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New Members of the IFMA Boston

* KerriAnn MacNeill is from Canton, Mass. and is working as a plant engineer II for Biogen Idec as well as obtaining her master's in Facilities Management from Massachusetts Maritime Academy. * Erica Chapman, Esq works at inVentiv Health, as a vice president of real estate and facilities. Chapman oversees and coordinates all global real estate activities across inVentiv's markets, including business unit real estate and facilities resources, third party outsourced resources and working with the executive management team to create and deliver global initiatives. * Gary Salter is vice president of DMAR Environmental in Clinton, Mass. DMAR is a full service diesel fuel testing and remediation company. He has a bachelors degree in Business Administration from Fitchburg State College. * Katie Dargusch is the director of business development at ADTECH Systems where they believe when clients incorporate technology they too are changing their company's value in their marketplace by creating a workforce that collaborates and uses time more efficiently via audio visual systems. Dargusch has 11 years business development experience, 5 years in the AV industry and 8 years experience calling on the A/E/C community. * Matthew Deehan, M.M., LEED-AP, FMP, CFM is the director of technical services at UGL and has been there since March of 2007 in the facilities management solutions (FMS) group. Deehan has earned a master of science degree in Business Management from Cambridge College, and bachelor of science degree in Facilities and Plant Engineering from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He also holds the Facility Management Professional and Certified Facility Manager credentials from the International Facilities Management Association. * Youl Bellil has been a regional facilities manager in the global real estate and facilities group at EMC Corp. in Hopkinton, Mass. Bellil received an associates of science from Stockbridge School of Agriculture at UMASS, a bachelors of science from UMASS and a certificate of facilities management from Northeastern University. He is married with 2 girls his interests include mountain biking. His EMC Facilities Operations focus for 2012 other than supporting the business & growth of EMC is Energy Conservation Measures.
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