WOMEN OF FIRE
Dena Hall
“Create Your Balance” is not only the new tagline for United Bank; it’s also the motto Dena Hall lives and works by. The regional president and chief marketing officer balances her roles inside the company alongside her roles as the president of the United Bank...
Teresa Hassara
Teresa Hassara, executive vice president and head of institutional business at TIAA-CREF, says values and people matter in choosing a career. After earning a master’s of business administration degree from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business,...
Jeannette Lanza
Jeannette Lanza is a front-and-center example of the value of experience in the entrepreneurial process. Her strong suit is relationship-building. In 2012, after more than two decades of working within the industry, Lanza acquired Braintree-based H.J. Knight...
Jennifer Malboeuf Crampton
Jennifer Malboeuf Crampton says she got her passion for real estate from her dad. “He owned an equipment rental company in Gloucester, and did a lot of construction and building on the side,” Crampton said. “That was his real passion in life. I used to tag along with...
Karen Marryat
Karen Marryat, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Blue Hills Bank, said the path her career took was due, in part, to the advice of a professor in her undergraduate days at University of Rhode Island. “He told the marketing graduates to consider...
Nancy Ann McCafferty
Nancy McCafferty has always been a numbers person, beginning with her very first job: a paper route where she had to collect neighbors’ subscription fees and take them to the bank. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the real estate bug bit her early on, when a company she...
Margery Piercey
Piercey interned at Wolf while in a student at the Isenberg School at UMass Amherst and returned to the firm in 2004. She credits the positive culture at Wolf for her success in championing many initiatives and practice enhancements. Although it is a large firm with...
Lauren Plant
Lauren Plant was in for a dose of culture shock when she left her position at Cambridge Assoc. in Boston in favor of a new job at Hudson-based real estate developer Calare Properties. While the position in investor relations offered an opportunity for professional...
Paula Savard
Dedication, a strong sense of ethics and setting her sights on goals have driven not only Paula Savard’s successful real estate career, but her personal life as well. As a young a mother, Savard was looking for a flexible, yet lucrative, way to provide for her two...
Ellen Tan
It call comes back to what her grandmother told her, Ellen Tan said: “When you love one another and take care of each other, everyone prospers.” Tan, who has spent 22 years with the Commonwealth Land Trust (CLT), is part of a hard-working family of Lebanese immigrants...
2014 Women Of FIRE
Congratulations to the 2014 Women of FIRE!
Rebecca Berry
Rebecca Berry knew from a young age that she wanted to be an architect. Summer trips to rebuild houses in Appalachia with her family’s church first sparked her interest in architecture, and a design discovery summer at the National Building Museum in the nation’s capitol cemented it.
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.
Gerry-Lynn Darcy
She grew up in the planning industry at her father’s knee, absorbing the nuances of architectural plans. Gerry-Lynn Darcy credits the time and effort her father gave her, from an early age, so that planning became part of the fabric of her work-life experience, which now spans 18 years.
Lisa DonFrancesco
Before she knew what it meant to be a businesswoman, Lisa DonFrancesco knew she wanted to be one. Her father, who embodied superior work ethics and integrity throughout his career in insurance and investment sales, became the inspiration for her goals.
Donna Fitzgerald
One day when Pat Villani, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New England, dropped by Donna Fitzgerald’s office in Norwell, she met a couple dropping off two SUVs full of toys for needy children. Villani tried to thank the couple, but they responded, “Donna and this office stepped in and took care of us when we needed it. This is our way of giving back.”
Janet Frazier
As the scope of Maloney Properties’ business areas has grown over three decades, so have Janet Frazier’s responsibilities at the Wellesley-based property management company.
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