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Lids Sports Group’s new office in Zionsville feels more like the ultimate sports getaway than a traditional office. With a giant sports ticker in the main lobby, a state-of-the-art social media command center and ESPN playing on flat screens throughout the building 24/7, it’s easy to forget that people come here for work.

And people do work. Lids Sport Group’s

new building allows employees to keep up with the latest sports trends and respond to changes in real time, and they have fun while doing it.

“I, personally, love all of the references to sport,” said Jeff Pearson, Lids Senior Vice President of Ecommerce. “Each room named after a sports venue, the chairs with logos of NFL or collegiate teams. The Press Box is a great addition. And, of course, I love hearing/seeing ESPN everywhere I go. I am 6 / ZIONSVILLE MAGAZINE / JANUARY 2017 / atZionsville.com

very proud to be part of this organization.”

The project for a new headquarters started in 2014, but Lids’ new office was finally ready for business in early February. The grand opening was held in October.

Everywhere you walk on the expansive, 150,000-square-foot building and surrounding campus was designed with the sports fan in mind, including the NBAdonated basketball courts in the company

“ I think since the company was founded in Indiana it’s important to keep the roots of the company grounded here.”

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parking lot. There is also the hangout spot named “The Dugout,” with a fully functional cafeteria, ESPN on every screen, pool tables, and more. The company knows how to play hard, but work harder.

While Lids has become one of the largest sports licensed retailers in North America, it has stayed true to its roots by remaining in Indiana. Hatworld, Inc., which acquired Lids, has been an Indiana-based company since 1995, when the first store opened

in Lafayette. The company remained in Indiana due to its central location and business-friendly atmosphere. Pearson also emphasized Indiana’s sports connections.

“I think since the company was founded in Indiana it’s important to keep the roots of the company grounded here,” he said. “I also believe that Indiana is at the center of much of the collegiate and professional sports leagues. Think NCAA, NFL Combine etc.”

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“The new location is attracting attention and making it easier to recruit and retain talent,” Pearson said. “With all the amenities in the building, it’s a very conducive work environment for success.”

With the addition of the new social media command center, dubbed “The Pressbox,” Pearson thinks Lids is going to get better and better.

“I love working at Lids,” he said. “We have a hard-working and extremely collaborative workforce. And since we get paid to know what is happening in the world of sports and fashion, it’s the best of all worlds. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to work here.”

The Pressbox has eight large flat screens, flashing real-time updates to their social media accounts, sports news and customer demographics.

A wall in the lobby has enormous words “Have Fun, Sell Hats.” The company’s new Zionsville office will help them do more of both.

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KAREN MANGIA

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Karen Mangia, Vice President of Customer and Market Insights for SalesForce, recently discovered an old email exchange with a friend stating how “email was ridiculous and it would never catch on.”

This is laughable now, but back then, the most radical idea was a handheld cell phone for talking, not texting.

Since her college days, Mangia knew she wanted to work with customer data and took a nontraditional path to a tech career.

Karen enjoyed the constant change with AT&T, but Cisco was growing and she saw opportunity.

Through a series of building blocks and choices at Cisco, Karen’s job ultimately transformed into what she had desired since college. She was the Nielsen ratings for Cisco.

“I managed the annual survey process to customers,” says Karen, who performs a very similar job at SalesForce. “I assessed what was working and what wasn’t, where is the risk and sought market opportunities.

“I have been fascinated by why people make the choices they make, what are the trends, study the data points and weave together the story,” says Karen, who earned her undergrad and masters degrees at Ball State. “I wanted to work for Nielsen, until I discovered they were located in Iowa.”

“Like with anyone’s career path, every step is additive to the process as a whole.

The steps lead someone somewhere. The technical data of customer feedback helps us figure out what to build next, what our customers want.”

Building her wheelhouse, Karen dug into project management and sales with AT&T before being recruited to Cisco.

Disruption is a concept Mangia has welcomed into her life time and again. Not all of the disruptions have been welcome, but all provided learning experiences.

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From a personal perspective, one pivotal moment in Karen’s life was backing out of a wedding after the invitations had been sealed and stamped.

The longest car ride of Karen’s life was sitting in silence with her mother after her bridal shower on the way back to Karen’s home. Her mom pulled into a parking space and Karen started crying and told her mom not to unload the gifts. They would need to be returned.

“The voice inside my head was screaming, DO NOT MARRY THIS GUY,” shares Karen. “By listening to the inner voice inside my head, I disrupted my entire life course and took a detour, which was my intended path all along.”

The next major disruption occurred while Karen was working at Cisco. She was noticing signs something was not quite right. In her early 30s and experiencing success on many levels, she was displaying signs of fatigue. She justified her lowerthan-normal energy level as a result of

recently moved to a new house. Yet more symptoms were appearing.

She told herself stories to explain the unwelcome signs her body was exhibiting. Karen’s health was in decline and she was doing her best to deny it.

She became unrecognizable to herself in the mirror. Her hair was falling out, she had gained weight, her skin was yellow, and her once-vibrant blue eyes had turned grey. But she kept pushing herself as if nothing was wrong. She also started to forget where she placed things.

“It was not until I couldn't remember my brother's name that I thought, ‘Oh my gosh. I can't ignore this any more,’” she shares.

It was three and a half years before she was diagnosed with pesticide poisoning. Even in the midst of her health crisis, she did not slow down until she was forced to. She had to heal.

Karen had to pay attention to what her inner voice — and her body — was telling her.

“The first step is discovering what pushed the snowball down the mountain,” states Dr. Kevin Logan, Mangia’s physician. “Then a personalized prescription for diet and lifestyle changes are essential to the process of bringing the body back into balance.”

It takes many lines of code to have a program perform as designed, and it takes time for your actions to propagate.

The same applies to your health, especially when a body is in crisis.

In her book Success With Less, Karen details her journey back to health.

It’s not the physical healing that is dominant in the book, but more the emotional element that was her trigger.

This healing opportunity impacted Karen’s approach to life. She was forced to audit her circumstances and figure out for herself what her idea of success looks like and how it needed to change.

“It's so easy to look at everyone else's life and find that success is easy for other people. ‘If I only had the right education, the right boss, the right job.’ But success is available to everyone,” she says. “The key piece is determining what success means to you and calibrating to that. Because when it is that definition, it is available to everyone. There is no key to a secret club.

You create it.”

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A more circuitous and unpredictable path could not have been had by Sun King President Bob Whitt with regards to his career, nor a more enjoyable one.

Bob’s previous work experience included Senator Lugar’s presidential campaign in 1995 and1996, where he worked with his wife, Ellen, a lawyer who spent 25 years in politics and public service at the state and federal level. She is now Executive Director for The Exchange at Marian University. During the campaign, Bob planned many rallies, fundraisers and additional events in the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

“The job I am in and the job I just left are both dream jobs,” says Bob. “I am fortunate enough to experience two in one lifespan.”

Prior to Sun King, Bob served 11 years as the Executive Director of White River State Park, having been appointed by thenGovernor Mitch Daniels and reappointed

by Mike Pence. The 250-acre downtown Indianapolis park includes the Indianapolis Zoo, White River Gardens, Eiteljorg Museum, Indiana State Museum, IMAX Theater, NCAA National Headquarters, The Lawn music venue, Victory Field (home of the Indianapolis Indians), Military Park and many other green spaces.

“I was essentially the landlord, and was well prepared without knowing it in advance, as I understand event and property management,” shares Bob, who had worked for years as a commercial real estate

He started his career in business with some of the best sales and management training available at Xerox Corporation. He earned his MBA at University of Maryland while working for Xerox in Washington, D.C. The combination of his later commercial real estate development and brokerage experience, his personal obsession with food, wine, craft beer and the “locally grown and made” movement, his significant event experience and community/political involvement made him the ideal candidate for what the Sun King team needed, regardless of his lack of actual craft brewery experience.

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As part of the company’s initial push to help the community and create brand awareness, Sun King began popping up at local events in 2009. Bob noticed they seemed to be appearing all over the place. Sun King was located in downtown Indianapolis, so Bob dropped by and introduced himself.

Walking into Sun King Brewery today looks dramatically different than it did at that time. The growth of Sun King has been exponential. The company exceeded its fiveyear production and sales goals within its first 18 months in business, creating a push for the state to raise the limit for allowable craft brewery production.

“Originally, there were only a few tanks in that section,” says Bob, waving his hand towards the corner of the building. “I would occasionally come in, hang out, drink a beer, and get to know founders and brewers Clay Robinson and Dave Colt, plus partners Andy Fagg, Steve Koers, and Clay’s father, Omar.”

As the relationship grew, Bob discovered they shared similar business philosophies regarding how a business should run responsibly, commitment to the community, and respect and treatment of employees.

When Sun King first approached Bob

about replacing Omar, who was retiring as president, it came as a shock.

ties to the community. My vote was to go for it.”

“As Bob was considering making this major change, the thing that seemed to be holding him back was just how much he loved his work at White River State Park,” shares Ellen. “Even so, the opportunity at Sun King was the chance of a lifetime to join another team of extraordinarily talented and committed individuals and to add value to an already amazing organization with strong

Since joining the Sun King team in late April, 2016, Bob has worked every job in the brewery, starting in the tasting room.

He’s traveled with the sales staff, worked the canning line, and has witnessed firsthand how all the moving parts work in sync. He described it as “Undercover Boss” without the disguise. Dave walked Bob through the brewing process by brewing a batch

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“Our downtown Indy brewery is somewhat automated, but in Fishers one measures everything. It’s very hands on,” says Bob. “I’ve also been out with the draft technicians cleaning the draft lines in restaurants, a key to quality with kegged beer, which often resides a significant distance from the taps.”

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“A lot of people were curious why Sun King chose to bring on a new president with no experience in the world of brewing. But as a company that is transitioning from scrappy start-up into a mature business there is a whole different set of skills that are necessary for success,” Clay says. “Bob’s background and connections throughout the community, combined with his passion for all things local and his desire to help make Indiana a great place to live, work, and play, made him a great fit for Sun King.”

Since inception, the commitment to a quality product is evident in the thoughtful consideration of each product Sun King produces. For example, it took Dave and Clay two years of research and a significant financial investment to make Sunlight Cream Ale and Wee Mac Scottish Ale shelf stable at room temperature for grocery stores. For care in distribution, most beers would just be thrilled to have third-party sales and distribution. While Sun King does have distribution throughout the state of Indiana, they self-distribute within Marion County and regularly clean the lines from

keg to tap, ensuring the highest quality beer reaches their customers.

Sun King maintains a strong presence at numerous events. In 2016 they participated onsite or donated to more than 700 events.

To date, Sun King has more than 350 community partner organizations and a full team focused exclusively upon community development.

Sun King’s goal is to become Indiana’s beer, with plans to extend outreach through festivals and events in the bordering cities of Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago. The intention is not to sell beer out of state, but to create the demand for those residents in Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois to cross the state line to buy Sun King.

Bob refers to Dave and Clay as the visionary driving forces behind the company, its innovative concoctions, and the expansion into spirits.

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shares Bob. “With the rapid growth, other elements took precedence so now we are able to move forward with liquor.”

The distillery will be built from the ground up in the Midtown District of Carmel with a prime location on the Monon Trail between Main Street and the Palladium.

Construction is set to begin during the first quarter of 2017 with hopes of opening before the end of the year.

"I worked closely with Bob as Sun King developed its plans for building something unique along our Monon Trail,” says Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard. “I am consistently impressed with his vision and ideals for how he sees Sun King growing in the future. We're pleased he chose Carmel for this new direction and we are happy to be sharing in his success."

Indiana’s beer may also soon be Indiana’s spirits.

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Shon Joyner Local Marine Stars in New Discovery Channel Survival Show, The Wheel

After a lengthy application and audition process, which included a full physical and psychological evaluation among many other requirements, Joyner was chosen as one of six cast members for Discovery Channel’s new extreme survival challenge series, “The Wheel.”

and SOS devices that can be used at any time to quit the challenge and call for help.

The contestants must procure food, water and shelter. And when the wheel turns again, they will be thrust into a new location and forced to use a completely different set of skills to survive.

The show, according to The Discovery Channel, is the ultimate survival test. Six participants are challenged to survive in six grueling landscapes across South Shon, who was a Marine for six years and America. With every turn of the wheel, served in combat, said a fellow Marine each survivalist is dropped into a new who had lost an arm and leg in combat isolated location, exposed to the world’s heard about the competition challenged deadliest terrains, including freezing him to apply. When the application arrived tundra, rugged mountains and treacherous in his inbox, he decided to step up to rainforest. Participants don’t know when or the task to honor his fellow Marines and why the wheel will turn. Each contestant submitted it. is equipped only with a light survival pack

Once Joyner received the news he’d been selected, he had only two weeks back in Fishers to prepare himself, and then was flown back to Los Angeles briefly before beginning the challenge, where he was flown to an undisclosed location, at which time all six participants met for the first time. They were then split up, and each dropped in their first environment.

The hardest part of the experience, he said, was the isolation. Because there was no camera crew, he was taught how to film his

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What motivates a person to voluntarily put himself in the most extreme and dangerous environments on the planet, completely isolated, with nothing but his resilience to keep him alive? That’s the question I had the opportunity to ask Fishers resident Shon Joyner.

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adventure from his own point of view.

time remembering how to drive.

He says it’s hard to put into words what the isolation feels like, including depending only upon yourself for your own survival. He credits his time in the Marines for helping to prepare him, but the isolation made it a vastly different experience.

One unexpected result of the experience was a change to his senses, and how he experiences his environment.

Joyner said, “Combat with the enemy versus combat with yourself in complete isolation are two totally different battles. In combat, you have other Marines to go through the experience with. With this you’re completely on your own. The isolation is horrible.

“Every day felt like 5 days,” he continued. “Your entire concept of time changes. You only see the 30 minutes of edited footage. You don’t see the other 23.5 hours of the struggle that I go through. But it happened and I lived it.”

Joyner says that the experience challenged him in ways he never thought possible, even with his service in the Marines. The most surprising thing to him was how emotionally broken he became as days stretched on and his sense of isolation grew.

Even during transports from one hellish location to the next, the production crew could offer no comfort, assistance, or even interact with him on any level not critical to moving him to the next location.

Joyner was unable to share the final result of his experience, but he said that upon returning home he had a hard time re-acclimating to his “normal” environment. In fact, he said he isolated himself for a week before leaving his home and reengaging with the outside world. He said he had a hard time remembering how to use his phone, and the first time he got in his car he sat there for 10 minutes because he had a hard

“I felt like my body transformed, became animal like in some way, because it had to,” he said. “My survival depended on it.”

When asked by the producers of the show if he would consider doing it again, he said he absolutely would.

“It’s a rare, life-changing opportunity.”

You can watch Shon Joyner on The Wheel when it premieres Friday, January 13, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on The Discovery Channel.

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KEEPING A RIVALRY ALIVE: GAUGUIN V. SEURAT Writer / Kara Kavensky

The Indianapolis Museum of Art, founded in 1883, is one of the oldest art museums in the United States. That same year, 35year old Paul Gauguin left his successful position as a Parisian stockbroker to dedicate his life to art (to the distress of his wife, with whom he had five children). Three years later, Gauguin would paint a pivotal and influential work, Still Life with Profile of Laval.

Still Life with Profile of Laval, which is currently on display in the European Galleiesr, is the cornerstone of the Pont-Aven Collection acquired by the IMA from international art collector Samuel Josefowitz in 1998. This famous painting is going on tour later this year, first to The Art Institute of Chicago, and then on to the world famous Musee d’Orsay in Paris.

The acquisition of works by Gauguin and his followers, included in the Pont-Aven Collection, elevated the prestige of the IMA in international art circles. Of the 17 paintings in the collection,

three are by Gauguin. The Pont-Aven Collection also includes 84 prints by Gauguin and his cronies.

“In addition to the Pont-Aven Collection, we have the best collection of Neo-Impressionist paintings in the world outside of the Musee d’Orsay and the Kroller-Muller Museum in Europe,” says Ellen Lee, Wood-Pulliam Senior Curator and a friend of Josefowitz.

The IMA already possessed one masterpiece by the founder of the movement, Georges Seurat, The Channel of Gravelines, and Petit Fort Philippe, through a generous donation in 1945 from Mrs. James W. Fesler, in memory of her parents. Indianapolis businessman W. J. Holliday gave the IMA’s core collection of works by Seurat’s followers to the IMA in 1979. Other strategic additions were made more recently through the family and friends of Robert S. Ashby.

Inside the European Art Galleiesr, the juxtaposition of the PontAven Collection gallery adjacent to the Neo-Impressionist

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collection gallery continues a rivalry, which now stretches across an ocean.

The history of the contentious relationship between Gauguin and Seurat is something of legend. Gauguin is 11 years older than Seurat and yet their artistic journeys are parallel. Each began drawing and painting in 1873.

The eighth (and final) Exhibition of Impressionists opened May 15, 1886, in Paris. The lead up was filled with controversy as Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Caillebotte withdrew from participation due to the acceptance of newcomer Georges Seurat.

Camille Pissarro had pushed for Seurat’s inclusion. Just before the opening, Degas insisted the word “impressionists” be removed from the announcements. Gauguin displayed a huge collection, whereas Seurat showed only a few works, including La Grande Jatte, (owned by The Art Institute of Chicago). La Grande Jatte and the other paintings of Seurat garnered the most attention from the Exhibition. Gauguin’s keen disappointment that Seurat had garnered most of the Exhibition’s acclaim was heightened by the realization that his former mentor, Pissarro, was now a follower of the young Seurat.

If social media existed in 1886, the throwdown tweets after the eighth and final Impressionist Exhibition would've been something like this: @gauguin my exhibit is bigger and better than Seurat’s dots #gohomelittleboy @seurat The old man brought the goods yet I #dominated Still Life with Profile of Laval was painted the winter following the famous final Exhibition. Arguably much of the best and most

representative work of Gauguin will be in close quarters with Seurat in Chicago this June since La Grande Jatte, the talk of the eighth Exhibition, is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

At the IMA, the Gauguin paintings in the Pont-Aven Collection include: Flageolet Player on the Cliff, Christmas Night and Still Life with Profile of Laval. Flageolet Player on the Cliff, was painted by Gauguin the summer before Seurat created The Channel of Gravelines, both currently on display in the IMA’s European Galleries.

Pont-Aven is located in the Brittany region of France. It is here that Paul Gauguin attracted a group of artists, creating the PontAven post-impressionist movement. Georges Seurat moved in a different direction, to various ports in northern France, when he wanted a break from the Paris studio.

Still Life with Portrait of Laval almost didn’t make the flight to Indianapolis when the collection was acquired in 1998, as it was flagged during the legal due diligence because a prior owner bore the name Herzog.

The wealthy Herzog family, led by patriarch Baron Mor Lipot Herzog, amassed the largest collection of art in Budapest, Hungary in the early 20th century. The baron died in 1934, leaving his estate divided amongst his three children. Still Life with Portrait of Laval was given to his middle son, Andras Herzog.

Andras married and divorced Maria Izabella Farravicini, with whom he had two daughters. Andras later died in a forced labor camp in 1943.

Allied postwar protocol required works of art to be returned to their countries of origin. There is existing litigation today by other Herzog heirs, regarding other works of art still in Hungary. After the war Still Life with Portrait of Laval was

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safeguarded and inventoried in Germany by Indiana native Thomas Carr Howe, Jr., one of the original Monuments Men. It was then shown to have been legally released

by Hungary to a Countess Istvan Bethlen in 1948.

This countess was Andras’ ex-wife, who had remarried.

The painting bears the stamped seal of the Hungarian government on the back of the canvas, which enabled its legal departure from Hungary. The Countess promptly sold the Gauguin masterpiece, and it was eventually purchased

by Josefowitz.

“It was my dream, made possible by the IMA’s expansion in 2006, to juxtapose our Seurat collection with our Gauguin material, creating a permanent space in the European Galleries for these two major movements of the late 1800s,” adds Lee. Gauguin’s Still Life with Portrait of Laval is small in stature, yet rich in meaning. Art historians may continue their discourse in perpetuity over the symbolism of each element of this painting.

“The Pont-Aven period for Gauguin is when he became a mature artist,” shares Lee. “He painted incredible works while in Tahiti, but it was Pont-Aven, years earlier, where he had his breakthrough.”

Still Life with Portrait of Laval abounds in personal symbolism of the artist. The ceramic vessel in the center of the table was created by Gauguin. In an 1887 letter to his wife, Gauguin drew a sketch of the sculpture and wrote: “Did you also bring a pot I made; keep it carefully for me. I like it, unless you are able to sell it (for a good price, 100 francs).”

There is no evidence today that the piece still exists, as its whereabouts are unknown.

The still life and white tablecloth are an homage to Cezanne, whom Gauguin admired greatly.

Charles Laval is a Gauguin groupie and friend. They met in Pont-Aven the summer of 1886. The cropped image of Laval in the painting is indicative of the style of Degas, who was a mentor to Gauguin. The choppy nature of the addition of Laval’s profile is a modern approach to a portrait, referencing Degas’ style.

A highly speculative element of the painting is the middle section. Scholars think it to be a window or a mirror, or possibly something entirely different. Through scientific examination, the mystery of this upper center region of the painting may be close to be being solved.

“Under infrared light, the middle area appears to be that of a mirror, as the imaging shows a clear reflection of Laval’s profile,” states Senior Conservator of Paintings Linda Witkowski.

IMA EXHIBITS • Adjacent to the Pont Aven gallery, is What Lies Beneath • CSI: Conservation Science Indianapolis, Chemistry of Color • European Gallery (H208, H209) - Open for viewing the contentious styles of Gauguin and Seurat, with limited viewing of Still Life with Profile of Laval until it goes on tour.

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Susana Suarez Zionsville Town Council President

Susana Suarez has been fascinated by politics since she was very young. She would spend her mornings reading the paper at her family’s kitchen table in Mexico City, exchanging sections with her father. Depending on the issue, she would follow up with a letter to the current sitting President of the United States.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Susana and her family moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland, when she was 15. She graduated from Ohio State University where she became a member of the OSU Republicans and served as the group’s president during her senior year.

She also worked in the Ohio statehouse as a constituent aide to a state senator. To cap off her final year at Ohio State, Ronald Reagan visited campus on a campaign stop for George H.W. Bush. During that visit, she met Republican strategist Lee Atwater, who hired her on the spot to work with the Republican National Committee.

“At a young age, I was convinced I could make our society better and our community better,” she says.

Working in Washington D.C. for the RNC, Suarez established many professional relationships and was integral in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). When the sitting president lost the 1992 election to Bill Clinton, Susana went to work for NAFTA coalitions, the Hispanic International Trade Center and USA NAFTA. For the next eight years she worked with the Anheuser-Busch Corporation, moving from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, then to New York City, and then to St. Louis. When George W. Bush began his presidential campaign, Susana’s phone began to ring. Her friend and Bush attorney Albert Gonzalez asked her to join their efforts.

“I had gotten the bug,” Suarez says.

After the election was over, she served

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Zionsville Town Councilors Jeff Papa, PhD, and Susana Suarez filing their re-election forms

as the Assistant Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

“I went from selling beer to recovery from 9/11,” Susana says. “The learning curve was steep.”

What Susana experienced during that time solidified her commitment to service.

“What I witnessed with the first responders of 9/11 and their commitment to stabilize ‘the pit,’ as they called it, was nothing short of the best example of human nature,” she says.

Susana was at “the pit” the day after the towers fell and she was there the day the last body was lifted out.

“It was a very traumatic time,” she recalls.

“The amazing outpouring of support that came out of that tragedy is a testament to the American people.”

After 9/11, the climate for American workers around the globe changed. One of the agencies looking to re-evaluate the safety of those serving in other countries was the Peace Corps. Again, Suarez’s cultural heritage was an asset, as Mexico had never allowed Peace Corp volunteers into the country for a number of reasons, including a suspicion regarding the mission of the volunteers. Some even believed volunteers were CIA operatives. Overcoming the element of distrust, Susana negotiated the entry of the Peace Corp into Mexico.

politically a Democrat-leaning independent.

Considering Suarez’s political history, election years (and World Cup matches) result in much debate at their home.

“We have common ground and some differences,” says Kiko, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and Innovation for the Lumina Foundation. “And we only resolve it over a bottle of good Spanish Rioja.”

Susana and Kiko had just welcomed “It is amazing the transformation that occurs their first child shortly before settling in where willpower and possibility exist,” she Zionsville. says. “Given these two elements, amazing things can happen.”

“At the time I was just getting integrated within the community,” Susana says. “I was Susana’s next position was with a Mexicanasked to run for town council.” owned cement the aggregate company CEMEX, for which she helped with Though she had never run for office, she the business relationships within the decided to seize the opportunity two years communities where it operated. She says later, although she was six months pregnant she enjoyed her position a great deal. While with her second child. She and Jeff Papa working with Cemex, Suarez met her decided to work together. husband, Juan “Kiko” Suarez. As they were working in different countries, they decided “I first met Susana in 2011, when we were to leave the company. both running for at-large seats on the Zionsville Town Council,” says Papa, Chief Juan, who is originally from Spain, is of Staff/Chief Legal Counsel for the Indiana atZionsville.com / JANUARY 2017 / ZIONSVILLE MAGAZINE / 27

Senate and a Zionsville Town Council Member. “We hit it off immediately and decided that it made no sense to each fund an entire campaign, so we ran as a team and split the costs, even putting our names together on signs and handouts, rather than producing two of everything. Susana has a unique ability to assess new situations, new problems and new people and work toward practical solutions. When she was still fairly new to Indiana, and we would wind up at a state event, I would try to introduce her to people, but she already, somehow, knew everyone. Susana has done great work for the town, and on the Commission for Higher Education.”

“We are doing the best for our community,” Susana says. “We have a high level of respect for public discourse, even after contentious elections.

Susana was sworn in with her babies in tow and has been dragging them to meetings ever since. She is the first female President of the Zionsville Town Council.

Appointed to the Commission for Higher Education by Governor Daniels, Susana

Susana Suarez with Billie Dragoo

serves as an at-large member and as the vice chairwoman, alongside Commissioner Teresa Lubbers. Susana also serves on the Board of Christel House Academy and the Latino Expo, Zionsville Safety Board Chairwoman and vice president of the Zionsville Police Commission. If that weren’t enough, she also volunteers as room parent for her daughters’ classrooms.

Susana served as a member of Governorelect Eric Holcomb’s transition team and has been appointed to Executive Director of Strategic Communications for Governor-elect Holcomb. Steve Braun, on the Commission of Workforce Development, said he was excited to hear of the appointment.

“Susana’s commitment and experience to public service at the national, state and local level, combined with her business background, makes her uniquely qualified to identify the men and women that should lead the state as part of the Governor-elect’s cabinet and administration,” Braun says. “We are in good hands.”

In a world of change, our focus is steadfast.

In 2009, Susana started Media Moon Communications, a multicultural and bilingual marketing and communications company. Utilizing her strengths, Susana assisted in the process of spinning out Allegion from Ingersoll Rand, and had the pleasure of ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange when Allegion went public.

“The talent, the culture, the amazing people who are here; I wouldn’t trade anywhere for this place,” she says. “There is nothing like Indiana, I wouldn’t raise my kids any where else. Every single day I live in awe. Many people take it for granted, but those of us who relocated here, it’s the people that make Indiana beautiful.”

Kara Kavensky is the Editorial Manager for the Towne Post Magazines. Follow her: Karakavensky.com; Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @karakavensky.

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as much as the next person, it just took 121 years to get here,” stated Michael E. Schrage, Centier Bank President and CEO.

Over the years, Henry’s son, grandson, and great-grandson, have built the bank to be what it is today: A $3.5 billion dollar The foundation for this legacy in Indiana bank, with 54 locations (and growing) in business began in Northwest Indiana, when 11 counties across the state. Most recently, Henry Schrage opened the Bank of Whiting. Centier Bank opened a Zionsville branch One of Lake County’s pioneers, Henry this fall and has already made a significant was Whiting’s first postmaster and was impression on the community. instrumental in building much of Northwest Indiana’s economic development. Henry “Centier represents exactly what Zionsville conducted business during a time of stands for which is a community focused settlement in Whiting, when streets did not family business. In my years in banking I find exist, cars did not exist, and it took more that some have lost touch with those that they than a day to travel into Chicago by horse serve, whereas Centier makes clients and the and carriage. community a priority every day,” stated Brad Duncan, Zionsville Branch Manager.

“Our company started with a dream and hard work. We are living the American dream Centier Bank entered the Greater Indianapolis 30 / ZIONSVILLE MAGAZINE / JANUARY 2017 / atZionsville.com

region in 2011 with a commercial loan production office in Carmel. Since then, Centier has expanded full service banking in the Central Indiana region, with banking centers in Carmel, Downtown Indianapolis, Westfield, and Whitestown.

“We’ve been in business since before there was government regulation and the FDIC. Some people recall the days of getting a loan with just a handshake. It’s the way we used to do business,” said Schrage. Although banking has changed over time and regulations require much more than just a handshake, it’s still the way that Centier likes to do business. Centier frequently stands apart from its competition by providing personalized customer service and a friendly, neighborly banking environment where everyone knows your name.

Many clients value the bank’s independence and unique corporate culture, which is

inclusive to all Centier associates. Over the last decade, Centier has invested numerous efforts to produce an award-winning corporate culture, which includes health and wellness programs, and numerous family-friendly resources for associates and their families. Associates have found these incentives and benefits to be rewarding and because of this, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce has named Centier among the state’s “Best Places to Work” for 10 consecutive years.

respected team of bankers can assist with lending needs up to $50 million to a single borrower, with service that is streamlined and flexible, and banking conveniences that meet the demands of your busy schedule.

Further underscoring the company’s commitment to independent community banking is its 5th generation of family owners now working in the bank, continuing the Schrage family legacy and

providing both stability and longevity to Centier Bank’s position as Indiana’s Largest, Private, Family-Owned Bank.

“We want to be remembered for the contributions that we make in our lifetime,” stated Schrage. With Centier’s rich family history, you can be sure that you are forging a true partnership with an organization that cares about creating and nurturing relationships that last for generations to come.

“All along, we value our associates’ families just as much as our own,” stated Schrage.

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Centier’s team of community bankers includes a local team of financial experts who take great strides to keep a pulse on the heartbeat of our community. Our

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