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Life in the Fast Lane
After working in commercial real estate for several years, Ray Disch
has opened his own real estate office in Hopewell. A graduate of
Cornell, Class of 1980, Disch is known in Princeton as the person who
established Triumph Brewery as a brew pub on Nassau Street in 1995. In
1997 he had a company, PowerWorks LLC, to operate in the energy
deregulation space. Three years ago he went to work with Paul McArthur
at Trillium Real Estate Advisors on Princeton Avenue in Hopewell.
His new company will focus on both residential and commercial real
estate, and he is joined by Tom Knight, Lynn Wildenboer, and Guy
Madison.
The new office is just down East Broad Street from Art’s Garage,
a.k.a. Steel Wings (U.S. 1, June 22). Disch brokered the sale of that
garage building to Robert Burt when he was with Trillium.
“My office is a wonderful space, a Victorian house next to Dana
Communications,” says Disch, a Hopewell resident. “This is one of only
two houses in Hopewell Borough that have ceiling-to-floor windows.” He
is offering his conference room, after hours, to community groups.
Disch’s father was in the construction business, and he had a company,
also named R.E. Disch, in Kearney. Says Disch: “I even borrowed his
colors, red and yellow with a little block, for both Triumph and this
company.”
R. E. Disch Real Estate, 10 East Broad Street, Hopewell08525. Raymond E. Disch, president/broker. 609-466-4666; fax,609-466-4611. Home page: www.dischrealestate.comTop Of PageCredit Union ExpansionsMcGraw-Hill Employees Federal Credit Union, 120 WindsorCenter Drive, Box 699, Hightstown 08520-1412. Wayne J. Hudson II,president and CEO. 609-371-4450; fax, 609-371-4054. Home page:www.mcgrawhillefcu.orgA $5.3 million building, scheduled to open July 8, will replace theheadquarters of the credit union on Route 571. Set on five acres, thetwo-story, 20,000 square-foot building has a drive-through window. Thenot-for-profit, member-owned credit union has home banking and billpayer service (800-226-6428).About 40 people work at this office, which has more than 12,500members nationally. In addition to employees for McGraw Hill, thosewho work for 50 other companies — such as the YWCA of Princeton andGillespie Advertising — can join this credit union.McGraw Hill has three branches of the credit union in New York and maysoon open one in London.Healthcare Employees Federal Credit Union, 29 EmmonsDrive, Suite C-40, Box 1, Princeton 08543-0001. John Dawidowski CPA,CEO. 609-951-0700; fax, 609-275-4194. Home page: www.hefcu.comThe main office of the healthcare credit union expanded with an Aprilmove from 5,000 square feet at University Square to 6,200 square feetat 29 Emmons Drive, Suite C-40. The fax and phone did not change. Themailing address for remittances is HEFCU, PO Box 27508, Newark NJ07101-8708. The University Square location was convenient to the NewJersey Hospital Association, the credit union’s original sponsor, butthe lease expired and more room was needed. The Emmons Drive officewas chosen as a less expensive and more accessible location.The credit union — one of the fastest growing — has opened its doorsto workers at non-healthcare related companies in the Princetonvicinity, or within 25 miles of its headquarters. After the bankingregulations loosened the restrictions on credit unions, HEFCU addedsuch services as stocks, mutual funds, IRAs, and performance-basedlending.Top Of PageMortgage MovesMontgomery Mortgage Solutions Inc., 1330 Route 206,Village Shopper, Skillman 08588. Zibha Singh, president. 609-430-2999;fax, 609-924-7580. Home page: www.imontgomerymortgage.comMontgomery Mortgage expanded within the building at the VillageShopper in June. It brokers residential mortgages in New Jersey andPennsylvania, and it is a licensed banker in New Jersey. It has anaffiliate call center.The Mortgage Store Inc., 196 Princeton-Hightstown Road,Windsor Business Park, Building 2, West Windsor 08550. DavidRobinovitz. 866-444-8202; fax, 609-936-1772. Home page:www.mtgstore.usThe Mortgage Store Inc., has expanded from Hillsborough to 196Princeton-Hightstown Road. The company, managed by David and BryanRobinovitz, provides residential and commercial mortgages. Phone andfax are new.Equaloan Mortgage Services, 110 Stanhope Street,Princeton Forrestal Village, Princeton 08540. Christopher M. Bubny,operations manager. 609-419-1640; fax, 609-419-1649. Home page:www.equaloan.comA mortgage office for Equaloan, a member of the Honest MortgageLenders Network, opened at Forrestal Village in May.Top Of PageName ChangesSussna + Matz Architects PA, 53 State Road, Princeton08540-1318. Robert Sussna AIA, president. 609-924-6611; fax,609-924-5230. Home page: www.sussna-matz.comRobert Sussna has merged his practice with one in New York City and isnow known as Sussna + Matz Architects. Charles Matz will retain hisManhattan office but the headquarters will be on State Road.A graduate of Cornell University, Sussna has taught at Columbia andthe College of New Jersey, and he is a member of the AmericanInstitute of Architects. He belongs to the board of directors atEnable. Focusing on the renovation of high-tech, healthcare,educational, and office building, his clients, present and past,include the Lawrenceville School, the federal defense department, PNCBank, Rhone Poulenc, Siemens, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GE, IBM, J&J,Lockheed Martin, and Verizon. He has done more than 30 projects forPrinceton University.Top Of PageContracts AwardedNovo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NVO), 100 College RoadWest, Princeton 08540-6213. Martin Soeters, president. 609-987-5800;fax, 609-987-5394. Home page: www.novonordisk-us.comThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new, long-actingform of insulin for type 1 and type 2 diabetes, made by Novo Nordisk.The benefits of this drug, Levemir, are said to be its 24-hourduration and its small effect on weight change.Top Of PageCrosstown MovesComputer Vision Technology Inc., 448 Whitehead Road,Building 3, Hamilton 08619. Rich Garton, president. 609-584-8484; fax,609-584-1902. Home page: www.cvt1.comRich Garton moved his firm, Computer Vision Technologies, from 3 NamiLane to Whitehead Road and Sixth Avenue on June 1. The firm doesrepair and sales of monitors, computers, printers, notebooks, andprojectors.Robert A. Obler, 3131 Princeton Pike, Building 3D, Suite200, Lawrenceville 08648. 609-896-1321; fax, 609-896-3184.Criminal trial attorney Robert A. Obler has left his former office andis now leasing space in the offices of Markowitz, Gravelle at 3131Princeton Pike. He has a new phone and fax.Princeton Financial Care Services LLC, 114 West FranklinAvenue, Straube Center K-114, Suite K-4, Box 795, Pennington 08534.Hilly Berlin CPA, partner. 609-730-0067; fax, 609-730-0097. Home page:www.princetonfcs.comHilly Berlin and Barbara Kady have moved their elder care assistancefirm to a new address within the Straube Center. Phone and fax remainthe same, but the mailing address is a box number. Berlin is a CPA,and the firm, founded in 2003, offers financial organization andmanagement.Union Switch and Signal, 240 Princeton Avenue, Suite 200,Hamilton 08619. Allan Zambarelli, director. 609-631-8600; fax,609-631-8667. Home page: www.switch.comUnion Switch and Signal has moved from Washington Park, where itoccupies the entire second floor of Building 7, to 6,760 at AmericanMetro Center. Phone and fax are new. This is the engineering officefor a 130-year-old company that designs, manufactures, and installsrailroad signal equipment.Top Of PageExpansionsAll the World’s a Stage, 20 Nassau Street, Suite 209,Princeton 08542-3211. Julia Poulos, principal. 609-683-8824; fax,609-279-1778. Home page: www.savvypresentations.comJulia Poulos expanded her 12-year-old public speaking and presentationskills training business from 33 Witherspoon Street to a two-roomsuite at 20 Nassau Street. “This space is much better for individualcoaching because I have all the equipment — video cameras andcomputers — here, and it is very private,” she says. Poulos doeson-site workshops, seminars, and executive coaching in presentationand communication skills, management skills, and prevention of sexualharassment.Glen Eagle Advisors LLC, 240 Princeton Avenue, AmericanMetro Center, Suite 204, Hamilton 08614. Robert Less, directorcompliance operations. 609-631-823.Glen Eagle Advisors, a small regional broker and dealer firm, hasmoved to from 134 Princeton Pike to American Metro Center in Hamilton,and has a new phone number. Advisors is owned by Glen EagleInvestments, which can be reached at the same number.Princeton Insurance Agency Inc., 1330 Route 206, Suite I,Skillman 08558. Shekhar Kuckreja, owner. 609-430-4744; fax,609-430-4722. Home page: www.princetoninsure.comShekhar and Neera Kuckreja have moved the Princeton Insurance Agency,Inc., a seven-year-old firm, from their home to an office at 1330Route 206, Suite 1, in Skillman.Shekhar Kuckreja has 16 years of experience in the insurance industry,most of it from working at MetLife. He majored in Saint Stephen’sCollege of Delhi University (Class of 1973) and has an MBA from DelhiUniversity. He sells all types of insurance, including life, health,auto, home, commercial and business.Top Of PageNew in TownFortune Hi-Tech Marketing, 3490 Route 1 North, Building4, Princeton 08540. Jerry Marcello. 609-851-0003. Home page:www.fhtm.netFortune Hi-Tech Marketing, founded by Paul Orberson in Lexington,Kentucky as a network marketing company, sells Internet, satellite TV,paging, and voice messaging services to end-users, through independentrepresentatives. In June it opened an office at Princeton ServiceCenter.Microagility, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 1116, Plainsboro08536. Sajid Khan. 609-716-9020. Home page: www.microagility.comThis boutique project management office moved from Parlin to PrincetonMeadows Office Center. Working with Fortune 1000 companies, itpartners with such firms as KGF Associates, Linxgen, and PoreNetworks. Among its clients are Aetna, Baltimore G&E, Bank of Canada,Corning Inc., Fleet Bank, Florida Power and Light, PricewaterhouseCoopers, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and TD Waterhouse.Several calls to the company were not returned. According to thewebsite, “MicroAgility provides consulting services to industries,from developing sound strategies to aligning organizations with theirobjectives. The firm uses a proprietary approach, frameworks, andrigorous analysis — both quantitative and qualitative.”Plus NJ, 9-E Princess Road, Lawrenceville 08648. DeniseChalk, director clinical service. 609-895-8855; fax, 609-671-0794.Home page: www.plusnj.comA day program providing rehabilitation of persons who have sufferedtraumatic brain injuries has moved to Princess Road.Top Of PageMedical DevicesIn three years Shawn T. Huxel has founded two medical device firms.Six months after he founded it, his second company, Xtremi-T, wasbought by Manhattan-based Viscogliosi Bros. LLC in February. Now knownas Small Bone Innovations (SBI), it does orthopedics, instrumentationand implants for small bones and joint surgery, and it is slated tomove to Morrisville, Pennsylvania.The son of a retired United States Air Force NCO, Huxel is an engineerfrom Hofstra, Class of 1987, with graduate credits in engineering fromRutgers and a master’s degree and MBA from NJIT. He worked at StirnIndustries as well as for Johnson & Johnson, and then he consulted inbiomaterials and urology before opening his first business, OsseusLLC, in 2002. The first product was a hard tissue fixation device torepair fractured bones.The co-founder of Osseus was Dean Cole, a Florida-based trauma surgeonwho invents orthopedic implants. Huxel exited from Osseus in May,2004, and formed the second company the following month. DickWoodbridge of Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge on Nassau Street isHuxel’s intellectual property attorney (U.S. 1, February 18, 2004).Huxel is now vice president of business development of Small BoneInnovations, a $15 million company with about 100 global employeesowned by Viscogliosi Bros. (VB).VB is a new company formed in 1999 by merchant bankers, and it aims tocreate a single source of small bone and joint implant products. VBclaims to be the first venture capital/private equity and merchantbanking firm dedicated to the musculoskeletal/orthopedics sector ofthe health care industry.VB’s SBI division has a portfolio of FDA-approved implants to treatboth small bone & joint degenerative diseases and trauma patients.Thanks to three recent acquisitions, including Huxel’s, it has apipeline of 40 products under development and has two recent Food andDrug Administration approvals.Small Bone Innovations, 505 Park Avenue, 14th Floor NewYork, NY 10022, 212-583-0370; fax, 212-826-9509. Shawn T. Huxel.www.totalsmallbone.comTop Of PageLeaving TownBorn-Air Freight Corp., 1595 Reed Road, Box 7567, WestTrenton 08628-7567. Charles “Chip” Packard, co-owner. 609-737-8200;fax, 609-737-2482. Home page:Born-Air Freight has closed, and no working telephone is availablefrom directory assistance.F. Schumacher & Company, 102 Melrich Road, SouthBrunswick Industrial Park, Cranbury 08512. Bill McDonald, manager.609-395-4200; fax, 609-395-4249.New York-based F. Schumacher & Company has closed its distributionfacility in the South Brunswick Industrial Park, which housed anddistributed historic-reproduction wallpapers to national wall coveringaccounts like Lowes and Home Depot. The inventory has beenconsolidated into an existing facility in Richburg, South Carolina.“The wall covering industry has been consolidating for the past 5 to10 years and sales have fallen off,” said Jim Hinthorn, F.Schumacher’s senior vice president of human resources. At one pointthe Cranbury facility had 100 workers.Top Of PageDeathsJohn T. Henderson Jr., 75, on January 22. He grew John T. HendersonRealtors Inc., founded by his father in 1953, into a 12-officecompany, selling it in 1998 and the founding the Princeton Real EstateGroup LLC in 2001.Next StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
