Milestones

Issue of May 31, 2005

By: Sara Carpenter
NONPROFIT
   Eden Family of Services has announced the appointment of four new officers to its board of trustees:
   William J. Noonan of Princeton has been elected chairman of the board of trustees. Mr. Noonan has been supportive of Eden since 1987, and most recently served as acting president and executive director of the organization.
   Andrew Abere of Monroe Township has been elected vice chairman. Dr. Abere is a senior economist for Princeton Economics Group and is the parent of a child in Eden’s middle childhood program.
   Kenneth W. Van Leeuwen, of Gladstone has been elected treasurer. The managing director of Van Leeuwen & Co., Mr. Van Leeuwen is the parent of a child in Eden’s early childhood program.
   Nancy Richardson of Lawrenceville has been elected secretary. Ms. Richardson is the former executive director of the New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (COSAC) and is the parent of an adult Eden participant.
   Celebrating 30 years, the Eden Family of Services, a not-for-profit organization, has provided lifespan services for children and adults with autism as well as support and assistance for their families.
BUSINESS ADVOCATES
   Jonathan M. Metsch, president and CEO of LibertyHealth in Jersey City, was named chairman of the board of the New Jersey Hospital Association, a 109-member advocacy organization based in West Windsor.

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   Mintax Inc. announced that it has hired Gary R. Marx as senior manager, location strategies. He will be responsible for assisting companies across the United States with economic development projects of all types.
   Mr. Marx, a resident of Pennington, previously worked on economic development for New Jersey’s Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism Commission, responsible for a 24-person professional staff focused on attracting out-of-state companies to New Jersey as well as retaining existing businesses and helping them expand.
   For 25 years, Mintax has assisted companies in obtaining and maximizing tax credits and government incentives. Operating in all 50 states, Mintax can quickly negotiate incentive packages tailored for individual company needs.

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   The Research & Development Council of New Jersey announced the 2005 inductees into the NJ Inventors Hall of Fame, recognizing and honoring the vision, creativity and hard work of New Jersey’s illustrious inventors, past and present. All winners must have resided in the state and performed the majority of their work on the invention in New Jersey. Nominations are judged according to the importance of the problem solved by the invention, the contribution to advancing the state of the art, utility and/or socio-economic value and demonstrated commercial impact.
   This year’s inductees for lifetime achievement are:
   William Trager of the Rockefeller Institute, who invented the first continuous cultivation on vitro of the human malaria parasite, furthering research on this deadly parasite and paving the way for a cure. Mr. Trager worked in Princeton.
   Howard Ellison of Rutgers University, the founder of the modern asparagus breeding program at Rutgers and developed an innovative strategy for all-male hybrid breeding for larger, healthier asparagus crops.
   Clarence Chang, Anthony Silvestri and William Lang of Mobil Research & Development Corp. discovered the Mobil Methanol-to-Gasoline (MTG) Process, the first synthetic fuel process to be commercialized in 50 years, sparking worldwide interest and research that continues to this day. Work was done at Mobile’s R&D facility previously located in Hopewell Township.
   Gerard Alphonse of RCA Laboratories (now Sarnoff Corp.) invented the world’s highest performance super-luminescent diode (SLD), a broadband semi-conductor light source and a key component in next-generation fiber optic applications for medical imaging and communication. Mr. Alphonse worked in West Windsor.
   The new members will be honored and inducted into the NJ Inventors Hall of Fame at the Awards Luncheon to be held noon, June 23, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, NJ.
   The Research and Development Council of New Jersey is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating an environment that supports the advancement of research and development throughout New Jersey.
LAW
   Sarah Klosek, of Robbinsville, has joined Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge as an associate. Ms. Klosek has experience in intellectual property matters relating to the chemical and pharmaceutical arts. Her practice currently focuses on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications and opinion work. She is based in the Princeton office.

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   Thomas Eschleman, of the Lawrenceville law firm of Szafreman, Lakind, Blumstein, Blader & Lehmann, was recently certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a criminal trial attorney. This designation is granted by the state Supreme Court to attorneys who have passed an examination on criminal trial practice and have demonstrated proficiency as litigators in a substantial number of major trials.

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   Sterns & Weinroth announced that five members of the firm have been named New Jersey Super Lawyers, selected after an extensive survey and peer review, in a list appearing in the May issue of New Jersey Monthly Magazine. The Super Lawyers are: Joel H. Sterns, William J. Bigham, Frank J. Petrino, Simon Kimmelman and Susan Stryker.
   With offices in Trenton and Kingston, Sterns & Weinroth concentrates its practice in administrative governmental, bankruptcy/creditors’ rights, litigation and real estate transactional. The firm also has the largest gaming practice in New Jersey and one of the largest in the country.
REAL ESTATE
   Mack-Cali Realty Corp. has been presented with The Office Building of the Year award by the Middle Atlantic Region of the Building Owners and Managers Association for 103 Carnegie Center, a 96,000 square-foot class A office building in Carnegie Center, West Windsor. The award is based on excellence in office building management, with all facets of a property’s operations evaluated including building maintenance, tenant relations programs and community involvement.
   Mack-Cali Realty Corp. is a fully-integrated, self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) providing management, leasing, development, construction and other tenant-related services for its class A real estate portfolio. Mack-Cali currently owns or has interests in 269 properties, primarily office and office/flex buildings located in the Northeast, totaling approximately 30.2 million square feet.
EDUCATION
   Jonathan D. Meer has been named vice president for development and alumni relations at Rider University. He will begin his new duties July 1. Mr. Meer was previously vice president for university advancement at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. He and his wife, Elyse, have three sons, Jake, Ben and Jesse.
MARKETING
   David A. Smith, of Hopewell Township, has been appointed to the New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission by acting Gov. Richard Codey. He will serve a four-year term.
   Mr. Smith, principal at Princeton Public Affairs Group Inc., is a veteran of the New Jersey public policy and political arena and has been a consultant to numerous statewide and legislative political campaigns. He has experience working with production companies seeking to build television and film studios as well as on legislation to provide benefits to filmmakers.
   Located in Newark, the New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission is responsible for bringing television producers and filmmakers and permanent studio facilities to the Garden State.

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   Princeton Communications Group Inc. of Pennington recently won an ADV 2005 Philly Gold Award in the category of billboard/environmental graphic displays for its advertising work with the Newark Bears, an Independent Atlantic League baseball team. PCG is one of the region’s most honored marketing communications firms, offering advertising, direct marketing, sales promotion, creative design, public relations and Web services.

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   Winning Strategies Advertising recently won five Healthcare Advertising Awards. The award winners were published in the May edition of Healthcare Marketing Report. The firm won a silver award in the special video production category and won four merit awards in several print and one TV advertising category.
   Winning Strategies Advertising is located in Carnegie Center, West Windsor.
HUMAN RESOURCES
   Korn/Ferry International, provider of executive search, outsourced recruiting and leadership development solutions, announced Richard Morford has joined the firm’s industrial market as a client partner in the Princeton office. Mr. Morford’s primary search practice will focus on the specialty and fine chemicals sector, and life sciences with emphasis on the pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
   With a management background in sales, marketing and business development, he was most recently with The Hennessy Group, where he began his executive search career.
   Korn/Ferry has 70 offices in 35 countries and specializes in senior-level search and management assessment. The Princeton office is located on Roszel Road in West Windsor.
MEDIA
   Princeton-based telecom and media investor David C. McCourt was awarded an Emmy at the recent Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony for producer of the Reading Rainbow series. Mr. McCourt is the chairman and CEO of Granahan McCourt Capital and is active in media investing.