Sherry Alpert Corporate Communications, LLC

06/23/2021

WBUR's "Radio Boston" (affiliate of NPR) broadcasted an outstanding 12-minute interview with my client Paras Patani, founder of NextGen SmartyPants, who made it to Episode 4 on FOX's "LEGO Masters" last night. He talks about how he uses LEGOs in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) education.

https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2021/06/22/mr-lego-competes-in-lego-masters

05/15/2020

"How we can prevent the 'unknown unknowns' - the $28 billion lost every year in irreproducible life science research. My client Sridhar Iyenger (Founder/CEO, Elemental Machines) writes about this in his bylined article in LabCompare and American Laboratory.

https://www.labcompare.com/10-Featured-Articles/564311-How-We-Can-Prevent-Unknown-Unknowns/

Half of life science research and development fails, costing $28 billion or half the cost of pre-clinical research that is spent annually. The research fails, because it is not reproducible. New technology measures the “unknown unknowns” about failed experiments to prevent this colossal waste of...

05/11/2020

LaunchPad Medical, my client, received a $2.5 million federal grant to advance the development of its bone adhesive technology, Tetranite, in replacing metal fixation hardware in brain surgery. The grant followed an animal study recently published in the Journal of Neurosurgery.

https://www.lowellsun.com/2020/05/10/head-to-head-lowell-company-seeks-to-revolutionize-brain-surgery/

LOWELL — Lowell-based LaunchPad Medical, Inc., has received a $2.5 million federal grant to make headway on new technology for securing bones in place after brain surgery. During a craniotomy, a po…

04/22/2020

Scott Kirsner wrote about my client Elemental Machines hiring - through Zoom - during the Corona virus pandemic.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/17/nation/hiring-is-still-happening-its-not-business-usual/

03/24/2020

Boston Business Journal features my client Elemental Machines "Biotechs Brace for Work Losses, Financing Drop-off" by Allison DeAngelis
https://bizj.us/1q2wbr
Academic laboratories and biotech, searching for ways to monitor their shuttered labs during the COVID-19 pandemic, are flooding the phone lines at Elemental Machines. The Cambridge-based company, which provides sensor systems that can monitor anything from temperature to vibrations, has seen a threefold increase in new business over the last few weeks.

Having sent home their employees and successfully shut down their offices, some biotech executives are taking a breath and thinking: What now?

07/08/2019

The Sunday Worcester Telegram & Gazette featured my client Foley Engines - North America's oldest engine distributor (founded in 1916) and one of the U.S.' top clean energy companies.

https://www.telegram.com/news/20190707/103-years-later-foley-engines-of-worcester-shows-staying-power

WORCESTER — The bright red "Foley" sign that faces Interstate 290 is as rickety and old-fashioned as it looks — and it almost

04/10/2019

Gov. Charlie Baker lauded 54 Israeli companies that have located to Mass. since 2015 at the New England Israel Business Council event. Rep. Steve Howitt kindly shot this photo.

12/31/2018

Here is my published column on "Why 'Schindler's List' Matters More Today: http://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2018/12/28/why-schindlers-list-matters-more-today/ We should all be worried about growing anti-Semitism, anti-Israel media coverage and Neo-Nazi activities. Learn from history - the 1930's in Germany have frightening parallels.

11/17/2018

"Inside Edition" interviewed my client Malay Kundu, Founder/CEO of StopLift, about how his technology detects cashier and customer thefts of turkeys at the checkout. Yes - 20 lb. turkeys! See here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1_OV2grU4

It's a crime wave you may not have known about. Apparently thousands of turkeys are stolen from supermarkets every year around Thanksgiving. But a high-tech gadget from StopLift, the maker of retail anti-theft technology in Cambridge, is putting a target on turkey thieves.

08/22/2018

My client, Malay Kundu, Founder/CEO of StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, was interviewed on Bloomberg Radio: Bay State Business: The Innovation Economy 8-20-18 (posted 8-21-18) about his technology that detects unscanned items at the manned and self-checkout.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2018-08-21/baystate-business-the-innovation-economy-radio

07/25/2018

I was recently interviewed about my public relations career in Boston Voyager. The interview includes my insights on the current state as well as the future of news, journalism and public relations. FYI: the editor specifically asked for a "fun" photo, which for me is Tanglewood.

http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/meet-sherry-alpert-sherry-alpert-corporate-communications-canton-ma/

Today we’d like to introduce you to Sherry Alpert. Sherry, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? I began my career as a reporter in the 1970s for the Middlesex News (now the MetroWest Daily News) in Framingham, where I learned how to write on deadline, research [...

02/21/2018

WBS-TV (CBS Boston) did an excellent story 2/20/18 on my client StopLift, whose tech identifies & deters theft & other scan avoidance at manned and self-checkouts. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/02/20/self-checkout-facial-recognition-technology-shoplifters-stoplift-malay-kundu-cambridge/

A Cambridge company is using artificial intelligence to help retailers cut down on losses by tracking your every move at the checkout.

02/01/2018

WCVB-TV (Boston) did this story on my client LaunchPad Medical and its breakthrough "Bone glue" (1-19-18) http://www.wcvb.com/article/bone-glue-can-be-major-breakthrough-in-treating-broken-bones/15831364

In need of a dental implant, spinal fusion, or just a broken bone? A Lowell startup invented a mix that could be less invasive.

02/01/2018

WCBS-TV (NY) featured this story on my client StopLift on its 11 p.m. newscast Jan. 31: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/01/31/self-checkout-technology/
Intentional or not, there’s technology that can spot scan avoidance at the checkout as it happens: StopLift Checkout Vision Systems. Using artificial intelligence, it can read and flag checkout behaviors; suspicious transactions can be questioned on the spot; and mistakes can be corrected before anyone is labeled a thief.

You already know there are cameras, but new technology is analyzing all of your actions, waiting for a missed item.

01/16/2018

Video of my client Launchpad Medical's "bone glue", which just returned from the International Space Station, is now on Seeker.com
https://www.facebook.com/SeekerMedia/videos/10155674315053387/

12/22/2017

Launchpad Medical, my client, is featured in the Boston Globe. Its groundbreaking "bone glue" is being tested at the International Space Station to enable researchers to simulate osteoporosis in bone-growing cells in microgravity, which causes astronauts to lose up to 2% of their bone mass per month. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/22/lowell-company-develops-bone-glue-being-tested-international-space-station/7DAKvB5vt5SsKbqMpJISKJ/story.html

The bone glue, a biomaterial called Tetranite developed by the company LaunchPad Medical, is intended to supplement tools like metal plates and screws in orthopedic surgeries.

11/08/2017

My client Lisa Sasso was featured in the Reading Advocate for publishing her book "Motivation Now!"
http://reading.wickedlocal.com/news/20171023/reading-resident-lisa-tosi-sasso-releases-motivational-book

READING - Lisa Sasso of Reading, Executive Coach, has just published "Motivation Now!", a book designed to enable individuals and business owners to focus on practical life skills reflecting on

11/08/2017

My client StopLift was featured on Halloween on Spectrum News (Charlotte, NC), detecting unscanned pumpkins at the checkout.http://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2017/11/01/there-s-a-growing-trend-in-shoplifting-called--sweethearting-

This trend in shoplifting happens because security footage isn’t reviewed.