Tag Archives: UTM

Thursday – 11/12/2015

Long telecon with UTM. Angie Keefer is back ion the scene. Brief talk with Brandon Lachterman, His situation is tough with his wife now in downhill trend from brain cancer. Agreed to meet with him at 2pm.

Talked with Karen about DOE marketing. Somewhat dispirited discussions. Nevertheless a series of action items.

Meeting with Brandon. Getting ready for discussion with David Ackerman about a marketing/sales effort for Encore. Also brought in his two sidekicks Patrick and ???.

HAL Personnel Committee at 4pm followed by Board meeting at 5:15pm.

Caught up with Karen at relaunch party of Hudson Business Coalition at T&K Home and Garden. Many of the usual suspects. Didn’t stay long. Tired from too many people all day.IMG_1116

 

Friday – 10/16/2015

Richard L. Yatzeck

Richard L. Yatzeck

Re-read my 2012 letter to Dick Yatzeck after receiving yesterday’s surprise email from him that included the question about publishing it in “Lawrence Today” .

See: http://currentmatters.markorton.com/2012/10/russia-in-private-by-richard-yatzeck/

Spent most of the day at CMH to install UTM app on managers phones. Due to screw up by hospital only five people showed up.

Wednesday 10/7/2015

The True Size of Africa

Stumbled on this on Zite. Wrote blog posting and put it on Facebook: ”

“The True Size of Africa” – immappancy revisited”

UTM

10072015-BagelTyme-Met with Seth at 11am – updated various projects: CMH, Deepankr, Belvedere. Came up with alternative proposal for them. Will see if they are interested. Lunch at Bagel Tyme. Had not been in there in five or six years. Peanut butter on whole wheat bagel.

Met with David Ackerman. Typical short meeting. Reviewed Randy Johnston mtg in Chicago. Need to find out about Ole’s project??

Worked on office project for rest of afternoon.

Played tennis at Total Tennis from 6:45 to 9pm.

 

Thursday – 10/1/2015

Work Decision

Woke up at 4:30 am. Decided that today was a good day to tell UTM, David and Seth, that my days with them are over at the end of the year. Got to bring this engagement to an end.

When I signed on formally with UTM in March 2014 you were aware of my involvement as a founder with my brother Ed in a start up medical devices company, Prescient Medical Devices, LLC (PrescientMedicalDevices.com). For a number of reasons we had put the development of the company on pause while we addressed some IP issues. This made it possible to make a commitment to UTM for a year which was the time frame we talked about at that time.

PMD is now restarting. My brother is making presentations to investors and we expect that these will be fruitful. This means that I need to position myself to focus most of my energies on PMD by the latest January 2016.

I suggest that we move the project of finding a sales/marketing person on to the front burner. You may have other priorities. Lets talk about how I can be most helpful.

Thanks,

Felt immediate relief from taking this step despite the deceptive statements about PMD. Nothing new is happening as far as I know on that front.

Problems in Basement

Controller on boiler

Controller on boiler

No heat. Waiting on plumber Ihlenburg.

Went to Belvedere Home Healthcare in Albany for UTM meeting. Good meeting gathering requirements. They will conduct a survey of potential users.

Back to Hudson for HAL Exec Comm lunch at Mexican Radio. Followed by mtg with David Murphy, Betsy Miller and T Parsons about upcoming hard hat tours of Armory for high rollers. Then, at 3pm meeting with Ann Rosenthal about her role as Chair of Program Committee. Smart, energetic, engaged…. big plus for library.

While Karen taught her online course I went to Bell’s Pint Nite at The Spotty Dog. After chatting up the regional sales rep for Bells I was given a Bell’s Pint glass. Also had good chat with Sherrie Jo Williams and Pauline DeCarmo and a couple of their friends.IMG_0916

Friday – 4/10/2015

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Agi Clark
Born: Budapest Hungary
Emigrated to the U.S. with parents on February 1957
Graduated from Christopher Columbus H.S. in the Bronx
BFA degree from Pratt Institute major Fine and Graphic Arts
 
Career in Advertising in NYC 1967-1991
Art Director at Pritchard Wood (British Airways, Jamaica, Indian Tourist Office, The Bahamas)
Creative Director Senior V.P.  at N. W Ayer (DeBeers Diamonds, AT&T, Kraft, J.C.Penney, Seven Up)
Chairman, Chief Creative Officer LGFE (New York Stock Exchange, Hennessy Cognac, Contel, Wall Street Journal)
 
Advertising Director for the Liberal Democratic Party (Alliance of Free Democrats)
in Hungary in the 1994 and 1998 elections.
Advertising for the Mayor of Budapest, Gabor Demszky 1994 and 1998
 
Moved to long time country house in 2000
Two photography exhibits one in Budapest, one at Hudson Opera House.
Established the magazine Hudson River Art (with Peter Barton) designed and produced it
Volunteered at John L. Edwards elementary school (mentored reading)
On the Board of the Hudson Library (can’t remember the year.)
 
One son, two grandchildren. Grandson second year at Berkeley California, granddaughter junior at Poughkeepsie Day School.
Very good meeting with Joe Keenan and Agi providing much new direction and content. Now will focus on creating overall messaging strategy. We will meet again next Friday.

 

UTM

– Raizlabs, Surge, Coherent Solutions, Gavant, all intro discussions. Seth called to tell me that he and David want me to take over the website project. Send letter to Alan Coon informing him of our disappointment and need for him to step in. Seth is altogether too emotional.

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Tuesday – 3/31/2015

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First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

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First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

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First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

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Kay Kenny’s house

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Serious garden defenses at Kenny house

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Snow almost gone.

Lots of UTM work. Meetings with Jan and Seth and Eliel. Talked about the long overdue website. Seems that Seth and Eliel are flailing around and each other.

Cleaned up HAL Armory site and worked on new calendar plugin for HAL website.

Hung up the first DOG show. Went to Kay Kenny’s house in Saugerties to pick up her pictures. Had to break in thru screen door.

Thursday – 3/19/15

The living room will go away shortly. Displaced by DOG

The living room will go away shortly. Displaced by DOG

Went to gym at 7:30 am. Hope to get this into a routine. More work on tennis exercises.

Returned and worked on UTM and library projects. Talked with Jan about UTM plans for an hour. He remains concerned that David and Seth don’t really grasp the situation and opportunity they are in.

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