Issue of March 6, 2007
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Wilmington Trust has hired veteran banker Gene C. McCarthy to direct its commercial banking operations in New Jersey. Based in West Windsor, he will lead the introduction of Wilmington Trust’s full complement of commercial banking and cash management services to businesses in central and southern New Jersey.
Mr. McCarthy comes to Wilmington Trust with more than 23 years of banking experience, most recently with Yardville National Bank where he served as first senior vice president and market manager. He also worked for 15 years at Wachovia Bank and its predecessors.
Princeton resident Rosemary Dente has been appointed vice president of SBA lending for Susquehanna Patriot Bank. She will be responsible for the bank’s small business administration lending activities in New Jersey. Previously an SBA department manager for Sovereign Bank, overseeing markets in New Jersey and New York, she has worked in the field of SBA lending for over 20 years. Ms. Dente is a member of the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, where she serves on the liaison committee for New Jersey.
Susquehanna Patriot Bank, headquartered in Marlton, operates 51 retail branches throughout South Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Todd Scorzafava has joined Amper Financial Services in West Windsor as manager of the facilitator program. He provides financial planning, investment, and wealth preservation services to both individuals and corporations. His areas of expertise include planning for college education, estate and retirement planning as well as asset allocation combined with wealth preservation.
He and his wife Tina reside in Bridgewater.
Joseph F. Hogan, a financial advisor in the West Windsor branch of UBS Financial Services Inc., has earned the designation Certified Financial Planner. Advisors with a CFP certification must agree to meet ongoing continuing educational requirements and uphold a code of ethics and abide by standards as set forth by the CFP Board.
Mr. Hogan lives in Wrightstown, Pa.
Wayne J. Hudson II, president and chief executive officer of McGraw-Hill Employees Federal Credit Union in East Windsor, has announced his retirement, effective June 1. Until his retirement, he will continue as president and CEO, assisting in the search for a successor and ensuring an orderly transition of responsibilities. He will remain with the credit union as a special consultant through 2008.
With the credit union since 1995 he has seen the operation expand from a single branch on the Avenue of the Americas in New York City to four branch offices, and moving its central operations to East Windsor.
Founded in 1935, The McGraw-Hill Employees Federal Credit Union is a member owned and operated not-for-profit financial cooperative serving over 14,500 members.
ARCHITECTURE
Marlyn B. Zucosky has joined Clarke Caton Hintz, the architectural, planning and landscape architecture firm in Ewing, as director of interiors. Responsible for the newly formed interior design department, which offers a full range of services, she brings over 20 years of experience designing commercial and residential interiors to the firm.
The School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced that Robert Pietrocola of Staten Island, N.Y., is the recipient of KSS Architects’ endowed scholarship at the NJIT. He is in his third year as an architecture student at NJIT. KSS Architects’ endowed scholarship provides financial assistance to an architectural student who has demonstrated academic excellence, a strong sense of initiative and excellent collaborative and interpersonal skills.
Founded in 1983, Princeton-based KSS Architects specializes in the design of educational institutions, government facilities, industrial spaces and corporate interiors.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Novo Nordisk, the Plainsboro-based diabetes care and hemostasis research and treatment company, announced the appointment of Dr. Henrik Rasmussen as vice president of clinical, medical and regulatory affairs. Dr. Rasmussen will provide leadership and strategic oversight to the company’s North America clinical research, regulatory and medical affairs departments and will serve as a member of the U.S. executive team.
Dr. Rasmussen has more than 20 years of clinical medicine and research experience, with 18 years dedicated in the pharmaceutical industry. He comes to Novo Nordisk from Nabi Biopharmaceuticals in Rockville, Md. where he served as senior vice president of clinical research, regulatory, medical affairs and project management. Prior to that, he worked at Genvec in Gaithersburg, Md., where he also served as senior vice president of clinical research, regulatory and medical affairs.
Dr. Francisco Javier Villota of Lawrenceville, has been named vice president of medical affairs of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton. He joined RWJ Hamilton last year as a physician advisor.
Additionally, Paul Pernice has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Mike Long has been named executive director of ambulatory care.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton is a not-for-profit health care provider based in Hamilton.
LAW
Issues Management LLC, the public affairs affiliate of Lowenstein Sandler PC, recently announced three new public policy experts joined the firm to develop a national and international business consultancy to complement Issues Management’s public affairs practice.
Joining the firm are: Princeton resident Roger Schwarz, an experienced Trenton and Washington D.C. lawyer/lobbyist; Steven Brawer, a former public advocate; and former Attorney General Zulima Farber.
Mr. Schwarz will be a full time principal with the firm, located in its Princeton office. Mr. Brawer and Ms. Farber will remain members of Lowenstein Sandler’s Roseland office, and divide their time between their legal practices and Issues Management.
Robert F. Walsh of Princeton has been admitted as a partner with the Philadelphia firm White and Williams LLP. A member of the commercial litigation department, Mr. Walsh concentrates his practice primarily on representing insurance companies in complex insurance coverage litigation and providing claim advice for claims involving environmental liabilities, asbestos, silica, toxic tort, construction defects and products liability.
Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein, Blader & Lehmann, P.C., based in Lawrence, has added two attorneys to its staff: Daniel S. Sweetser and Robert P. Panzer.
Mr. Sweetser, who joined the firm as a partner, has over 15 years of experience as a litigator, with an emphasis in business employment and labor law. He resides in Langhorne, Pa., with his wife, Susan, and four sons. Mr. Panzer, an associate attorney, specializes in family law and civil litigation. He resides in Bordentown.
EDUCATION
Trenton’s Thomas Edison State College has appointed Thomas G. Devine, of Jackson, as assistant dean in the School of Applied Science and Technology. He is responsible for organizing, planning and coordinating curriculum development, recruitment, and research and development activities for the school.
He brings 30-plus years experience with Public Service Electric and Gas Co. Additionally, he brings teaching expertise from Centenary College, where he is an adjunct instructor. Mr. Devine has served on Thomas Edison State College’s Academic Council for the past two years.

