DeFelice Oldsmobile in Point Pleasant is now Chevrolet and Oldsmobile. The new addition was announced recently by the DeFelice brothers, Ed, Mike, Jeff and Tim.
The family business started in 1946 in Freehold selling Chevrolets and has now made the full circle selling Chevrolets along with Oldsmobiles on Route 88 in Point Pleasant.
Also new to the location is Kevin Bamburak, sales manager, a Point Pleasant resident.
Steven Juliano, of Brick, has been named vice president of Shulman & Associates, a company that specializes in business development in training and is an affiliate of Sandler Sales Institute, with offices in Iselin, Red Bank, Parsippany and Saddle Brook.
As vice president, Juliano will train and coach business executives from small, privately held companies to large corporations and professional firms.
Juliano was formerly the president and owner of Accutemp Inc., a mechanical contracting firm in Rahway and Toms River, for more than 20 years before joining Shulman & Associates in 1997. He has served as executive associate for Shulman and Associates since 1999.
Juliano is a past president of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce; founding member and president of Corporate Resource Alliance, a networking organization; and chair of the Industrial Council of the Middlesex Regional Chamber of Commerce. He is a vice president of Monmouth-Ocean Development Council (MODC); a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Economic Development Committee. Additionally, Juliano serves on three MODC committees: Technology, Business Growth and Development, and the Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex (MOM) Rail Line, a major interest of the MODC. He was recognized by both the Lakewood and Middlesex chambers as Chamber Business Person of the Month.
Wendy Cruoglio, managing director of First Choice Health Group, Brick, has been appointed director of chiropractic assistant and staff education for breakthrough coaching. Her duties will include conducting staff education through national and regional seminars, and using weekly national teleconferencing to present, discuss and answer questions about such topics as hiring and training of staff, marketing, office efficiency, courteous telephone usage, among others.
Cruoglio has been a chiropractic assistant for 10 years at First Choice Health Group. Breakthrough coaching is a national practice development system for chiropractic and multidisciplinary practices. Cruoglio will present a workshop titled "Marketing Your Practice from the Inside Out" at a seminar Nov. 6 in Key Biscayne, Fla.
Meridian Health, which encompasses Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, Ocean Medical Center, Brick, and Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, was recently presented with the Outstanding Employer Award by the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA). The Outstanding Employer Award is presented annually to companies that have "demonstrated a creative and forward-looking approach to meeting the needs of their employees." Each year, NJBIA honors a select group of companies from among its 20,000 members for their outstanding achievements, including the Outstanding Employer Award.
This year, Meridian Health was honored for its Total Rewards Partnership Program, which exchanges its employees’ expertise, hard work and dedication with income, professional development, health and retirement benefits, work and personal life programs, and an environment and culture based on trust, teamwork and a shared vision for excellence.
Verizon Wireless has expanded its digital network in Ocean County with the addition of a cell site in Brick. The new site will provide improved wireless coverage throughout Lavallette, the southern portion of Point Pleasant and along Routes 35 and 70.
Georgian Court College, Lakewood, hosted its sixth annual "Gilded Age Gala" Oct. 4 and raised over $150,000 to support the Georgian Court College scholarship fund. This marks the highest amount achieved since the event was first held in 1998.
More than 300 business and community leaders attended this year’s event. In addition to auctioning off more than 100 items, The Bonitas Award was given posthumously to Mary Gundrum. She was a resident of South Amboy and graduated from the college in 1925. She taught home economics and cooking to Woodbridge junor high and high school students for nearly 40 years. Her niece, Rosemary Todino of Brick, a 1956 graduate of the college, accepted the award on her aunt’s behalf.
Kim Sakevich of Brick, a senior who will graduate with a bachelor of art degree in the spring, was one of the students on hand to thank scholarship supporters. Other guests included Sen. Robert W. Singer and Meridian Health CEO John K. Lloyd, both members of the college’s board of trustees, as well as Commerce Bank Vice President Dominick Servodio.