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IN THE CLOUD: Ruth DiGiovanni has found success with a company that provides cloud-based phone systems after she and her husband sensed there was a market to tap in the area. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Building a company by speaking geek

2024 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Ruth DiGiovanni RemiPBX Inc. co-owner RUTH DIGIOVANNI KNOWS talking about her company, which develops and installs cloud-based phone systems, isn’t...
SPREADING HER WINGS: Lindsay Kuhn launched her online plat­form Wingspans Inc. after realizing there was a career opportunity gap for Providence students while teaching at Nathan Bishop Middle School. 
COURTESY LINDSAY KUHN

Business connections through storytelling

2024 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Lindsay Kuhn Wingspans Inc. founder FROM THE TIME she was a teenager in Coral Springs, Fla., Lindsay Kuhn recognized the power...
CAREER COACH: Charise Wilson opened Workforce Ready Solutions, an employment coaching business, in Lincoln in 2019.
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Wilson uses her experience carving her own path to help others...

Charise Wilson knows firsthand how valuable mentors are, especially for a job hunter who’s determined to move up but doesn’t know how to get...
CIRCUITOUS ROUTE: Rosalind “Roz” Rustigian tried her hand at several different occupations before taking over her father’s V. George Rustigian Rugs Inc. business in Providence after he died in 1980.
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Roz keeps the rugs rolling at Rustigian

When Rosalind Rustigian was a teenager, her dad, Rusty, offered her some fatherly advice. “He wrote me a note. It said I should keep my...
SPREADING HER WINGS: Lindsay Kuhn launched her online career platform Wingspans Inc. after realizing there was a career opportunity gap for students in Providence while teaching at Nathan Bishop Middle School. 
COURTESY ­LINDSAY KUHN

Connecting students and job seekers to careers through storytelling

From the time she was a teenager in Coral Springs, Fla., Lindsay Kuhn recognized the power of storytelling. Throughout her career, that power has...
POSITIVE ­IMPACT: XBInsight Inc. President Kathi Graham-Leviss developed a database of thousands of jobs that predicts how successful someone will be at work from both a fit and performance ­perspective.
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DAVID HANSEN

She has the insights to predict job success in terms of...

Anyone who’s watched “Succession,” the addictive saga about the mega-wealthy Roys, knows how it ends (spoiler alert): the family business doesn’t always remain in...
A STRONG ­RESTART: ­Tiesha ­Sinouthasy had to close her nanny placement agency two months after she launched it because of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, but when she reopened it several months later, people were desperate for her service.
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MICHAEL SALERNO

She’s answering call for many more nannies

If dealing with COVID-19 wasn’t stressful enough for parents of young kids, finding reliable child care during the pandemic was enough to give them...
ADDING ­FLAVOR: ­Mariana R. Silva-Buck and her daughter, Sofia, launched Little Maven Lemonade in 2020, a spinoff from Sofia’s lemonade stand. Now Little Maven has three flavors – original, Amazonia and Unicorn. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­RUPERT WHITELEY

From lemonade stand to fruitful company

When life hands you lemons, don’t just make lemonade. Consider Mariana R. Silva-Buck’s solution – a lemonade company launched from her daughter’s lemonade stand. Since...
STRATEGIC IMPACTS: Adama Brown, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.’s director of research and data analytics, oversees and determines strategies for evaluating the impact of donated funds from the nonprofit on equity matters within the community. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

United Way’s Brown is a lone start who is maintaining the...

PBN Diversity Equity & Inclusion 2023 Awards Diversity Champion: Adama Brown, United Way of Rhode Island Inc. AS A BLACK CHILD IN TEXAS in the...
A SOLID ­FOUNDATION: Angela Conte sits with a selection of granite blocks at Structural Stone LLC that will be used for upcoming projects. Conte’s father, a stone carver, built a quarry business after migrating from Portugual. Now she and her husband, Donald, operate their own business, Structural Stone, in North Kingstown. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

She’s carved out a place in a rock-hard industry

Explore many of the cities on the East Coast, and chances are you’ll see the work of Angela Conte’s North Kingstown company, Structural Stone...
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