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Power 50 for 2023
Collage | Brad Kane The Power 50 for 2023 included (top row, from left) Parth Chakrabarti, Shruti Miyashiro, Joshua Croke; (middle row, from left) Tuyet Tran, William Kelleher, IV, James Umphrey, Meredith Harris; (bottom row, from left) Patrick Dwyer, Grace Elton, Girish Navani
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. Or you could be a single person on a mission, like Ivette Olmeda as the Transformative Development Initiative fellow for Worcester’s Pleasant Street, and have an outsized influence in improving an economically depressed neighborhood.
The Power 50 is our annual list of the most influential professionals in the Central Massachusetts business community, where we in the WBJ newsroom tell the story of how power is shared and used in the region, as told through the people wielding it most effectively. In this comprehensive list, we strive to inform you where power truly lies in the region’s economy while still providing new names and stories year after year.
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William Kelleher, IV & James UmphreyPrincipals of Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates, Inc., in WorcesterView Profile -
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Fred TaylorBusiness representative of the North Atlantic States Regional Council of CarpentersView Profile -
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Shannon GeorgeSecretary treasurer/principal executive officer of Teamsters Union Local 170View Profile
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Dr. Matilde CastielCommissioner of health and human services for the City of WorcesterView Profile -
Parth ChakrabartiExecutive vice chancellor for innovation and business development at UMass Chan Medical SchoolView Profile -
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Ivette OlmedaSenior fellow at the MassDevelopment Transformative Development InitiativeView Profile -
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