Recent Articles from Lynn Bronikowski
Executive Edge: Mark D. Goodman
Mark Goodman, 46, took over as chairman and CEO of the Boyer Coffee Co. two years ago after helping launch McDonald’s overall coffee strategy, including the McCafe.
Executive edge: Diedra Garcia
Diedra Garcia, president and CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver (and a ColoradoBiz CEO of the Year finalist) was born in Las Vegas, N.M., and moved to Denver when her father enrolled in law school at the University of Denver. Her father returned to New Mexico, leaving her moth...
Executive edge: Eric Wallace
Eric Wallace’s love of craft beer began while living in Germany, where his father was in the Air Force. After graduating from the Air Force Academy himself and being stationed in Northern Italy and Turkey, Wallace settled in Colorado, where in 1993 he co-founded Left Hand Brewing Co. Starting as a...
Executive edge: Sherry Ray
In the 1970s and 1980s, Sherry Ray ran operational divisions of Fortune 1,000 companies. Through the early-mid 1990s, she was a leading sales professional at now-defunct Pilot Research in Denver, until a chance meeting in a grocery store parking lot, when the self-proclaimed “energizer bunny” was...
Executive edge: Dr. Ken Weiner
Kenneth Weiner is founder and CEO of the Denver-based Eating Recovery Center, which by year’s end will operate 12 centers in four states, including five in Colorado. The company, founded in 2008, will employ 600, half of whom will work in Colorado. A native of Long Island, N.Y., Weiner moved to Colorado in 1977, when […]
Executive Edge: Maja Rosenquist
Maja Rosenquist, 39, joined Minneapolis-based Mortenson Construction in 1994 as an intern in the Seattle office’s estimating department. In 2012 she was named vice president and general manager of Denver operations – the highest ranking woman on the operational side. Today she oversees a Colorado team of 500 and has been involved in the construction […]
Executive edge: Jake Jabs
On the walls of the University of Colorado at Denver School of Business are Jake Jabs’ “39 Keys to Business Success.” “To succeed you have to be willing to fail,” reads one. “Entrepreneurs don’t do it for the money,” reads another. And, “Have a passion for what you do. Love your job.” Last summer...
Executive edge: Lloyd Lewis
When Lloyd Lewis goes to work as president and CEO of arc Thrift Stores, he is inspired every day by his son, Kennedy, who was born in 2003 with Down Syndrome. “A lot of parents go through a grieving or a disappointment process; some get angry; some get depressed,” Lewis said. “But I fell in love...
Executive edge: Niki Frangos Tuttle
On New Year’s Eve 2010, Denver lawyer Niki Frangos Tuttle worked into the night on an intriguing television deal before arriving late to a dinner party chock full of celebrities. It was the launch party for the Oprah Winfrey Network, and the partner in Hogan Levells’ Denver office had just cemente...
Executive edge: John Hayes
When John Hayes was 4 years old, he’d peek over the pew of his church in suburban Chicago, decked out in hockey gear so he’d be ready to hit the nearby ice rink as soon as he said his last amen. “I’ve played hockey my whole life,” said the CEO of the Broomfield-based Ball Corp. “Hockey […]
Executive edge: Rob Schuham
On a summer morning, Rob Schuham rides his bike up Boulder’s Flagstaff Mountain, looks out over the Flatirons and sighs, “I’m so glad I live here.” That same day he packs his bags for Istanbul where he’ll share a platform with former vice president Al Gore to speak on the global climate crisis and...
Executive edge: Barbara Raynor
On her 50th birthday, amid the cheerful wishes and celebratory notes, Barbara Raynor’s email inbox contained a note that moved her to take a stab at changing the world. The email consisted of a job description for the managing director’s position at Boomers Leading Change in Health – a grassroots...