Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | August 17, 2020 | Worcester Business Journal 23 CONGRATULATIONS, A B I G A I L M A T H E W S ! W O R C E S T E R B U S I N E S S J O U R N A L 4 0 U N D E R 4 0 Kennedy Community Health congratulates you on all of your accomplishments and the well-deserved honor! Here's to our very own Nicholas Lynch, AVP Mortgage Sales Manager, on his selection to WBJ's 40 Under Forty Class of 2020. Ever since joining our team, Nicholas has been a leader, an innovator and a shining star for both his clients and his fellow team members. We're so happy to see him earn this well-deserved recognition. Visit Web5.com/Nicholas or call 800.696.9401 WEBSTER • DUDLEY • OXFORD • AUBURN • WORCESTER • SHREWSBURY Member FDIC Member DIF NMLS #523049 Nicholas Lynch AVP Mortgage Sales Manager KUDOS, COMPLIMENTS AND HOUSEFUL OF CONGRATULATIONS. Daly founded WCET in 2013, delivering therapeutic services through art, music, and counseling to all ages and cognitive levels. The organization has more than 20 local contracts, including providing 16 therapeutic groups for the Mercy Centre in Worcester. Daly runs the program Healthy Minds for Healthy Lives in conjunction with Rainbow Early Childhood Development Center, which provides programming to children ages 6-13. In 2017, WCET organized and sponsored the Real Deal Music and Arts Festival, first of its kind for Central Massachusetts. Outside of WCET, Daly is working towards her Ph.D. in clinical music therapy at Temple University. She does all this while teaching at Lesley University in Cambridge. Daly serves on the New England Regional American Music Therapy Association board, volunteers at Saint Vincent's Cancer and Wellness Center, and performs at nonprofits fundraising events. In 2013, she published "A Day at the Fair," an album of original children's songs written for therapy. Daly has published five articles in academic magazines and presented 11 times at national and regional conferences. She won Women in Action's Small Business and Entrepreneur Award in 2018. - D.B. What did you take for granted pre-pandemic? I had a hard time slowing down pre-pandemic, but now with my clinical work, teaching, and my own school work being remote, it's even harder to stop working. If you gave a keynote graduation speech, what would you say? Get out of your own way. Naysayers will always push their negativity onto you. You don't need to add another person to that group. For the women who are accustomed to being told, "You won't be able to make it work", or "You don't know what you're doing", those statements say more about the person saying them, than about you. Kayla C. Daly MA, MT-BC, LMHC, 34 Owner, clinical director & professor Worcester Center for Expressive Therapies Residence: Natick Birthplace: Worcester Colleges: Lesley University, Temple University Zu Shen, 38 Vice president Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, in Worcester Residence: Ayer Birthplace: Shanghai, China Colleges: Clark University, UMass Medical School 4 0 U N D E R F O R T Y Shen's talents are many. A veritable expert in immunology and biochemistry, his strengths far exceed the parameters of his Ph.D. Previously one of two people at a startup at the MBI incubator, Shen worked to develop a novel therapeutic aimed at helping patients with pancreatic and lung cancer, as well as rheumatoid arthritis, deal with their illnesses without the toxic effect of chemotherapy. In 2018, he joined MBI as vice president, counseling startup companies scientifically and advising them on commercializing their technologies. He reviews pitch decks, delivers presentations and provides advice to those up and coming in the biomedical field. He manages MBI's leasing of laboratory space, the operations at MBI's four facilities, supports construction on a new MBI facility on Briden Street, and is known for his knack at managing relationships between MBI clients and external stakeholders. Although he does a little bit of everything, his priorities go back to basics: helping others make profound impacts on the medical community's capacity to combat disease. - M.B. What four people would you pick as year-long travel companions? My wife Stephanie (why wouldn't I want to travel with her?), my grandmother Theresa, who passed in 2010 (would do anything to spend another day with her), Charles Darwin (great discovery, cool boat ride), Bruce Lee (master of his craft, pushed the limits of the time) What will the statue they eventually build of you say? The money for the statue would be better used to improve people's lives.

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