2011 40 Under Forty: Meet The Judges
Corey Adams is a metro manager for Robert Half International, the world’s first and largest staffing firm specializing in accounting, finance and information technology. He works out of the firm’s Westborough office and was a member of the 40 Under Forty Class of 2010.
Adams has spent almost 10 years with RHI. He helps clients locate highly skilled professionals in the areas of finance and accounting, focusing on temporary, contract, consulting and permanent searches in Central Massachusetts for mid- to senior-level roles.
He has been honored multiple times by Robert Half as one of the Top 30 sales professionals in the company.
Adams graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Leominster High School.
Bonnie Biocchi is the president and CEO of the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce, a regional chamber serving more than 650 businesses in 10 communities. In addition, she is the current chair of the board of the MetroWest Tourism and Visitors Bureau and serves on the board of the MetroWest/495 Partnership and Natick Soldier Systems Science and Technology Board.
She has been appointed to the Patrick Administration’s Economic Development Strategic Planning Council, and serves on the state’s Small Business Roundtable where she works to inform government policy and regulatory decisions that affect business, hoping to create a more business friendly climate throughout the commonwealth.
Prior to her role at the MetroWest Chamber, Biocchi served as the regional director for the Massachusetts Office of Business Development where she linked businesses with both public and private resources to assist them in creating, retaining and adding jobs.
Nicole Glinski Curtin is an assistant vice president and marketing and communications manager at Fitchburg-based Workers’ Credit Union.
She is responsible for management of all communication projects for the credit union, including advertising as well as corporate and branch marketing materials.
Curtin is also an alumna of the Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty program, having been honored in 2008. This is her second time serving as a judge for our 40 Under Forty program.
Prior to joining Workers’ Credit Union in 2007, Curtin was a marketing project manager at Sundance/Newbridge Pub-lishing of Marlborough.
She also worked in marketing at the Worcester Regional Transit Authority as well as International Data Group of Framingham.
Curtin has a bachelor’s of arts in communications and media from Worcester State University.
She is a resident of Leominster.
Charley Polachi is a partner at Framingham-based Polachi Access Executive Search. His firm services technology, clean tech, venture capital and private equity clients and has placed hundreds of C-level executives over the last 30 years.
Polachi also oversees the firm’s venture capital and private equity specialty practice, which is dedicated to recruiting partners for leading venture capital and private equity firms around the world.
Polachi has founded several search firms, including Fenwick Partners, a specialty firm focused on early-stage technology companies that was eventually purchased by Heidrick & Struggles in 1998. In 1993, he co-founded International Technology Partners, an affiliation network of seven independent firms in 13 cities worldwide focusing on technology clients.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the College of the Holy Cross and an MBA with honors from Boston College.
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