Jay Calderin
My career in fashion started at the age of 14 in New York City when I began my training at the High School of Fashion Industries. My education at HSFI provided me with a head start which allowed me to work in the heart of the industry until I moved to Boston in 1989. Read more>>
Gary Sadler
I am an architect and owner of Upland Architects, Inc., a firm located in Norton, MA that specializes in national retail architectural design. Being knowledgeable about and keeping up with changes in the building codes is an important aspect of our job as designers and architects. Read more>>
Herb Entwistle
My fortee, is working with international investors looking for Boston Real Estate. For whatever reason, both sides really connect both ways. I have a very strong underground network of contacts that help locate Off market opportunities, both development opportunities as well as large-scale investment opportunities. Read more>>
Amanda Cort
I found Xtend Barre while living in Sydney, Australia and just HAD to open one in my hometown of Boston! It was the best workout I had ever done and knew I couldn’t live without it when I moved back home, there was no way I could go back to the other barre I was doing previously once I was hooked on Xtend! Read more>>
Dani McDonald
I started Flock in the Fall of 2009 with my mom Lisa. Our mission was to bring some west coast style to Boston by stocking some of our favorite California designers. We wanted a shop that moms and daughters could shop together and find things that aren’t found elsewhere in Boston. Read more>>
Sallie Hirshberg
I have always had a passion for art, and I went to Boston University for art history and business. When I graduated, I was fortunate enough to find a position in the art world with Fidelity Investments, where I worked with their subsidiaries for a decade to help build private and public collections throughout the United States. Read more>>
Rebecca Pinsky
From my earliest years, I loved to help others plan and organize. By the time I was in elementary school I was already excitedly helping my – very creative, but very disorganized- best friend by straightening her room and planning her outfits for school for the week so she could spend more time on her art and drawings. Read more>>
Elizabeth LeTendre
I started Catalyst in 1998 with co-founder, Heather Frahm. And believe it or not, at that time, the Internet hadn’t really taken off yet. Google had only just launched! However, we quickly identified digital marketing as a huge new opportunity. We were extremely passionate about it and got to work building an agency dedicated to digital. Read more>>
Dr. Ted Vassilev
I started my art career over 20 years ago with Christie’s in New York. While there, I began to realize that my passion for the art market was limitless and it inspired me to strike out with a business of my own. Prior to my time at Christie’s I had dabbled as a professor at Boston College and I believe that these origins as a scholar led to my early art history fascination with the Modern Masters and Renaissance. Read more>>
Lauren A. Birmingham
At Cooking Vacations, we bring you the best hands-on cooking classes & cultural tours in Italy’s 20 Regions. You will learn to cook traditional Italian recipes with excellent Chefs, local expert cooks, Nonnas, pastry artisans and bread & pizza makers. Read more>>
Abigail Ogilvy and Allyson Boli
Abigail Ogilvy opened her eponymous gallery in October of 2015. Born and raised in Alexandria, VA, Ogilvy made her way to Boston in 2011 after attending Dartmouth College. While she steadily enters her third year as Owner and Director of Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, the majority of her career before opening the gallery were spent in the tech world. Read more>>
Jennifer Rienert
NH School of Ballet was started by my aunt Sue Taylor and grandmother Lena Taylor back in 1963. It started as a little dance studio in their house and continue to grow to offer instruction in Ballet and Jazz dance to the New Hampshire area students. I studied with my aunt Suzanne at NHSB since I was two years old. Read more>>
Blessing Chitanda and Shawn Roberts
I was born in Zimbabwe into a family of ten children. As the daughter of a hair salon owner, I showed great interest at an early age in hair, practicing my first “clients”, Barbie dolls. Growing up, my mother would allow me to assist at the family salon while on vacation from school. Read more>>
Edward Borash
We started in 1979. I didn’t have money after graduating from Salem State University. I had a close friend that was the drummer for the rock group Boston. He lent me $25,000 and I paid him back $50,000. He always told me it was his best investment. Read more>>
Lauren Killian
Spurred by our shared drive, ambition, technical savvy, business acumen, relentless work ethic and love for unobtrusively capturing life through photography, Jill Person and I launched Person + Killian Photography in 2004. From moment one, the P+K partnership felt organic, natural, meant-to-be. Read more>>
Anna Israel
Through Anna’s own discoveries regarding her health issues, she is your proof that integrative health is life changing. She is thankful every day for the challenges she has undergone, because without these tribulations, she would not be able to heal you. Read more>>
Julie Nashawaty
I was working as the Director of Operations for a Machine Learning startup in Boston and was using online dating apps as a way to try to meet someone in my super busy life. Unfortunately, I had one bad date after another. Read more>>
Brian Bourquin
Fueled by childhood dreams of being a keeper at my own zoo, I realized from a young age my path-a career in veterinary work. My journey began with becoming valedictorian of my high school class and continued with graduation from Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, the No. 1 school in the US for veterinary medicine. Read more>>
Jayven Rappa
I’ve always been a person who would analyze everything to understand how it worked, why it worked the way it did, and how it might work better. It always came naturally for me to never accept anything for what it was, but rather look to make it better, faster, simpler, more effective. Read more>>
David Salzman
I established Espresso Dave’s Specialty Coffee Catering in 1993 because I was tired of drinking watered-down, tasteless coffee at special events. I’m a coffee nut and decided to become the go-to-guy with a portable, specialty coffee bar service. Read more>>
Katrina Hess
I started with Revlon Cosmetics as a National Makeup Artist. After settling down in New England, I worked for Federated Department Stores as a Cosmetic/Fragrance Department Manager. After, I desired a need to do makeup again. I opened Katrina Hess Makeup in 2003, I’ve been located on Newbury Street since. Read more>>
Julie Raymond
I’ve been foraging flowers since I was a young kid growing up in Kansas City. Spent the bulk of my childhood in the 70s outdoors, so it’s no wonder I veered from my political science degree to post-graduate work at Umass Amherst in horticulture. Read more>>
