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Editor, Brad Kane,
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News Editor, Grant Welker,
gwelker@wbjournal.com (Real estate,
higher education)
Staff Writers
Zachary Comeau,
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(Manufacturing)
Emily Micucci,
emicucci@wbjournal.com (Health care)
Contributors
Susan Shalhoub
Livia Gershon
Research Director,
Stephanie Meagher,
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Research Assistant, Heide Martin,
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Production Director, Kira Beaudoin,
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Associate Art Director,
Mitchell Hayes,
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Senior Accounts Manager
Matt Majikas,
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Senior Accounts Manager
Christine Juetten,
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Senior Special Accounts Manager
Mary Lynn Bosiak,
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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,
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COO, Mary Rogers,
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Accounting Manager, Valerie Clark,
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Collections Manager, Raki Zwiebel,
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Human Resources, Jill Coran,
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Publisher, CEO, Peter Stanton
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Associate Publisher, Mark Murray
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President, Joseph Zwiebel
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BJ's issue at the end of
October will celebrate
the 10th anniversary of
our Outstanding Wom-
en in Business awards
and the 60 women who have received the
honor since its inception. To prepare for
this rather large undertaking, we held a
cocktail reception for the alumnae this
past week on Oct. 9 at Tower Hill Botanic
Garden, to give them all a chance to
reconnect and us the opportunity to get
new photos of those who could attend.
In advance of this event, one of the
former winners – Katie Crockett, presi-
dent of Worcester architect Lamoureux
Pagano Associates – called me to say
she wanted to do something special for
the woman who has been the driving
force behind the Outstanding Women
in Business awards since the beginning:
WBJ Events Manager Kris Prosser.
Secretly, she told the other winners about
her idea, and they gave their full-throat-
ed support of both Kris and the idea to
honor her with a plaque, flowers and
messages of praise.
Least to say, I loved this idea. Kris is
the driving force
behind all of WBJ's
events, not just
Outstanding Wom-
en in Business. She
hates the spotlight,
and if you attend a
WBJ event, you can
spot her in the back
of the room, mak-
ing sure everything
goes off smoothly.
Every WBJ event I
attend, I hear from
audience members,
sponsors, winners and participants how
WBJ events are a cut above. Without
a doubt, Kris is the reason. Plenty of
people contribute to WBJ's events, but
Kris' planning, advocacy, leadership and
execution are why these events stand out.
During her informal speech at the Oct.
9 reception, Crockett said how the Out-
standing Women in Business honor had
given her more confidence in her profes-
sional life (she was promoted from vice
president to president of her firm since
winning the award in 2016) and per-
I N T H I S I S S U E
sonally thanked Kris for all she had done
and continued to do. Victoria Waterman,
CEO of Girls, Inc. of Worcester (where
Kris is a board member) applauded Kris
for her role in advancing women in Cen-
tral Massachusetts. e consensus of all
alumnae in attendance – the CEOs, CFOs
and founders of the largest and most in-
fluential businesses and nonprofits in the
region – was Kris is one of their peers as
an Outstanding Woman in Business.
- Brad Kane, editor
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NEWS & ANALYSIS
DEPARTMENTS
4 Central Mass. In Brief
5 Flash Poll
12 Focus on Information Technoplogy
16 The List: Top IT service providers
18 Know How
19 Movers & Shakers
20 Photo Finish
21 Opinion
22 Shop Talk: Stephanie Ramey, Discover
Central Mass.
4 $650M start
A year after its Epic rollout, UMass
Memorial is set to update its electronic
medical records system.
17 Being a baker is not
my dream job
The Struggle is Real columnist Renee Diaz
says learning to become the boss and
leading people to new heights has become
her passion.
An outstanding woman in business
Kris Prosser (with flowers) with the Outstanding Women in Business
alumnae
