People in the News

U.S. Axle Inc.

, a privately held Pottstown manufacturer of axels, shafts, and other parts for the automotive, mining, and drilling industries, has promoted

Kenneth R. Krauss

to president and chief operating officer. A 25-year veteran of the company, he started as a machinist and most recently was vice president, operations.

Premier Research Group Ltd., a Philadelphia provider of clinical-development support to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical-device industries, has hired Hua Gong as executive director of medical diagnostics. Gong was the associate director, medical diagnostics at Prometheus Therapeutics & Diagnostics and principal scientist, oncology exploratory biology at Pfizer Inc.

Susan C. Stansfield was named executive vice president, clinical development. She had been executive vice president, product registration - Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, at PRA International.

Good Shepherd Penn Partners has named Lisa Marsilio executive director. She had been vice president of the cardiopulmonary/complex medical service line at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, Allentown, and administrator of the Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital.

Staci M. Warsaw has been hired as vice president of transitional services for the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life, a nonprofit provider of services to seniors. She had been executive director of Hospice Compassus in Willow Grove.

Barclay Water Management Inc. has named Janna R. Cohen district manager for the Mid-Atlantic states, in South Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C. She was sales team manager for Ashland Water Technologies.

Absorption Systems L.P., an Exton company that helps pharmaceutical and medical-device companies understand possible drug interactions, has promoted Sid Bhoopathy to chief operating officer from vice president of operations.

Comcast Corp., Philadelphia, has named Neil Smit chief executive officer of Comcast Cable Communications L.C.C. Smit, who serves as president of Comcast Cable and is responsible for all aspects of the company's cable business, joined Comcast in March 2010.

Raúl Valentín has been hired as vice president of talent acquisition, responsible for enterprise-wide talent acquisition operations and strategy for the cable division. Valentín had been vice president of global recruitment and rewards at Covance Inc., a biopharmaceutical development-services company. The Judge Group Inc., a Philadelphia staffing firm, said Brian T. Anderson had been promoted from chief sales officer to president of The Judge Group, North America.

Globus Medical Inc., a privately held maker of spinal implants in Audubon, Montgomery County, has hired David Veino as vice president of marketing and Tom Kennedy as vice president of surgeon relations and education. Veino had been global director of sales and marketing for the Interventional Spine division of Stryker. Kennedy had been vice president of professional affairs and medical education for Smith & Nephew P.L.C.'s biologics and clinical therapies division.

Elizabeth Housholder has been hired as assistant dean of civic engagement at Widener University. She had been program director for leadership development at Temple University.

Steven Poulathas has been elected shareholder at Flaster/Greenberg P.C., Cherry Hill. Poulathas counsels and represents individuals, family-owned businesses, and public companies in the tax, business and finance, and estate practice areas. - Mike Zebe