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Executive Edge: Maureen McDonald
Maureen McDonald has felt the vibe of Miami and its rich arts scene. She has learned from an abundance of Fortune 500 companies in Minneapolis. She experienced Portland's affinity for the environment and witnessed a unique program in Phoenix to solve problems. She's done it all over three-day whirl...
Executive Edge: Ryan Wood
Ryan Wood played fullback for the Dallas Cowboys, co-founded the billion-dollar Under Armour apparel company, and today the Longmont native is following his dream - ranching on 652 acres at his Sweetwood Cattle Co. in Steamboat Springs.
Executive edge: Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly walks into her office at RE/MAX headquarters to news that home sales in July plunged to the lowest level in 15 years despite low mortgage rates and bargain prices. "We knew there was going to be a fall because of the tax incentive ending. It's no different than cash for clunkers," sa...
Executive edge: Gary Brierly
When Gary Brierly was 8 years old, his father took him to see "The Mighty Hoosac" - a 4½-mile tunnel built in the 1850s through the Berkshire Mountains of Northwestern Massachusetts. His factory-worker father died of a heart attack when Brierly was 13, but years later while earning his Ph.D. in tun...
Executive edge: Jane Miller
Jane Miller walks outside her office as the smell of baking bread wafts through the air at the Charter Baking Co. in Boulder. She shows off the funky, brightly painted van fresh off the showroom floor and revved up for marketing gigs.
Executive edge: Vern Martinez
Tucked away in the massive Glenwood Canyon is a tiny imprint of a Mayan pyramid that was imbedded in the concrete sometime in the late 1980s. Vern Martinez put it there.
The Mayan pyramid is the logo of Martinez International.
Executive edge: David Fein
At age 16, David Fein became the second youngest person to set foot on the South Pole. His life has been an adventure ever since. The 50-year-old president and CEO of Colorado Springs-based ValuSource Software was a sea cadet - the Navy Reserve for young people in Southern California - when he read...
Executive edge: Jennifer Jasinski
As Executive Chef Jennifer Jasinski prepares for the biggest dining day of the year - Mother's Day - she's thinking about her own mom, who inspired her to pursue her passion, take risks and open restaurants - even amid an economic downturn.
Executive edge: Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper, founder and CEO of Cooper Tea Co., traces his 40-year passion for the tea industry to his childhood in Kenya, East Africa - a place that tugs so deep at his heart that today he refers to himself as "a white African American." That may sound politically incorrect, he admits, but "Afri...
Executive Edge: Michael Gass
As Michael Gass prepares this month to witness United Launch Alliance's 38th rocket launch in three years, he reflects on the first space shot he ever saw - as a second-grader watching on a grainy 19-inch TV in a school gymnasium of his native New York. "John Glenn went up, came back and everybody...
Executive Edge: Sue Allon
Sue Allon sympathizes with people stung by foreclosure and the mortgage industry meltdown. “If you grew up the way I did, you’d be motivated to not be poor, so I […]
Executive Edge: Doug Price
Watching "Schindler's List" would forever change Doug Price, a former banker and founding chairman of Qualistar Early Learning who this month marks his first anniversary as president and CEO of Rocky Mountain PBS. "I was a reasonably selfish capitalist," said Price, 53, who became president of Firs...
