Welcome, New Member: Teresa Barreira, Chief Marketing Officer, Publicis Sapient!   Teresa is a transformational leader and innovator whose creative thinking coupled with her 25 years of global B2B marketing expertise has enabled her to break the mold of traditional marketing in Technology and Service companies. A dynamic and fast-paced changemaker, Barreira has reinvigorated the…

Welcome, New Member: Joanne Marqusee, Executive Vice President and Chief Integration Officer, Wellforce!   Joanne Marqusee is Executive Vice President and Chief Integration Officer for Wellforce, a health care system based in eastern Massachusetts that is comprised of 4 hospital sites (including Tufts Medical Center), more than 2000 physicians, and a home care/hospice agency. Prior…

Welcome, New Member: Joan Wallace-Benjamin, Founder and President, J Wallace-Benjamin Consulting LLC!   Joan joined The Home for Little Wanderers in 2003 as President and Chief Executive Officer. Under her guidance, the agency gained prominence in the field of child and family service providers, becoming a leader in innovative programming for underserved populations and expanding…

Welcome, New Member: Laurie Halloran, President and CEO, Halloran Consulting Group!   Laurie founded Halloran Consulting Group in 1998, originally operating out of an unfinished bathroom. Her time as a pediatric ICU nurse had inspired her to start a company that helps move new therapies through FDA processes to get them into the hands of…

Donna Latson Gittens is the recipient of the inaugural Women in Business Racial Equity Award. The Women in Business Racial Equity Award was created to enable The Boston Club to annually recognize a woman of color who founds, owns, or leads an organization that is committed to the advancement of women into leadership positions. The…

The Commonwealth Institute and Boston Globe Magazine recently have announced the 2021 edition of the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts list. 2021 marks TCI’s 21st year recognizing the women power players driving the Massachusetts economy. Past honorees have come from fields ranging from biotechnology to architecture to retail, illustrating the diversity of women-led organizations across the Commonwealth. Congratulations…

The Boston Business Journal named several IWF/MA members to their list of Movement Makers of 2021. These individuals in the Greater Boston business community are taking a stand, creating change, and taking actionable steps to work together to make Boston continue to grow as a place for equity, inclusion and diverse points of view.  …

Everest Consolidator Acquisition Corporation (MNTN) led by COO and board director, member Jackie Shoback, recently completed its Initial Public Offering.  Read more in the press release.  Their Special Purpose Acquisition Company offering was north of five times oversubscribed. Also, Jackie’s digital identity venture capital firm, 1414 Ventures, had its first portfolio company exit.  Singular Key was…

Members Andrea Silbert and Lynn Perry Wooten recently penned an article for the Boston Business Journal examining why work isn’t working for women. The article considers the “she-cession,” why women are leaving the workplace at four times the rate of men during the pandemic, and the support systems needed for women to advance and succeed…

Andrea Cohen, member and Founder and Vice-Chair of HouseWorks, one of the nation’s largest independent private home care companies, will receive the 2021 Home Care Champion award by the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts. The award honors those who have advanced the image or cause of home care in Massachusetts and have demonstrated industry leadership…