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His talk, sponsored by the local chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), will be at 6 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Westside Campus Center of the university 43 Lake Avenue Extension in Danbury.
The talk will be followed by the CFO Forum panel discussion at 7:30 p.m. featuring Matthew White, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Praxair Inc. in Danbury; Paul Bruce, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Union Savings Bank in Danbury; and Lori Pasqualini, chief financial and administrative officer of Ability Beyond in Bethel. Admission for the talk and forum will be free and the public is invited to attend.
Perna, founder, managing director and chief economist of Perna Associates in Ridgefield, has extensive professional experience including past positions as chief economist for the Fleet Financial Group, Shawmut Bank and Connecticut National Bank and as an economist with General Electric and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The panel discussion will feature financial professionals who have assumed leadership roles at prominent private sector and nonprofit organizations in the Danbury area. The program marks the first CFO Forum to be presented by the Ancell School of Business, which plans to hold the event annually.
White assumed his present position in 2014 at Praxair, a Fortune 250 company with global sales last year of $12.3 billion. White previously held positions as vice president for finance at Fisher Scientific and group controller at chemicals manufacturer GenTek.
Bruce was appointed in 2013 to his present position at Union Savings Bank, a $2.3 billion mutual bank providing retail and corporate banking, investment management and lending services to clients at 26 branches in western Connecticut.
Pasqualini has been a member since 1995 of the administrative team of Ability Beyond, a nonprofit organization providing wide-ranging support services to facilitate integration and independent living for persons with disabilities in their home communities. She previously served as an auditor at Deloitte and Touche in Boston and as director of reimbursement at Bridgeport Hospital.
For more information, contact Ancell School of Business Coordinator Kathleen Lindenmayer at lindenmayerk@wcsu.edu or call the Office of University Relations at 203-837-8486.
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