Annual Meeting with Success & Service Awards
You are invited to join the Tri-Town Chamber for a Celebration for our 37th Annual Meeting and Success & Service Awards. On Friday, February 6, 2026
AWARDS: The Success & Service Awards, recognize our members for their outstanding contributions to the Tri-Town Chamber of Commerce in 2025, as well as their dedication to the communities of Foxborough, Mansfield, and Norton.
NOMINATIONS OPEN UNTIL JANUARY 15TH SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION PDF.
Award History Below Winners announced at the Annual Meeting
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. (full Bio below)
SPONSORS OPEN:
Presenting Partner: open $2000
Awards Partner: Open $1000
Presenting Partner: open $2000
Awards Partner: Open $1000
Silver Partner: Open $1000
Supporting Partners: Open $500
Centerpiece Exposure $100
Would you be willing to Donate a Raffle Item?
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
Supporting Partners: Open $500
Centerpiece Exposure $100
Would you be willing to Donate a Raffle Item?
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
2018: Michael Yunits
2019: Danielle Fish
2020: Marco Crugnale
2021: Brian Quinn
2022: Marietta Courtney
2023: Paul Anagnos
2024: Tim Keneally
2019: Danielle Fish
2020: Marco Crugnale
2021: Brian Quinn
2022: Marietta Courtney
2023: Paul Anagnos
2024: Tim Keneally
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
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
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Date and Time
Friday Feb 6, 2026
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM EST
Location
Plainridge Park Casino
301 Washington St., Plainville
Centerpiece Sponsors to date:
Courtney CPA, P.C.
Fees/Admission
Member: $ 60
Non Member $ 70
Paid reservations CANNOT BE REFUNDED and Verbal reservations will be Invoiced if not cancelled by 5:00pm on January 30, 2026.
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Kara Griffin
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