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New in Town: Cline Davis and Mann
Cline Davis and Mann, the Manhattan ad agency that
has to its credit the Viagra commercial featuring Bob Dole, has opened
a satellite office in the Carnegie Center, where it will focus on
accounts with Bristol-Myers Squibb, American Home Products Corp’s
Wyeth-Ayerst division, Jansen Pharmaceutica, and Johnson & Johnson.
The 16-year-old firm does advertising only for pharmaceutical
companies.
It added $17 million in new business since January.
The Princeton office will be run by three managing partners: Kyle
Barich, Gerry McLaughlin, and Ashley Schofield. While at CDM, Barich,
director of client services and a graduate of the University of
Michigan,
managed two of the biggest growing Pfizer brands — Norvasc, the
antihypertensive, and Cardura, another hypertension drug.
McLaughlin, the creative director of copy, launched his career at
CDM in 1990 after many years as a professional writer, working for
newspapers as well as documentary films. He worked on product launches
for Lipitor, Norvasc, Diflucan (an oral treatment for yeast
infections)
and Neumega, the first platelet growth factor in oncology. An amateur
magician, he graduated from the University of New Mexico.
Schofield, creative director of art, left the magazine world to join
CDM in 1993, where she worked on several product launches, as well
as commercials for Bain de Soleil and Ben Gay. She has a degree from
Syracuse University and now lives in Princeton.
CDM of Princeton, 214 Carnegie Center, Suite 304,Princeton. Kyle Barich, director of client service. 609-514-9292;fax, 609-514-9393. Home page: https://www.clinedavis.com.Top Of PageETS’s Cole RetiresAfter 10 years at Educational Testing Service, includingfive years as president, Nancy S. Cole has announced she will retirein June. Cole says she promised her family — husband James W.L. Cole, and their grown son — that by the year 2000 she wouldmove back to their home in Colorado and devote herself to skiing andhiking.Still, the announcement — made at a scheduled two-day boardmeeting— came as a surprise to the ETS family. Board members werereportedexpressing disappointment at her decision to leave and appreciationfor her accomplishments.”ETS has built a sound financial foundation, we’ve completed arecord year with computer-based testing, we’ve increased ourresponsivenessto our customers, and ETS has continued to address important —though often perplexing — issues facing education today, saysA. William Wiggenhorn, chair of the ETS board of trustees andpresidentof Motorola University.Cole has said she will stay until her successor is found, and acommitteehas been formed to begin a national search. “We’re grateful Nancyhas agreed to remain until her successor is in place — allowingETS to continue to move forward with new initiatives and with no lossin momentum,” says Debra W. Stewart, vice chair of the searchcommittee and dean of the graduate school at North Carolina StateUniversity.Cole is one of the highest ranking women in the greater Princetonbusiness community (U.S. 1, June 16, 1993). The daughter of Texaspublic school teachers, Cole is a graduate of Rice (Class of 1964)and has a PhD from the University of North Carolina. She taught atthe University of Pittsburgh, was dean of education at the Universityof Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and worked at ETS’s major competitor,the American College Testing program (ACT), most recently as assistantvice president.She came to ETS in 1989 as one of two executive vice presidents andwas appointed president in 1994, the fourth president in the51-year-historyof the world’s largest private educational measurement institution.Annually it administers more than 11 million tests in some 181countries,has an annual budget of $496 million, and it has more than 2,000employeesworldwide.But she took over at a time when ETS had just had its first ever majorlayoffs. In 1993 Cole’s predecessor, Gregory Anrig, laid off morethan 250 workers or nearly 10 percent of the workforce. This happenedbecause the federal government sharply reduced fees for processingfederal financial aid forms, effectively ending a 35-year contract.Now Cole points to the organization’s “strong financialfooting”and progress to a “break-even bottom line” after several yearsfor budget deficitsCole says she believes she leaves ETS “well-positioned for thetumultuous changes that all of education will likely face in thecomingyears.” She points to success in thinking about assessment innew ways, “learning how to build and deliver assessment basedon the needs of users rather than relying on our traditional modes,and learning how to produce assessments that yield information thatusers most want and need.” Among the new ideas put forward byETS is a new way for college admissions departments to consider thetest takers — by analyzing their backgrounds and creating acategoryfor “strivers,” students who are overcoming obstacles in theirbackground to achieve success.Under Cole’s tenure, ETS completed a $75 million building program,spun off its first for-profit subsidiary, the Chauncey Group, andcontinued a strong forward push — with millions of dollars spentfor retooling — to computer-based testing. For instance, the lastpaper test for the Graduate Record Examination was given in April,1999, and the GRE’s writing assessment went online in October, 1999.Last year ETS gave a computer-based test to the one-millionth person.Top Of PageExpansionsAAA Central-West Jersey, 5-A South Gold Drive,Robbinsville 08691. Frank Minella, director of business services.609-890-2816; fax, 609-587-7345.The association’s headquarters at 2 South Gold Drive will change awarehouse type building into a modern 35,000 square foot operationsand communications center with a new facade. To be added are acafeteria,exercise room, fitness room, and showers. The building will housethe full-service travel center and insurance and automotive services.The groundbreaking was in December.BelAir Partners LLC, 71 Tamarack Circle,MontgomeryKnoll, 08540. Sheldon Sandler, managing director. 609-252-1125; fax,609-252-1322. Home page: https://www.belairpartners.com.The investment banking firm is tripling its space, moving from 122Commons Way to 4,000 square feet at 71 Tamarack Circle. SheldonSandler,the managing director of the six-person firm, specializes inautomotiveindustry mergers and acquisitions.Blue Dot Services, 1590 Reed Road, Pennington08530.Ken Brink, general manager. 609-737-9004; fax, 609-737-1494.Blue Dot Services, which sells heating and plumbing systems, movedfrom 1589 Reed Road to a bigger warehouse space across the streetat 1590 Reed Road. Headquartered in Florida, Blue Dot Services boughtNational Service Pros in March 1999.Healthcare Employees Federal Credit Union, 101Campus Drive, University Square, Princeton 08543. John Dawidowski,CEO. 609-951-0700 or 800-624-3312; fax, 609-275-4194.The credit union — one of the fastest growing — has openedits doors to workers at non-healthcare related companies in thePrincetonvicinity, or within 25 miles of its headquarters. Among its membersare a college, various trade associations, and some manufacturers.It has $45 million in assets and more than 25,000 individual members.After the banking regulations loosened the restrictions on creditunions, HEFCU added such services stocks, mutual funds, IRAs, andperformance-based lending.”We are telling employers of all sizes that this credit unionis a great employee benefit that doesn’t cost the employer a dimeto implement,” says John Dawidowski, who has been CEO of thecreditunion since 1985, when it was a two-person organization.Kafko Manufacturing, 2 Marlen Drive, Robbinsville08691. Mark Gress, plant manager. 609-587-5800; fax, 609-587-6664.To double its line of production of in-ground liners and covers forpools, this manufacturing company moved from a 21,000-square-footspace at 2 Marlen Drive to 2560 East State Street, Trenton, 08619,where the company will have 42,000 square feet to work with. The phoneand fax numbers are the same.Mirronex Technologies Inc., 4390 Route 1, SecondFloor, Princeton 08540. Sonny Injaty, president. 609-243-0300; fax,609-243-0380. Home page: https://www.mirronex.com.This company has moved from 118 Tamarack Circle to 4390 Route 1. Thephone and fax numbers are new. It does networks and systems designand integration.Top Of PageNew in TownBrian M. Cige, 475 Wall Street, Princeton 08540.609-683-5475; fax, 609-683-5474.Brian M. Cige has opened a satellite office in Princeton for hisSomerville-basedlaw firm. His practice emphasizes employment law, general practice,and civil litigation.Farrell & Thurman, 714 Executive Drive, Princeton08540. 609-924-1115; fax, 609-924-5266.James M. Farrell and John L. Thurman left Mason Griffin Pierson toopen their own office. They focus on labor and employment law.Top Of PageManagement MovesSpalding Associates, 220 Alexander Street, Suite2, Princeton 08540. Barbara M. Spalding, senior vice president.609-497-1205;fax, 609-497-1274. Http://www.bollingerinsurance.com.Barbara Spalding has sold her 11-year-old insurance agency to oneof the state’s largest agencies and is now senior vice president ofBollinger Inc. Bollinger is the 30th largest insurance agency in theUnited States, and the 15th largest privately held agency. Based inShort Hills and founded in 1876 it has 180 employees. Although itis a full-service insurance agency, Bollinger focuses on insuranceproducts for students of all ages, amateur athletes, and golf andcountry clubs.Bollinger quintupled its premium volume in nine years, going from$51 billion in 1990 to $250 billion in 1999. It insures more than1 million students and student athletes, 2 million softball players,1.7 million youth soccer players, 100,000 umpires and officials, and900 golf and country clubs. Students can handle their insurancemattersusing the company website.Spalding Associates, with nine employees on Alexander Street, willbe a separate division and will continue to offer employee benefit,life, and group insurance. “I felt this was an opportunity tooffer new and expanded services to our customers,” says Spalding.Spalding — the daughter of a marketing research analyst and anEsquire magazine journalist — started out in the insurancebusinessas an international expert. She majored in international studies atTufts, spent college terms in Paris and Tokyo, and has a master’sdegree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.In one of her first jobs she was a political risk underwriter fora major insurance firm, insuring United States businesses that wereinvesting overseas. At the time there was considerable unrest in Iranand the Far East. “We had to determine what the characteristicsof the business were and how likely certain perils would occur —such as government acts of expropriation or civil act of unrest.”At her own agency, she focuses on benefits packages for UnitedStates-basedfirms. “Now when I put together a benefits package for acompany,”says Spalding, “I have a very broad perspective and the abilityto understand the needs of many different types of businesses.”The Associates (AFSCI), 2225 Route 1 South, NorthBrunswick 08902. Doug Scott, senior vice president. 732-821-8540;fax, 732-821-8663.AVCO Financial Services has been sold to a firm in Dallas, Texas,and is now known as the AVCO division of the Associates. As one of13 full-service branches it does consumer, real estate, and mortgageloans.Bartolomei Pucciarelli LLC, 2155 Brunswick Pike,Lawrenceville 08648. James Bartolomei, partner. 609-396-2480; fax,609-396-5974. Home page: https://www.bnccpa.com.Bartolomei Pucciarelli LLC, 358 Wall Street,ResearchPark, Princeton 08540. Michael S. Pucciarelli, partner. 609-924-2641;fax, 609-924-6568.Forrester, Pucciarelli & Braddock, located in Research Park, andBartolomei& Croghan have joined forces and have a new name. The main officewill remain on Brunswick Pike, and the Research Park office willoperateas a branch. Another branch will be in Ocean Township.In addition to a full range of accounting services, BartolomeiPucciarelliwill offer financial software program installation and training,seminarson tax issues and financial planning, help for new businesses to setup a corporate finance structure, development of business plans, andongoing consultation services.COSAC New Jersey Center for Outreach and Servicesfor the Autism Community Inc., 1450 Parkside Avenue, Suite 22,Ewing 08638. Paul Potito, executive director. 609-883-8100; fax,609-883-5509.Http://www.members.aol.com/njautism.Paul Potito is the new executive director here. He was president/CEOof the Center for Non-Profit Corporations, a 600-member umbrellaorganizationon Livingston Avenue in North Brunswick, and has been executivedirectorof the Arc of New Jersey, the state’s largest advocacy and serviceprovider network for those with developmental disabilities. Potitomajored in sociology at Upsala College and has a master’s degree inspecial education from Kean University.MIIX Healthcare Group Inc. (MHU), 2 Princess Road,Lawrenceville 08648. Ken Koreyva, president and CEO. 609-219-1111;fax, 609-219-6727. Home page: https://www.miix.com.The medical liability insurance provider has appointed Ken Koreyvato president and CEO of the company. He had been acting CEO sincethe former CEO, Daniel Goldberg, was arrested on drug possessioncharges(U.S. 1, November 10, 1999).Koreyva “spearheaded the company’s conversion and led us throughthe entire process of going public,” said Vincent Maressa, MIIXGroup chairman. “Through his efforts, we made the largestdistributionof stock to our policyholders of any medical professional liabilityinsurer, with the average physician receiving $15,000 in stock.”An eight-year veteran of the MIIX Group, Koreyva had previously servedas executive vice president and CFO. The MIIX board also announcedthat it had approved a separation agreement with Goldberg.Rider University, College of BusinessAdministration,2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville 08648. Mark Sandberg, dean.609-896-5152; fax, 609-896-5304.David A. Tierno, retiring chief human resources officer for Ernst& Young, has volunteered to join Rider’s College of BusinessAdministrationas an executive advisor to the dean to help create the Center forthe Development of Leadership Skills. The CBA disseminated 4,000questionnairesto people representing different hierarchical levels to assess whatkind of skills lead to success and how to acquire those skills. Theresults are due back at the end of January.Top Of PageCrosstown MovesAKOR Company, 284 Jacobs Creek Road, LexingtonSquare Commons, Box 3166, Titusville 08560-3166. Gene Klim, president.609-818-9495; fax, 609-818-9496.This manufacturing company for the chemical and pharmaceuticalindustrieshas moved its sales office from 2135 Route 33 to a temporary,home-basedoffice at 284 Jacobs Creek Road in Titusville. The phone and fax arenew.Arthur Andersen LLP, 5 Vaughn Drive, Princeton08540. 609-419-4000; fax, 609-987-9008.The global consulting firm has closed its office at Suite 200, 103Carnegie Center, but plans to reopen it in the near future — notat 5 Vaughn Drive, as was reported earlier, but at 650 College Road.Meanwhile, there is an operating office at 101 Eisenhower Parkway,Roseland 07068, 973-403-6100.Atmel Corp., 202 Carnegie Center, Suite 103,Princeton08540. Kenn Pilczak, director of sales. 609-520-0606; fax,609-520-9175.The field sales office for Atmel Corp., manufacturers ofsemiconductorsbased in San Jose, moved from 101 Carnegie Center to 202 CarnegieCenter, Suite 103. Phone and fax are the same.Electrochemical Society, 65 South Main Street,Building D, Pennington 08534-2896. Roque J. Calvo, executive director.609-737-1902; fax, 609-737-2743. https://www.electrochem.org.This 7,000-member society for advancing the theory and practice ofelectrochemical and solid state science and technology has moved from10 South Main Street to 65 South Main Street in Pennington.Highland Computer Center, 9 Scotch Road, WestTrenton08628. Min Fu Liao, owner. 609-883-9898; fax, 609-883-5906.The seller of IBM-compatible computers moved from 2901 Brunswick Pike,Route 1 Plaza. Phone and fax are the same.IFP North America Inc., 100 Overlook Center, Suite400, Princeton 08540. J.C. Rolin, human resources manager.609-243-8700;fax, 609-987-0204.This petrochemical process licenser will move from Overlook Centerto 650 College Road. It is a subsidiary of a French firm, IFPEnterprisesof New York, and was formerly known as Hydrocarbon Research Inc.Frances M. Merritt, 4454 Route 27, Kingston 08528.609-924-7753; fax, 609-924-7743.Frances Merritt, who had opened a law practice in Kingston in Januaryof 1999, has joined Stark and Stark at 993 Lenox Drive. Her new numberis 609-896-9060. She focuses on family and divorce law and mediationand had worked with Katzenbach Gildea & Rudner (now Fox Rothschild)and Wills, O’Neill & Mellk before opening her own practice.Unixpros, 201 North Center Drive, North Brunswick08902. Dinesh K. Mittal, director-consulting division. 732-951-0701;fax, 732-951-0704. Home page: https://www.unixpros.com.The computer consulting firm moved from 3530 Route 27 in Kendall Parkto North Brunswick.Visual Media Group, 113 Broad Street, Hightstown08520. Roger J. Mauro, president. 609-918-1100; fax, 609-918-1101.Home page: https://www.visualmediagroup.com.This multimedia design firm moved from 10 Jefferson Plaza to 113 BroadStreet in Hightstown. The phone and fax are new.Top Of PageName ChangesPrinteek Printing and Imaging, 29 Emmons Drive,Building C-30, Princeton 08540. Dhiraj Visaria, owner. 609-520-8311;fax, 609-520-8312.This printer, formerly known as PrePress Xpress, has changed the nameto Printeek Printing and Imaging.Professional Writers Alliance, 10 Tally Road,Hamilton08619. Robin Levinson, president. 609-584-9330; fax, 609-584-9330.Home page: https://www.trampsteamer.com/mcwc.The Mercer County Writers’ Collective has changed its name to reflectits makeup and mission. It has a membership of 50 people who maketheir living using words. An online directory is available at thewebsite.Top Of PageDeathsW. Robert Strickland, 52, on December 9. He was directorof used car operations at Coleman Oldsmobile.John D. Cranston Sr., 70, on December 17. He worked atthe law firm of Pellettieri, Rabstein and Altman at Nassau Park.Albert B. Kahn Jr., 53, on December 18. He was an attorneyin Trenton.Touffic H. Allen, 72, on December 21. He owned the LightGallery at the Princeton Shopping Center.Frank A. Grillo, 48, on December 22. He owned Grillo’spub in Hamilton.Lawrence E. Stern, 75, on December 23. He was state deputycommissioner of banking and insurance and former state deputy attorneygeneral.Mary Jane MacKinnon on December 26. She had worked atEducational Testing Service.Dawn Renee Keisling, 29, on December 26. She was acharteredaccountant and financial manager with Bristol-Myers Squibb on ScuddersMill Road.George H. Van Doren, 82, on December 29. He was a partnerin J.C. Van Doren & Sons, a Hopewell lumber business.Robert J. Pinto, 63, on December 30. He practiced lawat the firm of Pinto and Butler at Montgomery Knoll.Robert Saxon, 75, on January 2. He worked for AmericanCyanamid, translated technical documents, and wrote for U.S. 1Newspaper(see page 4).William T. Haupt and Sharon Haupt, both 56 yearsold, in an airplane accident on January 4. He was a pilot with UnitedAirlines and she was a retired school librarian with PrincetonRegionalSchools.Robert Cooper-Smith, 76, on January 4. He was chairmanof the board of the Carrier Clinic and a former vice president anddirector of planning at Bristol-Myers Squibb.Next StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
