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If he hadn’t become a lawyer, Peter J. Pullano says he could just as easily have wound up as a college professor. Now 60, and with 36 years of experience under his belt, Pullano has no regrets about choosing the ...

When Suzanne Turchetti was offered a job as the senior executive assistant to the CEO at HCR Home Care more than two decades ago, she didn’t have to think twice. “I jumped in with two feet and didn’t look back,” ...

Thomas F. Knab is the new managing partner at Underberg & Kessler LLP, replacing Anna E. Lynch, who held the post since 2004.

Going from a career as a professional golfer to a career in banking may be an unusual transition for some, but Phil Muscato believes there are many similarities between the two professions. Both, for example, require the ability to perform ...

Regardless of the procedure, a hospital setting can always create a little apprehension, which is why, when Kathy Betlem was admitted for hip replacement surgery last February, the medical team wanted to make her as comfortable as possible. So they ...

It’s hard to imagine a Rochester without Justin L. Vigdor.  Like the iconic character of George Bailey, played by James Stewart in the classic holiday movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Vigdor has enriched virtually every aspect of life in the ...

When changing jobs, it is not unusual for some people to take time in between to regroup and prepare for the next challenge. That thinking does not apply to Jennie Schaff.  Schaff will join the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation on Jan. 1 as the organization’s CEO, almost immediately after her final ...

Stacey Trien’s plan for her term as president of the Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys was to focus on the theme of empowerment. 

Shaun Nelms said no to the East High School Educational Partnership Organization (EPO) superintendent job several times before finally accepting the offer in 2016. That’s what past experiences will do to you. “Frankly, my experience as a school chief was ...

When designing a building or a bridge, every detail must be exact, every measurement precise. There can be no surprises, no ad-libbing. Life, however, doesn’t work that way, as Nagappa Ravindra will attest. When he completed his bachelor’s degree in ...

As a youngster, Manning & Napier CEO Marc Mayer was focused science. “I thought I might want to be an anthropologist or archeologist possibly,” he said. But after a summer of digging up Indian ruins as a teen, Mayer decided ...

Chelsea Conway doesn’t let much stand in the way of reaching her goals. In June, Conway traveled to Eugene, Ore., to participate in the Olympic trials in the 20 km race walk, where dangerously high temperatures of 100 or more ...

When he arrived in Rochester in December of 1995, hired by WXXI Public Broadcasting Council to run its radio and television operations, Norm Silverstein assumed there would be a very finite timeline to his stay. A New Jersey native who ...

A college degree in creative writing is an unlikely pathway to a career in healthcare administration, but for John Sheehan it was a key factor that put him on the road to success. Sheehan, who officially takes over on Aug. 1 ...

At one time, Angelica Perez-Delgado was a teen mom who had dropped out of high school to care for her child. Today, she runs the Ibero-American Action League Inc., a local nonprofit with more than 200 staffers that serves roughly ...