WBJ Staff

Natalie Friel is responsible for the growth biomanufterer Resilience in Central Massachusetts.

It’s been a busy year for Waters under Udit Batra’s leadership. The Milford company generated more than $3 billion in revenues in 2022, an annual increase of 7%.

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.

Stephen Woerner possesses the power to turn the lights on and off.

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.

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.

Under Mike O’Kronley’s leadership, Ascend closed $300 million in a funding round in 2022, and the company received more than $480 million grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, where O’Kronley participated in a press conference with President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.

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.

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.

Helping to tie together the North Central Massachusetts business community from farmers to factory owners to the local hair salon is Roy Nascimento.