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On the Move: Siemens and Morgan Stanley
Certus International, 864 Mapleton Road, Princeton08540. Frederick Mostert. 609-919-3700; fax, 609-919-3707. Homepage: www.certus.com.Certus International, an E-commerce company, marks its presence atthe former property of Ford Farewell & Mills Architects — onMapletonRoad just off Route 1 in Plainsboro — with an elegant green andgold sign. Its head, Frederick W. Mostert, has been honorary chairmanof the International Trade Association and has written extensivelyon trademarks and intellectual property.But a company spokesperson, citing a nondisclosure agreement, declinedto provide information, and the company’s web page is closed to thepublic.Top Of PageBrokerage MovesLast month, just about the time the Dean Witter partof the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter name officially disappeared, theretail office of the brokerage firm moved from Lenox Drive to a formerfacility of Merrill Lynch. Then Jeanne McPartland moved herfour-personoffice from Route 206 to join the main group at Franklin Corner Road.The new office is a stand-alone building and offers more room andvisibility, says Kaiko Hargrove, operations manager. About 55 peoplework here.Meanwhile a back-office division of Morgan Stanley has signed along-termlease for 33,686 feet of space at 206 Carnegie Center. Greg Lezynskiand Patrick Luzzi of Gale & Wentworth represented the tenant, andJohn K. Brandbergh did the lease for Boston PropertiesThe building has a total of 159,000 square feet and used to be solelyoccupied by Covance. Now it has three additional tenants on the fourthand fifth floors — Morgan Stanley, Velio Communications, and ExideCorporation.Morgan Stanley, 100 Franklin Corner Road, Box 1573,Lawrenceville 08648. Peter David, branch manager. 609-844-7900;fax, 609-844-7950. Home page: www.ms.com.Top Of PageNew at CarnegieLevel 8 Systems (LVEL), 212 Carnegie Center, Suite303, Princeton 08540; 609-987-9001; fax, 609-987-0038. Home page:www.level8.com.A software company headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, is openingan office at the Carnegie Center. Last fall Level 8 bought the rightsto Merrill Lynch’s “Cicero” software. Now the company isworkingto enhance the program used by more than 30,000 Merrill Lynchemployees.The firm is traded on Nasdaq (LVEL) and has offices in the UK, France,Germany, Sweden, and Italy.Paul Rampel, the president, says that Cicero’s visual integrationplatform can combine different applications into a simplified userinterface to view and update information. This interface isparticularlygood for call centers.NiCox S.A., 502 Carnegie Center, Princeton 08540.A biopharmaceutical firm based in France will set up its northeasternU.S. headquarters at 502 Carnegie Center. Robert Bull of Julien J.Studley represented the tenant.Siemens Information and Communication Networks,202 Carnegie Center, Princeton 08540. Home page:www.ic.siemens.com.A telecommunications company based in Germany is coming to theCarnegieCenter. This division of Siemens is not connected with the researchorganization at the Forrestal Center. Jon Marks of Cushman & Wakefieldrepresented the Boca Raton-based firm.Like Lucent or Nortel, Siemens ICN does enterprise-wide data and voicetelecommunications networks for major corporations such as Ford, CocaCola, and NASA.Top Of PageExpansionsFirst Union National Bank (FTU), 370 Scotch Road,CN 1, West Trenton 08628. Susanne Svizeny, regional president.609-538-7492;fax, 609-771-5774. Home page: www.firstunion.com.The sixth-largest bank will soon be the fourth-largest bank in thenation, behind Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Bank of America,when it finishes buying Wachovia Corp. of North Carolina. BecauseWachovia has no branches in New Jersey, no job cuts or majormanagementchanges are expected here. Wachovia’s offices are in Florida, Georgia,North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, while First Union isin 11 eastern states and the District of Columbia. Signs will be upby 2003 for the new bank’s 2,900 branches, 90,000 employees, and 19million customers.Ken Thompson, CEO of First Union, will stay as president and CEO ofthe new bank, but it will have the Wachovia name. Scotch Road willremain the southern New Jersey corporate headquarters.Re/Max Greater Princeton, 116 Village Boulevard,Princeton Forrestal Village, Box 430, Plainsboro 08536. EstherCapotosta,broker of record. 609-951-8600; fax, 609-951-9695.The Re/Max Greater Princeton office opened officially on VillageBoulevardafter a month in temporary quarters. This is the office for EstherCapotosta, Joan Eisenberg, Claire McNew, Linda November, and DawnPetrozzini. Another office, Re/Max of Princeton, remains at 600AlexanderRoad. Additional area branches include those in Pennington andHamilton.Mercer Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction,447 Bellevue Avenue, Trenton 08618-4502. Scott Sechrist, executivedirector. 609-396-5874; fax, 609-396-3451. Home page:pacpub.com/mcada.The prevention agency is moving from 408 Bellevue to the other sideof the street, gaining an elevator, a receptionist’s area, a waitingroom with customer phone, an updated phone system, and enough privateoffices to go round. The offices will be closed through April 30.Top Of PageSelling and MovingRX Remedy Inc., 3705 Quakerbridge Road, Suite 205,Mercerville 08619. 203-341-7010.RX Remedy, a market research company with a magazine,has closed its 12-person office on Quakerbridge Road and is in theprocess of being sold. Operations continue on a reduced scale inWestport,Connecticut, where there are three discrete divisions. RxEMEDYmagazinepublishes health advice, and management of that subscription databaseyields various research reports and direct marketing opportunities.The magazine claims to have the biggest over-55 health researchdatabasebased on consumer behavior. It is based on information, not money,and it has both a research and marketing component.The second division is HealthScout (an Internet-based informationsource that is resold to such portals as Compuserve, Yahoo, Infospace,and Iwon), and third is Remedy Information Services, which collectsdata from consumer panels.The three businesses are being sold separately, says Karamjeet Paul,chairman and CEO of RX Remedy, and he expects to announce the buyersin several weeks. “The buyers see a tremendous amount of attentionin this area, and they plan to retain the people and grow thebusiness,”says Paul. He graduated from India Institute of Technology in Bombayin 1971 and has a graduate degree from Case Western Reserve.Paul says his Internet site has flourished because he used a differentbusiness model than most. “Most companies have spent a lot ofmoney attracting consumers to their sites. Our approach right fromthe beginning has been that we would sell our information and toolsto companies that need content. You will find us at over 1,200consumersites. Technology allows each portal to use a different design forthe same information.”This could be one of those “He who laughs last” cases.”Otherswere spending money like there was no tomorrow,” says Paul,”andwe were told we missed the boat.” He expects to announce the buyerfor each of the companies within the next several weeks.NuCycle Therapy Inc., 1 Deer Park Drive, SuiteM, Princeton Corporate Plaza, Monmouth Junction 08852. Burt Ensley,CEO. 732-438-0900; fax, 732-438-1209.Burt Ensley has sold his firm, NuCycle Therapy Inc., to ManhattanDrug Company, a subsidiary of Integrative Health Companies Inc. Itis now located at 225 Long Avenue, Hillside 07025, but retains thesame phone and fax. Formerly known as Phytotech, the company usesplants for nutritional mineral supplements.nex-i.com, 29 Emmons Drive, Building B, Princeton08540. Ira Baseman, president. 609-497-9400; fax, 609-497-9433.Homepage: www.nex-i.com.Ira Baseman has sold Nex-icom to Eureka GGN and now all calls arebeing taken at the Manhattan office: 800-562-4206. As an integratedservice provider, it offers plug-in networks — data backup andstorage, remote network monitoring, security, server management,E-commercesupport, and PC software distribution.Top Of PageDownsizingRoper Starch Worldwide, 1060 State Road, Box 158,Princeton 08542-0158. James H. Fouss, vice chairman. 609-921-3333;fax, 609-921-2611. Home page: www.roper.com.Roper Starch’s call center at 3635 Quakerbridge Road has been closed,and the work has been rerouted to the company’s three other callcentersaround the country. Four full-time employees from the center havebeen located to the 130-person State Road office. Says Jim Fouss,the vice chairman and head of the Princeton research hub, “Theclosing is due to the tight labor market and the high cost ofrecruitingand retaining employees.” Formerly known as Response Analysis,the market research and consulting firm does survey design, datacollection,and statistical analysis.Advanced Energy Systems, 501 Forrestal Road,ForrestalCampus: Guggenheim Building, Box 7455, Princeton 08543. Alan Todd,vice president. 609-430-2125; fax, 609-430-1460. Home page:www.aesys.net.The Advanced Energy Systems Group moved out of 2,500 square feet atAirpark Drive and into 700 square feet in the Guggenheim buildingon the Forrestal Campus. Rather appropriately, it is now a neighborof the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The company specializesin accelerator and energy technology, such as electron acceleratorsystems, free electron lasers, and plasma physics projects.The Advanced Energy Systems Group used to belong to Northrop Grummanbut in 1998 the employees formed a new small business and bought theassets — the personnel skilled in accelerator and fusiontechnology,the intellectual property, accelerator development laboratories,prototypemachine shops, computational analysis systems and contracts. The7,800-footheadquarters, in Medford, New York, has the machine shop that cando full service engineering and physics analysis and design, inadditionto component fabrication.Princeton Teaching Associates Software Inc., Ewing08628. Timothy R. Cottrell, president. 609-883-2266.Www.ptas.com.The educational software and media producer moved from office spaceon main street in Kingston in January, apparently to a location inEwing. The telephone connects to a full voice mail box and the websiteis “temporarily unavailable.”Top Of PageManagement MovesMIIX Healthcare Group Inc. (MHU), 2 Princess Road,Lawrenceville 08648. 609-219-1111; fax, 609-219-6727. Home page:www.miix.com.Ken Koreyva has resigned as president and CEO of the medical insurancecompany. In February, 2000, he had replaced Daniel Goldberg, who wasarrested for growing two dozen marijuana plants at his house in LowerMakefield, Pennsylvania. He pleaded guilty and received one year ofnon-reporting probation.The company showed a profit of $20.8 million in 1999 but lost $36.5million in 2000.SERV Centers of New Jersey Inc., 380 Scotch Road,Trenton 08618. Gary Van Nostrand, president and CEO. 609-406-0100;fax, 609-406-0307. Www.servbhs.org.Gary Van Nostrand succeeds Charles Main as president and CEO of theSERV Behavioral Health System family of companies, a statewide privatenot-for-profit offering residential and outpatient mental health andaddiction services. Van Nostrand had been the executive vice presidentand previously held a senior position at the Medical Center ofPrinceton.An alumnus of Tulane University, he did graduate studies at theUniversityof Florida and a residency at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.Among the organizations at this 27-year-old agency are the Centerfor Innovative Family Achievements, SERV Centers of New Jersey, andDiversified Family and Children’s Services.Top Of PageDeathsBarbara Lynn Tilger, 53, on April 9. She worked in theoffice of attorney Thomas M. Russo III in Pennington.Eleanor M. Weisgerber on April 10. She had been aproofreaderat Princeton University Press.Sally R. Mayer, 64, on April 10. She was a partner atPersonnel Survey and Research Group at Research Park.Mary S. Tang, 48, on April 11. She was a children’s wearfabrics merchandising expert.Janet Hill Harvey, 56, on April 12. She worked in thedental offices of Drs. Russo and Coyle.Jack C. Faust, 71, on April 13. He was PrincetonUniversity’sfirst director of occupational health and safety.Carmen J. Armenti, 72, on April 14. He had beencommissionerof the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and was a former mayorof Trenton.Diane E. Dixon, 66, on April 15. She was managing directorof the Theater Guild of New Jersey and had been assistant editor ofthe Trentonian newspaper.Mary Mack Hulit on April 15. She taught in the Princetonschools and was married to the late Ralph D. Hulit. A memorial servicewill be Sunday, May 20, at 1 p.m. at Nassau Presbyterian Church.Mary Lou Demski, 61, on April 18. She co-foundedChopin-SteinwayPiano Co. on North Olden Avenue.Joseph R. Burns, 63, on April 18. An electrical engineerwith a degree from Princeton University (where he also was captainof the basketball team) and a Ph.D. from Rutgers, he co-founded OceanPower Technology in Hopewell.Jerry Offredo, 61, on April 20. He retired in 1993 after26 years with the Princeton Township Police Department.James J. Hughes Jr., 73, on April 23. He was executivedirector of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority andpreviouslyhad been a senior executive with several Wall Street firms. A memorialservice will be Thursday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. at Stuart CountryDay School.Next StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
