Business
New Chef
Anthony M. Perrotti of Plainsboro is the new executive chef at the Hyatt Regency in West Windsor. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1981. He has been with Hyatt since 1982, holding positions in Massachusetts, Virginia, Tennessee, and Ohio.
He and his wife, Audrey Haddad Perrotti, have three children. They are Alexandra, 16; Nicholas, 14; and Christopher, 10.
New Doctor in Town
Jyoti Bhatia, M.D. joined Capital Health System as a gastroenterologist. A West Windsor resident, her areas of interest and clinical expertise are in women’s health issues, capsule endoscopy, and inflammatory bowel disease. She has received special training in advanced therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic ultrsonography.
She received her medical degree from the University of Mumbai in Bombay, India. She was a medical resident, chief medical resident, gastroenterology fellow, and hepatology fellow at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She works with Geobel Mrin and Armen Simonia at Mercer Gastroenterology at 446 Bellevue Avenue, Trenton. She speaks Hindi and Sinhi fluently.
New Coach
Marshall Calman of West Windsor is now a certified business coach with Action International, a business coaching franchise. He completed an intensive 10-day training seminar in Las Vegas, Nevada, to learn how to diagnose a company’s problems, how to correct them, and how to implement the changes over a 12-month period. Action coaches work with their clients in key areas of sales, marketing and advertising, team building and recruitment, systems and business development, and customer service.
With 25 years of broad-based business leadership experience in coaching organizations, he has worked with both Agilent Technologies as vice president and general manager and at Hewlett-Packard as North American general manager. A graduate of Roger Williams University with a degree in electrical engineering, he also has a master’s degree in marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. For a free business diagnostic, call Calman at 609-275-1008.
Gifts for Boys and Girls
The sales associates at Gloria Nilson GMAC Real Estate of Princeton Junction recently donated gifts for 40 children to the Boys & Girls Club of Trenton for the holidays. The project was coordinated by Patricia Dino, with a guiding hand from branch executive Paul Murray, who sits on the board of directors of the Boys and Girls Club.
Margaret Mead Award
Donna Goldstein, daughter of Renee and Alex Goldstein of West Windsor, received the Margaret Mead Award, designed to recognize a young scholar for research and practice in anthropology. Although she never lived in this area, her parents lived in Plainsboro for 13 years and in West Windsor for five years.
Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, she is a graduate of Cornell University with a degree in rural sociology; Harvard University, with a master’s in clinical psychology; and University of California-Berkely with a master’s and doctorate in anthropology. She is an anthropology professor at the University of Colorado.
She has written numerous papers, book chapters, book reviews, and wrote her first book, “Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Brazilian Shantytown,” in 2003. The book is available in hardcover and paperback at www.ucpress.edu. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, she recently adopted Sofia, a seven-month old baby girl from Mexico. They live in Boulder, Colorado.
