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PACK, STACK AND GO: Banneker Industries employee Nick Vierira doing what the company does best at its North Smithfield warehouse: handling logistics, including packing and shipping, for third parties. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Company re-creates itself as supply-chain expert

Cheryl W. Snead, owner, president and CEO of Banneker Industries Inc. in North Smithfield, realized in the early 1990s that manufacturing was the company’s...
ALL HATS FIT WELL: Kevin Barry, director of finance for the Quonset Development Corporation, has duties far beyond making the numbers work, and he leans on his staff, including Norine Courtemache, an accountant at the quasi-governmental agency. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

CFO works with town, state, U.S. and ships at sea

As director of finance at the Quonset Development Corporation, Kevin Barry could boast that he has helped bring thousands of good jobs to Rhode...
INTEREST IN FINANCE AND MORE: Lisa Salerno, the director of finance for XRA Medical Imaging Centers, is not afraid to tackle any task that helps keep the medical-service provider under control. / PBN PHOTO/CONNIE GROSCH

No-nonsense, straight talker gets numbers right

Lisa Salerno’s attention to detail makes her a great director of finance, according to her colleagues at XRA Medical Imaging Centers. A second major...
TAKING CARE OF THE MONEY: The Procaccianti Group/TPG Cos. CFO Gregory Vickowski has been a key contributor for the hotel developer/manager during its transformation from a predominantly local firm to one with more than $5 billion in assets. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Finance pro guides 25 years of company growth

When Gregory Vickowski was growing up, he sometimes heard his father use an expression that he took as career advice. “I remember him saying to...
TEAM SPIRIT: Uno Pizzeria in Providence Place mall says it broke its sales record for the region in an hour when a national cheerleading competition came to Rhode Island last year. Pictured above are General Manager Chance Hurley and Manager Kyla Casey. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Convention, meetings surge seen continuing in ’14

At Uno Pizzeria in Providence Place mall, the staff is still talking about the national cheerleading competition that took place in the city several...
SATISFYING A NEED: Because summer slows down donations to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Citizens Bank created a partnership with the Pawtucket Red Sox and Cox Communications that has yielded $500,000 for the food bank in the last six years. Above, Kathy O’Donnell, senior vice president at the bank, left, talks with Lisa Roth Blackman, chief philanthropy officer at the food bank. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL PERSSON

Bank, workers invest in community

For three months Alysha Brock skipped her job as a business analyst at Citizens Bank in Providence and instead did volunteer work for a...
REBUILT FOR SUCCESS: With a commitment to its customers reflected in new products and the adoption of lean principles, DiPrete Engineering has thrived since the Great Recession. Above, Eric Prive, left, works with company CEO Dennis DiPrete. / PBN PHOTOS/DAVID LEVESQUE

Engineering company flourishes by going lean

The economic downturn of 2008 was hard on Rhode Island’s civil engineers: construction slowed to a near standstill, jobs disappeared, and firms everywhere were...
SEEING THE GOOD: Jeffrey Machado, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island, said the key is helping people get out of “their predicament.” / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Goodwill Industries’ mission a constant

Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island has gone through several name changes over the last century and half, but they’ve always shared the mission of...
WEAVE JUST BEGUN: Sylvia Kilgour of North Easton, Mass., works a loom at the Saunderstown Weaving School. Enrollment at the school has grown to the point where it has a waiting list. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Weaving an ancient art with a high-tech future

Weaving is an ancient craft, and one might assume it has largely disappeared in this age of technological innovation. But that’s just not the...
FACTORY WORK: Dava Newman, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents at the Business Innovation Factory summit. / PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE EWENS

Reinvention theme of BIF summit

The daughter and granddaughter of veterans, Stacy Pearsall stuck with the family tradition. She joined the U.S. Air Force straight out of high school,...
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