Annual Meeting with Success & Service Awards

 

Silver Partners: SCU Credit Union & Plainridge Park Casino
Supporting Partners: available $500 Rockland Trust & Sturdy Health
Centerpiece Exposure $100

We will be having a 50/50 raffle!

AWARD HISTORY.... 
Business of the Year:  -recognizing the business organization whose outstanding contributions make them a leader within the Chamber as well as the community at large.
1996:  Automation Concepts and Technologies
1997:  Foxborough Savings Bank (now Rockland Trust)
1998:  Ro-Jacks Supermarkets
1999:  North Easton Savings Bank
2000:  Foxboro Company (Invensys)
2001:  Hockomock Area YMCA
2004:  DSA Foxboro Terminals
2005:  W/S Development 
2006: Samsonite
2007:  Mansfield Bank
2008:  Invensys
2009:  Covidien
2010:  Holiday Inn Mansfield/ Foxboro
2011:  North Easton Savings Bank
2012:  Foley & Foley PC
2013:  ESP Solutions
2014:  Barrows Insurance Agency
2015:  Mansfield Bank
2016:  Xfinity Center
2017:  New England Ice Cream   
2018: Hockomock Area YMCA
2019: Job-Guy
2020: BSE Print Solutions 
2021: Normandy Farms Family Camping Resort
2022: BayCoast Bank
2023: Plainridge Park Casino
2024: Santoro Financial Planning Group
   
Businessperson of the Year: - recognizing the individual businessperson that has demonstrated qualities of exemplary community leadership, within the Chamber as well as the community at large.
1996:  Ed Tartufo
1997:  Jay Barrows
1998:  Bill Buckley Sr.
1999:  Tricia White
2000:  Terry McLaughlin 
2001:  Chris Rappold
2004:  Deb Crowell
2005:  Kara Griffin
2006:  Debbie Nichols
2007:  Emily Miller, Catherine Ellsworth
2008:  Kristi Johnston
2009:  Greg and Kathy Spier
2010:  Ellyne Fleshner
2011:  Ingrid Williams
2012:  Joan Gagnon
​2013:  Jen Vondenbrink
​2014:  Kelly Fox
2015:  Cindy Peterson 
2016:  Anne Langton
2017:  Lynn Tokarczyk

More about our speaker:
      Featured Speaker: Dr. Erik Noyes, Director of “The Generator – Interdisciplinary AI Lab” at Babson College – training 1,000 Small Business Owners in AI for business growth.
      An expert in innovation, growth strategy, and AI, Professor Noyes is the Michael London ’92 and Stephen H. Kramer ’92 Term Chair in Entrepreneurship. His research examines entrepreneurial thinking, AI-enabled innovation, and disruptive innovation in both startups and new corporate ventures.
      Dr. Noyes led the creation of “The Generator”, Babson’s interdisciplinary AI lab whose mission is to empower innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing AI capabilities. The Generator supports an interdisciplinary community of innovators, provocateurs, and boundary-spanners from across diverse industries to seize upon transformative opportunities enabled by the AI-age. In connection with the Lab, he teaches the MBA course AI Pioneers: Creating the Future of Business and Entrepreneurial Opportunities in AI, among other graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship courses.
Professor Noyes is the founding Faculty Director of the Weissman Foundry, an interdisciplinary venture and innovation-space shared by Babson College, the Olin College of Engineering, and Wellesley College. Recognized as a “Top 50” business professor in the United States by Poets & Quants, Noyes was awarded Babson’s College-wide Teaching Excellence Award in 2023 and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award in 2010. Noyes co-led Babson’s award-winning Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship (FME) program, rated the most innovative undergraduate entrepreneurship course in the U.S. by the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). He also co-founded Affordable Design & Entrepreneurship (ADE), a collaboration between Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering.
Prior to joining Babson, he consulted for companies such as Nokia, BMW, Hewlett-Packard, New Balance, and Motorola to identify and evaluate new growth businesses in diverse areas such as healthcare, mobile computing, consumer products, sensing systems, and automotive design.
      Professor Noyes is a Founding Editor of the journal Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy (EE&P). His research has been published in the Journal of Small Business Management, Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy, the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Frontiers in Entrepreneurship Research, multiple books, and the Harvard Business School case collection. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, USA Today, The Chronicle for Higher Education, and international press.
To learn more, visit babson.edu/thegenerator