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ready foR u.s. SafeCirc CEO Mark King holds an AccuCirc device that will provide a safer and better-timed circumcision option for newborns. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

SafeCirc’s AccuCirc device a game-changer for newborns

Business Services 09/15/2020

PBN INNOVATIVE COMPANIES 2020 HEALTH & WELLNESS SafeCirc THE ACCUCIRC DEVICE, used for more than 10 years in Africa, has successfully undergone four clinical trials, along...

WALK IN THE PARK: Textron Inc. executive counsel Jamieson Schiff and Textron Director of Site Remediation and Sustainability Gregory Simpson helped revive Providence’s Mashapaug Park in the city’s Reservoir /  PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Textron’s cleanup work helped revive a community asset

Business Services 09/15/2020

PBN INNOVATIVE COMPANIES 2020 INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION Textron Inc. IN JUNE 2019, when Mashapaug Park officially opened as a recreation spot in Providence’s Reservoir Triangle neighborhood,...

BIG LENDER: The Capital Good Fund founder and CEO Andy Posner has seen his nonprofit finance more than 5,500 small personal loans since 2009. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Capital Good Fund loans a hand to a community in need

Business Services 09/15/2020

PBN INNOVATIVE COMPANIES 2020 NONPROFITS The Capital Good Fund INSPIRED BY THE CONCEPT of microlending as a social justice tool, Andy Posner turned his Brown...

TEAMING UP: Karen Penticost, Envision Technology Advisors LLC vice president of development and operations, collaborates in real time with other Envision members on a Microsoft Teams meeting. / COURTESY ENVISION TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS LLC

EnvisionTechnology Advisors helps businesses be in remote control

Business Services 09/15/2020

PBN INNOVATIVE COMPANIES 2020 IT SERVICES Envision Technology Advisors LLC THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC OFFERS opportunities for forward-thinking Envision Technology Advisors LLC CEO Todd Knapp. “Why preserve...

BUG ZAPPER: AVTECH Software Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Richard Grundy kneels with a new product, a Mobile UV unit to kill microbes and inactivate viruses. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

AVTECH Software is a ‘PRO’ at keeping technology secure

Business Services 09/15/2020

INNOVATIVE COMPANIES 2020 MANUFACTURING AVTECH Software Inc. FOR 32 YEARS, AVTECH Software Inc. has been planning for the unexpected and developing building solutions, said Richard...

Former R.I. law firm employee to plead guilty to federal fraud,...

Business Services 09/09/2020

PROVIDENCE - A former bookkeeper and office manager for a Rhode Island law firm will plead guilty to federal charges of bank fraud, wire...

Carlino receives 2020 Rhode Island Bar Journal Lauren E. Jones, Esq....

Business Services 08/21/2020

GENE M. CARLINO was honored with the 2020 Rhode Island Bar Journal Lauren E. Jones, Esq. Writing Award. Carlino, a partner and estate, trust...

Library aiming to help build businesses

Business Services 08/21/2020

Providence Public Library was founded 145 years ago during a period that is now referred to as the Long Depression. Starting with the Panic...

WORKFORCE WORKHORSE: Lauren Slocum, CEO and president of the Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, became interested in business at age 11 when she helped in her uncle’s gift shop. She worked other jobs during college before starting her career at the Chamber.  PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Lauren Slocum, CEO and president, Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce

Business Services 08/20/2020

PBN 2020 Leaders & Achievers Awards Lauren Slocum | CEO and president, Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce CAREER PATHS ARE NOT always predestined roads....