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TRIAL SUPPORT: Enith Morillo is principal consultant at Cadoret Global Inc., a company she launched in 2019 to provide assistance to small companies going through the process of drug development and clinical trials. 
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The promise of a better future kept Morillo going

Business Women
PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Enith Morillo | Cadoret Global Inc. principal consultant FROM THE TIME she was in her teens, Enith Morillo...
STEADY GROWTH: Audrey Finocchiaro, co-owner of The Nitro Bar, has taken her coffee business from a simple cart in 2016 to now preparing to open her fourth location in June, in Little Compton. At right is Coffee Director Nick Berry at the Providence shop.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

She’s percolating on a path to nitro-fueled success

Business Women
The Nitro Bar barista whips up cold brew nitro coffee with the flair of a bartender. He scoops ice into a glass and with...
TAKING NECESSARY STEPS: Brown Medicine CEO Ann M. Kashmanian says having a mentor, as well as being one, is important to climb the management ladder. 
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Brown Medicine CEO Kashmanian’s path to leadership was steered by mentors

Business Services
2023 C-Suite Awards Career Achiever: Ann M. Kashmanian | Brown Medicine CEO IF IT TAKES A VILLAGE to raise a child, it takes equally committed supporters...
DYNAMIC LEADER: Tracey Beck, left, co-owner and chief operating officer of The Beck Cos. in North Smithfield, speaks with cabinet assembler Ruth Gomez.
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Entrepreneurial path wasn’t part of her plan, but it helped her...

Business Women
Kids can be a tough crowd to impress, especially when it comes to their parents. Consider this example, courtesy of Tracey Beck who ventured...
REWARDING JOB: Kristen ­Gossler, president of American Trophy and Supply Inc., has expanded the business with her husband, Peter Cameron, since buying it from her parents in 1990. 
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She’s succeeding by giving all the accolades to others

Business Women
For some, the path that life takes can emerge early on. For Kristen Gossler, it began unfolding when she was so small she could...
TRIAL SUPPORT: Enith Morillo is principal consultant at Cadoret Global Inc., a company she launched in 2019 to provide assistance to small companies going through the process of drug development and clinical trials. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

For Morillo, ‘the promise of a better future … kept me...

Business Women
From the time she was in her teens, Enith Morillo has faced down challenges and reinvented her life. As a high school junior in Venezuela,...
RECRUITING ­ASSISTANCE: Dawn Apajee, right, owner of staff recruiting agency City Personnel Inc., works with senior recruiter Megan Atkins at her office in Providence.
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A tireless matchmaker in temp job market

Business Services
If life imitates art, Dawn Apajee can offer proof in something she read: think like an immigrant. “It resonates with me and sums up...
BROADENING EDUCATION: Staff members at the Equity Institute work together in Providence. The institute is an education-based nonprofit that develops programs for teachers, administrators and the community, with a focus on creating diversity, equity, inclusion and anit-racist policies.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

A pipeline for teachers from communities of color

Education
PBN 2022 Diversity Equity & Inclusion Awards Training: Equity Institute The origins of the Equity Institute are rooted in the personal lives and barriers confronted...
SAFE SPACE: Kevin Matta, in addition to his role as Amos House’s chief human resources and diversity officer, is the board president for Diversity & Inclusion Professionals Inc., an organization that offers advice and training for human resource and diversity officers across Rhode Island. 
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

For Matta, changing the system is lifelong commitment

Economic Activity
PBN 2022 Diversity Equity & Inclusion Awards Diversity Champion: Kevin Matta Diversity & Inclusion Professionals Inc. Board President Amos House Chief Human Resource And Diversity Officer KEVIN...
WAKANDA FOREVER: From left, Bryony Bouyer, Hasbro Inc.’s senior vice president of diversity and inclusion and multicultural strategy; Olga Lowe, manager of global brand development and marketing; Tayla Reo, product development manager; and Phil Johnston, senior creative writer, pose with arms crossed in a salute made famous in Marvel Entertainment LLC’s Universe’s “Black Panther” movie. 
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Equity is serious business for this toy company

Economic Activity
PBN 2022 Diversity Equity & Inclusion Awards Entertainment: Hasbro Inc. WITH ITS STORIED, almost centurylong history, Pawtucket-based Hasbro Inc. is known as the corporate parent...
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