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Honoring Boston’s Best and Brightest

The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce hosts a variety of awards programs throughout the year that recognize and celebrate the inspiring individuals and organizations who are making an impact in their workplace and communities.

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Pinnacle Awards

The Pinnacle Awards is the premier event for women in business, and honors incredible leading women for their outstanding contributions to the workplace and commitment to enhancing the quality of life in the region.

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2025 Honorees

Margaret Low

CEO, WBUR

Lifetime Achievement – Margaret Low is the CEO of WBUR in Boston — an award-winning producer of high-quality journalism on-air, online, on demand…Read more

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Margaret Low is the CEO of WBUR in Boston — an award-winning producer of high-quality journalism on-air, online, on demand and on stage at CitySpace. WBUR has one of the strongest local newsrooms in America, with dozens of journalists covering the most pressing issues in the city and the region. WBUR reaches nearly seven million listeners across the country each week with its two national programs, On Point and Here & Now — a midday newsmagazine produced with NPR. WBUR is also a pioneering podcaster, with critically acclaimed shows like The Gun Machine, Violation, Endless Thread, Circle Round, Anything for Selena, Last Seen, Modern Love and The Common — WBUR’s daily local on demand show. Before joining WBUR in January 2020, Low was president of AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s events division, which during her tenure produced more than 100 conferences a year across the country. Low joined The Atlantic in the fall of 2014 and in a short time transformed the events business into a live journalism juggernaut that set the standard for the news industry. Prior to The Atlantic, Low enjoyed a storied career at NPR, spanning decades. She first walked through the doors as an overnight production assistant on Morning Edition and rose through the ranks to become senior vice president for news — NPR’s top editorial job. In that role, she oversaw the work of some 400 journalists worldwide and coverage of major news events from The Arab Spring and the wars in Syria and Libya to the reelection of Barack Obama and the Boston Marathon bombing. She opened new foreign bureaus, launched new shows, developed new beats and led the digital transformation of the newsroom, steering the audio strategy for digital platforms and quickening the response to breaking news. Earlier at NPR, Margaret was vice president for programming with responsibility for all non-news shows. Among Margaret’s most notable accomplishments was the reinvention of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! — transforming a studio-based radio quiz show into a live, award-winning road show and business success story. During her tenure, NPR earned some of the most prestigious honors in journalism, including multiple Peabody Awards, duPont-Columbia Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Margaret serves on NPR’s Board of Directors. She is on the board of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. She is vice chair of the board of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a board member of Wallace House Center for Journalists at the University of Michigan, home to the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships. The University of Michigan is also her alma mater. In 2017, she was the commencement speaker for U of M’s School of Communications. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband Kinsey Wilson.

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Josiane Martinez

Founder & CEO, ASG

Achievement in Entrepreneurship – Josiane Martinez, the founder and CEO of ASG, brings almost two decades of expertise in public policy, cross-cultural…Read more

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Eneida Román

President & CEO, Amplify LatinX

Achievement in Management – Non-Profit Eneida Román is the President & CEO of Amplify LatinX, a business organization that is advancing Latino…Read more

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Laura Wood

EVP Patient Care Operations & System Chief Nurse Executive, Boston Children’s Hospital

Achievement in the Professions – A lifelong pediatric executive nurse leader with a sustained commitment to strengthening health care delivery environments…Read more

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Grace Cotter Regan

President, Boston College High School

Achievement in Arts & Education – Grace Cotter Regan is a mission-driven leader dedicated to advancing Jesuit, Catholic education. Since 2017, she…Read more

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Kim Driscoll

Lieutenant Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Achievement in Management – Government – Kim Driscoll is the 73rd Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She was sworn in on January…Read more

Achievement in Management – Government –
Kim Driscoll is the 73rd Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She was sworn in on January 5, 2023, joining Governor Maura Healey in an historic series of firsts: Governor Healey is the first woman and first openly LGBTQ person elected Governor of Massachusetts, and together, Healey and Driscoll are the first all-women executive team to lead Massachusetts. Driscoll was elected the City of Salem’s first woman Mayor in 2006, taking office at a time when the community was struggling with record deficits, poor financial management, and a declining bond rating. As Mayor, she turned deficits into record surpluses and saved taxpayers’ money by strengthening city services, revitalizing Salem’s downtown, leading a vast improvement in Salem’s k-12 schools, reforming city pensions and health insurance programs to protect employee benefits, bidding public contracts, and bringing transparency to City Hall. Working collaboratively with state officials and local partners, Driscoll secured sizable public and private investments, including a new MBTA train station, a state courts complex, senior center, ferry and waterfront port at Salem Wharf, and positioned Salem as the primary marshaling port for the forthcoming Commonwealth Wind project that will serve residents across Massachusetts and New England, establishing the City as a national leader in the offshore wind sector. From passing one of the first fully-inclusive LGBTQ non-discrimination ordinances in Massachusetts, to securing major investments in veterans’ benefits, standing up for immigrants’ rights, and enacting one of the first age-friendly action plans certified in the Commonwealth, Salem under Driscoll’s leadership has been – first and foremost – an inclusive community that welcomes everyone. A proud mother of three children who attended Salem Public Schools, Driscoll chaired the Salem School Committee as Mayor. She helped push for collaboration and strategies to improve Salem’s schools and for added investments to support teachers and students. Under her leadership, Salem became one of the first communities in Massachusetts to adopt the expansion of free, high-quality early education opportunities starting at age four. The daughter of a Navy chef from Lynn and an accountant’s assistant from Trinidad, Driscoll spent her childhood in a number of states, before attending Salem State University where she studied government and became a stand-out athlete on the women’s basketball team. Like so many Salem State students, she fell in love with Salem and made it her home after graduation, pursuing a career in municipal government, and married her college sweetheart, a second-generation union bricklayer. Beginning with a position as the City of Beverly’s Community Development Director after college, Driscoll embarked on her long career of service to municipalities and went on to earn her law degree from the Massachusetts School of Law. Before becoming the Mayor of Salem, Driscoll served as the City of Chelsea’s Chief Legal Counsel and Deputy City Manager, and also served on the Salem City Council. Exemplified by her extensive and successful career in local government, Lieutenant Governor Driscoll is focused on working with Governor Healey to create a forward-looking Commonwealth and communities that work for, empower, and include all who call Massachusetts home, as well as those who aspire to do so.

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Avana Epperson-Temple

President, Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association

Emerging Executive – Avana Epperson-Temple serves as the President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA), a non-profit organization dedicated…Read more

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Rachel Felix

SVP, Chief Marketing & Growth Officer, Boston Medical Center Health System

Achievement in Health Care – Rachel Felix has spent her twenty-five year career as a brand strategist across various roles in healthcare, media, and…Read more

Achievement in Health Care –
Rachel Felix has spent her twenty-five year career as a brand strategist across various roles in healthcare, media, and consumer packaged goods. Rachel currently serves as the first SVP and Chief Marketing & Growth Officer at Boston Medical Center Health System, where she is focused on growth across all audiences from patients to community partners to donors, which all intersect at BMC’s equity mission. Rachel works to more holistically understand and communicate with these audiences, strategically build deeper relationships and advance critical initiatives such as the Health Equity Accelerator, and ultimately deliver greater impact, access, and outcomes to patients. She brings expertise from her previous role as the Vice President and Head of Brand Management at Mass General Brigham where she led integration, rebrand, and awareness efforts across the largest healthcare system in New England. Informed by her marketing insights research, Rachel launched MGB’s first global and local brand awareness and service line campaigns to position the new brand. Rachel led the visual identity roll out across all fifteen hospitals, entities, and additional outpatient centers, and spearheaded brand architecture and policy work to further define and protect the system brand. She also led enterprise-wide marketing solutions and creative services supporting the 80K employee system and largest private employer in the state of Massachusetts. Prior to healthcare, Rachel was Senior Vice President, Marketing, Content Distribution & Business Development at ViacomCBS (now Paramount). In this role, Rachel was responsible for ViacomCBS’s portfolio strategy and messaging, new business, communications, client experience, internal culture, post-merger operations, and DEI. In her fifteen-year career at ViacomCBS, Rachel marketed brands with a broad spectrum of audiences including Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, and CBS, and navigated an ever-evolving content distribution landscape consisting of traditional, virtual, digital, social, mobile and direct-to-consumer platforms. Rachel spent her early career in consumer packaged goods for both Kraft Foods and Procter & Gamble where she held various roles in brand management and sales. Throughout her experiences, Rachel has proven to be an agent of change, leading visionary transformation at large scale. She takes a consumer-first approach and is passionate about serving diverse audiences in particular. Rachel received a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and her M.B.A. from Columbia University. She is also an alumni of NAMIC’s Executive Leadership Development program at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business. An NYC transplant, Rachel is on the Board of Directors at The New Commonwealth Fund, PRX, and Women’s Lunch Place, and she co-founded Boston’s most diverse, and Dorchester’s first porch music festival, Dorchfest. She resides in Dorchester, Boston, with her husband, two children, and father.

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Grace Lee

MA Regional President, EVP, M&T Bank

Achievement in Management – Private Sector – Grace Lee has more than twenty-five years of public and private sector leadership experience. In her role…Read more

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