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www.HartfordBusiness.com April6,2015•Hartford Business Journal 33 Women In Business 2015 About the Judges Rev. Dr. Shelley D. Best Best serves as the presi- dent and CEO of The Con- ference of Churches [TCC] a 115-year old Hartford non- for-profit with a commit- ment to community develop- ment. Her current venture is "The 224" a creative eco- space where artists, change agents and entrepreneurs work, create and lead. A 2014 recipient of Hartford Business Jour- nal's Women in Business award, and member of the Hartford Board of Education, Best received a Master of Arts degree from Hartford Seminary, a Master of Divinity from Yale University, and a Doctorate in Ministry from Hartford Seminary. Best travels throughout the country to lecture and lead seminars. With a passion for yoga, she devotes her practice to the mission of community transformation believing like Mahatma Gandhi we must, "be the change we wish to see in the world." Eileen Candels Candels is vice president and district manager for Hartford for Kelly Services, the workforce solutions com- pany. She began with Kelly as a recruiter more than 25 years ago, then moved into positions in business devel- opment and management. Candels has been respon- sible for leading the Greater Hartford market since 1991, and has developed many cor- porate and regional partner- ships. She has led the growth of Kelly Educational Staffing, from a small partnership with Bloomfield to today working with more than 50 school dis- tricts across the state. She is a past Business Advisory Council member for AI Prince Tech School. She is a member of HRACC, APICS, CBIA, and CURE. She has served on boards of the Farming- ton Chamber of Commerce, Business Network Group, and the Seniors Job Bank, and led Kelly fundraising teams for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and March of Dimes. She was a member of the Hartford Business Journal 40 Under Forty class of 2000. Andrea Obston Obston is president of Andrea Obston Marketing Communications LLC in Bloomfield. The firm mobilizes tra- ditional, web-based and social media as tools in brand development, public and media relations and cri- sis communications. It helps build, enhance and defend brand reputations that lead to business success. Its subsidiary, Andrea Obston Crisis Management, focuses on helping clients pre-crisis to create crisis com- munications plans. It also assists clients during crises to manage communications. Their experience has been singled out by the readers of the Connecticut Law Journal as one of the state's premier public relations firms for the past six years. Obston is a contributing author to the 2012 book "Media Magnetism — How to Attract the Favorable Publicity You Want and Deserve." Romaine A. Macomb CFP®, AIF®, Partner, Wealth Advisor Romaine A. Macomb is a Partner / Wealth Advisor affiliated with Northstar Wealth Partners with 26 years of experience within the industry. With a par cular focus on investment, re rement, estate and pension planning, Romaine provides independent and conflict-free financial advice to individuals, families, founda ons, endowments and qualified re rement plans. Her work with re rement plans includes providing both plan level advice as well as customized advice to individual plan par cipants. Romaine most recently was added to the 2015 Financial Times Top 400 Advisors List* and for the past two consecu ve years was also invited to a ended the Barron's Top Women's Advisor Summit. Chart your course with advisors who care deeply about realizing your vision of success. At Northstar Wealth Partners, we help guide our clients on their chosen path, whatever life has in store. In the end, we form a bond with our clients that goes well beyond the strategies we develop and help to implement. 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