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YOUTH MOVEMENT: A group of interns works together during a meeting at Falvey Insurance Group in North Kingstown. In addition to internships, the agency has launched an underwriter training program and is looking to start apprenticeships.
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‘The opportunity’s there, I’m just going to take it’: Insurers eager...

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The next generation of insurance agents is being ushered into the industry, thanks to local agencies eager to fill roles vacated by the large...

ClarkSilva’s growth resulted from spreading the positive word

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PBN 2025 FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES $250,000 TO $2.5 MILLION 5. ClarkSilva LLC CEO (or equivalent): Benjamin Silva and Keith Clark, partners 2024 Revenue: $2.3 million 2022 Revenue:...

Axiotrop LLC on the front lines of security

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PBN 2025 FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES $250,000 TO $2.5 MILLION 6. Axiotrop LLC CEO (or equivalent): Joe Devine, president 2024 Revenue: $329,755 2022 Revenue: $244,386 Revenue growth: 34.9% LINKING UP with...
HUB OF ACTIVITY: Caitlin Villari, CIC Providence LLC’s regional director of events, says spaces at the business hub at 225 Dyer St. are about 90% occupied. 
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CIC Providence offers shared space to grow R.I.’s economy

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PBN 2025 INNOVATIVE COMPANIES Innovative Collaboration: CIC Providence LLC WITH OFFICES ALL OVER the world, Cambridge Innovation Center’s Rhode Island hub, known as CIC Providence LLC,...
NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDER: R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. CEO and Executive Director Carol Ventura is proud of helping revitalize neighborhoods on the South Side of Providence. 
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Carol Ventura

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PBN Leaders & Achievers Awards 2025 CAROL VENTURA R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. CEO and executive director HELPING IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY, and overseeing projects to...
LEARNING CURVE: Don Troppoli, Webster Bank N.A. senior managing director of regional banking for Rhode Island and Massachusetts, says those who want to get into banking leadership need to both be a good mentor and find good mentors themselves. 
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Don Troppoli

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PBN Leaders & Achievers Awards 2025 DON TROPPOLI Webster Bank N.A. Senior managing director of regional banking for Rhode Island and Massachusetts DON TROPPOLI ALWAYS wanted to...
HEALTHIER COMMUNITY: Cathy Schultz, director of the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Governor’s Overdose Task Force, says in 2023 the state saw a reduction in fatal drug overdoses for the first time since 2016. 
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Saving lives is Schultz’s personal fight

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Business Women Awards 2025 WOMAN TO WATCH GOVERNMENT/QUASI-GOVERNMENT: Cathy Schultz, R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services Governor’s Overdose Task Force director SAVING AND...
SAVING ST. MARY’S: Under Beth Bixby’s leadership, Tides Family Services began supporting the St. Mary’s Home for Children in North Providence after details from a December 2023 investigation by the R.I. Office of the Child Advocate found “significant safety concerns and abusive living conditions,” which led to leadership changes there. 
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Bixby rising Tides to help area children and families

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Business Women Awards 2025 INDUSTRY LEADER SOCIAL SERVICES/NONPROFIT: Beth Bixby, Tides Family Services CEO WINDS OF CHANGE have been swirling around children’s behavioral health, particularly...
SPEAKING UP: Thrive Behavioral Health Chief of Staff Dawn Allen frequently works with community providers, legislators and different state departments to promote the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model to improve mental health in Rhode Island. 
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Thrive Behavioral Health’s Allen provides a strong mindset to improve community...

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2025 C-Suite Awards NONPROFITS/SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES: Dawn Allen Thrive Behavioral Health | Chief of staff AT FIRST, Dawn Allen thought she wanted to work with youths. After...
DIGITAL LEARNING: R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. employees work together at the agency’s Providence office. The organization recently created an e-learning platform on LinkedIn Learning with a diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging learning path that all employees must complete. Pictured sitting in the foreground, from left, are Amy Rainone, director of government relations and policy, and construction specialist Henry Severino; standing behind them, from left, are Gloria Johnson, assistant director of loan servicing, and HeeJin Kim, manager of communications and brand strategy; and sitting in the background, from left, are communications specialist Kate Brennan and intake closeout specialist Cameron Brown. 
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For R.I. Housing, home is where the heart is

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PBN Diversity Equity & Inclusion 2024 Awards QUASI-GOVERNMENT: R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. GIVING ALL PROSPECTIVE homebuyers an opportunity to have an affordable home to...
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