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JAY CARR
NECN film critic Jay Carr was born in New York City and grew up in a family that read seven newspapers each day. Although he has spent most of his career working for print media, he has been with NECN since its inception. A CCNY graduate, he wrote his first reviews at The New York Post, went to The Detroit News in 1964, and joined the Boston Globe in 1983, remaining until 2002. In 1995, he was named to the Library of Congress' National Film Preservation Board. Carr has won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, awarded by the English department chairmen of Princeton, Yale and Cornell Universities under the terms of the late critic's will. In 1989, he was named Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et Lettres (France) for writings on French film. He edited and wrote six essays for the National Society of Film Critics anthology, The A-List (Da Capo Press, 2002), which he edited. He still has not grown used to putting on makeup to go to work, and would rather watch Hairspray than use it.
BILLY COSTA
Billy Costa has been the host of NECN’s TV Diner, a restaurant review program, since 1992. A native of Cambridge, MA, Costa attended Merrimack College on a hockey scholarship before transferring to Emerson College and graduating with a degree in English. While in college, he fell in love with DJ’ing at Emerson’s WERS, and worked briefly at WBOS-FM after graduating. In 1980, Billy joined KISS 108 as an entertainment and lifestyle reporter. He has been co-hosting the Matty in the Morning show with Matt Siegel for the past 15 years, and is also the well-received host of the KISS Top 30 Countdown of Today's Hit Music. Costa’s television career has included entertainment reporting for WBZ-4 where he won a Children’s Television Award for the youth oriented talk show Rap Around, and received an Emmy nomination for his work on Evening Magazine. Costa lives with his wife and three children in Lynnfield, MA.
PAUL GUZZI
Paul Guzzi is president and chief executive officer of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, one of the region’s leading business associations. Mr. Guzzi brings extensive experience in both business and government to his work at the Chamber. A former Massachusetts secretary of state and chief secretary to the Governor, as well as a member of the management teams of two Fortune 500 companies, he is a leading advocate for economic development and job creation. Prior to leading the Chamber, Mr. Guzzi was vice president of state and community affairs for Boston College. Previously, he was a consultant for Heidrick & Struggles, an international recruitment and consulting firm. Mr. Guzzi also served as a vice president at Data General Corporation and as a senior vice president at Wang Laboratories. During his tenure at Wang, he worked closely with Dr. An Wang to oversee the restoration and transformation of what is now the Wang Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Guzzi began his public service career as a state representative from Newton in 1970. He was elected Massachusetts secretary of state in 1974. Mr. Guzzi served as a chief of staff for Governor Edward King and chief administrator of the Board of Regents of Public Higher Education. A graduate of Harvard University, Mr. Guzzi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in government. He completed the Harvard Business School Management Development Program. He was also an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. In addition to his leadership at the Chamber, Mr. Guzzi is co-host of This Week in Business, a weekly television program on NECN. Mr. Guzzi is a weekly guest on “On the Record,” a segment that airs on New England Business Day on NECN, and appears every week on WBZ-AM 1030. Among his civic activities, Mr. Guzzi serves as a trustee of the Wang Center for the Performing Arts; is a director of The Partnership, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Edgewater Technology Corporation; and is a member of the advisory boards of the Boston Club and the Kennedy School Taubman Center for State and Local Government. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife, Joanne, and has three adult children.
MARYANNE KANE
CEO Corner host Maryanne Kane has a deep history of merging the issues of business with the media. Most recently, Kane hosted a radio version of CEO Corner on WBNW-AM. She is also the former Business Editor for WHDH, is a former national correspondent for NBC's Today Show, has served as Bureau Chief for the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, and has worked as a reporter for WCVB-TV. In her last post, Kane headed up the Public Relations Division at Hill Holiday. Currently, Kane is President of her own public relations firm, Kane Associates, Inc.
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