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Banking & Finance

  • Akoya Biosciences considering unsolicited buyout amidst merger proceedings

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 21, 2025

    After biotech firm Akoya Biosciences previously announced it would be acquired by Quanterix, the company is now considering an unsolicited, all-cash buyout offer it received from an anonymous third party.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 21, 2025
  • Following Nasdaq delisting, ConnectM finalizes $1.4M purchase of India-based energy company

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 20, 2025

    ConnectM Technology Solutions has completed a $1.4 million acquisition of Cambridge Energy Resources.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 20, 2025
  • Power 100: WBJ names the most influential professionals in 2025

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025

    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

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Kurt Isaacson

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025

    As Central Massachusetts continues to reel from the impacts of the ongoing opioid epidemic, Isaacson has leveraged his position as the head of Spectrum to provide services to as many patients as possible in as many locations as possible.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Bob Eddy

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

    Today, Eddy serves as chairman of the board of directors at the National Retail Federation, as a director at Dick’s Sporting Goods, and on the College Advisory Board at Babson College, his alma mater.

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Pete Dunn

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

    As head of GWCF, he leads distribution of the funds from the third-largest grantmaking foundation in Central Massachusetts, as it has more than $205 million in assets.

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Seth Pitts

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

    Pitts is the groundbreaking leader of Bay State Bank and is taking the community bank founded in Worcester in 1895 to new heights by bringing in exciting new executives and partnering with the state treasurer.

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Rozanna Penney

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025

    Penney has turned around the sinking ship that was Heywood Healthcare and today, the once-floundering system is breathing a sigh of relief.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Bhaskar Panigrahi

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025

    Panigrahi leads the charge of ConnectM, which in August was named the second-fastest growing company in Central Massachusetts and the 104th in the nation in Inc. magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Karen Chapman

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

    Chapman is a longtime presence in the local chambers of commerce, starting in 1980, when she joined the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce as a secretary.

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Thomas Bartholomew

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025

    The long-time and well-connected founder of the nationally-recognized $5-billion financial advisory firm, Bartholomew is as much a staple of the Worcester business community as the company that bears his name.

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: David Stone

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025

    Since its founding in 1939, Sterilite and the family Stone have been major employers in North Central Massachusetts, particularly in its small home community of Townsend, with its population of 9,000.

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Diane Gould

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025

    After joining Advocates more than 40 years ago as a program manager, Gould assumed her leading role as CEO in 2013 and has worked to expand the nonprofit’s reach to now serve more than 40,000 individuals with development disabilities, brain injuries

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Lee Gaudette

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

    Lee Gaudette has been a fixture of the Central Massachusetts business community for decades.

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Louis Brady

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025

    As CEO, Brady has brought FHCW, the region’s largest federally qualified health center, back from the financial brink it was tiptoing off of just three years ago.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Noreen Johnson Smith

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

    Johnson Smith joined the science and nature museum in 2022, after the EcoTarium experienced a 90% drop in visitation during COVID and had to lay off 67% of staff.

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

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Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eric Batista has led the City of Worcester in the past year?
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On June 24, the Worcester City Council returned a largely positive appraisal of City Manager Eric Batista during his annual review. Councillors praised Batista for his fiscal management of the City and acknowledged his efforts to provide more shelter for unhoused individuals.

Still, members raised concerns over Batista’s handling of a U.S. Department of Justice report that found the Worcester Police Department used excessive force and his response to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement incident on Eureka Street on May 8. 

In Worcester's form of city government, the appointed city manager is essentially the CEO of the City of Worcester while the elected mayor and city council are part time and help set policy.