CEOs You Should Know Boston
CEOs You Should Know is iHeartMedia Boston's showcase of businesses that drive New England's regional economy. Hear from key business leaders who contribute to the vibrant and growing community.
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July 22, 2024 • 1 min
Dr. Stephen Spinelli Jr. is the 14th president of Babson College, having assumed the role in July 2019. A lifelong entrepreneur, President Spinelli has spent his career at the intersection of academia, business, and philanthropy. Under his leadership, Babson College was named the 10th best college in the United States by The Wall Street Journal and has retained its long-standing place atop U.S. News & World Report’s undergradua...
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July 1, 2024 • 1 min
Chef Matt is a New England native with almost 30 years of culinary experience, working through the ranks at many local Boston establishments. Through his career, Matt has opened up a remarkable 16 restaurants – across the United States and even abroad in Ireland. He’s now at the helm as President & COO of one of New England’s most iconic restaurants – Legal Sea Foods. Legal has 26 restaurants, and soon to be 27, with an expansi...
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June 17, 2024 • 1 min
Lisa is responsible for safe, reliable and affordable energy delivery to National Grid’s customers in New England, overseeing gas and electric operations in Massachusetts and transmission in New England. She is committed to enabling the Commonwealth’s energy transition and ambitious climate goals, while keeping Massachusetts competitive.
Prior to joining National Grid, Lisa served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts ...
Prior to joining National Grid, Lisa served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts ...
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June 3, 2024 • 1 min
A tireless advocate for the hungry for more than 40 years, Catherine D’Amato assumed the leadership of GBFB in 1995. During her tenure, she has transformed GBFB into a $180 million charitable business and increased GBFB’s distribution from 7.5 million meals a year to nearly 90 million healthy meals per year. She has grown GBFB’s network to include 600 partner food pantries, meal programs and direct distribution sites across the 190...
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May 20, 2024 • 1 min
Todd Krinsky was appointed President and CEO of Reebok in September 2022 after three decades of unwavering service to the company. As a Reebok “lifer”, Todd leads the company’s continued commitment to creating industry-leading, innovative products and embodying its “irreverent” brand identity.
During his 30 years at Reebok, Todd has touched every aspect of the business - from category leadership to merchandising management to sports...
During his 30 years at Reebok, Todd has touched every aspect of the business - from category leadership to merchandising management to sports...
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May 6, 2024 • 1 min
An educational technology, digital health, and social impact entrepreneur, Michael London has created more than one billion dollars in company value throughout his career. Michael’s belief that "student mental health is the defining higher education issue of our time" led him to create Uwill. Founded in 2020 to assist campus counseling centers as they faced overwhelming student demand for mental health support, Uwill has quickly ea...
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April 22, 2024 • 1 min
Leonard Spada is the founder of Spada Law Group LLC. Upon graduating from Boston College Law School in 1991, Len accepted a prestigious one-year appointment as a Judicial Law Clerk for the justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court. It was during this time that Len worked closely with the Judges of the Superior Court assisting them in deciding matters that came before the court in both civil and criminal trials. The clerkship was...
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April 8, 2024 • 1 min
Denise Woodard is the Founder and CEO of Partake Foods, the allergy-friendly company that was inspired by her daughter’s experience with food allergies. Key moments this year include that Partake Foods announced it became a Certified B Corporation, and launched a collab with Ben & Jerry’s! Created in 2016, Denise started the business by self-distributing (selling cookies out of her car around NYC) and self-funding (depleting he...
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March 28, 2024 • 1 min
Stephen has devoted his career to supporting the educational promise of all, from the youngest children to high school students and adult learners -- working to realize his vision and belief that everyone at every age deserves a great education. Stephen was named CEO of Bright Horizons in January 2018, and over the last decade, he has held leadership positions throughout the organization including President, Chief Development Offic...
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March 11, 2024 • 1 min
Anuj Khanna is a Partner of CapitalView Investment Partners. Mr. Khanna is responsible for deal origination, transaction execution, portfolio management, fundraising, and administration of the firm’s operations. He has over 12 years of investing and other relevant experience and has sat on the board of directors of eight portfolio companies.
Prior to co-founding CapitalView Investment Partners in 2017, Mr. Khanna was a Principal wit...
Prior to co-founding CapitalView Investment Partners in 2017, Mr. Khanna was a Principal wit...
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February 26, 2024 • 1 min
Mark Eldridge is the CEO and founder of ALKU, a nationally ranked niche based staffing and consulting firm based in Andover. Mark has been in the staffing and consulting industry since he graduated college. Through his experience, Mark noticed a need for reliable, highly specialized resource services and solutions; this observation led to the launch of ALKU in 2008! During ALKU’s years in business, its unique Have Fun Working Hard®...
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February 12, 2024 • 1 min
Michael Hund is the CEO of EB Research Partnership (EBRP), a trailblazing medical research organization focused on curing Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a life-threatening genetic skin disease. Under his leadership EBRP has accelerated the landscape from 2 to over 40 clinical trials and via their award winning venture philanthropy methodology funded the first FDA approved treatment for EB in 2023, the first ever topical gene therapy. ...
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January 29, 2024 • 1 min
Shontay Lundy is the CEO, Creator, and Founder of Black Girl Sunscreen (BGS). In 2016, when Shontay became tired of using sunscreen that left a white residue, she decided to leverage her MBA and knack for business to develop a melanin-friendly option for women who look like her. While working to build awareness for BGS, Shontay has continued to fuel her passion by traveling the world educating women of color on the importance of we...
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January 22, 2024 • 1 min
GreenEarth® Cleaning, the world’s largest brand of environmentally friendly dry cleaning, offering the industry’s only non-toxic cleaning alternative, recently named Tim Maxwell as its chief executive officer (CEO). Maxwell had served as president of the company since 2003.
In his role as CEO, Maxwell will continue oversight of GreenEarth Cleaning and the company’s network of Affiliates. GreenEarth’s proprietary products and process...
In his role as CEO, Maxwell will continue oversight of GreenEarth Cleaning and the company’s network of Affiliates. GreenEarth’s proprietary products and process...
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January 15, 2024 • 1 min
Kevin DuBois is the CEO of Clean Brands. A Franchise company that operates in the DryCleaning and Laundry space and has a portfolio of brands that include: Martinizing Cleaners, Lapels Cleaners, 1800 Dry Clean, Pressed 4 Time and Dry Cleaning Station. They have stores in 7 countries with nearly 500 units across the world.
Clean Brands is a multi-brand franchising company in the garment care space which includes dry cleaning, laundry...
Clean Brands is a multi-brand franchising company in the garment care space which includes dry cleaning, laundry...
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December 18, 2023 • 1 min
Jessica Sassi, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA, was named CEO of The New England Center for Children® (NECC®) in 2023 to succeed the organization’s founder who served in that role for 48 years. She brings more than 25 years of experience in the research and practice of autism education and applied behavior analysis (ABA), making her uniquely qualified to run this multinational nonprofit.
Dr. Sassi completed her BS, MS, and PhD at the University o...
Dr. Sassi completed her BS, MS, and PhD at the University o...
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December 4, 2023 • 1 min
As the CEO and Co- Founder of Chelsea’s House and Power of Recovery, Matthew Powers has been committed to supporting those in recovery for the past 13+ years.
Chelsea’s House started a decade ago as a 6-bed sober home; it now offers 12 houses throughout the Greater Boston area and supports over 200 men and women weekly in their sobriety journey.
Power of Recovery was founded in 2021 in response to the immediate need for those in reco...
Chelsea’s House started a decade ago as a 6-bed sober home; it now offers 12 houses throughout the Greater Boston area and supports over 200 men and women weekly in their sobriety journey.
Power of Recovery was founded in 2021 in response to the immediate need for those in reco...
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November 20, 2023 • 1 min
A principal of The Hoffman Companies, Mr. Hoffman has been intimately involved in all of the firm’s businesses, as either President or Principal Owner. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Mr. Hoffman is a member and former Director of the Boston chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, a global community of over 14,000 business founders and owners. Four years ago, he was the...
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November 13, 2023 • 1 min
A native of Chelsea, MA, Bobby has been a life-long resident in the Greater Boston Area. After graduating from trade school, he worked in the collision repair industry for eight years as a painter. Today’s Collision Repair Center was founded in 1989, in Chelsea, MA. Bobby would go on to lead the Company’s expansion into 3 additional locations in the Greater Boston Area: Malden, MA in 2003, Stoneham, MA in 2017, and Danvers, MA in ...
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July 3, 2023 • 1 min
Steve joined National Grid on 1 October 2021, bringing over 30 years of experience in the energy industry. As President of National Grid in New England, he leads over 6,000 employees and is responsible for gas and electric operations in Massachusetts, as well as LNG, HVDC, and Transmission in New England. Steve is committed to developing the most innovative, reliable, affordable solutions to bring clean energy to our more than 2.2...
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