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PATRICIA COYNE-FAGUE will step down as director of R.I. Department on Jan. 13. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

R.I. Department of Corrections director to step down in January

Leadership 12/27/2022

PROVIDENCE – Patricia Coyne-Fague will step down as director of the R.I. Department of Corrections on Jan. 13, Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced Tuesday. Coyne-Fague...

CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM Chief Financial Officer Joseph Iannoni will retire at the end of January. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM

Care New England chief financial officer to retire

Leadership 12/21/2022

PROVIDENCE – Care New England Health System's top financial executive will retire at the end of next month, marking the departure of another high-ranking...

Washington Trust president to retire, successor will be first woman in...

Leadership 12/16/2022

WESTERLY – The second-in-command for The Washington Trust Co. is stepping down, paving the way for the company’s first woman president to fill his...

Sullivan named regional executive editor of The Providence Journal

Leadership 12/15/2022

PROVIDENCE – Lynne Sullivan has been named regional executive editor of The Providence Journal and The Newport Daily News, the Gannett Co.-owned papers announced...

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker to be next NCAA president

Leadership 12/15/2022

BOSTON -Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will be the next president of the NCAA, the association announced Thursday, replacing Mark Emmert as the head of...

Oliveira elected leader of KLR accounting firm

Leadership 12/13/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s largest accounting firm, Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd., on Tuesday elected Paul Oliveira as its CEO effective January 2023. Oliveira succeeds...

A PANEL DISCUSSION at Providence Business News’ Diversity and Inclusion Summit and Awards event on Wednesday is led by Kevin Matta, center, human resources chief and diversity officer with the Amos House in Providence and board vice president of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals. With him, from left, is Angela B. Ankoma, vice president of the Rhode Island Foundation’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative; Shameen Awan, vice president of talent management and DE&I assistant vice president at Amica Insurance Co.; Doris De Los Santos, manager of the supplier diversity program at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Ken Gladney, executive director and manager of diversity, assets and wealth management at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; Shaweta Pandey, executive director of strategic diversity management at CVS Health Corp.; and Monika Soban, director of manufacturing and diversity, inclusion and belonging site lead at Amgen Rhode Island. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN Summit: Diversity, equity and inclusion talk needs to lead to...

Leadership 12/01/2022

WARWICK – Business and nonprofit leaders in Rhode Island and beyond realize that targeted efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in culture and...

Mass. keeps new immigrant driver’s license law; Healey makes history

Leadership 11/09/2022

BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts voters have voted against repealing a new law allowing immigrants who are in the country illegally to obtain state driver's...