Long Island Marketing Briefs: December 13, 2002

Long Island Business News, Dec 13, 2002 by LIBN STAFF

Mark Sutter joined The Halo Group as senior vice president of brand strategy and client services.

Sutter will be responsible for strategic planning and overall brand direction for the agency's key clients. He will also oversee client relations and programs.

Prior to joining Halo, he was management supervisor of DDB Worldwide Marketing, an integrated marketing communications division of DDB.

Education

Cherrie Sears, a health, physical education and recreation professor at Nassau Community College, was inducted into the Coaches Hall of Fame at SUNY Farmingdale.

Sears, of Eatons Neck, coached a select U.S. volleyball team that participated in the Viking Cup Tournament in Stockholm, as well as one that played in the Happoel Games in Tel Aviv. She has completed the New York City Marathon 10 times and has taken part in triathlete events for more than a decade.

Prior to joining the college in 1990, she was a faculty member at SUNY Farmingdale, where she coached volleyball and softball and was the assistant swimming coach.

Adelphi University in Garden City appointed Victor Carrillo as its director of admissions.

Prior to joining Adelphi, Carrillo, was an associate director of admissions and interim director for six months at Pace University.

Carrillo, of Bellmore, plans to visit high schools and community colleges to research the local talent and involve alumni nationally and internationally as a point of reference for students.

Marysia Tarnoplska-Weiss was appointed chairperson of mathematics at Hofstra University in Hempstead.

Tarnoplska-Weiss, of Manhasset, is also vice president of the Omega chapter at Hofstra of Phi Beta Kappa.

Her mathematical research is in the areas of dynamical systems and chaos theory.

She has served on the Hofstra faculty since 1978, first as assistant professor then as associate professor and most recently as a professor of mathematics.

Hofstra also elected Salvatore F. Sodano chairman of the board of trustees.

Sodano, a graduate of Hofstra University, previously served as a member of the board of trustees and co-chair of its endowment committee.

Sodano is chairman and chief executive of the American Stock Exchange. He was an integral part of the team that negotiated the acquisition of the Amex, in 1998, and led its integration into the National Association Securities Dealers.

He is also a member of the Dean's Executive Council for the Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the Business Advisory Board of The Merrill Lynch Center for the Study of International Financial Services and Markets, both at Hofstra.

Health care

The Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center, a nursing care facility in Commack, hired two new directors.

Mary Skrzypecki, of Riverhead, was named director of materials management.

Prior to joining the center, she was director of purchasing at Central Suffolk Hospital.

Richard Bengis, of Queens, was appointed director of nutritional services.

Prior to joining Gurwin, Bengis was director of nutritional services as Parker Jewish Institute in New Hyde Park.

Richard Bengis

Mary Skrzypecki

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset appointed Dr. Alan R. Hartman to the newly created position of chairman of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.

Hartman is ranked the No. 1 cardiac surgeon in the New York metropolitan area and the third best in the state, based on the New York State Department of Health's risk-adjusted mortality statistics from 1997-1999, the most recent period for which information is available.

Hartman has performed more than 5,000 open heart and major thoracic cases during the last 15 years.

He will oversee a department with eight full-time physicians.

Hartman is also a clinical associate professor at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and a member of the NYS Department of Health cardiac advisory committee, the American College of Surgeons and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Not-for-profit

Luis Valenzuela, regional assistant executive director of Little Flower Children's Services in Wading River, received the "2002 Social Worker of the Year Award" from the National Association of Puerto Rican Hispanic Social Workers, a nonprofit organization in Brentwood.

Valenzuela, of Selden, joined Little Flower in 1985 as a caseworker in the adoption unit. Before assuming his current position, he directed Little Flower's foster care and residential treatment center programs.

Valenzuela is also an adjunct professor at Adelphi University's School of Social Work.

Luis Valenzuela

The Association of Fundraising Professionals named Director of Development at United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Suffolk Marsha Gittleman the "Professional Fundraising Executive of the Year."

Gittleman, of Greenlawn, joined UCP in 1981 as assistant director of development and public relations. She was named director in 1993.

She is currently overseeing a major capital campaign to construct a Universal Access Center in Central Islip to house UCP's Children's Center, Diagnostic and Treatment Center and a health and fitness complex.

Family and Children's Association appointed Patricia Marino as director of the agency's Community Guardianship Program.