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Hudson Valley Community College President Roger Ramsammy is included in the first-ever Power 50 named by the Albany Business Review.<\/p>\n
By Melissa Mangini, Editor-in-Chief \/ Albany Business Review<\/p>\n
Power can manifest itself in different ways.
\nIt might be the person at the top or an influencer behind the scenes. It’s someone whose ideas and decisions reach beyond a company, organization or industry.<\/p>\n
To assemble the inaugural Power 50 list, the\u00a0Business Review\u00a0editorial team spent months researching, debating and deciding who we thought were the 50 most influential people in Capital Region business.<\/p>\n
The list of 50 people include longtime power players but also the people who are redefining the region in the midst of the pandemic and those who are adeptly leading their companies and organizations through major challenges, emerging opportunities and constant uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Power 50 is all about the business community. We know there are many powerful people in other arenas, but our expertise comes from covering the region\u2019s business scene. The list does not include elected officials. And it is not a ranking.<\/p>\n
In alphabetical order, below is the 2021 Power 50:<\/p>\n
Vikash Agrawal and Vikram Agrawal, founders, Levrx Technology Inc.
\nKarthik Bala and Guha Bala, founders, Velan Studios
\nCarm Basile, CEO, Capital District Transportation Authority
\nBob Belber, general manager, ASM Global\/Times Union Center
\nDr. John Bennett, president and CEO, CDPHP
\nKevin Bette, president, First Columbia
\nSonny Bonacio, president, Bonacio Construction
\nHeather Briccetti, president and CEO, The Business Council of New York State
\nDavid Brown, president and CEO, Capital District YMCA
\nJeff Buell, principal, Redburn Development
\nDave Buicko, president and CEO, Galesi Group
\nNancy Carey Cassidy, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Picotte Cos.
\nMichael Castellana, president and CEO, SEFCU
\nTom Caulfield, CEO, GlobalFoundries
\nSujata Chaudhry, founder and CEO, Tangible Development
\nBill Dake and Gary Dake,\u00a0chairman of the board\/president, Stewart’s Shops
\nDavid Davis, president, Simmons Machine Tool Corp.
\nChristopher Del Vecchio, president and CEO, MVP Health Care
\nTony Gaddy, president and CEO, UpState New York Black Chamber of Commerce
\nRay Gillen, chairman, Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority
\nNeil Golub, chairman, Golub Corp.
\nDenise Gonick and Steve Gonick, strategic advisors and investors
\nDoreen Harris, president and CEO, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
\nJoan Hayner, chief operating officer, Community Care Physicians
\nGeorge Hearst III, publisher and CEO, Times Union
\nRich Hendrick, CEO, Port of Albany
\nShirley Ann Jackson, president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
\nCarver Laraway, owner, Port of Coeymans
\nRuth Mahoney, market president, regional retail leader, KeyBank
\nI. Norman Massry, principal, Massry Realty Partners
\nAngelo Mazzone, CEO, Mazzone Hospitality
\nDennis McKenna, president and CEO, Albany Medical Center
\nKathleen McLean, president, The McLean Group
\nElizabeth Miller, president, Miller Mechanical Services and Doty Machine Works
\nEd and Lisa Mitzen, owner, Fingerpaint; philanthropists
\nEd Moore, owner, Queensbury Hotel
\nPhilip Morris, CEO, Proctors Collaborative
\nJohn Nigro, president, Nigro Cos.
\nDan Nolan, president and CEO, Graypoint
\nStephen Obermayer, principal, CFO, BBL Construction Services
\nChet and Karen Opalka, philanthropists, The Opalka Family Philanthropic Trust
\nScott Rajeski, CEO, Latham Pool
\nRoger Ramsammy, president, Hudson Valley Community College
\nDr. James Reed, CEO, St. Peter’s Health Partners
\nSarah Reginelli, president, Capitalize Albany Corp.
\nHavidan Rodriguez, president, University at Albany
\nEd Swyer, president, The Swyer Cos.
\nDaniel Van Plew, executive vice president and general manager, Regeneron
\nCharles Wait, chairman of the board, Adirondack Trust Co.
\nMarcia White, interim president, The College of Saint Rose<\/p>\n
The Albany Business review plans more articles about these individuals in the coming weeks, and the full Power 50 will be featured in a special issue on July 16<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 25 May 2021 12:03:48 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hudson Valley Community College President Roger Ramsammy is included in the first-ever Power 50 named by the Albany Business…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}