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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.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A financial wisdom refined by real-life experiences

Business Women 09/13/2024

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. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

She went out on a limb, and her tree service has...

Business Women 07/05/2024

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

Business Women 06/07/2024

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. PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

She’s answering call for many more nannies

Business Women 01/05/2024

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. PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Her ability to ‘speak geek’ helped build a company

Business Women 10/13/2023

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...

REACHING OUT: Alison Bologna , center, Shri Studio Inc., Shri Service Corps and Shri Bark founder and WJAR-TV NBC 10 morning news co-anchor, participates in a class in her new yoga studio in Pawtucket. Joining her are Alex Godin, left, of the Life Inc. social service agency in Tiverton, and Michelle Peloquin, of The Arc of Blackstone Valley social service agency in Pawtucket. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

After opening yoga studio, she has stretched for more

Business Women 09/01/2023

It’s a late summer morning and the stately brick building that is Shri Studio Inc.’s new home is about to officially open for business. A...

BLAZING A TRAIL: As Rhode Island’s cannabis sector has gained traction, attorney Megan Sheehan has been growing her legal practice, Green Path Legal, right along with it.  PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Leaf and law: Sheehan combines her passions

Business Women 08/04/2023

Life lessons come from all directions. Consider the takeaway for Megan Sheehan, a Barrington lawyer: “My great aunties told me, ‘I just discovered vape...

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: Judy Rametta, president of StarTrak Studios in Warwick, works with her husband, Jack, assembling audio and visual projects for local businesses, politicians and charity causes. PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Her job has become quite the production

Business Women 07/07/2023

Judy Rametta isn’t what you’d call a name dropper, and she wants people to know that celebrities don’t stop by her production house, StarTrak...

PICTURE PERFECT: Brandi Morgan Raupp, right, owner of East Coast Capture LLC, and her crew set up a photo shoot at a preschool in Cranston. From left are photographers Kayla Oliveira and Olivia Lace.  PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Her kid-focused studio is capturing the market

Business Women 06/09/2023

Remember school photo day? The cookie-cutter headshots, the weird lighting, each kid’s chin tilted in the exact same direction, all of which led to...