John A. Lahtinen
Living lean and making big splash across the globe
For the nearly 200-person-strong team over at residential swimming pool equipment manufacturer Hayward Industries Inc. of North Kingstown, the concept of lean manufacturing means...
Bringing social wellness into the mainstream
Innovation is at the core of ShapeUp Inc., an 8-year-old Providence-based global provider of social networking and incentives-based employee-wellness solutions.
In fact, ShapeUp founder...
VCharge works toward a better energy future
Since opening its doors back in 2009, the team at Providence-based VCharge has been hard at work evolving the electric grid to support a...
With family at the core, lumber firm branches out
From its humble beginnings as a portable sawmill operation back in 1911, South Kingstown-based and family-owned Arnold Lumber Co. has grown into a $60...
Pushing past stereotypes, company is flying high
Pawtucket-based American Partners Inc. – a division of BG Staffing founded in 2007 – is a staff-augmentation company in the business intelligence, performance...
Steere: Building bridges to business success
Having spent the better part of the 1980s working on nuclear power plants, structural engineer Patricia Steere made a career switch to bridge engineering...
Streamlining construction with a cultural approach
When Peter Crump and Matt Dempsey became business partners at Providence-based general-contracting firm Site Specific LLC back in 2007, the duo worked out of...
Longtime broker finds opportunities abound
When manufacturer James Starkweather and insurance professional George Shepley decided to join forces back in 1879 in an attempt to change the way people...
New GTECH CFO provides leadership, stability
After completing her studies in California back in 2002, Sandra W. Beaver decided to move back to the East Coast to look for a...
Capacitor builder invents its way to success
The brainchild of cousins Dave Evans and Charlie Dewey, the Evans Capacitor Co. in East Providence has been inventing, developing and producing unique, high-energy,...
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