Area business people ‘On the Move’
Highland Elementary School Principal Joel Freer, Highland Rotary Club CoFounder Steve Laubach, and Highland High School Senior Security Guard Wade Sargent received the 2019 Award for Excellence at Mid-Hudson School Study Council event. Freer has served as the Highland Elementary School principal for the past 11 years.
Laubach is one of the founding members of the Highland Rotary Club and has been an active member for more than 30 years. One of his many responsibilities include organizing the annual Hudson Valley Ribfest. His hard work with this fundraiser has resulted in tens of thousands of dollars worth of scholarships being raised for Highland school district graduates. He is also responsible for the Highland Middle School Book Project, the Highland Elementary Schoo Rotary Junior Achievement Program, and more.
Sargent spent his career in law enforcement as an officer for the town of Lloyd Police Department. Upon his retirement from the force, he accepted the position at Highland High School.
••• Local community leader and businessman Eric D. Gorman was honored with the V.V. Anderson Community Service Award for over 10 years of service to Anderson Center for Autism as a Board member and the organization’s current Board Chair.
Gorman is the cofounder, executive vice pres
ident, and chief operating officer of Integrated Enterprise Solutions, a computer consulting and integration services firm specializing in providing professional services for integration projects in numerous industries, including the semiconductor industry, regionally and internationally.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame with the highest honors, Gorman’s background also includes six years at IBM in East Fishkill, and 6 years at Chase Manhattan Bank. At IBM, he worked to bring new technologies to the chip manufacturing industry. He helped manage and implement DARPA funded projects that focused on enabling web based collaboration between aerospace and submarine building companies and their suppliers.
Gorman has worked as an IBM consultant providing industrial engineering solutions for some of IBM’s customers.
At Chase, he designed and implemented a check image archive that eliminated Chase Manhattan Bank’s need to store check images on microfiche.
Gorman is a 2008 recipient of the Chamber’s Movers and Shakers/40 Under 40 Award and participates in numerous technical forums, in addition to serving
as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Anderson Center for Autism, former Co-Chair of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce Business Education Committee.
••• Steven Hoffman has been hired as vice president and senior commercial lender in Rhinebeck Bank’s Lending Office in Montgomery.
Hoffman, a Nanuet resident and Dutchess County native, joins Rhinebeck
Bank with over 35 years of business banking experience, having held several senior-level executive leadership positions with financial institutions in the Hudson Valley and New York City regions.
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