2011 Spring—Alumni News and Notes 2000s

  Allison (Amorosi) DeNicola ’00 (NUR), ’07 M.S.N. and her husband, Robert J. DeNicola Jr., announce the birth of a son, Robert J. III, on Feb. 9, 2010, who joins an older sister, Gabriella Rose, 2. The family resides in Bethel, Conn. Robert Flynn ’00 M.B.A., vice president of strategic marketing at The Travelers Companies, […]

 

Allison (Amorosi) DeNicola ’00 (NUR), ’07 M.S.N. and her husband, Robert J. DeNicola Jr., announce the birth of a son, Robert J. III, on Feb. 9, 2010, who joins an older sister, Gabriella Rose, 2. The family resides in Bethel, Conn.

Robert Flynn ’00 M.B.A., vice president of strategic marketing at The Travelers Companies, Inc., was elected chair of the Greater Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Gregory Kivenzor ’00 M.B.A., associate professor of business administration at Rivier College in Nashua, N.H., chaired a session on culture and marketing strategy at the 2010 Academy of Marketing Science Cross-Cultural Marketing Conference in Lille, France.

Robert Rubinstein ’00 M.B.A. is national sales operations manager at Heaven Hill Distilleries, located in Louisville, Ky. He previously was director of sales analysis and planning at Sidney Frank Importing Company in New York.

Jason Hoagland ’01 (CANR), ’08 M.B.A., senior loan officer and assistant vice president at Farm Credit East in Enfield, Conn., was named a member of the 40 Under Forty group for 2010 by the Hartford Business Journal.

Keith Bessette ’02 (ENG), chief executive officer at the social networking website Shizzlr.com, won the 2010 Connecticut State Collegiate Business Plan Competition in venture enterprise.

Joseph Comerford ’02 (BUS), executive director at Estuary Transit District in Centerbrook, Conn., was included in Mass Transit Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 list. He has more than 13 years of experience in the transit industry.

Matthew Feid ’02 (BUS), ’08 M.S. and Robyn (Danahy) Feid ’06 M.A. announce the birth of a daughter, Kaelynn Marie, on June 10, 2010, at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Mass.

Joseph Kitamirike ’02 M.B.A. is chief executive officer at the Uganda Securities Exchange in Kampala, Uganda. He previously was chief executive officer at the National Housing and Construction Company in Uganda.

Daniel Pinho ’02 M.B.A., vice president of the trade finance group at PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh, was featured on the cover of the Pittsburgh Business Times in an article about PNC and other Pittsburgh-area financial firms interested in the Brazilian financial market.

Daniel Kreiness ’03 (CLAS) and Kristine (Larossi) Kreiness ’04 (SFA) announce the birth of a son, Evan Michael, on Oct. 2, 2010.

Lara Reglero ’03 M.A., ’04 Ph.D.is associate professor in the department of modern languages and linguistics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla.

Anne (Toman) Sansone ’03 (CLAS) and Kevin Sansone ’03 (CLAS), ’04 M.A. announce the birth of a daughter, Catherine Elizabeth, on April 22, 2010, at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn.Barbara (Zelich) Ferguson ’73 (PHR) andMichael Toman ’72 (CLAS), ’78 M.B.A. are grandparents of the daughter, and Dan Seremet ’03 (ENG), ’10 M.S. is the godfather.

Thomas Centinaro ’04 (CLAS) received his master’s degree in social work from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., on May 7, 2010.

Jennifer (Mitrano) Huntington ’05 (PHR), ’07 Pharm.D. andDaniel Huntington ’04 (CLAS)were married on Oct. 2, 2010, in Salem, Mass. Jennifer is a pharmacist at Cubist Pharmaceuticals in Lexington, Mass., and Daniel is a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The couple lives in Somerville, Mass.

Ira Steinberg ’05 (CLAS) received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law on May 7, 2010, where he graduated in the honor society, the Order of the Coif.

Rebecca Henderson ’06 (CANR) received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Brunswick, N.J., on Sept. 30, 2010.

Daniel Reyes ’06 (CLAS) is technical writer/editor at the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C. He previously was editor at United Space Alliance for NASA’s Space Shuttle Program in Houston.

Matthew Carlson ’07 (BUS), ’08 M.S. is a certified public accountant in the state of Connecticut after passing the uniform CPA exam.

Shirley Cheng ’07 (CLAS) is researcher and developer at Aetas Pharma Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, where she focuses her efforts on heart disease, Alzheimer’s and cancer.

Julie Gamble ’07 (BGS), ’09 M.B.A. is chief operating officer for the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation in Bloomfield, Conn., where she is responsible for management, delivery of client services, human resources, finance and canine services.

Julie Peck ’07 M.B.A. is vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at CT TyMetrix, a Wolters Kluwer business in Hartford, Conn.

Margaret Feeney ’08 M.B.A. started a farm in Fairfield, Conn., and will annually donate the entire harvest to local area cancer patients and survivors in hopes of positively affecting their treatment.

Steven M. Filardo ’08 (CLAS), a seaman for the U.S. Navy, completed basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill.

Nicholas Jaensch ’08 (BUS), co-founder of the social networking website Shizzlr.com, won the 2010 Connecticut State Collegiate Business Plan Competition in venture enterprise.

Dan Rousseau ’08 (SFA), assistant lighting director at The Lighting Design Group in New York, N.Y., returned to UConn as a professional designer for the Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s Nutmeg Summer Series.

Erica Mills ’09 (CLAS) is a producer for The 989 Project in Cranston, R.I., and co-produced the movie Sleather.

Linda Sullivan ’09 (CLAS) and Brian Sullivan ’07 (CLAS) were married on June 20, 2010, in Pomfret, Conn. The couple currently resides in New York, N.Y.