Business Briefs

Raymond Mulé recently joined the staff at Davis Realtors, East Brunswick, as a Realtor associate.

A member of the Garden State and Middlesex, Monmouth/Ocean, and Mercer counties multiple listing services, Mulé earned New Jersey Association of Realtors (NJAR) Circle of Excellence Bronze Awards in 2002 and 2003. He is a 17-year resident of East Brunswick.

The Middlesex-Somerset Chapter of New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners recently donated $1,000 to Middlesex Community College; this year’s grant recipient is Veronica Terry, a single mother of two, who worked part time while attending the college. She plans on pursuing a bachelor’s degree in sociology at Kean University.

Bruce H. Jones, South Brunswick, has been re-elected executive director of the Commercial Finance Association for 2005. Founded in 1944, Commercial Finance Association (based in New York City) is the trade organization of the asset-based financial services industry, with members throughout the United States, Canada and around the world.

Members include the asset-based lending arms of domestic and foreign commercial banks, small and large independent finance companies, floor plan financing organizations, factoring organizations and financing subsidiaries of major industrial corporations.

Jones has been with the Commercial Finance Association for 38 years. After completing college, he was drafted into military service and spent much of the next two years in Bremerhaven, West Germany, as a cryptographer in the Signal Corps. Jones is only the third chief administrative officer of the trade group in its 60-year history. among his achievements at CFA include launching the Secured Lender, the leading publication in the asset-based financial services industry.

In 1981 and 1982, Jones was on the Township Committee of South Brunswick. Also, in the late 1970s and early 1980s he served on the Planning and Environmental committees of the township.

In addition, he has been a volunteer for the local chapter of the American Heart Association.