WBJ Staff

Yawo has changed the landscape that immigrants and refugees to the Worcester area encounter when they arrive.

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.

WPI may be best known for its engineering power, but Debora Jackson is putting the business school on the map in the region.

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.

Angela Bovill holds the top job at one of the largest human services organizations in Central Massachusetts.

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.

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.

Polar Beverages may still be a family business led by Ralph Crowley Jr., but it has become a national player in the beverage industry.