Jonathan Jackson
Dimagi was founded in 2002 out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. I was volunteering to help mentor a student group in a medical computing class when I met Dr. Vikram Kumar, my co-founder, who was completing his master’s thesis at the Media Lab. Read more>>
Adam and Jamie Hirsch
Safari Ltd is an American, family-owned manufacturer and global distributor of hand-painted and scientifically accurate educational figurines that span from the natural world to the imaginative realms of myths and fantasy. The company dates back to 1982, founded by Bernard and Rosemarie Rubel after being inspired by an endangered species card game. Read more>>
Chris Savage
Wistia began as a two-person operation based out of a not-so-spacious bedroom in Cambridge, MA, and over the past ten years has grown into a business with over 80 employees and 350,000 loyal customers. My co-founder and best friend from college, Brendan Schwartz, and I started Wistia because we wanted to break into what we saw as the next big thing: video. Read more>>
Carsten Richner
Ostwestfalen in Germany is best known for being the hub of the kitchen industry in Europe. It is home to 70% of all German kitchen manufacturers and suppliers. Native Carsten Richner began his career by starting from the beginning, learning how cabinets are produced, manufactured and constructed. Read more>>
Jenna Fizel
My academic background is in architecture and, right out of school, I did work at an architecture firm doing computational geometry. I quickly realized that not only was I most interested in the system creation end of design, but that my personal virtual environment was at least as important to me as my physical one. Read more>>
Vanu Bose
The company was started in the fall of 1998 based on my PhD work on the topic of software radio. Like many startups we had to adapt and change directions several times until we found success. Initially we realized the technology was not ready for the commercial market, and spent the first several years doing R&D and some defense work. Read more>>
Lynda DiLando
In 1996, I and several of my colleagues were working at a small diagnostic imaging company in the Merrimack Valley that was closing. We approached Shared Diagnostic Services, at the time primarily operating in the South Shore, about potentially subcontracting and servicing the Merrimack Valley, at which point Freedom Diagnostic Imaging Services was born. Read more>>
David Fenchel
Having had the privilege of working with amazing, award-winning architecture firms in Boston and Washington DC, I felt well prepared to launch my own practice, Traverse Architects. Inspired by the New England landscape, whether be an urban park, national forest or seashore, we are always looking for ways to re-engage with the outdoors – visually, physically and emotionally. Read more>>
Malay Kundu
An MIT alumnus, Malay Kundu became involved in loss prevention through a retail inventory shrinkage study he led at Harvard Business School named “Project StopLift”. Kundu discovered that every retail company faced the problem of inventory loss and that no solution existed to track, identify and prevent it at the checkout. It is the one kind of retail theft that is under the radar and has no data to track it. Read more>>
Theresa Rosen
I have been a financial advisor for over 30 years. I feel that my success in this business is due to the fact that I love what I do and I love helping my clients. Is it ever a smooth road? No… But that being said- being open to change and being with the discomfort of new challenges has helped me grow and be a better person. Read more>>
Carol Todreas
I still find it strange that the company I co-founded grew out of a life-long interest. Ever since I was kid growing up in a suburb of Cleveland, I was fascinated by Downtown and the gritty warehouse area called The Flats. These 2 areas and the inner city Hungarian and Italian neighborhoods of old Cleveland had great vibes while the suburbs felt monotonous and predictable. Read more>>
Peter Lovis
My first job in cheese was at a franchise where I grew up in New Jersey; I was around 15. Right away, I could see that sampling and selling the wide variety of cheeses made in the world would be a real blast. I worked in cheese during all of my school vacations, and after graduation I held various positions in every aspect of the cheese realm — from distribution to retail. Read more>>
Brad Sorabella
I began boxing over 10 years ago to change my lifestyle and get in shape. I never thought about competing at first, I set small goals to start sparring then eventually competing at an amateur level. I had a passion in boxing and fitness and I had an opportunity to open a training center in Waltham, Ma in my father’s warehouse. Read more>>
Wellington Palma
Embondeiro Capoeira Group of Boston was founded by Mestre Cabeça (pronounced Cabesa), a Master of Capoeira. Mestre Cabeça began his four-decade long career in Capoeira Brasil, one of the oldest Capoeira groups of Brazil. After several decades as one of the highest ranking members within Capoeira Brasil, Mestre Cabeça decided to start his own group with the goal of maintaining the martial art’s integrity and authenticity intact. Read more>>
Casey Near
As an eager college student (and a fresh transfer), I worked as a tour guide in my college’s admissions office, and I quickly caught the admissions bug. I worked the rest of my time as a tour guide and admissions coordinator, then eventually went on to work as an admissions counselor. Read more>>
