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Scott Funk of Richmond is being honored by MetLife Bank with an invitation to attend the company’s exclusive 2011 President’s Club Conference, which is being held during the month of March. Funk was chosen to attend the conference in recognition of sales excellence.

C2, also known as Competitive Computing, a technology consulting firm located in Colchester is pleased to announce that Zoltan Sachs has joined the firm as Practice Manager, IT Operations & Support. Zoltan brings 30 years of industry experience to C2’s growing managed support business.

NPI, a Network Services and Security provider, is pleased to announce that Jason Besser-Jones has joined NPI’s Technical Team. Jason will provide managed services support to our Canopy contract clients and support Web-based application projects. Jason has more than ten years of technical support expertise.

Local Internet company, Power Shift, is pleased to announce the hiring of Breanna LaRow as project manager/graphic designer, adding more depth to this growing department.

Addison County Home Health and Hospice Executive Director Larry Goetschius welcomes four new members to its Board of Directors for three-year terms, which began in January 2011. New members include: Pat Morrow of Cornwall; Dr. William Fifield of Middlebury; Maureen McLaughlin, CPA of Vergennes; and William Miller Esq. of Middlebury.

Margaret Martin Barry has been appointed as acting associate dean for Clinical and Experiential Programs and visiting professor of law for the 2011-2012 academic year at Vermont Law School. Barry, who is currently a professor at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, will join VLS on July 1.

Saint Michael’s College has named a new director of business services, Rob Robinson of Essex Junction. The announcement was made by Neal Robinson, vice president for Finance, on February 16th, effective immediately.

Bristol Financial Services announces the addition of Timothy Harvey as the firm’s newest financial professional. After growing up in Vermont, Tim returned to the Green Mountain state last fall from the Boston area where, as an equity analyst, he helped manage mutual funds and institutional accounts for John Hancock and Lee Munder Capital Group.

Andrew Courchesne, a resident of Springfield, Vermont, recently joined ARC as sales manager. Andrew brings many years of sales training and operations experience to ARC. For the past 11

years Andrew was a territory manager in the cutting tool industry. His position involved working with distributors on their sales and operation. He traveled throughout the USA working with sales reps

Victoria Rheaume, from Fair Haven Union High School, and a student in Stafford Technical Center's Hospitality & Entrepreneurship Program, recently took first place honors for her hand drawn poster in the 1st Annual Statewide Entrepreneurship Education/Literacy Poster Contest-Building Entrepreneurship Education in our schools.

Linda E. Markin, chair of the board of Public Assets Institute, announced that Cornelius “Con” Hogan of Plainfield has joined the board. A non-partisan nonprofit with offices in Montpelier, Public Assets Institute is Vermont's premier independent state budget and tax research organization and the source for timely and in-depth state fiscal and policy analysis.

C2, also known as Competitive Computing, a technology consulting firm located in Colchester announced the addition of four new employees:

Justin Grewe, Software Engineer will work in the eBusiness team and comes with extensive knowledge of .NET, JavaScript and AJAX technologies. He was previously with Allscripts in South Burlington.