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Maria Alves
For Maria Alves, it’s all about the customer. Her innate consideration for and desire to help others shines through in both her professional and personal lives. A graduate of Bay State College, Alves has also taken several accounting and management courses at Bryant...
Jay Anderson
Jay Anderson has been president and CEO of Pittsfield Cooperative Bank since 2009. Since 2004, he has also served as president of the board of the Pittsfield Economic Revitalization Corporation (PERC), with additional roles in its executive, loan and technical...
Thomas Banks
Thomas Banks has longstanding roots in the South Shore, and so do his customers. He’s been at Rockland Trust for 25 years, working his way up from branch manager to district manager. And having the opportunity to build up those kinds of long-term relationships with...
John C. Boucher
A trip to Disney World is a popular vacation choice for many young people, but for the intellectually disabled students at Cardinal Cushing Centers, it can be a trip they anticipate for years in advance. John Boucher, CEO of South Shore Bank in Weymouth, knew that the...
Steve Britton
Steve Britton was surprised and pleased when he found out he was named a Community Bank Hero, but he says he’s still trying to figure out just what he did to deserve the honor. That’s just like Steve, said Jackie Giordano, the director of external affairs at the North...
Janis Dodge
During her college years, Janis Dodge thought she would pursue a career in either law or politics. But a job in the consumer electronics field steered her down a different path, and she wouldn’t change one minute of the journey. After college, Dodge accepted a...
John Fulone
John Fulone’s outgoing voicemail message says a lot about him. In it, he lists several different contacts who can provide direct help for callers’ specific problems. The way he returns calls says a lot about him, too – he leaves no stone unturned, including appeals...
Anna Kulakowski
When asked why Anna Kulakowski’s name leapt to mind when he first heard about the Community Bank Hero awards, James Burke, a Peabody attorney and one of Kulakowski’s nominators, said, jokingly, that “she’s always bugging me for bottles of wine.” Not, of course, for...
James Lively
When the past winter’s historic snowfall caused a partial roof collapse and closure of Bridgewater’s Mitchell Elementary School, James Lively was ready to help. Pupils were relocated to other schools in the district, but a Bridgewater Savings Bank employee whose son...
Bopha Malone
When asked to describe Bopha Malone, branch relationship manager and vice president at Enterprise Bank, Alison Burns thinks first of her energy. “I remember when I first met Bopha, she was so full of energy. She was very passionate and had an infectious personality,”...
Tom McGregor
It’s difficult to find someone in Worcester’s business community who doesn’t know Tom McGregor, and it’s even more difficult to find somebody who doesn’t think the world of him. “Worcester is a very, very unique community,” said Paula Aiello, CFO of Youth...
Beth Ann Meehan
As a little girl, Beth Ann Meehan vacationed on Nantucket Island and vowed someday to live there year-round. In September 1994, she kept that promise, established a career and became a champion for affordable housing. Meehan holds a bachelor’s degree in communications...
Andrew Sobers
Building a community from the inside out, one household at a time, is Andrew Sobers’ vocation. That’s the observation of his nominator at Urban Edge, a nonprofit CDC serving Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and surrounding Boston communites. Sobers has served on Urban Edge’s...
Timothy Telman
Although his career has followed a mostly financial path, Timothy Telman considers himself an entrepreneur first and a banker second. Telman received his undergraduate degree in economics from Boston College and continued his education at Babson College, where he...Resiliency Planning Faces Increasing Regulatory Provisions
The charge for climate change resiliency and adaptation planning policies around the world has been led at the local and municipal levels, impacting development for the better. As a result of extreme weather events – rising sea levels, drought, hurricanes, heat island...Residential Lending Ticks Up In 2014
Second verse, same as the first. That refrain might about sum up this year’s Top Lenders, as lenders who started the year apprehensive about interest rates saw rates and loan production more or less hold steady.
Celebrating This Holiday Season
Though it might seem antithetical to the media refrain, over the course of a year, the staff – and readers – of Banker & Tradesman see a lot of good news. Our weekly online feature, Community Good Works, never lacks for material. A roundup of all the good things our readers have accomplished, it highlights the many, many contributions the financial and real estate industries make to the communities in which we all live and work.
Donna Boulanger
After becoming CEO of North Brookfield Savings Bank in 2008, one of the first things Donna Boulanger changed was its approach to philanthropy.
Mellisa Carney
High finance and earth-shaking deals may get all the glamour when it comes to press coverage of the industry, but the real glory is owed to people like Mellisa Carney, Homecorps coordinator for the South Shore Community Action Council.
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