2025 Event Listing

538th Meeting Featuring Tom Gardner

Tom Gardner is the speaker for  the 111th annual meeting and 538th meeting of the Worcester Economic Club. He co-founded The Motley Fool with his brother David in 1993. He now serves as co-chairman and CEO. In 2014, Glassdoor ranked The Motley Fool the #1 place to work in the U.S. for companies with between 250-1000 […]

539th Meeting Featuring John Maguire

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

The Five Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Worcester Economic Club will be held at the College of the Holy Cross Thursday, October 1, 2015 Reception and Networking, 5:30 pm; Speaker, 6:30 pm John M. Maguire CEO, Friendly’s John M. Maguire was named CEO of Friendly’s Ice Cream LLC in 2012 bringing to the company […]

540th Meeting Featuring Richard B. Hoey

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

The Five Hundred and Fortieth Meeting of the Worcester Economic Club Will be held at the Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross Thursday, November 12, 2015 Reception and Networking, 5:30 pm; Dinner, 6:30 pm    Richard B. Hoey Senior Economic Advisor, BNY Mellon Wealth Management   Mr. Hoey is responsible for monitoring all […]

541st Meeting Featuring Richard DesLauriers

Meet Richard DesLauriers, the former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Division who led the FBI Boston Division during its successful capture of James “Whitey” Bulger, and led the dramatic hunt for the Boston Marathon Bombers.

542nd Meeting Featuring Nina Easton

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Come hear speaker Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large at FORTUNE and longtime FOX News "All-Star" panelist, offering commentary on politics, the economy and foreign policy to an audience of millions in print and on cable TV’s highest-rated prime time shows.

543rd Meeting Featuring Ron Insana

Ron Insana is a contributor to CNBC and MSNBC, where he discusses the most pressing economic and market issues of the day. He also delivers The Market Scoreboard Report to radio stations around the country. He has written for Money magazine and USA Today and has hosted two nationally syndicated radio programs.

544th Meeting Featuring Jim Paulsen

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Jim Paulsen is chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management. An investment management industry professional since 1983, Mr. Paulsen develops investment strategies that assist in the management of separate institutional account assets, as well as mutual and collective investment funds.

545th Meeting Featuring Dan Kenary

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Dan Kenary serves as CEO and Co-Founder of the Harpoon Brewery. He graduated from Harvard College in 1982 with a degree in American History and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1985 while working at the First National Bank of Chicago in Chicago and Paris. Dan left the bank in 1986 to co-found the Harpoon Brewery. Dan has served on the Institute of Brewing Studies Board of Advisors, as a director and the treasurer of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, a local environmental advocacy organization, president of the Boston Marine Park Business Association and founding president of the Massachusetts Brewer’s Guild.

546th Meeting Featuring Thomas P. Joyce, Jr.

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

As President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2014, Tom Joyce leads Danaher’s strategic vision and global portfolio growth. Since then, with the help of the Danaher team, his strategic perspective has strengthened Danaher’s focus as a leading science and technology company through the acquisition of Pall Corporation, a number of other key acquisitions, and the launch of Fortive Corporation, a new, independent, publicly traded company. An equally dedicated people leader, Tom has also spearheaded far-reaching efforts to align the company and culture around a shared purpose, and to build a deeply engaged workforce at all levels.

547th Meeting Featuring Kathleen A. Murphy

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Kathleen Murphy is president of Personal Investing, a Fidelity Investments company that provides retail brokerage, mutual funds, managed accounts, annuities and other financial products and services to millions of individual investors. Ms. Murphy is also responsible for Fidelity’s life insurance and annuities business, its workplace savings business for tax-exempt organizations, all of the firm’s brand and advertising programs, its online strategies through Fidelity.com, and Fidelity’s mobile device applications.