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Tina Monshipour Foster has seen the impact that a community of lawyers can have when deployed to tackle a problem. She led a multi-year effort to recruit hundreds of attorneys in the early 2000s to represent Guantanamo Bay detainees and ...

Mark Kovaleski and Tom Rogers have known each other for some time and in different settings. Kovaleski’s firm has provided accounting services to two companies that Tom Rogers has worked for and both served on the same charitable board. But the ...

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When Fabricio Morales’ colleagues call him a risk-taker, they’re not kidding. Morales came to the U.S. from Mexico as an exchange student in 1977, returned to Arkansas for college where he met his future wife, went back to Mexico to ...

When Ryan Colvin looks to the future and maps out his firm’s objectives for the quarter or the year, there is no dry-eraser board highlighting earnings projections that must be met. As the president at MRB Group, he isn’t issuing ...

Renaissance man. A true visionary. Illustrative. Incredibly entrepreneurial. Not a one-trick pony. These phrases have been used to describe Ken Tomaszewski, CEO of KJT Group, by three colleagues who have known him for over 10 years. “Scrappy” is the description ...

Earlier in his career in banking, John McKenna was living the life. Following five years with Citibank in Rochester, he became an investment banker with what’s now known as JP Morgan Chase and worked at the largest bank in the ...

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Manny Marcano Jr. is nothing if not fearless. It’s a quality that is rooted in his eight years in the U.S. Air Force and the dozens of times he jumped out of airplanes as a paratrooper. “I say it’s 59 ...

  You can plan for what may happen in life, but you can’t really plan life itself. Life just happens, as Five Star Bank president and CEO Martin K. Birmingham can attest. Take, for instance, how he met his wife, ...

Gail M. Norris, former vice president and general counsel at the University of Rochester, is entering a new phase of her career. In November, Norris, 61, retired from her position at the region’s largest employer and moved to the law ...

Angela Sims arrived at an interesting time for Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. She started work just a few weeks before the school moved out of its Hogwarts-like campus following a decision to sell the property to a developer. On Aug. ...

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  The YMCA of Greater Rochester Inc. touches pretty much every square inch of the city and suburbs. Thousands of people flock to the nonprofit’s 17 locations each day, and that number continues to grow as the agency increasingly caters ...

Considering his father, his maternal grandfather and an uncle all chose the banking industry as a vocation, it was pretty much a given that Roger Brandt Jr. would uphold family tradition when he finished college. Working for a bank was ...

Laurie Broccolo isn’t the type to shy away from a challenge. In fact, she chases them. In 2011—21 years into her business, Broccolo Tree & Lawn Care—Broccolo was bored. As CEO and co-owner of a successful landscaping company, it’s hard ...

Catharine Young didn’t change much about her living situation when she became head of the new Center of Excellence in Geneva last March. Young had spent 20 years on the road, commuting between her home in Olean and Albany, where ...

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There may have been a bit of serendipity, or kismet or fate involved when Mary Balme came out of semi-retirement for a stint at Rochester Hearing and Speech Center. She had only planned to be there a few months to ...