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NEWS & ANALYSIS
DEPARTMENTS
4 Central Mass. In Brief
5 Flash Poll
16 Focus on Outstanding Women
in Business
26 The List: Top woman-owned
businesses
30 Know How
31 Column: Outside the Box
32 Movers & Shakers
36 Photo Finish
37 Opinion
38 Shop Talk: Code Ninjas
8 $250 million in giving
UMass Medical School aimed high in its
fundraising initiative – and beat it.
10 NECC now a major
international player
The New England Center for Children has
grown, particularly around the Persian Gulf.
Editor, Brad Kane,
bkane@wbjournal.com
News Editor, Grant Welker,
gwelker@wbjournal.com (Real estate,
higher education, health care)
Staff Writer
Zachary Comeau,
zcomeau@wbjournal.com
(Manufacturing)
Contributors
Susan Shalhoub, Livia Gershon,
Sarah Connell
Research Assistant, Heide Martin,
hmartin@nebusinessmedia.com
Production Director, Kira Beaudoin,
kbeaudoin@wbjournal.com
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
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
A
frequent question/statement
I get from people once they
start to know me is, "How
do you do it all?" or "I don't
know how you do it."
I have five children under 11 years old,
and four of them have autism spectrum
disorder, requiring they receive special
therapies and school curriculum. My role
as WBJ editor typically has me working
50ish hours per week, and my home in
Wilbraham is about an hour commute
one way. I occasionally run marathons
and half marathons.
is seems like an overwhelming
amount of responsibilities; but – honestly
– I'm not the one shouldering the bulk of
the workload. e real reason I can do it
all is because I have an awesome wife, who
is the one who really does it all.
Sarah Kane doesn't have a professional
career of her own, eschewing her teaching
job about 10 years ago to dive headfirst
into being a loving mother to five adorable
(but also challenging) children. Since our
youngest child is still only 10 months old
and won't take bottles, he needs to breast-
feed in the middle of the night, which
means Sarah's job never really starts or
stops. Her being a stay-at-home mom is a
24/7 demand on her time and talents.
And, Sarah is fantastic in this job, par-
ticularly with juggling everything. With
this many children with this many needs,
each day (each minute, really) is a decision
between doing the dishes vs. fighting for
extra school services vs. playing with the
baby vs. managing therapists vs. prep-
ping dinner and school lunches, etc., etc.,
etc. But Sarah does it all with love and
understanding, making difficult choices
in situations where there is no best answer
and never enough time during the day.
Every year when WBJ announces its
Outstanding Women in Business, my
thoughts inevitably dri to the role my wife
plays in our lives. e six honorees you
will read about starting on Page 16 all have
remarkable achievements and are further-
ing the cause of women in the workplace.
e award is well deserved. Yet, as we write
about these achievements, at some point I
will think about how Sarah receives no pay
and no recognition for a demanding job
I N T H I S I S S U E
I couldn't do consistently for more than a
week without losing my mind.
We all have outstanding women in our
lives, and I have one of the best.
- Brad Kane, editor
W
Because I have an awesome wife
