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CHARTING HER COURSE: Cheryl DiGennaro, owner of Newport Yacht and Home LLC in Middletown, says the desire to design living spaces in houses and boats is something she was born with. 
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DAVID HANSEN

On land or sea, her mind is always on the décor

When Cheryl DiGennaro was growing up, she’d watch her mom, an interior designer, working on various projects; that passion passed from mother to daughter. “I...
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...
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...
GROWTH PLAN: Karen Bacon has taken Diversified Resources LLC, a 40-year-old financial planning company started by her father, from $125 million in managed assets to $284 million since she became president in 2015. 
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A financial wisdom refined by real-life experiences

Nothing teaches a life lesson like dealing with temperamental rock stars. Ask Karen Wright Bacon. She spent five years doing just that while making ad...
TAKING ROOT: ­Gloria Chacón, a licensed arborist and owner of Green View Tree Service LLC, with her crew at a worksite in North ­Providence.
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She went out on a limb, and her tree service has...

Gloria Chacón didn’t plan to become a tree doctor, dealing with all things related to shrubs and woody plant life. “My parents wanted me to...
CLEANING UP: Debbie Martitz 
took over ownership of the family business, Hope Cleaners in East Providence, in 2005.
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Her reputation at Hope Cleaners? It’s spotless, of course

After 57 years in the family’s dry-cleaning business, Debbie Martitz has heard some unusual requests. For example: Can you dry clean a bra? Yes. How...
A STRONG ­RESTART: ­Tiesha ­Sinouthasy had to close her nanny placement agency two months after she launched it because of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, but when she reopened it several months later, people were desperate for her service.
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MICHAEL SALERNO

She’s answering call for many more nannies

If dealing with COVID-19 wasn’t stressful enough for parents of young kids, finding reliable child care during the pandemic was enough to give them...
IN THE CLOUD: Ruth DiGiovanni has found success with a company that provides cloud-based phones after she and her husband sensed there was a market to tap in the area.
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Her ability to ‘speak geek’ helped build a company

Ruth DiGiovanni knows talking about her company, which develops and installs cloud-based phone systems, isn’t the most exciting conversation starter. “ ‘Here I am with...
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