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Professor Farrokh Langdana was featured in Arrive, Amtrak's magazine for the Acela northeast train corridor. "Once the economy gets traction, because never in history have we printed so much money without inflation, we will need to suck the money back in, or we will see inflation. It's like toothpaste - once out of the tube, it's hard to get back in," says Langdana in interview. See article.

Today ChanTest announces the hiring of Chris Mathes, Ph.D., M.B.A. to lead its business into a new era. Mathes starts September 1st as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and will oversee all sales, marketing and customer relations activities at ChanTest. He will also contribute to the forward looking and strategic guidance of ChanTest as a global player in the CRO industry.

"Chris is a real ion channel guy," said Dr. Arthur "Buzz" Brown, CEO, President & Founder of ChanTest. "As CCO, he brings a unique mix of science and business to our company in order to make ChanTest's interface to the world even better."

Dr. Mathes has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCLA and an MBA from Rutgers University. He has published several ion channel papers in peer reviewed journals over the past two decades. In the last 10 years, Mathes has been a pioneer in the development and implementation of automated patch clamp systems for ion channel safety testing and drug discovery.

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Senior consultant Joan Walker, formerly a director of Service Management at Merck & Co., brings 15 years of corporate experience managing programs and change execution. Her skills include driving technical solutions that support emerging global business strategies. Walker earned an MBA in marketing from Rutgers Business School and a bachelor's degree in English from Douglass College.

Kevin Sullivan, who is also a CIA, works in the Consulting Services Group, with particular expertise in insurance and health care risk management. Prior to joining EisnerAmper, he was vice president of internal audit for a property and casualty insurer, and before that, a director at a health insurance consulting firm. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Thomas Edison State College, and an MBA from Rutgers University.

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Rutgers Business School and The MDE Group, a wealth management firm with $1.3 billion in assets under management, will co-host NextGen Investing: The Future of Financial Advice, a panel discussion about the future of financial advising in light of the current economic climate. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 28 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Bloomberg Tower in New York and will feature Mitchell Eichen, Founder and CEO of The MDE Group, and Richard Lashley, a Principal at PL Capital, a private equity firm focused on the financial services industry. The panel discussion will be moderated by Lisa Murphy, anchor of "Bloomberg Fast Forward" on Bloomberg Television, and a Rutgers graduate.

Investors Savings Bank has named Michael T. Giacobello to the position of branch manager at its location at 388 Route 57 West. Giacobello will supervise branch operations and lead efforts to grow the branch’s portfolio of business and consumer accounts. Giacobello, who is currently pursuing an MBA from Rutgers University, counts the Hunterdon Chamber of Commerce among his professional affiliations.

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Cancer Genetics, Inc. (CGI), a life science company focused on personalized cancer medicine, today announced it has appointed Elizabeth A. Czerepak as Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Ms. Czerepak will lead the finance, clinical billing operations, human resources, and administrative support functions. She will report directly to Panna Sharma, President and CEO, and will be an officer of the Company. Czerepak received her MBA from Rutgers Business School.

Alumnus Ben Aronson (MBA), Digital Strategist, will help create innovative and groundbreaking strategies to help brands engage with their markets through digital and social media outlets.  Prior to joining MWW, Aronson spent four years running his own digital media agency, Tao Experience.  As seen on Fox and CNN, Aronson has also produced a variety of original content, from feature length films to online television series, and garnered national acclaim for creating Break'N Through, a young, edgy online reality competition series to uncover the top unsigned original music talent. Aronson has worked with top brands including TWIX, Sprite, Red Bull, Microsoft, Boost Mobile, Coors Light, Baja Fresh, and celebrities including The-Dream, Allison Hagendorf, Jadakiss, Ryan Leslie, Drake, and Dee Snider. 

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TED is a nonprofit global network that brings together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED). Established in 1984, its purpose is to disseminate “ideas worth spreading” through conferences, video, online media, local events, and other initiatives. Taha Najmuddin, the founding moderator of the official TED fan page on Facebook, brought an independent, miniature version of the conference (TEDx) to Rutgers last year with the help of the Rutgers International Student Association (ISA).  Najmuddin, who graduated in 2010 from the Rutgers Business School-New Brunswick, now works as a business analyst at FAST, a financial services technology company.

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