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Megan RogersReporter- Albany Business ReviewNovember 6, 2014  Joseph Nicolla, the president and founder of Columbia Development Company, had an Oscar moment at the Albany Business Review's Achievers event last night. Nicolla, the 2014 Game Changer, stressed in remarks to business leaders the number of people he thanked for playing a hand in his success.  "We've learned to dream at a scale that is daunting," he said.  Nicolla pointed to the success of 677 Broadway in downtown [...]

Christopher CalnanStaff Writer- Austin Business JournalNovember 6, 2014  Transfinder Corp., a New York-based software maker, plans to open a 10-person satellite office in Austin in early 2015.  Transfinder will open the office in an undetermined Austin location to be closer to where a large number of clients are based. The company, founded in 1988 as Forth & Associates, expects to send executives to Austin later this month to identify possible locations, spokesman Rick Derrico [...]

Todd KehoeResearch Director- Albany Business ReviewNovember 5, 2014  Transfinder Corp., based in Schenectady, New York, has been one of the region's fastest-growing companies for years.  Now, it's embarking on its first expansion outside of the area, and plans to open a satellite office in Austin, Texas, to serve customers in that state.  About 20 percent of the company's clients are based in Texas, the largest amount in any state outside New York, said President and CEO [...]

By Michael DeMasiAlbany Business Reviewmdemasi@bizjournals.com/@albbizmikedPosted: Sept. 22, 2014 Transfinder Corp.'s new headquarters in downtown Schenectady, New York is filling faster than president and CEO Antonio Civitella expected, but there's still room to grow. The firm, which sells bus-routing software to schools, had 72 employees when its $7 million headquarters opened nearly a year ago on State Street.  Today, there are more than 80 employees. The total could exceed 100 by the [...]

Albany Business Review Announces 2014 Achievers  Dr. John Bennett, Joseph Nicolla, Autotask, Apprenda, Antonio Civitella, the Capital District Community Gardens and Hugh Johnson are being honored as The Business Review's Achievers for 2014.   Bennett, the president and CEO of insurer CDPHP, with some 1,000 employees in the region, is the Executive of the Year.  Bennett is one of the key industry leaders reforming health care from the ground up. Earlier this year, he led CDPHP [...]