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2025 Power 100: Heather Elster
Updated: May 19, 2025Elster has been with the WCC since 2006, and executive director for a decade, helping the organization fulfill its mission of enhancing the health and well-being of people in the Blackstone Valley.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Michael Welch
Updated: May 19, 2025Welch works to center the community as he leads the region’s seventh largest bank. Leading an institution with $2.4 billion in local deposits and $2.6 billion in assets as of June 30 means the pressure is on Welch to strategically invest in
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Amie Shei
Updated: May 19, 2025Shei addresses the nuanced and complicated need for health equity by using an intersectional and holistic approach as she tirelessly advocates for those who don’t have a seat at the table. In February, she was honored as Massachusetts Woman of the
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Debbie Hall
Updated: May 19, 2025Working to help eliminate racism and empowering women are two monumental lifts, but Hall is up to the task.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Roy Nascimento
Updated: May 19, 2025The leader of the North Central chamber for a decade, Nascimento is bullish on delivering results for the region’s employers and workforce.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Shruti Miyashiro
Updated: May 19, 2025Miyashiro has worked in credit unions throughout her entire career, starting as a teller during undergraduate as a philosophy major.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Jochen Salfeld
Updated: May 19, 2025In his 35 years with AbbVie, Salfeld has been personally involved in growing a small startup in a leased space in Cambridge into a biopharmaceutical powerhouse.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Liz Hamilton
Updated: May 19, 2025She leads the 136-year-old nonprofit by centering partnership and empathy as she works to grow its programming, which reaches 8,000 youth annually.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Dana Neshe
Updated: May 19, 2025When Neshe stepped into her executive roles in 2024, she made Middlesex Savings the largest woman-run bank in Central Massachusetts. She was promoted from her previous position as chief operating officer, playing a key role in the bank rounding out
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Dr. Eric Dickson
Updated: May 19, 2025When Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer was about to close in the summer of 2024, Dickson said he was looking into every opportunity possible to support the region left without its most central hospital.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Dr. Michael Collins
Updated: May 19, 2025Since January, Collins has been resolute in his advocacy for UMass Chan and other institutions of higher education as he has directly called out the President Donald Trump Administration for threatening to cut National Institutes of Health funding
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Mike Hyland
Updated: May 19, 2025Hyland has led one of the region’s largest human services nonprofits for more than a decade and has continued to grow Venture’s presence to support as many individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism as possible across its service reach of
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Todd Tallman
Updated: May 19, 2025Tallman has guided Cornerstone through growth and one high-profile merger to be the 10th largest bank in Central Massachusetts, and now another merger under his leadership appears poised to keep the organization as a major player in the region for
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Chelsey Patriss
Updated: May 19, 2025Patriss had never imagined herself in a public health career when she joined the Health Equity Partnership, but here she is, 11 years later, standing at the head of a nonprofit becoming all the more important in a region where healthcare options are
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Susan Gentili
Updated: May 19, 2025Since stepping into her CEO position at SMOC in 2021, Gentili has set all systems go to provide supportive services and housing assistance to those whose needs have fallen through the cracks.
Updated: May 19, 2025
What is the nature of power? The Power 100 for 2025 provide their insights
Updated: May 19, 2025“Power is the ability to get people to listen to you, even when you're mostly just talking about beer.” - Sam Hendler, Hendler Family Brewing
Updated: May 19, 2025
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