On the Open Solutions website, there is this on the background of Mike Nicastro, a younger brother of former Mayor Frank Nicastro:Michael D. Nicastro
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Prior to joining Open Solutions in 1994, Mike Nicastro spent 10 years with the Data Services Division of the NCR Corporation in the marketing and management of micro based financial systems, leaving NCR as the National Product Manager of Platform/Branch Automation. While with NCR, Mr. Nicastro was one of 15 employees worldwide to win the “Chairman’s Customer Satisfaction Award.” Mr. Nicastro spent the nine years prior to NCR working in the banking industry with Connecticut based Bristol Savings Bank, as well as New York based Citicorp. During his tenure with these organizations he held positions in branch management, lending, underwriting and marketing. Mr. Nicastro holds a Bachelors Degree in Marketing from Central Connecticut State University and a Juris Doctor from Western New England College, School of Law.
My understanding is that Nicastro will take John Leone's place -- as if anyone could -- at year's end.
*******
Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.
Contact Steve Collins at scollins@bristolpress.com
Good Choice!
ReplyDeleteI think this is another good choice by Art Ward, he has been appointing good people to important positions.
ReplyDeleteArt Ward had NOTHING to do with this.
ReplyDeleteWHO has Ward appointed???
ReplyDeleteAnd what minorities ha she appointed?
Political hack, brother of a political hack, what's the difference?
ReplyDeleteOnce again, nepotism and cronyism rear their ugly heads in Bristol.
Great Choice. Mike is a Bristol resident with an excellent background in marketing at a world-class firm.
ReplyDeleteHis expertise is just what Bristol needs to market our city!
6:51 you have no idea what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteFirst, Mike is not a political person. Second, he has extensive business experience as a senior executive in a respected marketing firm involved in international business.
For all of you naysayers:
ReplyDeleteJohn Leone was a cop and a mayor before he headed up the Chamber. And before that Mike Werner was a bus company owner and then Mayor.
Mike Nicastro will be bringing a fresh new perspective to the job. I worry that he doesn't have the strong business and community contacts that Leone and Werner had, but time will tell.
you Art Ward suckups are retarded, the mayor has absolutely nothing to do with the Chamber of Commerce. I am getting tired of this endless Art Ward propoganda.
ReplyDeleteMike is a good guy. I use to mow his lawn years ago, lol.
ReplyDeleteWhat idiots are ones who think Mayor Ward appointed this guy.
ReplyDeleteI don't see this fellow as being an obvious choice because from last the 15 years in which I've been involved with the Chamber, I've never seen or met the man.
I don't see much input from the membership regarding this choice. And by the way the membership pays his salary.
But otherwise he soulds like an accomplished individual and as all know, the Nicastro's are big Bristol people.
He'll probably do well. Congratulations sir, you just landed a sweet (and relatively easy) job.
I didn't even know that Frank had a younger brother. I hope he isn't anything like Frank. I hope he considers the business community needs over tooting his own horn and patting himself on the back.
ReplyDeleteNice mustache!!!!
ReplyDelete"you Art Ward suckups are retarded"
ReplyDelete~ Ah yes, yet another insightful and thought provoking comment from the "my candidate didn't win and I'm still mad as hell" delegation.
Nicastro is choice # 2. The 1st choice turned the job down.
ReplyDeleteHopefully he won't try to run the city from the Chamber Office.
ReplyDeleteGood luck being #2 CHOICE - that's always a good way to start off especially when and if people realize who they might have had with the first choice.
ReplyDeleteIs this what Ken Johnson was referring to when he complained about the "Good old Boys" network?
ReplyDeleteIf Mike was choice #2, who was choice #1???
ReplyDeleteSo who was the 1st choice?
ReplyDeleteFrank?
ReplyDeleteYes, Frank, but not Nicastro - Johnson
ReplyDeleteIt's nobody's business who Choice #1 was! That is between the Chamber's personnel committee and the person who refused the job. How would you all feel if you knew you were the 2nd choice for your jobs? Would you have a burning desire to find out who #1 was? What purpose would it serve??
ReplyDeleteTalk about going from bad to worse ..... Bristol has no hope ...
ReplyDeleteJuly 23, 2008 7:19 PM
ReplyDeleteIt's losers like you that are speeding its demise. Just blindly bad-mouth people when you haven't got a clue.
Yeah , If I were you 7:19 I would leave Bristol and try to convince another town that your way is the only way! For sure nobody would miss you except your handful of cry babies!
ReplyDeleteTo get back to the point. Mike Nicastro has been named the new chamber president. Let's wish him success and move on. Time will tell what an excellent choice the Board of Directors of the chamber has made.
ReplyDeleteJuly 23, 2008 10:19 PM
ReplyDelete``````````````````````
It's all in the genes
Why was Tim Gamache picked? He is all around town sticking his nose in everything. (ha, ha)
ReplyDeleteIf that's true, 7:31 ~ your family is doomed.
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that I am from the south. I thought Connecticut was much more sophisticated than what I am seeing here. Mike has a world perspective, a very solid understanding of business across all channels, and understands how to grow something from nothing. So his coming on board here, with already an infrastructure will be something we will find a way to create excitement and evolution into something great. You guys have no idea what leadership and new opportunities this man can bring to your business and ultimately your lives personally in that community.
ReplyDeleteSeriously people??? You should focus more of your time trying to fix your ghetto community rather than sitting on the computer bad mouthing politicians. You should be happy that you have somebody with a college education working in your town. Thanks and have a nice life.
ReplyDelete