Week of Dec. 2-4.
GOOD DEEDS
As part of the Martin House 100 Homes for 100 Families Campaign, Yardville National Bank has donated the funds needed to construct the 66th home. Martin House is working to build, during the next five years, 100 homes for very low-income families from the area of Trenton surrounding East State Street.
Through Martin House, it takes $63,000 to build a new home for a low-income family. Private contributions and matching government funding allows Martin House to create a home with an 11-year, interest-free mortgage. To date, 113 mortgages have been created and 43 have been retired. The organization assists families in need that would not be granted mortgages from traditional financial institutions.
Alternatives Inc., a nonprofit corporation in central New Jersey helping individuals with developmental disabilities live in communities rather than institutions, was the beneficiary of Princeton Mortgage Corp.’s 10th annual Charity Golf Event. This year’s event, chaired by mortgage planner Carleton Badger, raised close to $15,000, the largest amount in the history of the event. "I credit all of the loan officers, investors, sponsors and partners who participated and contributed for helping us to exceed our goal," said Mr. Badger.
Princeton Mortgage Corp., with corporate offices in Pennington, is a residential mortgage financing company serving New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bollinger Inc. announced the promotion of employee Laura Kramer to personal lines sales producer. Ms. Kramer joined the firm when the Merritt Agency of Rocky Hill merged with Bollinger last year and has more than 20 years of insurance experience. She will be working in the Merritt/Bollinger office in Montgomery Township.
Adrianne Vickers, a financial consultant at the Princeton branch of RBC Dain Rauscher, served as co-chair at RBC Dain Rauscher’s 11th annual Women’s Association of Financial Consultants (WAFC) Conference recently. The WAFC is a professional organization of RBC Dain Rauscher that supports its members with a wide range of information, events and programs geared toward the unique role of women in the securities industry.
Susan J. Hartley has joined U.S. Trust in New Jersey as a senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer. Previously serving in U.S. Trust’s New York City and Florida offices, she will be developing the business plan for U.S. Trust in the Princeton and Morristown offices.
U.S.Trust is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation, providing wealth management and private banking services.
Amper, Politziner & Mattia have announced the following:
Barry T. Wells has joined the Princeton office as director of the insurance industry group. With more than 23 years serving insurance industry, Mr. Wells assists clients in a wide range of issues including operations, strategic planning, claim management and litigation management.
Recently promoted to senior consultant were Maureen M. Doherty in the healthcare services group and Denise M. Wheeler in the insolvency and asset recovery practice.
Amper, Politziner & Mattia Certified Public Accountants and Consultants serves the greater New Jersey/New York business community.
For the sixth consecutive year, WithumSmith+Brown was recognized by Bowman’s as one of the "Best of the Best" accounting firms in the nation.
Bowman’s annual analysis is the longest-running, independent analysis focusing on management operations of America’s large local, regional and national firms. In determining the best, firms are ranked on various data points based on fiscal and management performance. Of more than 320 participating firms, WS+B was one of 25 so honored.
WithumSmith+Brown, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants, has office locations in Princeton, Red Bank, New Brunswick, Livingston, Toms River, Flemington and Newtown, Pa.
ARCHITECTURE
Ford Farewell Mills and Gatsch recently added Dade Van Der Werf to the firm’s professional staff. A resident of Princeton, Mr. Van Der Werf’s background and expertise complement the firm’s commitment to institutional and cultural project types. He is currently working on the Performing and Fine Arts Centers at Rowan University, as well as renovations to Princeton University’s Jones Hall and Firestone Library.
Princeton based Hillier Architects recently won a gold award from the New Jersey Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the design of Solebury School’s recently dedicated science center. Located in rural Bucks County, Pa., the science center resembles a barn more than a laboratory in keeping with the school’s location and tradition of melding nurture with nature. The building includes math classrooms as well as science laboratories, a student lounge and a greenhouse with its own irrigation system and misting vents. The facility also boasts a "green" design for energy efficiency, capturing, managing and recovering heat inside the building to assist in heating the classrooms.
Barbara Hillier, the building’s architect and a principal of the firm, won an AIA bronze award for the design of a gymnasium the school is also planning.
LAW
Retired Princeton attorney Ruth Rabstein was awarded the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism’s 2003 Professional Lawyer of the Year award recently. The award is given annually to those attorneys who have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to professionalism throughout their careers in the law.
A partner in the firm of Pellettieri Rabstein and Altman until her retirement a decade ago, she practiced law for over 55 years. At the time of her admission to the bar in 1934 there were only a handful of women lawyers in the state. Ms. Rabstein was recognized ultimately as the dean of the workers compensation bar. Long active in social causes, she was one of the founders of the Trenton NAACP and was active in the women’s caucus in the Mercer County Bar Association. Ms. Rabstein is a graduate of Rutgers School of Law and Cornell University.
The New Jersey Commission on Professionalism is a cooperative venture of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the state judiciary and the three New Jersey law schools.
Fox Rothschild recently welcomed Jeffrey M. Pollock to the firm as a partner in the litigation department in the Princeton office. Mr. Pollock is recognized as a leader in the practice of environmental law with significant experience in Superfund, natural resource damages and corrective action sites and represents parties before both state and federal courts. He also advises manufacturing, chemical and pharmaceutical companies regarding regulatory compliance.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
PharmaNet, an international drug development company with offices in West Windsor, announced the appointment of Dr. Grant N. Ko to senior medical director, neuroscience division.
A board-certified psychiatrist with more than 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Ko has a broad range of experience with clinical trials in psychiatric and behavioral neurosciences. Prior to joining PharmaNet, Dr. Ko was a senior director at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research. He has also held senior-level positions with Schering-Plough and Pfizer, as well as academic positions. Dr. Ko currently remains on faculty at New York University.
Barrier Therapeutics Inc., an emerging biopharmaceutical company located in Plainsboro, announced that Albert C. Bristow has been appointed to the position of general counsel. Mr. Bristow joins Barrier from the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius where he represented Barrier since the company’s inception.
Barrier Therapeutics is a privately held company that was formed to develop and market dermatological products based on intellectual property from Janssen Pharmaceutica, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, all affiliates of Johnson & Johnson.
TECHNOLOGY
WindsorTech Inc. has launched a hard disk drive erasure tool (patent-pending) for the small office, home office and personal computer markets. EraseYourHardDrive.com is a hard disk drive sanitation application to eliminate the threat of identity theft from computers that have been (or are to be) discarded, donated or sold. Delivered over the Internet to consumers and small businesses in a single-use license purchase, the company intends to market via partnerships with PC retailers and distributors.
EraseYour HardDrive.com is the first consumer product offered by Windsor Tech Inc., located in Hightstown.
MARKETING
Digital Brand Expressions announced the addition of Bonnie Schlangen as marketing coordinator for client services, a newly created position in the Kingston based e-marketing firm. Most recently a marketing coordinator with an executive search firm in New York City, Ms. Schlangen will implement marketing programs designed to increase site traffic for several of the firm’s clients.
DBE provides a variety of e-marketing services designed to increase brand visibility online while complementing off-line marketing programs. They specialize in advanced search engine marketing helping clients’ sites list in Top 10 picks on major search engines.
OUTSOURCE
Billtrust, a leading provider of outsourced billing solutions, announced the release of its CompleteBilling product for use with Intuit’s Eclipse Distribution Management Solution. The CompleteBilling solution enables companies to significantly reduce the time and cost associated with customer billing, accelerate cash flow, improve customer service and easily begin the migration to electronic billing.
Instead of printing invoices and statements in-house, Intuit Eclipse users can electronically transmit bills to Billtrust for processing. With a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround, Billtrust offers the most extensive range of outsourced billing services available for small and medium-volume businesses, including bill design consultation, variable marketing messages and inserts, and comprehensive reporting.
Billtrust is headquartered in Princeton Junction.