Processing Your Payment
Please do not leave this page until complete. This can take a few moments.
Power 100: The most influential professionals in Central Mass. for 2025
Since WBJ first launched its annual power list, the main criteria for inclusion always has been how Central Massachusetts professionals are influencing the local economy and community. Originally called Power Players and then Power 50 and Power 100, we’ve avoided making this feature about the CEOs leading the largest organizations in the region, with little turnover in the list year after year. Instead, the Power 100 edition is an annual report on how power is shared and expended in Central Massachusetts each year, as told through the 100 people who are most effectively wielding their influence, with a special focus on those creating change and bringing new ideas to the forefront. The Power 100 isn’t about who has the most power; it’s about who has an outsized impact on the region, regardless of how much power they hold.
Power 100 stories are organized by industry below. For an alphabetical list, click here.
WBJ Web Partners
Arts & Culture
-
-
-
-
-
Alan SeiffertPresident & CEO of The Hanover Theatre & Conservatory for the Performing ArtsView Profile -
Education
-
-
Marlina DuncanVice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at UMass Chan Medical SchoolView Profile -
-
-
-
-
-
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
-
Peter Li & Jean QiuLi: CEO, Conifer Life Sciences Group Qiu: CEO & founder, Conigen BioscienceView Profile -
-
-
Bogdan VernescuVice president and vice provost for research and innovation at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteView Profile -
Finance
Government
Health care
-
-
-
Dr. Cherise HamblinMedical director/Founder of UMass Memorial Health doula program/Patients R WaitingView Profile -
-
-
-
-
Chelsey PatrissExecutive director of Health Equity Partnership of North Central MassachusettsView Profile -
-
Hospitality & Tourism
Life sciences
-
Victor AmbrosProfessor of the program in molecular medicine; Silverman professor of natural sciences at UMass Chan Medical SchoolView Profile -
-
-
-
Jochen SalfeldHead of R&D Cures, vice president, virology discovery research at AbbVieView Profile
Manufacturing
Nonprofits
Professional services
-
-
-
-
Jeannie HebertPresident & CEO of Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce/BV Hub for Workforce DevelopmentView Profile -
-
-
-
Real estate
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
William Kelleher IV and James UmphreyManaging partner and president of Kelleher & Sadowsky AssociatesView Profile -
-
-
Elizabeth WambuiDirector of diversity, inclusion, and community impact at Fontaine Bros.View Profile
