WARWICK – Corporate and entrepreneurial success were on display Thursday evening for 275 attendees at Providence Business News’ first 25 Over Fifty-five event held at the Aldrich Mansion in Warwick.
The program was designed to recognize people who are key to the success of enterprises or have had entrepreneurial success over their careers in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, people, for instance, like Ron Yanku, the plant operations director for Edesia Inc., the maker of peanut-based nutritional products that have been saving starving children across the globe for more than a decade. Edesia founder and CEO Navyn Salem said in the special section profile of Yanku, “Every quarter since we started, he has found a way to reduce the cost of our humanitarian product so we can reach more children with the same dollars.”
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James Wilkinson founded SeaScape Lawn Care Inc. in 1992 after the company he was working for was sold and he needed a job. He has never looked back. Today his company has 70 employees and provides lawn care services and beyond to customers in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. And he created the first landscape company in the state to offer a apprenticeship program that pays for on-the-job and classroom training.
To see the full list of the 2019 25 Over Fifty-five winners, click HERE. To view the special section that includes profiles of all the winners, click HERE.
Partner sponsors for the event were Partridge Snow and Hahn LLP and the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank.
