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March 11, 2013

Hughes Health’s Finkelstein repeats as leadership winner

Mark J. Finkelstein

Mark J. Finkelstein, vice president-administrator for West Hartford's Hughes Health & Rehabilitation, is a repeat winner of an annual leadership award bestowed by his peers.

Finkelstein for a second straight year won the Facility Leadership Award from the American College of Health Care Administrators.

The award recognizes skilled nursing-facility administrators from across the country who exhibit leadership excellence in the areas of patient health and workplace safety in their respective facilities.

During Finkelstein's seven years with family-run Hughes Health, its homes have been recognized among the nation's best by the Consumers' Research Council of America for five consecutive years, and by U.S. News & World Report the past three.

Hughes also is a past recipient of the Hartford Business Journal's Health Care Heroes Award for its work to decrease preventable hospital readmissions for patients with heart failure.

Finkelstein is an ACHCA past president and member of its board.

The Portland selectman also is a director of the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities.

Robinson & Cole lawyers are Cooper Fellows

The Connecticut Bar Association has accepted seven attorneys from Hartford law firm Robinson & Cole into its James W. Cooper Fellows program.

The program honors leaders in Connecticut's legal profession and the judiciary.

They are: Dennis C. Cavanaugh, chair of the firm's Construction Law Practice Group; commercial realty lawyer Steven L. Elbaum; Gregory R. Faulkner, chair of its Education Practice; litigator Christopher J. Hug; environmental litigator Eric Lukingbeal; Earl W. Phillips Jr., chair of the Environmental and Utilities Practice Group; and Brian R. Smith, chair of the firm's Land Use Group.

The state bar's Fellows Program has approximately 850 to 900 members.

Northeast Private Client Group ‘power broker’

Bridgeport Investment property broker Northeast Private Client Group is the 2012 winner of CoStar Group Inc.'s “Power Broker Award” for its high dollar volume of regional deals last year.

This annual award recognizes the “best of the best” in commercial real estate brokerage by honoring the firms and brokers who closed the highest transaction volumes in commercial property sales in their respective markets.

Northeast Private Client Group says it qualified based on its volume of $65 million in total investment sales transactions closed in the southern Connecticut/Westchester County, N.Y., region.

Among deals it brokered was the $7.5 million sale of a grocery-anchored shopping center in New Haven; a $5 million sale of a 164-unit Bridgeport apartment complex; and a $4.75 million sale of a seven-building, multifamily portfolio in Greenwich.

GoECart tops in customer service

Bridgeport retail-software vendor GoECart won a Stevie Awards gold award for having the top customer service department of the year.

GoECart founder and CEO Manish Chowdhary says it was recognized at a Feb. 25 gala banquet at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, where more than 300 nominated customer service and sales executives from the U.S. and abroad were in attendance.

The 11-year-old Stevie Awards is to the business sector what the Oscar is to the motion-picture industry.

GoECart offers retailers browser-based, end-to-end software solutions including website development and maintenance, product display, and sales and customer service management, tie-ups with other service providers and promotion via social networking sites.

GoECart founder and CEO Manish Chowdhary says it was recognized at a Feb. 25 gala banquet at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, where more than 300 nominated customer service and sales executives from the U.S. and abroad were in attendance.

The 11-year-old Stevie Awards is to the business sector what the Oscar is to the motion-picture industry.

Chowdhary founded his company in 1999 while a student at the University of Bridgeport.

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