Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | March 2, 2020 | Worcester Business Journal 5 B R I E FS Hanover board to be led by first woman Cynthia Egan has been elected as the vice chair of e Hanover Insurance Group's board, with the expectation she will step into the board chair role for the Worcester company in 2021. When Egan assumes that chair role, she will become the first woman to lead the board of the directors in the 168-year history of the company, said Hanover spokesman Michael Buckley. Egan has served on the board since 2015 and is expected to step into the chair role following the mandatory retirement of board chair Kevin Condron. Egan was president of retirement plan services for T. Rowe Price Group of Maryland from 2007 until her retirement in 2012. She also held senior positions with Fidelity Investments in Boston. Egan is a director of Unum Corp. of Tennessee and the BlackRock Fixed Income Funds Complex. Sturbridge BBQ to open a Worcester location e owner and operator of Sturbridge BBQ restaurant B.T.'s Smokehouse have selected a site on Park Avenue in Worces- ter as their second location. "It's a very high traffic location. It's centrally located in Worcester between the downtown area and the west side," said Billy Nemeroff, who is currently the operations director at B.T.'s Smokehouse and will be the operator and co-owner of the Worcester location, along with B.T.'s founder Brian Treitman. Nemeroff said there is no firm date yet set for opening the Worcester location, as the former sandwich shop site has been vacant for two years. "We want to get it right, and we are not rushing anything," he said. e location will serve the same barbe- cue B.T.'s Smokehouse is known for, but also serve fried chicken every day, some- thing that the Sturbridge restaurant only does the first Tuesday of every month. e Sturbridge location will serve some dishes not available in Worcester. Cynthia Egan P o ud Y O U R N E I G H B O R . TO BE M E M B E R F D I C M E M B E R D I F countrybank.com W O R C E S T E R P U B L I C M A R K E T AT K E L L E Y S Q U A R E , 1 5 2 G R E E N S T R E E T 2 7 8 P A R K A V E N U E | 3 1 5 M A I N S T R E E T We're here for our customers, wherever and whenever they need us. That's why we're excited to be expanding into Worcester's Kelley Square with a new Interactive ATM. So stop by sometime and pay us a visit! Be there or be square. (Sorry, we had to.) T H E T I C K E R 10% Planned reduction in Holliston biotech Harvard Bioscience's 550-employee global workforce, as part of a $4-million savings plan. Source: Harvard Bioscience Worldwide rank of the beer from Charlton-based Tree House Brewing Co. Only Hill Farmstead Brewery of Vermont, Side Project Brewing of Missouri, and Trillium Brewing of Mass. rated higher. 4th $7.45 million Source: Worcester County Registry of Deeds Sale price of the 113-acre property in Shrewsbury owned by Worcester Sand & Gravel sold to a Boston real estate consulting firm. U.S. Department of Energy grant received by Framingham startup Veloxint to develop next-generation nanocrystalline metal alloys. $5 million Source: Veloxint Source: Consumer website RateBeer 239 South Street Hopkinton, MA 01748 (508) 544-2600 Continued on Page 6

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