Recognizing the Capital Region’s 2024 Top Workplaces

This residential real estate firm's agents work with buyers, sellers and investors throughout the greater Capital Region. Keller Williams teaches its associates how to run a profitable business through training, classes and coaching. Read more.

Special award: Training

This nonprofit safeguards private and public organizations against cyber threats, securing information technology systems and data. It provides secure computing environments in the cloud for cyber threat prevention, protection, response and recovery for state, local, tribal and territorial government entities. Read more.

Leadership award: John Gilligan, CEO

This criminal justice support agency provides services for law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals. This includes oversight of law enforcement agency accreditation programs, county probation departments and alternatives to incarceration programs; coordination of juvenile justice policy; law enforcement training and more. DCJS also maintains criminal history records and fingerprint files and performs background checks required by law for employment and licensure. It also administers the Sex Offender Registry; the Missing Persons Clearinghouse; and the state's DNA Databank in cooperation with the New York State Police. Read more.

Special award: Work/life flexibility

This health insurance provider serves more than 100,000 members in the Capital Region. It is part of Anthem Inc., which is the parent company to New York’s Empire Plan.

The owner of the Port of Coeymans, Carver provides logistics services and products to customers, partners and tenants with divisions specializing in property maintenance, construction, maritime services and materials.

This Joint Commission-accredited, private psychiatric hospital is one of the leading specialized providers of inpatient psychiatric treatment for children and adolescents in the Northeast. Four Winds also provides comprehensive inpatient mental health treatment services for adults as well as outpatient services for adults, children and adolescents.

Special award: Meaningfulness

TBC serves thousands of clients in accounting, auditing, tax and advisory services. The firm offers specialty services such as trusts and estates, business advisory, litigation support services, pension services and consulting for a diverse clientele. 

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Special award: Direction

This full-service general contracting and construction management has built hundreds of commercial and retail facilities in the Northeast with an average yearly volume of $75 million to $85 million.

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This company provides in-home services to seniors allowing them to stay safe at home and engaged in everyday life with support. Read more.

Special award: Clued-in senior management

The engineers, biologists, artists and designers at this biotechnology firm create next-generation sustainable materials using mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, including insulation, vegan leather and a substitute for bacon.

Special award: Managers

This engineering consulting firm offers 3D laser scanning, mobile mapping, 3D modeling software, drone surveys and mapping to provide clients with innovative and collaborative design solutions to their most vexing challenges.

A purveyor of quality leather with a focus on making a positive environmental and cultural impact, working with designers in the residential, hospitality, contract, aviation and transportation markets around the world.

Leadership award: Jared Eckler, president

The nonprofit provides roadside assistance, insurance, travel, discounts and automotive services to 177,000 members in 13 upstate counties.

Founded by energy efficiency professionals, Livingston Energy Group is a clean energy company offering a wide array of services ranging from basic project consultations to turnkey equipment and software solutions for sustainable and cost-effective EV charging infrastructure.

A division of the State Office of Children and Family Services, the center provides telephone, email and chat customer service on behalf of 11 state agencies. It fields an average of 5,000 calls a day on more than 60 lines of business about such topics as the medical cannabis program and paid family leave, and assisted with the state’s COVID-19 response.

This member-owned nonprofit credit union, originally founded as Schenectady Teachers FCU, exists to service the financial needs of its members. Those who live, work, worship, or attend school in Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Schoharie counties or are related to a member, are eligible for membership.

A statewide hospital and continuing care association representing nonprofit and public hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies and other health care organizations.

Nassau offers insurance products to help customers meet retirement goals, including protecting their savings, delivering guaranteed income and paying for health care costs.

Construction company and real estate development firm of local artisans and professionals serving clients needing residential and commercial construction, remodeling, equine, historic restoration and structural and architectural metals.

This educational agency provides services primarily for preschool children with special needs through collaborative partnerships in the Capital Region.

This employee-owned and -operated company provides service and delivery of its customers’ propane, fuel oil and natural gas needs. The business prides itself on customers always speaking with an employee-owner regardless of the hour of day or night.

This law firm has been providing individual, institutional and corporate clients a comprehensive array of legal and government relations services for more than 90 years. It offer clients a wide range of practice expertise, from health law to health insurance, life insurance to financial planning, and labor to education and government relations. Read more.

Special award: Values

This local family-owned and -operated business has been a trusted name in pest control across the Northern Hudson Valley, Capital Region, and Adirondack Regions for over a decade. The firm is committed to enhancing lives through partnership and relationship-based pest management. Read more.

Special award: Doers

RBS, an independent and locally owned office technology leader with a national reputation for excellence, has three divisions to serve its customers’ needs: Hardware, Software and IT Consulting/Network Management. Its multifunction copiers, printers, scanners and production machines meet the demands of all sizes of companies. Read more.

Special award: New ideas

The LA Group uses landscape architecture and engineering to help shape experiences for clients. Its staff of landscape architects, civil engineers and environmental scientists have experience in public space and government projects, resort and commercial development, and campus planning and design. 

Based in Schenectady, Transfinder is a leader in logistics software, providing intelligent solutions to schools, municipalities and adult care facilities. The firm develops routing, scheduling and fleet maintenance solutions for optimal transportation logistics. It also has satellite offices in Austin, Texas, and Shanghai.

Special award: Appreciation

Creative Materials supplies surface materials including tile, resilient flooring, pavers and setting materials to the commercial construction industry. It also works with architecture firms, developers and corporate multi-unit brands to assist with specification and the supply of materials.

Special award: Communication

The family-owned company is one of the largest importers of tile and stone in the United States, with premier porcelains and ceramics from Italy, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico and the U.S. They also offer complimentary design services and installation advice.

Through a holistic planning approach, Northwestern Mutual combines the expertise of its financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to help its clients plan for what’s most important and help people and businesses achieve financial security.

This locally owned civil engineering firm provides highway and bridge design services, traffic engineering, transportation planning, transit facilities design, civil engineering, site design, surveying, construction support and inspection services. It has designed award-winning projects for a variety of clients statewide.

Caring for patients while keeping them close to home is central to the mission of this mental health service provider, which works to help people make the changes required to live their best lives.

Leadership award: Julie Morison, owner

The engineering talent at this technology service provider has 30+ years of experience and works with the world’s leading hardware and software companies to deliver end-to-end consulting, implementation and managed services across the U.S.

In 2023, Marvin and Company, P.C. merged with Rochester-based Mengel Metzger Barr & Co. to form MMB + CO. The firm of certified public accountants and consultants, with local offices in Latham and Queensbury, provides accounting, audit and tax services to New York’s Capital Region.

Laberge Group provides engineering, planning, architecture, government operations, surveying and funding services to communities throughout New York state.

Previously known as The Spinney Group, LiveWell Group is a family-owned real estate company that specializes in the development, construction and management of rental communities and commercial office space in the Capital Region.

This nonprofit janitorial company employs individuals in recovery from substance use disorders, who are offered financial rehabilitation, recovery coaching, housing opportunities, medical referrals and community engagement.

This dental practice with more than 50 years of experience offers state-of-the-art treatments using today's latest technologies at nine locations across the Capital Region.

This full-service, family-owned remodeling contractor has been serving the Capital Region since 1915. They provide home renovation solutions for kitchens, bathrooms, windows, doors, siding, porches, decks, additions and basements.

Family owned and operated for 98 years, this company offers kitchen and laundry room appliances as well as air cooling, heating and humidifiers at its showrooms in Latham, Clifton Park and Kingston.

This software consulting company based in upstate New York develops web-based software applications that help clients get things done more efficiently. The company’s services include designing and building entire applications as well as augmenting existing teams.

GTM provides easy-to-use payroll and human capital management solutions, driving more informed business decisions and employee engagement. Its offerings unify disparate data and systems into one platform for greater efficiencies and savings, backed by a commitment to service. GTM processes more than $1 billion annually for more than 44,000 employees.

Best Fire responded to rising home-heating costs in the 1970s and the resulting demand for wood stoves, fireplaces and custom patio products by producing and installing those products. Fun fact: the business was selected to install three fireplaces in the “Extreme Makeover — Home Edition” house in 2007.

A nonprofit, multi-channel public communications organization that convenes arts, culture, learning and civic interests, WMHT focuses on community and culture by providing entertainment, enrichment and engagement through television, radio, digital media and educational services.

This school and residential therapeutic community serves young women and their families throughout the state experiencing mental health needs including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and self-injurious behavior with an individualized approach in a nature-based environment.

The products and services of this water park and recreational design, construction and manufacturing firm have been utilized in over 4,000 facilities — including 100 indoor and outdoor water parks and over 550 wave pools and specialty wave systems — around the world.

This family-owned business specializes in all phases of real estate. It prides itself on demonstrating a profound commitment to its clients, investors and dedicated team of employees in New York, Georgia, Maryland, Florida and Texas.

The independent agents at this firm collaborate with clients to examine their unique situations and deliver the right solutions for their personal and business insurance needs.

YRI is the nonprofit affiliate to the New York Office of Children and Family Services, developing, administering and delivering training and related activities in all OCFS service areas, including child welfare, juvenile justice, adoption and foster care, child and adult protective services and services for the blind.

Hospitality House is an all-male, intensive residential treatment facility for individuals struggling with and navigating substance use disorders. Certified and licensed by New York state, its team works to provide the very best quality of care and substance use treatment while helping clients reach their their fullest potential.