ABOUT US

BOARD

Leo C. Canty (Founding Board Chair), a labor, community and political activist, serves on 11 boards and holds leadership positions in his union -- American Federation of Teachers, Connecticut -- as well as the Connecticut and national AFL-CIO. He served on the ConnectiCare Board of Directors between 1988 and 1999 on the executive, audit & finance, governance, public responsibility, the ConnectiCare Foundation, and the ad hoc strategic planning committees. Canty also served on the committee that created the Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health).

Sanford Cloud Jr. (Vice Chair) is chairman and CEO of The Cloud Company, LLC. He is a former president of The National Conference for Community Justice (NCCJ). Currently, Cloud 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 and the Hartford Courant Foundation.

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 Foundation Board of Directors.

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 also serves the community as a board member of the YWCA, Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the Urban League of Greater Hartford.

Corine T. Norgaard (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, has been a faculty member at the University of Connecticut and visiting professor at the Yale University School of Organization and Management.

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.

Raymond S. Andrews Jr. is former trustee of The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation in West Hartford. He served as a member of the ConnectiCare Board of Directors between 1992 and 1999 on a number of committees, including the executive, public responsibility, governance, the ConnectiCare Foundation, and the ad hoc strategic planning committees. Andrews also served as a director of ConnectiCare’s affiliates, Health Management Corporation and ConnectiCare of Massachusetts, Inc.

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, she 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.

Gregory B. Butler, J.D., is senior vice president and general counsel of the Northeast Utilities system (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.

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.

Laurel G. Holmes is director of the office of community health, outreach and partnerships for Lawrence & Memorial, a not-for-profit, general, acute care private hospital in New London. Prior to being named director in January 2008, she was director of community partnerships for Lawrence & Memorial Corporation and director of development for Summer Music, Inc., a New London non-profit organization.

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.

Katherine Ill, M.D., is retired president and chief executive officer of The Hospital for Special Care, and past president and medical director of the New Britain Memorial Hospital. She also served ConnectiCare as a member of its board of directors on a number of committees, including the executive, finance & investment, governance, management resources & compensation, the ConnectiCare Foundation, and the ad hoc strategic planning committees.

Arthur L. Sperling, DMD., is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon practicing in Middletown, Glastonbury and Avon. He served ConnectiCare as a member of its board of directors on the quality assurance and public responsibility committees.

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.

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.