Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Announces
2023 Annual Pacesetters Awards Honorees
BOSTON, MA -The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the honorees of the second annual Pacesetters Awards. The Chamber’s Pacesetters Awards celebrate the intense commitment, action, and extraordinary results of companies and individuals leading in corporate supplier diversity. Honorees are recognized in the categories of Company of the Year, Champion of the Year, and Partnership of the Year.
“Congratulations to the Chamber’s 2023 Pacesetters Awards Honorees! These business leaders and companies represent the best of the Commonwealth’s supplier diversity community. Incorporating equity into procurement best practices is one of the important and meaningful ways that we can build a more inclusive business community. Successful partnerships between businesses of color and large corporations means that we are championing equity and closing the region’s racial wealth gap. It is our responsibility to ensure that Massachusetts is a place where every business of color can succeed, and our honorees exemplify how to champion equitable commerce every day,” said James E. Rooney, President & CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
2023 Pacesetters Awards Honorees
Company of the Year: Manulife/John Hancock
- Manulife /
John Hancock created a multi-year strategy to advance supplier diversity
into their company’s global procurement operations, including adding KPIs
and RFP requirements that center supplier diversity.
Champion of the Year: Rosanna Molinaro, Director of
Procurement and Contracts Management, Department of Planning, Real Estate, and
Facilities, Northeastern University
- Rosanna
Molinaro is an expert and thought leader in supplier diversity best
practices, and at Northeastern University, Rosanna leads the bidding and
contract management for the Planning, Real Estate, and Facilities
Department while advancing supplier diversity in procurement.
Partnership of the Year: Boston Planning & Development Agency
(BPDA) and Casablanca Services
- The BPDA and
Casablanca Services, a minority-owned landscaping company, developed their
partnership over the years, beginning with a multi-year contract for
downtown waterfront landscaping and most recently partnering for a
multi-year snow removal contract.
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