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Updated: October 28, 2019 2019 Outstanding Women in Business

The judges for the 2019 Outstanding Women in Business awards

Carla McCall is the co-managing partner at Westborough accounting firm AAFCPAs.

Carla McCall

She started the Women’s Opportunity Network at her firm, which offers a platform to discuss challenges for women in the workplace and to bring awareness to those issues across the company. While she’s been co-managing partner, the Westborough firm has grown by 50%, and the number of women in leadership positions has soared from 25% in 2011 to 47% last year. She has been appointed the chair of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs in 2016, bringing her to the head of an organization representing more than 12,000 accountants statewide. She is a 2005 WBJ 40 Under Forty and a 2019 WBJ Outstanding Women in Business award winner.

Kham Inthirath is the founder and CEO of Worcester marketing and technology firm InThink Agency, helping local businesses connect with target audiences.

Kham Inthirath

His clients have included Southwick’s Zoo in Mendon and the City of Worcester in its video efforts to recruit Amazon’s second headquarters to Worcester. Among his community efforts, he has been a business counselor for the Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce, a member of the marketing committee for Discover Central Massachusetts and an ambassador for Real Men Making Strides in Worcester, supporting American Cancer Society. Inthirath’s firm InThink has shot the videos for the Outstanding Women in Business awards for the last three years, and he is a 2016 WBJ 40 Under Forty.

Dr. Shirley D. Konneh is the assistant director at the Center for Career Development at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, where she is building a pipeline for students, particularly those of color, to live and work in the city.

Dr. Shirley D. Konneh

A native of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Konneh aerned her bachelor’s degree in natural science from Worcester State University and completed her MBA and doctorate in public policy and administration from Walden University in Minneapolis. She has served on the WSU alumni association advisory board, on the boards for the YWCA and the Girls Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts, and as chair of the membership board for the NAACP. She served on Worcester’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board. Konneh is a 2019 WBJ 40 Under Forty.

 

 

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