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Career pivots can happen at any age. For Pamela Fennell Baker, the new president and CEO of Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women, it was at 62.

On the second floor of Sydor Optics Inc.’s Jetview Drive office is an American flag. The flag stands out because it does not stand alone; it is surrounded by an army of other flags, each one signifying the more than ...

Anand R. Marri has been shaped by education as few people have. One semester into his new job as dean of the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester, Marri is in a position to shape education in ...

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The story of Eastman Kodak Co.’s heyday and subsequent decline is well-known to Rochesterians. It can even be considered a benchmark of Rochester’s cultural identity, a city whose golden age was powered by a small set of massive corporations and ...

Abby Reinhard admits it’s at first a little difficult to draw a parallel between her educational background and the business she chose to own and operate.

The history of AP Intego is convoluted. The company started out as AgencyPort in 2000 and was both an insurance agency and software company. In 2004, the company spun off the insurance agency, AP Insurance, to focus on the software ...

Suzanne Hunt’s day jobs include advising the family wine business, Hunt Country Vineyards, on sustainable technology, while maintaining a global profile as a sustainable energy consultant.

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Michael Olson began his career in packaging at the age of 15, pushing a broom around his father’s company during summers off from school. It was the beginning of a love affair with the industry. “I just fell in love ...

Aaron Newman is freshly back in Rochester via Nepal, where he hit 20,000 feet on his first attempt at ascending Mt. Everest. He didn’t quite make the summit, which stands a hair over 29,000 feet, but his attempt at his ...

The knowledge gained inside the walls of a university classroom will often influence what lies ahead in life. Bret Garwood, however, might tell you that the conversations in the hallways of an academic building can be just as important, if ...

  There was never much doubt about C. Kenneth Perri’s career path. “I thought I would be like a social worker, or something like that, and then when the time came I decided to go to law school,” said, Perri, ...

Helming, who comes from the Midwest but has lived in Canandaigua for more than 35 years, first became active in public affairs after her daughter was born in 1990; becoming a mother made her focus on the future of the environment.

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  Melinda Merante is a veteran of the nonprofit sector who has devoted her career to the American Heart Association, the United Way of Greater Rochester Inc., the Arthritis Foundation and Rochester Hearing and Speech. But it’s her latest role ...

In Rochester's world of financial planning, big firms rule. Organizations like The Bonadio Group serve as hubs for wealth management with vast pools of resources and an endless array of different offerings for clients...

  According to Fritz Ruebeck, he likely had one of the largest home-based businesses—that he knows of, at least. Ruebeck started Classic Automation LLC out of necessity in 2003. He was laid off in 2002 from ABB—a Swiss-Swedish organization that ...