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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

Government
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

Financial Services
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

Business Services
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

Business Services
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...

Health Services
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

Business Services
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...
IN THE BAG: Amgen Rhode Island Senior Manufacturing Associate Leandro Castillo, bottom, and manufacturing technician Joe Barter perform a single-use bag inspection and installation to be used for a media and buffer batching process. 
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At Amgen Rhode Island, the focus is every action, every person,...

Economic Activity
PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 OVERALL EXCELLENCE AT AN ENTERPRISE MANUFACTURER: Amgen Rhode Island CONTINUING TO FOSTER its vibrant culture and develop talent remains a high priority...
BIG WHEELS: Jan Hennecke, product manager at igus Bearings Inc., with the “RCYL” bike made from recycled plastic in the company’s robotics showroom in East Providence. 
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Igus’ ‘RCYL’ is environmentally sound on two wheels

Business Services
2024 PBN Innovative Companies Awards MANUFACTURING: igus Bearings Inc. ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, igus Bearings Inc. had this ambitious goal to come up with a way...

Spyglass MTG adapts to find solutions

Business Services
PBN 2024 Fastest Growing Companies Awards $15 MILLION to $50 MILLION: 2 . Spyglass MTG LLC CEO (or equivalent): Dori Albert, president 2023 Revenue: $15.2 million 2021 Revenue: $7.4...

Stanley Tree Service was not chopped down by COVID-19


Business Services
PBN 2024 Fastest Growing Companies Awards $15 MILLION to $50 MILLION: 3. Stanley Tree Service Inc. CEO (or equivalent): Stanley Zuba, founder and CEO 2023 Revenue: $49.4 million 2021...
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