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Hoffman spent eight years as a English teacher in Southbridge – including mentoring new teachers and advising students – and only worked at BirchTree with husband Robert Fecteau on the side, as bookkeeper, farmers' market girl, barista and front-of-house manager.
In the last five years, Pitcavage has grown solar installer Endless Energy from 10 to 50 employees while serving Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
When Merrill received his certified investment management analyst designation from Wharton in 2012, he was one of the youngest holders of the title in the nation.
Four years after joining Ravosa, Cote now manages the firm's Worcester office, growing practice areas of civil litigation, personal injury law and foreclosure prevention.
Johnson joined O'Connor, looking to continue its legacy of professional excellence and community involvement, while strategizing clients tax, auditing and accounting needs and requirements.
Wagner is known as a helper and a fixer, attracted to challenges and happiest when solving complex issues.
After graduating WPI in 2003, Staruk joined Consigli as project engineer and, after two productive years, was promoted to project manager before achieving senior project manager status for her leaderships on projects large and small.
Successful gig entrepreneurs usually have three things in common: clarity of concept and execution, value people pay for, and focus on relationships.
These businesses incorporated with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from June 16-30.
Semidei is a dancer, choreographer and director for Raices, with experience such as co-founding Hispania Dance Co. and working with local programs like Worcester State University Latino Education Institute's Isla Theater.
Royce joined UniBank in 2015, after serving in financial roles at other institutions for nine years, including small business development and retail branch management before transitioning into commercial lending.
Salois joined Atlas six years ago after working at Morgan Stanley in New York City and Eaton Vance Management in Boston, returning to work with his father, Joe Salois, Atlas president and owner.
Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, Reardon co-founded Commonwealth in 2010 with Brian Pelczarski, transforming the firm from credit and debit processing to assisting with accounts receivable for clients ranging from entrepreneurs to multinationals, opening offices in New York, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C.
Six years ago, Murrieta and a group of artists wanted to pool talents and passion for mentoring youth, launching free youth arts program Main IDEA.
Bajrami Campoverde founded Golden Group in 2011 while still attending WSU, seeing a need for a roofing firm to focus on concierge customer service – using the hospitality lessons she learned while working at her family's restaurant since age 14.
Brooklyn born-and-raised, Worcester became home to Mangione after she went to Clark University to receive her doctorate in developmental psychology and settled roots in the city, particularly in the LGBTQ community, co-founding the organization Airspray throwing queer dance parties at Electric Haze monthly with 200+ people in attendance.
Steve Gardiner took over management of the Southbridge Hotel & Conference Center one year ago this August.
Shortly after turning 23, Aylward opened his inclusive fitness facility, the byproduct of thousands of hours spent with the Special Olympics, Best Buddies and working in disability services.
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Torres works on issues ranging from transportation to small business growth, introducing programs like Shop Westborough and Downtown Beautification.
Behan is responsible for developing strategic planning for servicing UMass Memorial's relationships with Central Massachusetts community hospitals, working closely with the UMass chief physician executive.
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Since taking over VHB's civil engineering and land development team three years ago, Dufresne has doubled its size, due to his prowess and increased activity in Worcester's market.
In 2007, Dahrooge started her practice to bring compassion and understanding to financial planning, and co-founded Chan & Dahrooge in 2014 to help clients prepare for retirement and protect family and business assets.
Peterssen began his career in public accounting, obtaining his certified public accountant license and master in business administration.
Retail is hard. The landscape is challenging. Clinging to the status quo deals dire consequences. At Aubuchon Hardware, we value a 109-year family commitment to customer service, resilience and innovation.
DiGregorio started serving area veterans and their families nine years ago, first as residential advisor at the nonprofit's headquarters on Grove Street, helping the men who live there with day-to-day activities.
Over the past four years, Randall practiced as an attending family physician with a special interest in caring for patients with substance-abuse disorders.
Njoroge co-founded home healthcare provider Century in 2012.
Escobar moved from Boston to Worcester in 2013 to found law firm, Ross Escobar Group, to make legal protections more accessible for small businesses and startups.
Montaner was the second employee ever hired by The Hanover Theatre and assisted with the $32-million campaign to open the facility.
Murphy's interest in business first came working after school for his father's fire truck repair firm.
Unable to find the new space he needed for his growing mental health practice, Amjad Bahnassi decided to build his own $4.3 million facility on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester.
Since joining Hanover, Travis designed product architecture to improve speed to market for the firm's broadening products by more than 50 percent, also providing leadership to successful new product launches, including modernization of the business owners and life sciences products.
Tripp joined Hanover's specialty division six years ago, as it has grown to a $800-million business through organic growth and mergers and acquisitions.
As housing demand rises for their community, Boxborough residents are fighting new developments, even though they have little choice in the matter.
After achieving all-time highs in student enrollment and revenue at Plymouth State and The Sage Colleges, Palumbo joined WPI in 2015 and since new underrepresented minority student enrollment reached an all-time high while the rate of women in class jumped from its previous record of 34 percent to 43 percent.
After graduating cum laude from law school in 2008, Gelinas joined Gelinas & Ward, specializing in estate planning, probate and trust administration, and elder law.
Hopefully your organization recognizes networking as an important part of relationship-building, whether with clients, prospects or partners.
Winner of the StartUp Worcester award, Rivera-Flores quit the corporate world in 2015 to start her own businesses: The Learning Hub, offering low-cost tutoring and free classes in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) to K-6 stude
Since being promoted to project executive in 2013, Callahan ensured completion of $50 million in new construction throughout New England.
Meet the Class of 2017 boosting the Central Massachusetts economy and community.
Notaro is on a mission to supercharge the bank's deposit operations by enabling a world-class team with technology and process improvements.
Despite the congenial attitude among Central Mass. breweries, the statewide industry association is worried growth may become unsustainable.
Vallejos came to the U.S. 13 years ago after graduating from medical school to pursue the American dream, despite English being his second language.
Leaders of any stripe can navigate through times of steady growth, but managing a crisis from the top separates the great leaders.
BirchTree's foundations were laid when Fecteau started selling his bread out of the back of wife Avra Hoffman's Subaru, and then moving onto farmers' markets.
Viens completed a judicial clerkship with Massachusetts Superior Court before entering private practice, relocating to Worcester County in 2010 to join Bowditch.
In the last 11 years, Gardner has ascended the ladder at Davis, first as manufacturing recruiter, then senior recruiter and recruiting supervisor, creating an employee training plan.