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Power 50 for 2023
Business professionals from organizations of all types and sizes hold some amount of power, but how you shape the economy and community is when you are truly influential. You could sit atop the largest employer in the region with billions of dollars in revenue, like Dr. Eric Dickson at UMass Memorial Health, and play a significant role inside and outside of your industry.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Angela Bovill
Angela Bovill holds the top job at one of the largest human services organizations in Central Massachusetts.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Julie Bowditch
If Worcester has one person who serves as the face of everything positive about the city’s business community, it’s probably Julie Bowditch.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Dr. Matilde “Mattie” Castiel
Dr. Matilde Castiel oversees numerous high-profile and highly important offices and services throughout the City of Worcester, from the Department of Public Health to the opioid and mental health task forces.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Parth Chakrabarti
Parth Chakrabarti is responsible for growing the size, financials, and reach of the UMass Chan research enterprise.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Amy Chase
While a precarious retail market sent many across the city and region running, Amy Chase celebrated 10 years in business in September and remains a bright spot for the creative community.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Jennie Lee Colosi
Colosi is president of the 77-year-old E.T. & L. Corp., in Stow, which employs 133 people. She is a trained engineer and one of the only women presidents of a Central Massachusetts construction company.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Joshua Croke
Croke is the influential voice for the LGBTQ+ community across the Central Massachusetts region. As president of Love Your Labels, they lead the Queer Coalition of Greater Worcester and run programming across the area, including Drag Queen Story Time.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Ralph Crowley Jr
Polar Beverages may still be a family business led by Ralph Crowley Jr., but it has become a national player in the beverage industry.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Jeffrey Cunningham
Cunningham is using his influence as a developer to help communities make the most of what they have.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Dr. Eric Dickson
As the leader of more than 17,000 caregivers at the largest healthcare provider and largest employer in Central Massachusetts, Dr. Eric Dickson has a wide-spreading domain.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Patrick Dwyer
Patrick Dwyer got promoted to VP of Saint-Gobain's Abrasives manufacturing locations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, including the headquarters in Worcester, and has helped push the company forward and into the limelight since getting the job in 2021.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Grace Elton
Under Grace Elton, the gains of the botanic garden have been significant, and they’re starting to pay off with more visitors and more attractions.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Caroline Frankel
Caroline Frankel wants to make cannabis friendlier. She’s one of local cannabis businesses continuing to grow as multi-state companies like Trulieve Cannabis Corp. and Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. try to wrangle the marijuana market in Massachusetts away from more local and homegrown entrepreneurs.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Natalie Friel
Natalie Friel is responsible for the growth biomanufterer Resilience in Central Massachusetts.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Tim Garvin
Under Tim Garvin's leadership, the United Way’s mission is to build up communities through investment across the spectrum of needs and programming in 30 towns across the region.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Steven Gentilucci
Longtime Worcester resident Gentilucci started with Consigli more than 25 years ago as an assistant superintendent and worked his way up to his position as general manager.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Shannon George
Shannon can be found George pounding the pavement with students, hospital workers, and other union members, navigating the noise to get the union's message out.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Meredith Harris
Led by Meredith Harris, the quasi-public nonprofit MEDC helped to fill 350,000 square feet of space and bring approximately 500 jobs in 2022 through business relocation and expansion.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Sam Hendler
It’s been a busy year for Sam Hendler and the team at Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Debora Jackson
WPI may be best known for its engineering power, but Debora Jackson is putting the business school on the map in the region.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Kathleen Jordan
In July, when her husband David Jordan retires as president, Kathleen Jordan will be in the top spot at an organization with an annual revenue she helped grow to more than $300 million.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Rita Kapur
Rita Kapur has worked as the CFO of Aimtek since 1993. The company was started by her parents, Amar and Ani Kapur, in a third-floor apartment and a rented garage in Worcester after Amar emigrated from Mumbai, India, to study chemical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Power 502023 Power 50: William Kelleher, IV & James Umphrey
Will Kelleher and Jim Umphrey oversee more than 20 full-time commercial real estate brokers at Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates. The company leased nearly 2 million square feet and sold $156 million in commercial space in 2022.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Stephen Kerrigan
Under Stephen Kerrigan’s leadership, Kennedy Community Health opened its 11th location in March, which added 30,000 square feet to the organizational footprint and additional services in behavioral, dental, and pharmaceutical care.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Karen LaFond
With more than 20 years of experience in commercial finance and real estate, LaFond brings a wealth of interdisciplinary knowledge to the transactional practice group at 200-year-old Worcester law firm Fletcher Tilton.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Edward Manzi, Jr.
Edward Manzi, Jr. has been leading Fidelity Bank since 1997 and has the distinction of being the longest-serving CEO at a Massachusetts community bank, helping to shape the Central Massachusetts business landscape.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Carla McCall
Under McCall’s guidance, AAFCPAs is working toward a better future, or at least pushing its employees to think of their work as something beyond accounting.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Shruti Miyashiro
Shruti Miyashiro started her credit union career as a teller in her senior year of college, and now she’s the head of the largest credit union in Central Massachusetts. Like Miyashiro, DCU had to start at the bottom to get to the top.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Bob Mumgaard
Bob Mumgaard co-founded CFS in 2018 out of MIT with the goal of commercializing fusion energy, a puzzle whose solution has eluded scientists since the 1940s.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Timothy Murray
Timothy Murray is approaching 10 years leading the Worcester regional chamber, a powerhouse chamber in New England serving more than 150 communities in the region and 2,300 members.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Roy Nascimento
Helping to tie together the North Central Massachusetts business community from farmers to factory owners to the local hair salon is Roy Nascimento.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Girish Navani
In 1999, when Girish Navani co-founded eClinicalWorks, a healthcare software company hosting patient records, he had a background in robotics but a curiosity about health care and a desire to develop something to help patients and physicians alike.
2023 Power 50: Michael Nicholson
During the tenure of the state’s youngest mayor and Gardner’s first Latino elected official, Michael Nicholson is seeing signs of recovery as new businesses open and the neglected downtown is revived.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Charles “Chip” Norton
Norton has had the foresight to recognize the value in Central Massachusetts.
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2023 Power 50: Ivette Olmeda
After the Main South TDI district graduated from the program, Ivette Olmeda was appointed to help another Worcester neighborhood along Pleasant Street in the vicinity of Piedmont Street.
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Power 502023 Power 50: John “Jack” Roche
The Hanover Insurance Group generates an estimated $749 million in annual value added across Massachusetts and employees an average of 1,837 people in Central Massachusetts from 2010 to 2020. All of this means John "Jack" Roche has a lot of responsibility keeping one of the largest employers in the region moving forward.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Eugene Scherbakov
Scherbakov has the distinction of being only the second person to lead the $1.4-billion IPG Photonics. In May 2021, he replaced its founder Valentin Gapontsev as the Marlborough company’s CEO.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Vincent Strully, Jr.
Vincent Strully established the first NECC program in 1975, and since then has built from there to include a day school, a residential program, a classroom model for use within public schools, a consulting practice, a research center, onsite graduate degree programs, and a technology division to develop the center’s curriculum to learners with autism far and wide.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Fred Taylor
Fred Taylor gives Central Massachusetts a voice in one of the largest trade unions in the country, advocating for more than 30,000 members across the region.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Larissa Thurston
The core of the Central Massachusetts economy runs through small businesses, and those businesses need a place to get capital and loans. One of the most important institutions in the area providing the loans that small businesses need to succeed is St. Mary’s Credit Union, and providing those intermediary loans is something Larissa Thurston and her team pride themselves on.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Tuyet Tran
The Southeast Asian Coalition of Central MA is the only organization of its kind in the region, and it was built from the ground up by and for Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees in Worcester. One of those was Tuyet Tran, then a young social worker in the city who saw an unmet need.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Jon Weaver
As the Central Massachusetts biotech and bioscience sector continues to grow, it needs places for new ideas and innovators. Enter MBI and its leader, Jon Weaver.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Dr. Lynda Young
In early 2023, Young was named chair of the board of trustees at UMass Memorial Health, making her the first female chair of the largest employer in Central Massachusetts.
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Power 502023 Power 50: Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham
Valerie Zolezzi-Wynham has her sights set on extending the impact of Promoting Good when she opens the PG Collaborative, a collaborative coworking space to allow for the fostering of relationships for creatives and entrepreneurs.
