Colleagues

August 31, 2010 — Members of the Independent Payroll Providers Association (IPPA) recently honored Charles J. Wolf II, president and chief executive officer of Payroll Network. Wolf served as 2009-2010 president of IPPA, the leading nationwide trade association made up of privately held companies. Previously, Wolf served as president and CEO of Wolf Computer Systems , Inc., as executive vice president of Wolf Computer Systems , Inc., and founder and owner of Hughes Computer Systems. He also served as a board member for Payroll Network , Inc., Independent Payroll Providers Association, So Others Might Eat.

August 30, 2010 — Nancy LaJoice, Membership Director at the Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber (BWCC), recently received special recognition at a BWCC Board of Directors meeting for her ten years of enthusiastic service at the BWCC. LaJoice joined the BWCC in August, 2000.  Over the past 10 years she has welcomed hundreds of new businesses to the BWCC, provided referral and marketing assistance to members and helped organize numerous networking events. The Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber is Maryland’s only regional chamber with a focus on four counties: Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties.

August 30, 2010 — Carton Donofrio Partners, an integrated advertising agency in Baltimore, has named Ellen Moore as its chief executive officer. Moore most recently held the position of chief operating officer. Moore joined Carton Donofrio Partners in 2000 after working with the agency as its client at WL Gore & Associates, the makers of GORE-TEX® fabric. Prior to being named chief operating officer in 2008, Moore served as a vice president and group account leader for Carton Donofrio Partners. Before that time,  she served as president of Alanby – Outfitting for the Outdoors, an outdoor retailing business headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

August 30, 2010 — Chris D. Geddes, a chemistry professor at UMBC and director of UMBC’s Institute of Fluorescence (IoF), has been named a 2010 “Innovator of the Year” by "The Daily Record". In addition to his faculty position, Geddes serves as chief scientific officer for Plasmonix, Inc., a new company at bwtech@UMBC's Clean Energy Technology Incubator.

August 30, 2010 — Quality Associates, Inc. (QAI), an established provider of services and solutions for large-scale document management, imaging, and archiving, has hired Bennett Goldstein, CPA, as chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to joining QAI, Goldstein served as a senior-level consultant in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area. He held interim leadership positions within organizations that include Children’s Defense Fund, TIG Global LLC, Laureate Education, Inc., Washington College, and APS Healthcare. Earlier, he was a partner with Smart & Associates, LLP, in Towson, Md., and prior to that, Goldstein served as partner at Grant Thornton, LLP in Baltimore. Earlier in his career, Goldstein was also the managing partner and CEO at Ellin and Tucker in Baltimore.