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  • What is the nature of power? The Power 100 for 2025 provide their insights

    Brad Kane 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

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Jon Weaver

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

    Even while uncertainty shakes the global life science space, Weaver and MBI help ensure Worcester plays an increasingly important role in the biggest bioscience breakthroughs.

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Ralph Crowley Jr.

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

    In a space dominated by the big players of Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Crowley has dug out a unique role as the head of a beverage company beholden to no one, except its loyal customer base.

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Lila Snyder

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025

    Innovation and audio are at the core of Snyder’s philosophy at Bose, where she is pushing the 60-year-old manufacturer to be a leader in consumer electronics and automotive audio.

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Sam Hendler

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

    As others in the craft beer industry struggle to stay afloat amid declining beer sales and changing consumer preferences, Hendler has turned Jack’s Abby Brewing in Framingham into a growing beverage empire.

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025
  • The Insiders: Who do Central Mass. power players say are the most influential people in the region?

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025

    In February, WBJ asked the 400+ people who have ever been on a WBJ power list (Power 100, Power 50, Power Players) to vote for the professionals they believed are the most influential in the region. Nearly 600 votes were cast

    Brad Kane Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Jochen Salfeld

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

    In 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.

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Ken Winterhalter

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

    The first CEO of Seaman Paper who is not part of the company’s founding family, Winterhalter has helped ensure the 79-year-old paper manufacturer remains on the cutting edge.

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Mike Cloonan

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

    Cloonan is on the frontline of the fight against cystic fibrosis.

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025
  • The Insiders 2025: John Erwin

    Jon Weaver Updated: May 19, 2025

    Story by Jon Weaver, CEO of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives

    Jon Weaver Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Aimee Peacock

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

    Peacock is perhaps the top role model in Central Mass., particularly for women, for all that can be achieved in the still male-dominated manufacturing industry.

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Linh Austin

    Laura Finaldi Updated: May 19, 2025

    A seasoned veteran of the energy industry, Austin joined Ascend’s board of directors in late 2024 before taking over as CEO in March of this year.

    Laura Finaldi 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
  • The Insiders 2025: Dan Nigrosh

    Sam Squailia Updated: May 19, 2025

    Story by Fitchburg Mayor Sam Squailia

    Sam Squailia Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Raphael Nir

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

    Through his work with SBH and ABI-LAB, Nir provides a number of important resources to biotech companies working on big breakthroughs.

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025
  • 2025 Power 100: Chris Coghlin

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

    While his roles as CEO and president may sound the most important, Coghlin takes the most pride in his title of chief culture officer. Adopting the mantra, “Work hard, play hard,” he aims to make sure all of his employees are feeling satisfied in

    Eric Casey Updated: May 19, 2025

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For likely the first time in history, five generations are participating in the modern workforce. From the Silent Generation of the 1920s to 1940s through Gen Z of the late 1990s to early 2000s, employees are now often working side-by-side with those multiple decades away in age.