NEWBURYPORT - Recent graduate Niel Stender has been hired as a franchisee by College Pro Painters for 2006. He will be running the Newburyport area.

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Matter Communications wins five new technology accounts

NEWBURYPORT - Matter Communications Inc., a public relations and marketing communications agency specializing in technology and business-to-business markets, has been retained by the following five new clients: ECRM, a developer of imaging technologies for the graphic communications industry; Expoimaging, a developer of white balance filters for professional and consumer digital cameras; Interactive Video Technologies (IVT), a company that produces, manages and distributes live and on-demand Web casting; Nancy Plowman & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in solving print production-related problems; and Teamwork Solutions, a provider of applications and workflow tools for Lotus Notes, IBM WebSphere and the Internet.

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Charles Johnson joins Resolute Financial

NEWBURYPORT - Charles Johnson, AIF, MBA, joins Resolute Financial, a fee-only financial planning and investment advisory firm with offices in The Tannery Mall in Newburyport and in downtown Wakefield.

Johnson comes to the firm with 20 years of experience as chief financial officer of Everett Pattern & Manufacturing of Middleton, where his responsibilities included mergers and acquisitions, 401k plan investments and human resource management.