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Amy Walsh Joins JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking as an Executive Director

Amy Walsh has joined JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking as an Executive Director for Middle Market Banking in Rhode Island. With more than 20 years...

Johnson & Wales University Unveils Bold, New Strategic Plan: POWERED BY PURPOSE 2024

CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF INNOVATION AND LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR CONTINUED ACADEMIC EVOLUTION Johnson & Wales University (JWU) has come a long way from its...

Morgan Goulet Joins Husch Blackwell’s Providence Office

Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Morgan Goulet has joined the firm as Senior Counsel in its Providence office. Goulet has well over...

Morgan Goulet Joins Husch Blackwell’s Providence Office

Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Morgan Goulet has joined the firm as Senior Counsel in its Providence office. Goulet has well over...

Thielsch Engineering preps next generation of welders for Electric Boat

Building the world’s best submarines requires literally hundreds of millions of welds, which is why General Dynamics Electric Boat (“EB”) is constantly in need...
SMALL-BUSINESS STARTER: Providence-based Maternova Inc. was the first medtech venture to complete an accelerator program at Social Enterprise Greenhouse. The company’s founder, Meg Wirth, foreground, is now SEG’s director of health and wellness. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Lending some help to little guys

SMALL BUSINESS Ask any Rhode Island small-business owner if they could use more help – loans, grants, coaching, training programs – and it’s safe to...
CLEAN ENVIRONMENT: An Amgen employee works inside the next-generation biomanufacturing plant built in West Greenwich in 2020. / COURTESY AMGEN RHODE ISLAND/AL WEEMS

Building on the promise of biotech

TECHNOLOGY With help from companies ranging from global corporations to local startups, Rhode Island has had its share of victories in the biotech sector in...
EMPTY FEELING: Kristen Adamo, CEO and president of the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau, stands in the barren lobby at the Crown Plaza Providence-Warwick in Warwick in March 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive amount of canceled trips. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. branding has been hit or miss

TOURISM When R.I. Commerce Corp. decided to hire a chief marketing officer in late 2015, it made sense – bring in a person to guide...