About

Business leaders, public officials, and champions of Massachusetts will gather for the Team Massachusetts Economic Impact Awards Luncheon to recognize the 2018 winners. These awards honor companies from all regions of the state and multiple industries for their outstanding contributions to the Massachusetts economy.

2018 Economic Impact Award Winners

West

Southeast

Northeast

Greater Boston

Central

Watch event videos here.

Learn more about the winning companies here.

Read the Massachusetts It’s All Here event blog

View event photos here.

Read the event press release here.

Featured Speaker

Governor Charlie Baker

Since taking office in 2015 as the 72nd Governor of Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker has been making Massachusetts a great place to live, work and raise a family while delivering a customer-service oriented state government that is as hard working as the people of the Commonwealth. Governor Baker worked to close budget gaps worth more than $2 billion without raising taxes, while bolstering local aid for our schools and communities, investing in a more reliable public transportation system and prioritizing funds to fight the opioid and heroin epidemic. Governor Baker has supported robust business sectors by reforming the Commonwealth’s regulatory environment, holding the line on taxes, and advancing efforts to rein in energy costs.

Master of Ceremonies

Lisa Hughes

Lisa Hughes is a news anchor for WBZ-TV News weekdays at 5PM and 11PM with co-anchor David Wade. Hughes joined the station in June 2000 after working as a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the CBS-TV Station Group’s satellite news service. Lisa has covered just about every major news event in New England, and she has had the pleasure of interviewing many of the area’s newsmakers.

VIP Reception Featured Speaker

Karen Spilka, Massachusetts Senate President

Karen Spilka became the 95^th Massachusetts Senate President in July 2018. Prior to her presidency, as Chair of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, Spilka oversaw the passage of an economic development reform law that revolutionizes the way the state does business, increases access to capital for small businesses, and makes it easier for businesses to get the help they need from the state to start or grow here. This law also created the Mass Marketing Partnership, to better market Massachusetts to businesses within the U.S. and abroad.