By Livia Gershon
This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here
When Becker College in Worcester announced it will be closing its doors in August, the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute had a big question to answer. The statewide center for video game entrepreneurship, known as MassDiGi, had been based at the college since its start a decade ago. Where would it go now?
“We were flattered by the range of institutions that were interested in talking with us,” said CEO Timothy Loew. “We had opportunities across the commonwealth, and really great ones.”
By Devina Bhalla
This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here
As Worcester grows, so does its appeal to investors and developers.
“For the most part, I can’t ask for any more than a location like Worcester,” said Mark Nedelman, CEO of Biomere, a biomedical company with 100 employees on Union Street.
This idea for why it is important for the city to capitalize on Worcester’s progress in bringing in outside developers came during the third installment in the Worcester Emerging webinar series this spring from Worcester Business Journal and the State House News Service, describing the changes taken place in the second largest city in New England over the past half decade.
Banjo Health of Northborough has named
SHIVA KUMAR as its newest member of the board of advisors. Kumar previously served as chief strategy officer and head of business development for Watson Health at IBM from 2015-2020, worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., and was an associate professor at Yale University’s Physics Department. As senior executive at IBM since 2003, he has pioneered analytics use to improve its revenue and profit performance, and co-founded and led teams at IBM Research to develop the capabilities of IBM Watson Health.
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CAROL BARTON, an attorney at Estate Preservation Law Offices in Worcester, has been named National Professional Advisor of the Year for 2020 by the American Cancer Society. Barton was one of two partners of the society’s planned giving team who are honored each year. Her association with the group began in 2008 as a volunteer at Hope Lodge in Worcester, and later grew into national roles, most recently as chair of the n
By Devina Bhalla
This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here
Strong fundamentals, committed leadership, anchoring institutions, vibrant culture, and untapped potential: Bo Menkiti’s five reasons for why Worcester, why now.
Menkiti’s message to other potential investors and developers inside and outside Central Massachusetts came during the first installment in the Worcester Emerging webinar series this spring from Worcester Business Journal and the State House News Service, describing the changes taken place in the second largest city in New England over the past half decade.
Rev. Debora Jackson has been part of Worcester Polytechnic Institute s administration for nearly a decade, having served on the university board since 2012, but it wasn’t until her appointment to business school dean in January that her influence at the school and in the Greater Worcester community really took off.
WPI has been putting a greater emphasis on having a more inclusive student body and faculty while focusing on its experiential and project-based learning, and Jackson – the first woman and person of color to be WPI’s business school dean – offers plenty of real-world STEM experience from her long career, which included IT and software engineering at companies like Digital Equipment Corp. and becoming chief operating and chief information officer at an e-commerce energy services provider.