Westborough

HEIDI M. LANDERS and REBECCA LYNCH were hired by Worcester social service agency The Bridge of Central Massachusetts. Landers is director of nursing. A resident of Barre, she is a graduate of Worcester State University, with a bachelor's degree in nursing and earned a master's degree in healthcare administration from Salem State University. Lynch was named director of development and marketing. Before joining The Bridge, she worked for Natick Visiting Nurse Association and The Price Center in Newton. Lynch has a bachelor's degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., and a master's degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., both in English.

Westborough information-technology consultant Virtusa Corp. on Friday was named to the FinTech Forward Top 100 list, for helping the banking industry plan for the financial future.

Clark University in Worcester was one of 14 organization honored nationally by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for diverting food waste out of landfills.

Five companies located in the MetroWest region earned the highest scores possible on the Human Rights Campaign's annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI), that measures major companies' lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) inclusion in the workplace.

Southborough-based Cidewalk has integrated its mobile advertising platform for small business clients with e-mail marketing services provider...

GLEN MARTIN was promoted at Continental Woodcraft, a millwork subsidiary of BlueHive Strategic Environments of Worcester, to vice president. He was previously manufacturing manager for the company. Martin, who joined BlueHive in 2012, formerly worked for Iaccarino and Son Inc.

Innovation, as a word, is massively overused. At this point, companies and job applicants that don't use the words “innovative” or “innovation” in their descriptions are the ones who are really breaking the mold.

Westborough information-technology consultant Virtusa Corp. announced Thursday its plan to pay $270 million for a majority interest in an India IT company that serves the banking industry.

Westborough-based eClinicalWorks will enter the international market after securing Specsavers as its first United Kingdom customer in a deal that brings overall international business for the company to $100 million for the year.

TODD DONOHOE was hired as a commercial lender at Hometown Bank in Oxford. He was most recently...