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MANUFACTURING & TECH
Joe Bourgraf
CHAIRMAN Ferno Group of Companies
Bourgraf has led the manufacturer of emergency patient handling and physical therapy equipment since 1991 while also leading two Ferno subsidiaries: VRpatients, which provides virtual simulation training, and Acetech Global, a supplier of software to the EMS market. Clients of the Wilmington-based company founded in 1955 include fi re rescue, police, and military in more than 70 countries. PRESIDENT Gold Medal Products
Adam Browning
Browning joined the family-owned company in 2010 as a vice president and was tapped in 2017 to lead the Sharonville-based manufacturer and distributor of concession food equipment and supplies. The third generation of the family is in management, working alongside the fourth generation. Sales have almost doubled in the past decade as it employs 460 people across 16 U.S. locations, posting $135 million in revenue in 2021.
Hometown: Dayton Education: Centre College (undergraduate), University of Cincinnati (MBA), Northern Kentucky University (J.D.) What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? COVID tested our business assumptions and created a greater willingness (and need) to experiment and change our thoughts and methods. It also affi rmed our core values and approaches.
Doug Cahill
CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO Hillman Group
Cahill has led the hardware supplier to retailers that include Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Walmart since 2019. He took the company public in July 2021 when it joined the Nasdaq (HLMN), reporting revenue of $1.4 billion and more than 4,200 employees before the IPO. In May, Hillman announced plans to move its headquarters from Springfield Township to Forest Park and add 60 high-paying jobs as well as expand its packaging facility in Springfi eld Township.
Hometown: St. Henry, Ohio Education: Bowling Green State University (undergraduate)
James Clark
PRESIDENT AND CEO LSI Industries
Clark joined the Blue Ash-based leader in lighting and graphic solutions for commercial and industrial buildings, petroleum and convenience stores, and retailers in 2018. The publicly traded company bought Maine-based JSI Store Fixtures in 2021 for $90 million. Founded in 1976, LSI employs 1,335 people at 11 manufacturing plants in six states and Ontario, Canada.
Education: State University of New York at Albany (undergraduate) What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? Empowering our people to make decisions quickly and locally was a big win. Just prior to the pandemic, we started reshoring much of our materials sourcing, which proved to be a prescient move. Compare your leadership approach today to how you led before the pandemic. We must always be ready for the unexpected, so the best way to prepare is to ensure your company’s foundation is solid.
David Budig
CEO Budco Group
Budig took over the top spot in the transportation, logistics, and equipment leasing fi rm his grandfather started as a trucking company in 1949. His father, Otto M. Budig Jr., is one of the largest arts supporters in the region, with his name on Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s theater and Cincinnati Ballet’s academy. He is leading the capital campaign for The Carnegie, the historic Covington arts venue, and fundraising to build a new Clifton Cultural Arts Center.
CEO Pilot Chemical
Mike Clark
Clark became the top executive at the West Chester Township-based maker of disulfonates for the manufacturing and personal care industries in January, succeeding Pamela Butcher. Pilot was a fi nancial benefi ciary of the pandemic as its virus-killing biocide products increased sales fi ve-fold. It posted 2021 revenue of $323 million. Clark, who joined the company in 2018, oversees 415 employees at nine locations in the U.S. and Mexico.
Cris Collinsworth
OWNER AND CHAIRMAN Pro Football Focus
The former Bengals wide receiver and current NBC Sunday Night Football commentator saw the value in analytics early. He bought a majority interest in the company founded by Englishman Neil Hornsby, who relocated to Cincinnati in 2014. In 2021, Western & Southern Financial Group and private equity fi rm Silver Lake invested $50 million in the company, representing at least one-third of ownership. In July, Hornsby stepped down after taking a six-month sabbatical.
Hometown: Titusville, Florida Education: University of Florida (undergraduate), University of Cincinnati (J.D.)
David Gelwicks
PRESIDENT Hickman, Williams & Co.
Gelwicks leads the employee-owned company that has supplied raw materials (from carbon and steel production products to metals and alloys) to the foundry industry since 1890. The fi rm, founded in Louisville, has seven regional sales offi ces in the United States and Canada, three manufacturing plants in La Porte, Ind., Birmingham, Ala., and Fontana, Calif., and its corporate headquarters in downtown Cincinnati. It posted revenue of almost $140 million in 2020.
Education: Michigan Tech (undergraduate)
Richard Corrado
PRESIDENT AND CEO Air Transport Services Group
Corrado joined the Wilmington-based public company in 2010 as chief commercial offi cer and succeeded Joe Hete, who retired in May 2020. ATSG provides leased air cargo transportation for customers such as DHL, Amazon, and the U.S. military, posting revenue of $1.7 billion in 2021.
Education: Harvard University (undergraduate), Boston College (MBA) What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? Most of our businesses, our airlines, our maintenance operations, our logistics operations, and even our leasing company were considered “essential” during the pandemic, and we all went to work every day. I’m so proud of the resilience, creativity, and grit that all of our employees showed. Compare your leadership approach today to how you led before the pandemic. I had the good fortune of assuming my role as CEO right at the start of the pandemic, so it helped me defi ne a more inclusive communication process.
Paul Gohr
CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER CECO Environmental Corp.
Gohr, who joined CECO in 2014, is the ranking executive in the Madisonville offi ce that shares headquarters functions with the Dallas offi ce. As CAO since 2017, he oversees the company’s global accounting function and compliance. CECO, publicly traded on the Nasdaq (CECE), provides environmental technology expertise to improve air quality and engineer solutions for industrial partners in oil and gas, power generation, water and wastewater, and chemical processing.
Education: Miami University (undergraduate)
Steve Cuntz
PRESIDENT AND CEO BlueStar
Cuntz joined the Hebron-based global provider of solutions-based electronics such as bar-code scanners and inventory tracking devices to resellers as controller in 1985, then became CEO in 2008. Revenue was $365 million in 2009, but Cuntz helped BlueStar grow into the region’s third-largest private company with more than $2.35 billion in revenue in 2021. It has 33 locations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Latin America.
Gary Heiman
PRESIDENT AND CEO Standard Textile
Heiman leads the Reading-based business his grandfather launched in 1940. He became president in 1988 and CEO in 1994. Under his leadership, the company has grown sales from $100 million in 1988 to more than $800 million in 2020 and now operates more than 20 manufacturing and distribution centers in 11 countries. In 2021 and 2022, it was named to the U.S. Best Managed Companies list, sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal.
Hometown: Cincinnati Education: Washington University (undergraduate), Georgia Institute of Technology (master’s)
Stephen Hightower
PRESIDENT AND CEO Hightowers Petroleum
Hightower founded the Middletown-based wholesale fuel distribution business in 1982. With $309 million in revenue in 2021 and 48 employees, Hightowers Petroleum is one of the region’s top private companies and the second-largest minority-owned business. It supplies gas for new General Motors, Honda, and Nissan cars and counts Kroger, FedEx, and Waste Management among its fl eet customers.
Hometown: Middletown What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? We now know how resilient we can be through stressful situations. Our employees’ entrepreneurial spirit and dedication helped us maintain our business while ensuring quality customer service. Compare your leadership approach today to how you led before the pandemic. Sustenance and sustainability were key for the company during the pandemic, and daily Zoom meetings helped keep us all updated.
Jim Jurgensen II
CEO Jurgensen Companies
Jurgensen is the third-generation leader of the family fi rm founded by his grandfather as a small construction contractor in 1934. He joined the company in 1990 as a laborer and has been CEO since 2013. The Sharonville-based fi rm has grown to more than 25 companies providing services from asphalt paving to tank, barge, and rail transloading. Recent projects include the Fast Park & Relax facility at CVG and Western Row interchange in Mason.
Hometown: Cincinnati Education: Lafayette College (undergraduate), Washington University (MBA)
PRESIDENT CBTS
Jeff Lackey
Lackey, who joined Cincinnati Bell Technical Solutions in 2016, held a number of executive roles before taking the top job in 2020. CBTS is the IT business for altafi ber, formerly known as Cincinnati Bell, and is the region’s third-largest IT consulting fi rm with $345 million in revenue in 2021 and 25 offi ces worldwide. In 2021, CBTS announced the creation of more than 100 jobs after an agreement with the Ohio Tax Credit Authority and JobsOhio.
Hometown: Bunker Hill, Indiana Education: Indiana University (undergraduate)
Aaron Landolt
CEO AND PRESIDENT Enerfab
Landolt served two years as president before he succeeded Scott Anderson, who was promoted to president of Enerfab’s parent company, HBH Holdings. St. Bernard-based Enerfab provides fabrication, construction, and maintenance services for the heavy industrial and utility markets. It has 3,800 employees, including 550 locally, with offi ces in Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi and 2021 revenue of $360 million.
Hometown: Arlington, Ohio Education: University of Cincinnati (undergraduate), Xavier University (master’s) What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? We learned to leverage a variety of technology to adapt our ways of working, investing in additional laser scanning equipment to allow our construction teams to perform virtual project walkthroughs, estimating, and planning. CEO Meridian Bioscience
Jack Kenny
Kenny has led the company that manufactures and distributes diagnostic test kits and biopharmaceutical technologies to hospitals, research facilities, and doctors since 2017. In July, Meridian agreed to be acquired by two South Korean-based fi rms, SD Biosensor and SJL Partners, for $1.53 billion cash. The deal would end Meridian’s standing as a public company, but it will maintain its corporate headquarters in Newtown.
Hometown: Southfi eld, Michigan Education: GMI Engineering & Management Institute, now Kettering University (undergraduate) What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? We played a key role in helping companies develop COVID tests (both molecular and lateral fl ow), which enabled us to transform our life science business. New tools helped us move the business forward during the pandemic, but at the end of the day the fundamentals of how we run our business haven’t changed.
PRESIDENT Meyer Tool
Doug Lang
Lang joined the company in 1981 after its owner, Arlyn Easton, purchased his business, Lang Tool Design. The Purcell High graduate was named top executive of the Camp Washington-based company in 2016. Founded in 1951, Meyer provides precision components to the aerospace and gas turbine manufacturing sectors. It employs more than 1,500 people at 13 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Poland and posted revenue of $222 million in 2021.
Mark Mercurio
PRESIDENT AND CEO Gorilla Glue
Mercurio has worked at the manufacturer since 2014 and moved into the top job in 2019. The family-owned company with catchy name and television commercials traces its roots to 1983, when Nick Ragland bought Lutz Tool and then a small adhesive company and changed the operation’s name. Gorilla Glue products include glues, adhesives, tapes, sealants, and fi llers. It moved its headquarters from Madisonville to Gateway 75 in Sharonville in 2015.
Education: University of Cincinnati (undergraduate), University of Virginia (MBA) Compare your leadership approach today to how you led before the pandemic. Lessons I leaned on: values-based decision-making trumps fi nancials-based decision-making, especially during times of crisis; let leaders lead; and you can’t communicate enough.
Ken Oaks
CHAIRMAN AND CEO Total Quality Logistics
Oaks has grown the privately held company he founded in 1997 into the largest in Greater Cincinnati and second-largest freight brokerage fi rm in the U.S. The Clermont County fi rm has more than 10,000 employees at 56 locations in 26 states, including 3,000 locally. The company is the naming rights partner of FC Cincinnati’s West End stadium. It reported revenue of $7.8 billion in 2021, nearly double from $4.1 billion in 2020.
Rick Michelman
CEO AND PRESIDENT Michelman
Michelman succeeded Steve Schifman, who transitioned to executive chairman after serving as president and CEO of the family-owned enterprise since 2003. Michelman is the former chief technology officer and executive vice president for the Americas, joining the company in 1996. The Blue Ash fi rm, founded in 1949, manufactures water-, vapor-, and grease-resistant coatings for the packaging industry and has seven production facilities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Hometown: Cincinnati Education: Cornell University (undergraduate), University of California–Berkeley (Ph.D.) Compare your leadership approach today to how you led before the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, body language and facial expressions provided additional context clues during face-toface discussions. When meeting with team members remotely, I appreciated the opportunity to use video discussion to capture their reactions and engagement in team dialogues.
Andrea Pirondini
CEO Prysmian Group North America
Pirondini, who joined the company as COO in 2014, was promoted in 2021 to oversee North American operations of Prysmian Group, the Italian company that owns Highland Heights-based General Cable. He succeeded Massimo Battaini, who was moved to global responsibilities within Prysmian. The company manufactures underground and submarine cables and systems for power transmission and distribution, and optical fi ber and copper cable for voice, video, and data transmission.
Hometown: Torino, Italy Education: Bocconi University (master’s) What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? We’ve learned a lot in terms of resilience: how to organize and work eff ectively while fully remote and now how to adapt to a hybrid working environment. A “one size fi ts all” approach isn’t for us.
Tom Nies
CEO Cincom Systems
Nies was working for IBM in 1968 when he and two partners founded the Springdale-based company. Today it’s one of the largest international independent software companies in the world. Cincom’s best known product is Total, the fi rst commercial database management system that was not bundled with manufacturer hardware and proprietary software. Cincom employs 500 workers at 17 locations around the world.
John Richardson
CHAIRMAN SugarCreek
Since 1990, Richardson has led the food manufacturing business started by his father in 1966. In 2021, the company announced plans for a new headquarters campus in Blue Ash, including an events center. SugarCreek employs 2,800 people at six manufacturing plants and packaging facilities in Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas and posted 2021 revenue of $1.1 billion. In May, Richardson acquired Cincinnati Beverage Co., which continues to operate on its own.
Hometown: Washington Court House, Ohio Education: Illinois State University What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? While we already considered ourselves an agile company, we had to become even more fl exible to respond to changes in customer demand. We also grew to appreciate our work base or our “everyday heroes” even more than before.
CEO Republic Wire
Ron Rosenbeck
Rosenbeck was one of three founders of the copper wire manufacturer in 1982. After buying out his partners, Republic started to manufacture multiple kinds of aluminum and copper wire for distributors, utilities and municipalities, eventually expanding to a 400,000-square-foot operation in West Chester Township and a network of 20 sales representatives covering the U.S. Republic posted revenue of $400 million in 2021, up more than 53 percent from $260 million in 2020.
Education: Miami University (undergraduate)
Kimberly Ryan
PRESIDENT AND CEO Hillenbrand
Ryan was promoted from executive vice president in December to succeed Joe Raver, who retired after leading the world’s largest casket company and diversifi ed manufacturer of industrial equipment and technology for eight years. Ryan, the region’s only female CEO of 24 public companies that trade on an exchange, oversees the daily operations of the $2.5 billion Batesville-based corporation.
Hometown: Ottumwa, Iowa Education: Iowa State University (undergraduate) Compare your leadership approach today to how you led before the pandemic. Now more than ever, associates want to grab on to something bigger than them, which is why I made it a priority to refi ne our company’s purpose to highlight the importance of our work and show the value we bring to the world. CEO Payload
Ryan Rybolt
Rybolt leads the fast-growing, financial technology payments startup, which he co-founded in 2019. In March, the company announced it had raised $1.5 million from investors, the fi rst investment round of outside money for the Blue Ash-based company that provides digital payment capabilities for real estate transactions. Payload’s revenue skyrocketed more than 800 percent in 2021.
Hometown: Harrison Education: University of Cincinnati (undergraduate) What’s the main way your business organization changed over the past two years of the pandemic? We launched Payload shortly before the pandemic began, and it ultimately changed our overall business strategy as we shifted over to deliver electronic payments to the residential real estate community, which was signifi cantly impacted by social distancing.
Michael McDonald
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law
Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincin- nati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
Michael McDonald
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law
Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincinnati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
Michael McDonald
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law
Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincin- nati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
Phil Schneider
PRESIDENT BGR
Schneider took the helm of the West Chester Township-based packaging supply chain company in March. The move was part of a transition plan announced by founders and brothers Allen and Dean Backscheider, who stepped down as co-presidents but continue as co-chairmen. Schneider had been chief sales and marketing offi cer since 2020. Among his fi rst hires were Jeff Dickson as chief customer offi cer and Tom Metz as vice president of supply chain.
Barbara Smith
PRESIDENT Journey Steel
Smith and Tom Garten founded the steel fabrication and erection company in 2009. In 2021, she was inducted into the African American Chamber of Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Hall of Fame. In 2020, Journey opened an offi ce in Kansas City, its fi rst outside of its Roselawn headquarters. In 2019, she participated in a roundtable discussion on small business with President Trump at the White House. Journey reported 2021 revenue of $3.7 million.
James (Jay) Stahl III
PRESIDENT CBT Co.
Stahl was promoted in April from senior vice president and general manager, succeeding his father, James Stahl Jr., who grew the distributor of electrical and mechanical parts from fi ve employees to 264 today. Founded in 1921 as the Belting Company of Cincinnati and owned by the Stahl family since 1975, CBT reported record-setting revenue of $270 million in 2021. Headquartered in Columbia Township, CBT also has locations in Springboro and Sidney, Ohio.
Education: Georgetown University (undergraduate)
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
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Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincinnati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincinnati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
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RELADYNE.COM
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law
Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincinnati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
Larry Stoddard
PRESIDENT AND CEO RelaDyne
Stoddard, who has led the company since 2010, has grown the producer of lubricants, fuel, diesel exhaust fl uid, and industrial reliability services to become one of the largest private businesses in Greater Cincinnati with more than $2.4 billion in 2021 revenue. It’s continued an aggressive acquisition strategy, buying Farley Co. of Kent, Ohio in February and Orange Line Oil Co., which expands it reach into Southern California.
Hometown: Atlanta Education: Auburn University (undergraduate) CEO ProAmPac
Greg Tucker
Tucker leads the Springdale-based fl exible packaging company owned by Pritzker Private Capital. He oversees a growing operation that has almost 50 locations on three continents with more than 5,800 employees serving over 5,000 customers in 90 countries. It acquired Belle-Pak Packaging of Canada and Specialty Packaging of Fort Worth, Texas, this year. Since Tucker’s arrival in 2015, annual revenue grew from $446 million to more than $1.9 billion last year.
Hometown: Boston Education: Worchester Polytechnic Institute (undergraduate) CEO CincyTech
Mike Venerable
Venerable leads the fi rm that galvanized the growth of high-potential startups in Greater Cincinnati. His fi ngerprints are all over the seed fund’s mission of working with entrepreneurs, investors, research institutions, and community stakeholders to fund technology and life science start-ups. It fi led to raise $100 million for Fund VI, its largest seed-money goal to date. As of July, it has 20 active portfolio companies.
Michael McDonald
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law
Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincinnati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
Michael McDonald
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McDonald Congratulations Gary Heiman, President & CEO, for leading with purpose.
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Paul Verst
CEO Verst Logistics
Verst has led the Walton-based company, founded by his father in 1966, since 1993. He has helped grow it into a multi-faceted fulfi llment, packaging, transportation, and warehousing operation. In March, Verst signed a lease to open a 394,000-square-foot fulfi llment center in Boone County equipped with Locus robots. The region’s second-largest logistics fi rm reported revenue of $280 million in 2021. In July, Verst was appointed to a three-year term on Xavier University’s board of trustees.
Hometown: Cold Spring Education: Xavier University (undergraduate and MBA)
Nigel Vinecombe
CEO Multi-Color Corp.
Longtime executive Vinecombe returned as CE O in 2019 to the Batavia-based label manufacturer. The publicly traded company is one of the world’s largest producers of pressure-sensitive, in-mold, and heat-transfer labels for the food and beverage, wine and spirits, home and personal care, and hardware and specialty markets. MCC was sold in 2021 to Clinton, Dubilier & Rice, a private equity fi rm. Founded in 1916, MCC employs 10,000 at 86 facilities in 26 countries.
Education: University of South Australia (undergraduate and MBA)
Bob Watts
CEO Pomeroy
In 2021, Watts succeeded Chris Froman, who transitioned to executive chairman before retiring in June. Prior to joining Pomeroy as chief information offi cer, Watts was CEO of Vivitec, a cybersecurity fi rm he founded in 2014. He also serves on Pomeroy’s board of directors. The Hebron-based provider of IT infrastructure, staffi ng, procurement, and logistics services reported 2021 revenue of $400 million with 2,500 employees, including 211 locally.
Education: U.S. Military Academy (undergraduate), University of LaVerne (master’s)
Michael McDonald
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law
Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincinnati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
Michael McDonald
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law
Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you 9155 Governors Way Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 | 513.583.0900 do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincinnati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
Michael McDonald
SUPREME LEADER Doobie Brothers, Attorneys at Law
Lambcke is deeply tanned, rested, and retired, but drags around a bad hip and knee after standing on a factory fl oor for 38 years. Baskin is sitting out on a recumbent bike, reading Lee Child paperbacks, after getting therapy on his elbow and back. This past year I bookmarked mayoclinic.com, acquired a cardiologist and sleep doctor, and blew through my deductible before March Madness. Plus one more tk line goes here.
Hometown: Anderson Township Education: Miami University First job: Painting houses Toughest challenge faced Best advice received or favorite inspirational quote: Begin with the end in mind. What you’d tell a recent college graduate about entering your fi eld of business: Your work life last 30 or 40 years, so make sure you love what you do. Favorite hobbies or leisure activities: Hiking, fi shing, golf, reading Favorite Greater Cincinnati charity: Down’s Syndrome Association of Cincinnati
