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As we get ready to ring in 2024, here's a recap of business and nonprofit leaders honored by Mainebiz in 2023, starting with our nine Business Leaders of the Year award winners.
We recognized individuals in several new categories, including Lifetime Achievement (Dana Connors), Innovator of the Year (Habib Dagher) and Entrepreneur of the Year (Margo Walsh) and New Mainer of the Year (Amina Hassan).
All were profiled in the March 20 print edition and feted at a reception in Portland.
Drew Lyman, president of Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding
Tom Watson, principal of Port Property
Tim Harrington, Kennebunk-based hospitality-industry entrepreneur
Leigh Saufley, dean of the University of Maine School of Law
Travis Mills, founder of the Travis Mills Foundation
Amina Hassan, founder and executive director of Her Safety Net
Margo Walsh, founder of MaineWorks
Dana Connors, former longtime president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce
Nominations for 2024 Business Leader of the Year awards are already open, so please fill out a form here to make your case for someone in the appropriate category.
New categories this year include Sustainability Leader of the Year and a Breaking Barriers Award. All winners will be celebrated at an event on April 10.
Each year since 2009, Mainebiz has honored a group of inspiring women business and nonprofit leaders.
This year's Women to Watch honorees, profiled in the Aug. 7 print edition of Mainebiz and celebrated at a 15th anniversary event on Sept. 13 in Portland, are blazing trails in sectors from axe-throwing to biotechnology.
Agnieszka Carpenter, executive director of Bioscience Association of Maine
Susan Ruhlin, managing director of Dirigo Labs
Jessie Davis, executive director of the Friends of the Strand Theatre
Victoria Morales, executive director of Quality Housing Coalition
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