www.HartfordBusiness.com May 25, 2015 • Hartford Business Journal 19
Thank you to our honorees, sponsors
and guests for making this event a success!
1. Winner Kristen Roberts from Comcast, right, poses
with Rebecca Hurley from ESPN during the networking
2. Molly Stephanou, left, and Richard Martinez, center,
from Sponsor company Robinson & Cole, with Ruth
Sovronsky, Director of Development, Hartford
Symphony Orchestra
3. Winner Nivea Torres, third from right, networks
before the event
4. Jason Madrak, Vice President, Connecticut Regional
Market, from Presenting Sponsor Harvard Pilgrim
Healthcare, spoke at the beginning of the program
5. Ronna Reynolds, left, Executive Vice President of the
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, moderates a
talk with special guest, Carolyn Kuan, right, Music
Director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
6. Winner Mary Ellen Jones, Vice President of Asia
Pacific and China Sales for Pratt & Whitney
Commercial Engines, center, accepts her award
with sponsors. Pictured from left to right: Cindi
Gondek, The ACT Group; Heidi Buckley, Marketing
Solutions Unlimited; Jones; Nuala Droney,
Robinson + Cole; Paul Pita, The Pita Group; Jason
Madrak, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
7. The 2015 Women In Business winners*; front row,
left to right: Nivea Torres, Superintendent of the
Connecticut Technical High School System; Lisa
Schwartz, Vice President, Integrity Merchant
Solutions; Catherine Smith, Commissioner, State
Department of Economic and Community
Development; Back row, left to right: Susan Herbst,
President, University of Connecticut; Carolyn Bligh,
Founder and CEO, Bligh Graphics LLC, Carol Wallace,
CEO of Cooper-Atkins, Corp.; Kristen Roberts, Vice
President of Public Relations and Community
Investment, Comcast Western New England Region.
*Not pictured: Mary Ellen Jones, Vice President of Asia Pacific
and China Sales for Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engines
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