis, database, word processing, and secretarialservices.The Prisco Group, 57 Hamilton Avenue, Suite A,Hopewell 08525. Scott V. Prisco AIA PP, president. 609-803-2100; fax,609-333-8933. Home page: www.thepriscogroup.comThe architectural firm added 15 people in one year and moved from2,000 square feet at 2025 Princeton Pike to a 9,000 square foot suitein the former Kooltronics factory. It has a new phone and fax. Thefirm also changed its name from Prisco & Edwards AIA to the PriscoGroup; William Edwards remains as a consultant. Among its practiceareas are architecture, waterproofing and roof consulting, technology,telecommunication, and engineering.Scott Prisco has taken a part ownership in the uninhabitable factorybuilding formerly occupied by Gerald Freedman of Kooltronics. Priscois providing architectural services in the building’s transition tocorporate offices. All of the components used will be environmentallyfriendly and, upon completion, the 120,000-foot building will becalledthe Hopewell Center.Top Of PageCrosstown MovesCranbury Financial Group, 109 South Main Street,Cranbury 08512. Michael Baron, president. 609-426-8880; fax,609-426-8830.Cranbury Financial has moved from 379 Princeton Hightstown Road to109 South Main Street in Cranbury. The company’s new facility, at1,500 square feet, is the same size as that of its former space.Parker, McCay & Criscuolo PC, 1009 Lenox Drive,Building 4E, Suite 102A, Lawrenceville 08648. Russell WeissJr., attorney. 609-896-4222; fax, 609-896-9023. Home page:www.pmclaw.comThe law firm has moved from 3131 Princeton Pike to 1009 Lenox Drive,second floor. Based in Marlton, it has six attorneys and focuses onschool board law and labor negotiations.Quick & Reilly, 20 Nassau Street, Princeton 08542.Anthony P. Sofronas, branch manager. 609-924-6201; fax, 609-924-6619.Because of Fleet Bank’s purchase of Summit Bank, the discountbrokeragefirm associated with Fleet Bank will move to the main downtown officeof what is now Fleet at 90 Nassau. The move is scheduled to take placeon Friday, February 22. The brokerage firm is based in New York City.Stoolmacher Consulting Group, 2850 Brunswick Pike,Lawrenceville 08648. Irwin Stoolmacher, president. 609-799-2586; fax,609-799-5250.After 10 years on Quakerbridge Road, Irvin Stoolmacher has moved hisfundraising consulting firm to 2850 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville08648. Phone and fax are new. Stoolmacher went to the State Universityof New York at Binghamton and has a master’s degree in politicalsciencefrom Rutgers University. He worked in the administration for GovernorRichard Hughes and at Saint Peter’s College, and he was businessmanagerof the Jersey City Board of Education. in 1976 he joined CaliperCorporation,the international human resources consulting firm on Mt. Lucas Road,and became president of one of Caliper’s operating companies. In 1987he opened his consulting service to nonprofits — fundraising,long-range planning, and community/public relations for non-profitorganizations, hospitals, educational, and advocacy organizations.His clients range from the American Cancer Society to the YoungScholars’Institute.Next StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
