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PBN Award Winners

ROOTING INTEREST: Joanne McGunagle, Comprehensive Community Action Program president and CEO, visits CCAP’s new greenhouse, which will help produce vegetables for the agency’s food pantry. Behind her is Lee Beliveau, CCAP vice president of development and corporate affairs.
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McGunagle leads CCAP’s comprehensive effort to assist needy families

Business Women Awards 2019 | INDUSTRY LEADER, SOCIAL SERVICES/NONPROFITS Joanne McGunagle, Comprehensive Community Action Program JOANNE McGUNAGLE has been president and CEO of the Comprehensive Community...
POWER UP: Since taking over as executive director of the Newport County Chamber of Commerce, Erin Donovan-Boyle has raised the profile of one of Rhode Island’s largest business-advocacy groups.
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Erin Donovan-Boyle gives Newport County Chamber a big energy boost

Business Women Awards 2019 | WOMEN TO WATCH, SOCIAL SERVICES/NONPROFITS Erin Donovan-Boyle, Newport County Chamber of Commerce ERIN DONOVAN-BOYLE’S BACKGROUND prepared her well to be...
SHE’S A WINNER: Rachel Barber, IGT senior vice president and chief technology officer of gaming and lottery, started with GTECH as a software engineer 28 years ago and a merger with IGT hasn’t stopped her corporate climb.
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IGT’s Barber has taken her game to the top levels

Business Women Awards 2019 | INDUSTRY LEADER, TECHNICAL SERVICES  Rachel Barber, IGT Inc. Rachel Barber remembers fondly how she loved video games as a kid. “I liked...
FULL SPEED AHEAD: Catherine Anders, head supervisory human resources specialist at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, has been busy in recent years. The division has hired about 350 people in each of the last three years, and the pace isn’t slowing.
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Anders ensures hiring at NUWC Division Newport stays on correct course

Business Women Awards 2019 | WOMEN TO WATCH, TECHNICAL SERVICES Catherine Anders, NUWC Division Newport WHEN CATHERINE ANDERS’ plans for a career as a dancer ended...
SPIRITED CULTURE: Jennifer Brinton, co-owner of Grey Sail Brewing of Rhode Island, strives to maintain a family atmosphere and culture at the brewery.
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Family approach includes staff for Grey Sail’s Brinton

Business Women Awards 2019 | HONOREE Jennifer Brinton, Grey Sail Brewing of Rhode Island “You can’t teach work ethic, but you can model it,” said Jennifer...
MAKING HER MARK: Kristin Urbach, executive director of the North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce, at the NORAD facility on Davisville Road in North Kingstown. NORAD is one of dozens of North Kingstown Chamber member manufacturers.
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Urbach connecting NK businesses to opportunity

Business Women Awards 2019 | HONOREE | Kristin Urbach, North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce Kristin Urbach has been executive director of the North Kingstown Chamber of...
VALUABLE EXPERIENCE: Katie Schibler Conn left a marketing position with PlayStation because she wanted to take time off and travel abroad. She says the experience helped her to successfully launch her own marketing firm, KSA Marketing + Partnerships.
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Travel abroad taught Conn to be targeted, intentional when starting a...

Business Women Awards 2019 | HONOREE  Katie Schibler Conn, KSA Marketing + Partnerships KSA Marketing + Partnerships is, in many ways, all about contrasts. The marketing...
IMPROVED INDUSTRY: Patrice Milos, president and CEO of Medley Genomics in Providence, says she’s seen improvement in the number of industry women in science with Ph.D.s.
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Milos advances genomics innovation, this time on home turf

Business Women Awards 2019 | HONOREE Patrice Milos, Medley Genomics PATRICE MILOS, president and CEO of Providence startup Medley Genomics, is no stranger to Rhode...
WINNING CONFECTIONS: Melissa Denmark, executive pastry chef at Gracie’s restaurant in Providence, was recognized as one of the 50 best new pastry chefs in the nation in 2012 by Food & Wine magazine.
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Pastry chef evolves, with sweet success

Business Women Awards 2019 | HONOREE  Melissa Denmark, Gracie’s Being a professional chef in Rhode Island is unlike anywhere else, says Melissa Denmark, executive pastry...
MANY HATS: Margaret Brooks, president of the Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition, also directs the Rhode Island Council for Economic Education, advocating for more financial education for K-12 students. She is the director of the Center for Economic Education at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Mass., and leads the school’s Office of Financial Literacy Initiatives.
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Boosting financial literacy Brooks’ passion

Business Women Awards 2019 | HONOREE Margaret Brooks, Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition Margaret Brooks is passionate about empowering the state’s vulnerable populations via financial literacy, a...
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