Contracts Awarded: Healthcare Monitors
Expansions: Interpool, MicroTech, Personal Computer Rentals
New in Town: Chirotech Technology Limited
Crosstown Moves: Infinite Data Structures
Crosstown Moves: Philips Semiconductors
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Management Moves: Kelly for Kiss
Energy Photovoltaics, Box 276 Bakers Basin Road,7456, Princeton 08543. Robert C. Kelly, CEO. 609-587-3000; fax,609-587-5355.Robert C. Kelly, the former CEO of Enron Corp., hasreplaced Zoltan Kiss as CEO of Energy Photovoltaics Inc. (EPV), aresearch and development firm for solar photovoltaic technology. Kissremains at EPV as chairman and chief technology officer.Kelly has a BS in engineering from West Point (Class of 1968) andhas master’s and PhD degrees from Harvard in public administrationand economics. Most recently he was chairman and CEO of Texas-basedEnron Renewable Energy, the nation’s largest natural gas company,where he developed an Amoco/Enron joint venture in solar electricpower. “Continued growth in energy demand coupled with theproblemsof air pollution and global warming will create a significant demandfor solar energy,” he says, “and EPV has the technology andexpertise to gain a large share of this rapidly growing market.”Founded by Kiss (previously founder of Chronar), the nine-year-oldEPV researches, designs, and sells photovoltaic technology, includingthin-film solar panels that produce electricity at a lower cost thanother photovoltaics currently produced. The company has 11manufacturingfacilities around the world and plans to build four more this year.It holds the largest commercial photovoltaic order to date — fromthe Sacramento Utilities District.Top Of PageContracts Awarded: PharmaSeqPharmaSeq Inc., 11 Deer Park Drive, PrincetonCorporatePlaza, Suite 204, Monmouth Junction 08852. Wlodek Mandecki, presidentand CEO. 732-355-0100; fax, 732-355-0102. Home page:https://www.pharmaseq.com.Wlodek Mandecki’s young biotech company has received its fourth patentregarding new microchip technology involving multiplex nucleicacid-basedassays to develop rapid, sensitive DNA diagnostics. He says that hiscompany will seek additional capital to leverage this progress.Foundedin 1997, PharmaSeq is applying microtransponder technology to DNAdiagnostic assays.Top Of PageContracts Awarded: Healthcare MonitorsWhen a Medicaid client tries to fill a prescription,a warning could flash on the pharmacist’s screen, advising that thismedication does not meet state guidelines — not because it isexpensive, but because it might react badly with another medicationbeing prescribed.”If you look for savings from people not having drug reactions,that can be a big savings.” says Marion Pardes, director ofoperationsat the College Road office of First Health Services Corp. Hers isthe first private company to contract with the state to monitorclinicalaspects of those using public healthcare. The company does not denyissuing a prescription based on cost but instead looks at the wholemedication picture: “If I deny somebody getting a drug, that maysave up to $100, but if I save them from having a reaction, that isa much bigger picture, a more indirect way of saving money,”Pardessays.After moving into an 8,000-foot College Road office that was chosenfor its proximity to Medicaid and Unisys offices on Quakerbridge Road,Pardes has 35 nurses and pharmacists on staff and is hiring forfull-timeand part-time jobs with weekday hours.Pardes grew up in Lakewood, the daughter of a bookkeeper and aveterinarian,and she lives in Toms River with her husband, an attorney, and theirschool-aged daughter. She has a pharmacy degree from NortheasternUniversity, Class of 1980, and has worked in Children’s Hospital inWashington, D.C., in independent retail drugstores, and as directorof pharmacy services for HIP New Jersey.The parent organization, First Health Group, is based in Downer’sGrove, Illinois, and the wholly-owned subsidiary is in a suburb ofRichmond, Virginia. Founded in 1968 to process medical insuranceclaims,First Health Services has 1,000 employees in 35 states. The firm hasthree lines of business in government services — as a Medicaidfiscal agent, as a manager of pharmacy benefits, and for utilizationreview and quality analysis. Since 1972 it has been the fiscal agentfor Virginia Medicaid. It is New York City’s fiscal agent for an earlyintervention program, and it also has outposts in Wilkes-Barre,Harrisburg,and Baltimore.Unisys does New Jersey’s exception claims on the financial side, butuntil now New Jersey was processing its own medical exception claims.Princeton is part of the pharmacy benefit management group and beganoperating on December 1.”With `prior authorization’ you are providing a gatekeeper tobe sure that drugs with multiple purposes are being prescribed forthe right purposes and won’t interact with anything else,” saysMarilyn Dix Smith, executive director of the International Societyfor Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research at 20 Nassau Street(https://www.ispor.com).”The intent is to guard against misuse of drugs.””We are handling authorizations for state prescriptionbeneficiaries,”says Pardes, “both for the Medicaid and PAD programs, where thoseprescriptions, when dispensed, have some clinical issue that fallsoutside the guidelines as determined by a state review board. We makeclinical decisions and may deny payment for the state.”The druggists, says Pardes, are not necessarily at fault when paymentis denied. Instead, problems are often caused by a patient’s goingto multiple pharmacies. “One druggist cannot see the prescriptionsthat the beneficiary goes elsewhere to get dispensed. So when thedruggists enter the information and dial to a central clearingcomputer,they get an answer back right away if there is a problem. The otheroption is putting the patient in jeopardy because there is a problemwith medication,” she says.The time lag in getting an answer back, during working hours, isgenerallyless than 15 minutes, Pardes says, but if her office is not open —and it is not an emergency, a druggist will hold the prescription.For emergencies, a pharmacist with a laptop and dial-in access tothe system is on 24-hour call.First Health Services Corp. (FHCC), 101 CollegeRoad East, Princeton 08540. Marion Pardes, director of operations.609-919-1892. Home page: https://www.fhsc.com.Top Of PageExpansions: Guardian DrugGuardian Drug, 2 Charles Court, Dayton 08810.ArvindDhruv, president. 609-394-5300; fax, 609-394-5301.The private label manufacturer of stomach remedies is expanding from72 Prince Street in Trenton to a facility formerly occupied by BlockDrug. It purchased the 135,000 foot single-floor building with a $7.5million bond floated by the New Jersey Development Authority. Thetarget date for move-in is March.Top Of PageExpansions: nex-i.comnex-i.com, 7 Wall Street, Princeton 08540. IraBaseman, president. 609-497-9400; fax, 609-497-9400. Home page:https://www.nex-i.com.The Research-park based firm that provides pre-packaged, plug-in localarea networks for companies and property managers sold 30 percentof its ownership to AlphaNetSolutions of Cedar Knolls — thecompanythat had been a lead investor in the first round of venture funding.AlphaNet will provide technical services and network securityproducts,although not exclusively, as the company expands into 11 differentstates and the District of Columbia.Nex-i.com also has space at 600 Alexander Road. Since last July thecompany has grown from two to 15 employees (U.S. 1, August 18, 1999).Top Of PageExpansions: Princeton SoftechPrinceton Softech (CHRZ), 1060 State Road, Suite201, Princeton 08542-1423. Joseph A. Allegra, president. 609-688-5000;fax, 609-497-0302. Home page:https://www.princetonsoftech.com.In spite of computer translations program, language translators arestill in demand. When it comes to moving databases between differentprogram languages, that can still be a problem. Princeton Softechhas announced that its suite of enterprise data management tools nowsupports a half-dozen operating environments, and the most recentis Informix.”Data migration across heterogenous platforms and databases isfundamental to so many business strategies, such as testing,archiving,business intelligence, and data sharing,” says Joe Allegra,presidentof Princeton Softech, in announcing the Informix addition and a newcontract with Sandia National Laboratories. Later this year thewholly-ownedsubsidiary of Computer Horizons Corp will move more than double itsspace with a move to University Park on Alexander Road.Top Of PageExpansions: Seber LogisticsTop Of PageExpansions: Seber LogisticsSeber Logistics Consulting Inc., 104 TamarackCircle,Princeton 08540. James J. Seber CMC, president. 732-940-1200; fax,732-940-1284. Home page: https://www.seberinc.com.Seber Logistics Consulting, which specializes in supply chainanalysis,customer service, and network analysis, is expanding from North CentreDrive to a 2,000 square foot office at Montgomery Knoll (U.S. 1,November18, 1988).Top Of PageExpansions: Interpool, MicroTech, Personal Computer RentalsInterpool (IPX), 211 College Road East, Princeton08540. Martin Tuchman, chairman and CEO. 609-452-8900; fax,609-452-8211.Home page: https://www.interpool.com.MicroTech Leasing Corp. (IPX), 211 College RoadEast, Princeton 08540. Allen M. Olinger, president. 609-987-0077;fax, 609-987-1011. Home page: https://www.mtlc.com.Personal Computer Rentals (IPX), 211 College RoadEast, Princeton 08540. 609-720-1411; fax, 609-720-0814. Home page:https://www.pcrrent.com.Expertise that works for leasing trucks will work for leasingcomputers,or so it would seem. MicroTech Leasing Corporation — a subsidiaryof Interpool, which handles chassis and container leasing systems— expanded last year by buying Personal Computer Rentalcorporation(PCR), and PCR has moved from Cedar Brook Corporate Center to joinboth MicroTech and Interpool at 211 College Road.Using MicroTech’s funds, PCR bought more than $1 million worth ofequipment to rent, lease, or sell, and the College Road office isits headquarters for 25 locations nationwide. The synergies are many:PCR rents computers chiefly to the trade show industry, and MicroTechleases such technology as PCs, network equipment, and telephonyequipmentto emerging growth companies.Top Of PageNew in Town: Chirotech Technology LimitedChirotech Technology Limited, 103 Carnegie Center,Suite 313, Princeton 08540. Joseph Marasco, vice president.609-750-9555;fax, 609-760-99560.With more than 70 employees worldwide, this pharmaceutical chemicalfirm established a marketing and development office at the CarnegieCenter last fall. A developer of key chemical intermediates, it isheadquartered in Cambridge, England, and also has operations in theUnited Kingdom, India, and Japan.Top Of PageNew In Town: KFS & AssociatesKFS & Associates, 372 Wall Street, Princeton 08540.Holly Fronczak, account manager. 609-688-9992; fax, 609-688-9993.Home page: https://www.kfsassoc.com.This is the East Coast office of an Indiana-based advertising andmarketing firm that serves various industries. The office opened inDecember.Top Of PageCrosstown Moves: Infinite Data StructuresInfinite Data Structures, 993 Lenox Drive, Suite101, Lawrenceville 08648. Robert Kelly, president. 609-219-0959; fax,609-219-0459. Home page: https://www.infiniteds.com.This firm is scheduled to move to 861 Alexander Road, formerly thehome of Princeton Polychrome, in early 2001. The deal was brokeredby Commercial Property Network for roughly $900,000. The company doesclient-server development for bid and contract computer systems forthe pharmaceutical industry.Parker Printing, a company that started out 60 years ago as aletterpressand stationery store in Trenton, acquired Polychrome, a high-techsheet-fed printer and separation house with a national reputationfor art reproduction (U.S. 1, April 26, 1995). As ParkerCommunicationsit consolidated Polychrome’s operations at 2630 Brunswick Pike.Top Of PageCrosstown Moves: MOI Inc.MOI Inc., 55 George Street, Lambertville 08530.Mila Montemayor, president. 609-730-8188; fax, 609-730-8111.The consulting company moved from 2490 Pennington Road toLambertville,closer to the owner’s residence. Phone and fax remain the same. Thefirm focuses on marketing and strategic research, particularly forthe pharmaceutical industry.Top Of PageCrosstown Moves: Philips SemiconductorsPhilips Semiconductors, 2 Research Way, Princeton08540. Anita Letzter, regional sales manager. 609-919-1133; fax,609-919-0254.Home page: https://www.vlsi.com.After a stint in temporary space at 101 College Road, this 11-personlaboratory of a firm owned by a Dutch telecommunications pioneer hasmade another move, to 4,700 square feet at 2 Research Way. Phone andfax are new. The engineers here to custom design integrated circuits,and the company was formerly known as VLSI Technology before it wassold to Philips.Top Of PageCrosstown Moves: TelelogicTelelogic, 206 Rockingham Row, Princeton 08540.Per Blysa, vice president North America. 609-520-1935; fax,609-520-8512.Home page: https://www.telelogic.com.This software design firm, a division of Saab Combitech Group, movedfrom 200 to 206 Rockingham Row. It makes a software design tool, basedon SDL, used by telecommunications firms. The phone and fax numbersare the same.Top Of PageDeathsErnest Johnston, 61, on January 26. The first black reporterat the Star-Ledger, he had been managing editor of the Amsterdam Newsand had written several articles for U.S. 1 Newspaper. Johnstoninterviewed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a few weeks before thecivil rights leader was assassinated in 1968.Previous StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
