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BOARD

Sanford Cloud Jr. (Chair) is chair and CEO of The Cloud Company, LLC. He previously served as the Connecticut Health Foundation vice chair and chair of the public policy committee. In addition to serving as chair, he is also a member of the governance and public policy committees.

Cloud is a former president of The National Conference for Community Justice. Currently, he serves on the board of directors of Northeast Utilities, The Phoenix Companies, Inc., Ironwood Mezzanine Fund LP, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, The Fund for Greater Hartford, the University of Connecticut Health Center and Greater Hartford Alliance.

Previously, Cloud held a broad range of professional and philanthropic positions, including partner in the law firm of Robinson & Cole, executive director of the Aetna Foundation, Connecticut state senator and member of the Council on Foundations and Independent Sector boards.

Corine T. Norgaard (Vice Chair & Treasurer) is dean emerita of the Barney School of Business at the University of Hartford (UH). Prior to joining UH in 1996, she served as dean of the School of Management at the State University of New York, Binghamton, where she also held the title of KPMG Peat Marwick professor of accounting.

Norgaard, who is a CPA and holds a doctorate degree from the University of Texas - Austin, is president of RetirementOptions, a pre-retirement assessment and life-planning firm in Mansfield Center. She has been a faculty member at the University of Connecticut and visiting professor at the Yale University School of Organization and Management.

Norgaard is also chair of the foundation's finance and investment committee.

Marilyn Alverio (Secretary) founded Hartford-based Ethnic Marketing Solutions, LLC, in April 2003, a firm that concentrates on brand marketing consulting, strategic planning, sales and product development for companies, as well as special-event planning and capacity-building consulting for nonprofit organizations. Immediately prior, Alverio worked for both Aetna, Inc., as national director of ethnic markets, and Aetna Financial Services (also known as ING) as the marketing communications/Latino market manager.

She also has worked as a sales manager at American Airlines, a senior producer at WVIT-TV Channel 30, and territory manager at Fort Lauderdale-based Goldine Laboratories. Alverio serves the community as a board member of the YWCA, Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the Urban League of Greater Hartford.

In addition, Alverio is vice chair of the foundation's public policy committee and serves on its finance and investment committee

Jean Adnopoz is an associate clinical professor in the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine. In addition, she serves as the director of the Yale Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service, (YICAPS), and as clinical director of HUSKY Plus Behavioral Services. Adnopoz also serves as a consultant to the Child Health and Development Institute in Connecticut.

In addition, she is vice chair of the foundation's program committee and serves on its finance & investment committee.

Tina Brown-Stevenson is senior vice president of the Ingenix analysis, research and innovation group. Previously, she was president and head of Aetna Integrated Informatics, Aetna's data, information and analytics subsidiary.

Prior to joining Aetna in 2001, Brown-Stevenson was vice president of health care economics at CIGNA, and vice president of health system development at Partners Healthcare System in Boston. She is a certified managed care executive.

Brown-Stevenson is also chair of the foundation's program committee.

Gregory B. Butler is senior vice president and general counsel of the Northeast Utilities (NU). Currently, Butler serves on the board of directors of The Mark Twain House & Museum, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the Northeast Utilities Foundation, the New England Legal Foundation, and is a committee member of the Energy Bar Association. Previously, Butler held several positions at NU, including secretary, vice president and general counsel, and vice president of governmental affairs.

He also served as vice president of federal affairs at New England Electric System and senior counsel at Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, senior attorney with the United States Department of Justice and associate counsel to the minority leader for the New York State Assembly.

In addition, Butler is chair of the foundation's governance committee and serves on its public policy committee.

Martin J. Gavin is president & CEO of the Connecticut Children's Medical Center. Previously, Gavin served as an executive in the insurance and investment industries, including Phoenix Companies, CNA Insurance Companies in Chicago and CIGNA (formerly Connecticut General). He also has served as chair of several boards of directors, including Child Health and Development Institute, the Children's Fund of Connecticut, the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, the Connecticut Children's Medical Center Foundation, the Connecticut Health System and Saint Joseph College.

Gavin also has been appointed to the advisory committee of several state and local governments, and not-for-profit institutions.

In addition, Gavin serves on the foundation's public policy committee.

J.C. David Hadden is a partner at Hartford-based Robinson & Cole LLP, attorneys at law. A CT Health community advisory committee member for eight years, he is corporate counsel to many tax-exempt organizations. Hadden is committed to volunteer work where he serves on several boards, including: Oak Hill, Colt Bequest, Inc., and the Ethics Committee of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. He has twice served gubernatorial-appointed terms on the Connecticut Council on Developmental Services, for which he was elected chair.

Laurel G. Holmes is director of community health, outreach and partnerships for Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London. She is responsible for several community-based health promotion and prevention programs, provides leadership for the hospital's community benefit commitment and facilitates creative partnerships with other community health and social service organizations. In addition, she provides support to organizational cross-cultural competence initiatives.

Previously, she was director of development for Summer Music, Inc., a Connecticut nonprofit organization, and executive director of a statewide political organization. She also is a board member of the Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut; Treasure Chest, a nonprofit child care agency; and serves on the New London and Groton school systems' district wellness committees.

Holmes also serves on the foundation's public policy and program committees.

Steven J. Huleatt has been director of health for the West Hartford-Bloomfield Health District since 1995. He also was health services manager and zoning enforcement officer for the Town of West Hartford. In addition to serving on the CT Health board, Huleatt is a board member of eHEALTHCT and president of the Connecticut Public Health Association.

Huleatt also is chair of the foundation's public policy committee and serves on its governance committee.

Robert Krzys is an attorney in private practice in New Hartford, CT. His practice focuses on labor law and collective bargaining negotiations representing unions, especially in the public sector.

Prior to establishing his private practice 25 years ago, Krzys was staff counsel for the Connecticut State Employees Association from 1979 – 1984.

Active in his community, Attorney Krzys serves on the Regional 7 Board of Education and the Building Committee that oversaw the renovation and expansion of the middle and high schools.

Krzys is a member of the New Hartford Water Pollution Control Authority and was recently certified as an English teacher through Connecticut’s Alternate Route to Certification Program. In addition, he served as chairman of the New Hartford Town Committee.

Harold L. Rives III is president of The New England Guild, Inc., a Hartford-based financial consulting firm. Prior to founding the firm in 1991, he was instrumental in designing CIGNA’s financial planning models and was responsible for all of Advest’s financial product lines.

The former U.S. Navy officer serves on the board of The New Britain Museum of American Art and the Connecticut Coral Artists, Inc. (CONCORA), the state’s premier professional choir, where he is treasurer.

He also serves on the foundation's finance and investment committee

Robert M. Schreibman, DMD, has provided oral health care services to the Glastonbury community for over 30 years. In addition to being co-chair of the Connecticut Mission of Mercy, a multi-chair dental clinic that provides free dental care to people of all ages in need of urgent and immediate dental care throughout Connecticut , he has served as past president of the Hartford Dental Society and the Connecticut State Dental Association. Schreibman also has lectured throughout the U.S. and consulted in practice management and leadership development.

Margarita V. Torres is founder and principal of Torres Project Management, a Latina-owned enterprise with a commitment to human services and community development programs.Torres also works with the Aetna Foundation and the Spanish American Merchants Association, managing economic development planning of the Park Street Special District Project.

Previously, Torres was interim executive director for the Connecticut Expo Center, and senior project manager and consultant for Aetna, Transformation, Cigna Healthcare, Hartford Insurance Group, the 2005 Latina Roundtable Political Action Committee, and the 2005 Latinos and Power Symposium. She serves on Hartford’s Information Technology Advisory Board and the North Central Region Mental Health Board.

Torres also serves on the foundation's public policy and program committees.

Victor Villagra, M.D., is founder and president of Health & Technology Vector, Inc, a consulting firm in population health, technology assessment and delivery system redesign, whose client base includes companies based in Europe, Japan and Latin America, as well as the U.S. Villagra is former national medical director at CIGNA HealthCare and past-president of the Disease Management Association of America.

He has served as an advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. He also is a faculty member in the department of medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

In addition, Villagra serves on CT Health's program committee.

Tory Z. Westbrook, M.D., is a family physician at the ProHealth Physicians Inc. practice in East Hampton and medical director of the Water’s Edge Healthcare and Rehabilitation facility in Middletown. He also serves as medical director of East Hampton public schools, Camp Hemlock for Children with Special Needs and Camp Shiloh, and a trustee of the National Medical Association.

In September 2009, as the Middlesex County branch of the NAACP celebrated its centennial, the organization honored Westbrook with its first Health award for dedication to his patients and his work in "health literacy, disease prevention and overall good health." He also was honored November 6, 2009, as one of the 100 influential African-Americans in Connecticut by the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches, part of the NAACP's centennial celebration.

In addition, Westbrook serves on the foundation's governance and program committees.