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Five Questions With: Peter N. Bramante

Peter N. Bramante is the executive director for Newport-based nonprofit ballet company Island Moving Company. Bramante began his new role Jan. 2 and replaced...

Five Questions With: Peter Nigro

Peter Nigro is the Sarkisian chair in financial services at Bryant University. He spoke to PBN about the economic outlook for 2020 and the...

Five Questions With: Bora Youn

Bora Youn, a researcher who is working with professors from Brown University’s School of Public Health, recently received about $21,000 from the American Lung...
Melissa D. Travis was named president of RISCPA last February, the first woman to serve in that role since the organization’s founding in 1905. Under her leadership, the organization launched the RI Business Forum and became the first state society in the country to implement a workforce-development program.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Find strength in adversity

Melissa D. Travis | Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants president • Thrive in the face of adversity: Don’t be deterred by what others...
Hong Yang

Bryant professor named Geological Society of America fellow

HONG YANG, a professor of science and technology and vice president for international affairs at Bryant University, was recently elected as a 2019 fellow...

Five Questions With: Shelby Doggett

Shelby Doggett is a founder of What Cheer Flower Farm in Providence, a nonprofit established in 2018 that turned the former Colonial Knife property,...

Five Questions With: Lloyd Albert

Lloyd Albert is senior vice president of public and government affairs for AAA Northeast. He spoke with PBN about AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety...

Five Questions With: Shannen Pavao

Shannen Pavao serves as research associate director for the Center for Marketing Research at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, which recently announced a white paper...

Five Questions With: Dr. Christine Gadbois

Last month, Dr. Christine Gadbois was named CEO of CareLink, a nonprofit network of senior health care providers. She is just the second CEO...

Five Questions With: Serene O’Connor

Serene O’Connor is an associate broker with Randall, Realtors in the Watch Hill neighborhood of Westerly. A long-time real estate agent, she specializes in...
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