BusinessTalk with Nate Costa, President, Springfield Thunderbirds
The Springfield Thunderbirds enter their 10th season next month riding a series of highs — soaring attendance that has the team selling out the MassMutual Center on a regular basis and season ticket s...
15 Sep 202523min
BusinessTalk with Gene Cassidy, President and CEO, Eastern States Exposition
Gene Cassidy understands that the Big E generates traffic jams outside the fairgrounds — and sometimes traffic jams inside the grounds as patrons flock to new attractions and food vendors. What he can...
1 Sep 202521min
BusinessTalk with Emily Carlson, Owner, We Do Travel Right
Emily Carlson was a teacher who decided to make the jump in 2022 into a new career: travel — specifically, helping other people arrange great vacations. As the owner of We Do Travel Right, she has gro...
18 Aug 202518min
BusinessTalk with Lindsay LaBonte, Branch Manager and Senior Loan Officer, HMA Mortgage
With almost 20 years of experience in the mortgage lending industry, Lindsay LaBonte (a BusinessWest 40 Under Forty honoree in 2018) has become one of the Western Mass. region’s most prolific loan ori...
4 Aug 202520min
BusinessTalk with Jeffrey Fialky, Managing Shareholder, Bacon Wilson, P.C.
On his fourth time as a finalist, and 17 years after being named to the 40 Under Forty class of 2008, Jeffrey Fialky was named BusinessWest’s Alumni Achievement Award winner for 2025. On the next epis...
23 Juni 202522min
BusinessTalk with Michelle Grout, executive director of the Springfield Business Improvement District
It’s called ‘Odyssey.’ That’s the art installation placed this summer in Tower Square Park in Springfield — the one featuring three pigeons around a Campbell’s soup can. It was placed there to turn so...
22 Juni 202518min
BusinessTalk with Jim White and Gary Stone, Founders and Partners, Go Graphix
Jim White and Gary Stone were working in sales and marketing for a medical device manufacturing company when they decided they’d had enough of the long hours, travel, time away from home, and large am...
9 Juni 202520min
BusinessTalk with Amy Royal, CEO, the Royal Law Firm
Employers are dealing with plenty of changes these days, whether it’s mandates from the state or policy shifts at the federal level, impacting everything from disability and leave to discrimination an...
26 Maj 202520min
