Features Region: Northeast

The petroleum shipping industry can be cyclical in nature, ebbing and flowing with global oil’s supply and demand. Adding to that challenge are the shifting tides of the world economy—and those tides are certainly moving—with unpredictable weather conditions, geopolitical events, acts of God and regulatory changes. To survive this volatility—even thrive—a shipping company needs a business strategy for managing uncertainties and […]

Upon commencing with the duties of the office of CIO for his new employer in June 2018, David Hayes didn’t know that family-owned Englert Inc. was being positioned for sale. Its credentials as a national roofing and gutter heavyweight based in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, were well established, but as Hayes soon realized, something stood […]

Twenty years ago, independent restaurants that sourced their goods from large distributors (think Sysco and US Foods) didn’t have much clout when it came to cost savings. As prices for products fluctuated, restaurants had two choices: find savings elsewhere, or use a different vendor altogether. John Davie had a better idea. Bringing together several restaurants […]

It sounded like a battlefield promotion for Greg Limperis when the role of interim principal at the Hampton, N.H., middle school was added to his primary responsibility as the district’s director of educational technology. How long that interim would be, Limperis couldn’t say, but when speaking to Toggle in late August, he was hoping his […]

When Kyle Wesley joined New Jersey-based Bleakley Financial Group as a digital platform manager in 2016, the firm’s primary trading tool wasn’t quite what he was hoping for—both in terms of speed and overall efficiency. The biggest thing the platform lacked, however, was flexibility. For instance, if clients wanted to sacrifice short-term capital gains to […]

It’s no secret: Traditional retail companies have a reputation for being behind the technology curve. But this has to change, says Yoav Guttmann—at least at Almod Diamonds. A 25-year veteran of the tech space, he serves as senior vice president and global CIO for the company where he is ushering in incremental, manageable technology and […]

It can be as simple as clicking on the wrong email to spark a cyberattack, Patricia Ciuffo of Touro College warns. That’s all it took in a recent hack in Lake City, Florida, that shut the local government down for days and resulted in a $460,000 paid ransom. Yet forewarned is forearmed to Ciuffo, Touro’s […]

Who knew the desire to sell wild Maine blueberry jam in 1991 would burgeon into a booming business with 21st century tech demands in every phase of its operations? That’s the story of Stonewall Kitchen, where the first products were sold at a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, farmers market. Founders Jim Stott and Jonathan King would […]

Think of it as a technological heart transplant. At least, that’s how Leonard Brinson describes a physical data center migration that he and his team successfully completed—over Labor Day weekend, no less. It was indeed a delicate and complicated operation: With renovations underway on South Jersey Industries’ corporate offices, the data center was disconnected, transported […]

It’s been a long time since you sat at a desk, scribbling notes as a professor expounds about anything from grammar to shop math. It may even be your first time at a desk since you were in high school, when time management, paying bills, raising a family and finding a new career were not […]