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ORDER FROM CHAOS: After years working in different accounting roles, Keeping the Books NE LLC owner Marsha Thayer launched her own firm that helps businesses build efficient, accurate financial systems and reports.
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Thayer’s drive, work ethic added up to success

Marsha Thayer didn’t seem like a typical math nerd in high school. Far from it. “I aced pre-algebra and then started failing,” she said, “which...
CONSTANTLY EVOLVING: Beauregard Built LLC owner Olivia Beauregard launched the Providence-based design-build firm, specializing in interior and exterior work in residential and commercial new construction and renovation, five years ago. 
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Designer travels ‘Amazing’ journey to build her career

Olivia Beauregard has always been fascinated by how things work. While some kids spend their free time playing video games, Beauregard would lie in...
A GOOD YARN TO TELL: Katy Westcott started her company on a shoestring in 2012, and now Katrinkles Inc., a maker of tools and other items for crafters, is a substantial manufacturing business in Providence. 
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Fabric of her company crafted from a hobby

Katy Westcott is a designing woman. She knits socks and crochets sweaters. She spins yarn and even sews her own clothes. So her life...
FLYING ­COLORS: 
Elaine Felag opened Feminine Fancies in 1982 and gave herself five years to work. Forty-three years later, the women’s boutique is still going strong. 
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4 decades later, Felag’s store stays in vogue

There’s no obvious connection between customers at a women’s boutique needing help with a chunky necklace and customers at an appliance store needing help...
IN THE KNOW: Patricia Lyons-Bousquet, owner of CompLyons HR Consulting LLC, says her recent graduation from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program in Rhode Island has been transformative for her as a businesswoman. 
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She’s put her resources into building an HR firm

There’s a truism in life that you can’t go home again, but whoever coined it obviously hadn’t met Patricia Lyons-Bousquet. After decades working around the...
GETTING CREATIVE: Sascha Roberts, left, and Laura Afonso, co-owners of marketing and content creation company Honey Buns Social in Providence, look over photos during a session at a local studio space.
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She’s made it her business to show companies how to use...

Way back in the “digital Dark Ages” – 2005 to be exact– 14-year-old Sascha Roberts used to pass the time building a Myspace page...
HELPING PEOPLE: Cameron & Mittleman LLP partner Karen G. DelPonte created the firm’s estate planning practice group, specializing in advising individuals and business clients with respect to family-owned businesses, limited liability companies and family partnerships. 
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Cameron & Mittleman’s DelPonte leaves an indelible mark based on trust

Business Women Awards 2025 CAREER ACHIEVER: Karen G. DelPonte, Cameron & Mittleman LLP partner KAREN G. DELPONTE’S FINGERPRINTS are quite noticeable around Cameron & Mittleman LLP’s...
LUXURY LANDSCAPE: Patti Watson, owner and principal of Taste Design Inc. in Middletown, has a portfolio of residential homes from Rhode Island to New York to Palm Beach, Fla. 
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Watson has a ‘Taste’ for beautifying the home

Business Women Awards 2025 INDUSTRY LEADER CREATIVE SERVICES: Patti Watson, Taste Design Inc. owner and principal STEP INSIDE a Taste Design Inc.-built home and you enter...
ENERGETIC DISCUSSION: The Realizing Inspiration & Sustaining Excellence Women’s Leadership Conference, or R.I.S.E., that Hilina D. Ajakaiye established in 2018 features discussions on strategies for career development at all stages, including financial empowerment, education, health and wellness, mentorship, entrepreneurship and philanthropy.
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Ajakaiye R.I.S.E.-s up to help women navigate the workplace

Business Women Awards 2025 OUTSTANDING MENTOR: Hilina D. Ajakaiye, R.I.S.E. Women’s Leadersip Conference founder and executive director WHEN IT COMES to being a guiding light for...
ART WORK: From 2022 to 2024, Tric Agency Co. founder and Chief Marketing Officer Mckenzie Kapsimalis crafted all social media content leading up to and through Providence’s annual PVDFest. 
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Tric Agency’s Kapsimalis helps emotions go viral

Business Women Awards 2025 WOMAN TO WATCH CREATIVE SERVICES: Mckenzie Kapsimalis, Tric Agency Co. founder and chief marketing officer TENACITY, DETERMINATION, hunger to succeed and...
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