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March 5, 2021 BIZ PEOPLE

Budderfly expands sales and marketing teams 

PHOTO | CONTRIBUTED Al Sporer

Budderfly, a Shelton-based company focused on energy savings, has expanded its sales and marketing teams in response to recent growth.

The company reported it has doubled in revenue from the end of 2019.

Al Sporer will lead the company’s sales team. Prior to joining the company, Sporer led all customer facing digital and analytics activities at Anexinet including sales, pre-sales and service delivery programs. He has also had leadership roles at CA Technologies and EMC Corporation.

Sporer is building a new sales team for Budderfly. New sales team members include: Dennis King, Tayna LaPierre, Mike McCoy, Bob Mikulec, and Brian Telander.

Also, Bonnie Valentine is the company’s new director of marketing for new customer acquisition, and Stephen Schmidt is the new head of pre-sales engineering. 

Matthew Nemerson will shift to building the company's strategic partnerships after leading Budderfly's marketing efforts for the last year. In his new role, Nemerson will work to develop relationships with utilities, regional and national industry trade associations and others.

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Precipio picks new chair of board of directors

Cancer diagnostics company Precipio Inc. of New Haven has appointed Richard Sandberg to serve as chairman of its board of directors.

Sandberg has been involved with Precipio since its inception and has acted in various advisory roles. In 2019, he joined the board of directors and has helped the company formulate strategy and execute on its plans.

Sandberg is the founder, chairman, CEO and CFO of Dianon Systems, Inc., a diagnostics company that was acquired in 2002 by LabCorp for $650 million. Precipio’s management indicated that Sandberg’s background gives him direct experience relevant to Precipio’s business, the industry and the challenges a growing company faces. Sandberg has also had leadership roles with Poplar Healthcare LLC, Oxford Immunotec and Resolys Bio Inc.

Sandberg said Precipio has “many opportunities to grow.”

“Precipio is capitalizing on a unique opportunity to develop better diagnostic technology in support of its university-based pathology partnerships and to bring that technology to physician offices in the U.S. and abroad,” he said.

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Griffin nurses honored with award

Three registered nurses with Griffin Health have been recognized with the “Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.”

The award is part of the DAISY Foundation's mission to recognize nurses for the care they provide patients and families. The DAISY Foundation is a nonprofit established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes by members of his family. Patrick died at age 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, an auto-immune disease. (DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.)

Each Griffin nurse recipient was nominated by a patient or fellow caregivers for their exemplary care.

They include Angela Desjardins of Watertown, Joshua Ritton of Seymour and Yangchen Dhondup of Naugatuck.

Desjardins, who works in Griffin’s intensive care unit, was nominated by a patient’s family for her commitment to communication.

 

“Angela exemplifies a caring and compassionate nurse as she tirelessly tended to my husband and our family,” the nomination stated. “We were limited in way of visitation access due to COVID-19 regulations and even with this we never felt out of the loop in his care. We knew that he was in good hands as long as Angela was his nurse.”

Ritton, a nurse on Griffin’s inpatient floors, was nominated by a patient for his kind and professional attitude.

 

“Josh is clear in his explanations of what is going on. He spends quality time with his patients,” the nomination said. “There was a gentleman in the room next to mine who was very confused as to where he was and why he was there. I could hear Josh speaking with him, being very considerate of the man’s confusion. Josh stayed with him, repeating information in a comforting tone until the gentleman calmed down and was able to fall asleep.”

Dhondup, a nurse in Griffin’s emergency department, was nominated by fellow employees for her attitude.

 

“Yangchen is always positive and helpful to everyone in the emergency department,” the nomination stated. “The first thing out of Yangchen’s mouth when she gets to work is ‘how can I help you?’ There is not a kinder, gentler, or more genuine person than Yangchen.”

 

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