Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | July 9, 2018 | Worcester Business Journal 3 Editor, Brad Kane, bkane@wbjournal.com News Editor, Grant Welker, gwelker@wbjournal.com (Real estate, higher education) Staff Writers Zachary Comeau, zcomeau@wbjournal.com (Manufacturing) Emily Micucci, emicucci@wbjournal.com (Health care) Contributors Susan Shalhoub Livia Gershon Research Director, Stephanie Meagher, smeagher@nebusinessmedia.com Research Assistant, Heide Martin, hmartin@nebusinessmedia.com Production Director, Kira Beaudoin, kbeaudoin@wbjournal.com Associate Art Director, Mitchell Hayes, mhayes@wbjournal.com Senior Accounts Manager Matt Majikas, mmajikas@wbjournal.com Senior Accounts Manager Christine Juetten, cjuetten@wbjournal.com Senior Special Accounts Manager Mary Lynn Bosiak, mlbosiak@wbjournal.com Marketing & Events Manager Kris Prosser, kprosser@wbjournal.com Events & Marketing Intern Megan Irish, events@wbjournal.com Distribution and Database Coordinator A Guide to STUFF, a publication of New England Business Media Patty Harris, pharris@nebusinessmedia.com COO, Mary Rogers, mrogers@nebusinessmedia.com Accounting Manager, Valerie Clark, vclark@nebusinessmedia.com Accounting Assistant, Rae Rogers, rrogers@nebusinessmedia.com Collections Manager, Raki Zwiebel, rzwiebel@nebusinessmedia.com Human Resources, Jill Coran, jcoran@nebusinessmedia.com Publisher, CEO, Peter Stanton pstanton@nebusinessmedia.com Associate Publisher, Mark Murray mmurray@wbjournal.com President, Joseph Zwiebel jzwiebel@nebusinessmedia.com Worcester Business Journal (ISSN#1063-6595) is published bi-weekly, 24x per year, including 4 special issues in May, September, October, and December by New England Business Media. 172 Shrewsbury St., Worcester, MA 01604. Periodicals postage paid at Worcester, MA. Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. Postmaster: Please send address changes to: Worcester Business Journal, PO Box 330, Congers, NY 10920-9894. Subscriptions: Annual subscriptions are available for $54.95. For more information, please email wbjournal@ cambeywest.com or contact our circulation department at 845-267-3008. Fax: 845.267.3478 Advertising: For advertising information, please call Mark Murray at 508-755-8004 ext. 227. Fax: 508-755-8860. Worcester Business Journal accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or materials and in general does not return them to the sender. Worcester Business Journal 172 Shrewsbury Street, Worcester, MA 01604 508-755-8004 tel. • 508-755-8860 fax www.wbjournal.com A division of: Worcester Business Journal WBJ M y favorite entry this year is on page 14, and her ti- tle is chief lettuce officer. In compiling our annual list of the most powerful people in the Central Massachu- setts business community, there are count- less CEOs, executive directors, presidents and founders to choose, from organiza- tions with billions in revenue and offices across the globe. Yet, as much power as Ernie Herrman from TJX Cos. or Ann K. Tripp from e Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. wield, Lynn Cheney from Lettuce Be Local plays just as an important role in the Central Massachusetts economy. rough her largely one-woman shop – and really, it's more of a refrigerated truck going from place to place – she connects the 7,000 farms in Worcester County with the region's budding farm-to-table restaurant and grocery scene, which is creating a lot of hype around the Central Massachusetts economy. Operating almost by herself and (presumably) at slightly lower pay than the $17 million Herrman made last year, Cheney is transforming two industries. When we seek to create this list every year, we focus on the people who use their positions to have an outsized influence on the business community. We want to tell the story of a changing region and economy through the people creating that change. Our last effort called WBJ Power Players appeared in December 2016, and was a more loosely defined feature with about 25-30 entries in a larger year-end issue. For this iteration, we decided to move the publication date from December to July, expand the list to e Power 50 and make it the overriding focus of the issue, along with our annual list of the area's largest employers. As you peruse e Power 50, you'll find the expected (Timothy P. Murray from the Worcester chamber continues his streak of making the list every year) and fresh faces (like Robert Walker, the man behind the $160-million mixed-use development in Marlborough), but the concept behind creating such an issue is to personalize our current regional economic makeup and show how influence comes in all shapes and sizes. You can sit in a corner office and The most influential people in the Central Mass. economy I N T H I S I S S U E with the stroke of a pen change the lives of thousands of people, or you can sit behind the wheel of your truck, driving hops from a farm to a growing brewery in Hudson. Both actions are quite powerful. - Brad Kane, editor W Economic development...pages 4-5 • Jennie Lee Colosi • Anthony Consigli • Timothy P. Murray • Sherri Greene Pitcher • Cliff Rucker • Yvonne Spicer • Robert Walker • Ann K. Tripp Health care .......................... pages 6-7 • Richard P. Burke • Holly Chaffee • Eric Dickson • Tarek Elsawy, MD, FACP • Kurt A. Isaacson • Kevin O'Sullivan • Jeffrey M. Welch Manufacturing ................. pages 8-9 • Chris Coghlin • Valentin P. Gapontsev, Ph.D. • Jeannie Hebert • Michael Mahoney • Daniel McGahn • Nobuhiko Tamura • Ravi Vig • Dinesh Wadhwani Corner office ................ pages 10-11 • Michael P. Angelini • Susan Mailman • Edward F. Manzi Jr. • Elaine Osgood • John C. Roche • Tina M. Sbrega • Kate Sharry, LIA Higher education & Nonprofits ........... pages 12-13 • Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J. • F. Javier Cevallos • Michael F. Collins, MD • Jill C. Dagilis • Dr. David A. Jordan • Laurie Leshin • Ann T. Lisi Food & Culture ................. page 14 • Robb & Madeleine Ahlquist • Lynn Cheney • Sandy Dunn • Karim El-Gamal • Eric, Sam & Jack Hendler • Troy Siebels Retail .............................. pages 16-17 • Christopher Baldwin • Amy Lynn Chase • Ralph Crowley Jr. • Michael Dundas • Ernie Herrman • Harry Kokkinis • Steven Rotman The Power 50 The Power 50 index, by company: page 18 The Central Mass. 150 top employers: pages 19-30 On the cover: (from left) Dr. David A. Jordan (page 12), Lynn Cheney (page 14), Jeffrey M. Welch (page 7), Dinesh Wadhwani (page 9), Elaine Osgood (page 10) and Michael Dundas (page 16). Photo by Edd Cote.

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