Michael A. Goldstein , a professor of finance at Babson College in Wellesley, has been named chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
At Babson, Goldstein holds the Donald P. Babson Chair in Applied Investments and is faculty director of the Stephen Cutler Center of Investment and Finance.
He is also an honorary professor at The Queen’s University in Belfast (UK) and was a visiting professor at Trinity College (Ireland) in 2009.
Goldstein received a B.S., an MBA, an M.A. and a Ph.D. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Goldstein resides in Sherborn.
Polachi, a Framingham-based provider of Access Executive Search services to technology, clean tech, venture capital and private equity clients, recently named Paul Moran of Wayland partner.
In his new role, Moran will specialize in situating C-level high-technology executives.
Most recently, Moran was a partner at Fenwick Partners and Taylor Whitfield.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Marist College.
Hopkinton native Christopher Matteodo recently joined Gennari Aronson LLP in Needham as an associate.
Most recently, Matteodo spent the past year working for the Rhode Island Supreme Court Clerk Department.He received a J.D. cum laude from Boston College Law School in May 2010 and in 2007 a B.A. degree in history from Trinity College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Steve Rodman, president of Rodman Rodman P.C., was recently named to the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association’s (NECA) Renewables and Distributed Generation Committee.
NECA is a 900-member nonprofit trade association serving the electric power industry.
The committee is dedicated to increasing awareness of the benefits of renewable/clean energy and to facilitating growth of the industry in the northeast.
Rodman Rodman is a CPA firm with offices in Newton and Braintree.
Rodman is a client adviser and advocate in the provision of expert green energy tax advisory, accounting services and business strategy for alternative energy producers and investors through all stages of their project and business life cycle.
He resides in Newton.
The law firm of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green P.A. recently announced that shareholder John H. Perten of Wayland has received the Deans’ Award for Excellence in Teaching by an adjunct professor at Babson College in Wellesley.
This award is given each year to someone who excels in innovative and effective teaching even while holding a “day job.”
Perten has been an adjunct professor with Babson since 2002 and currently teaches a graduate level course called “Managing the Legal Environment of Business.”
Perten works from Sheehan Phinney’s Boston office where he has a complex business litigation and transactional law practice.
He is also a member of the Builders Association of Greater Boston, a former Maynard town counsel and special town counsel for Wayland.
He received his J.D., cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School.
Sheehan Phinney also has offices in New Hampshire.
Jeff DiMatteo of Franklin, an owner and partner of Marlborough-based American Profit Recovery (APR), has been elected to the ACA International Education Board.
The national board oversees the activities of the foundation, which spearheads many consumer debt educational programs and actively promotes financial literacy to consumers.
DiMatteo will work with other board members from across the country to oversee the board’s activities and develop new ways to promote and fund the foundation’s activities.