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Ask Ferdinand Jay Smith III to sit down at a piano and play a song and you’ll hear silence. An Eastman School of Music graduate he is not. But ask him to compose the music for a television series or ...

  There’s a warmth that’s readily apparent with Dave Fuehrer. His smile is infectious, his interest in you genuine and his sympathy obvious for the people who make his company possible. And for good reason. To him, GRYT Health is ...

  Elizabeth Lyons talks about her career in art as if it were a single-minded pursuit. The glass sculptor, reflecting on her early training — a degree in sculpture from Alfred University, said, “We weren’t thinking about working for a ...

Tony Mazzullo has pretty much done it all. He’s founded companies, merged companies and sold companies. He’s run private companies and public companies, and had the unique opportunity to take one public company private. “Every day is an adventure,” says ...

Rochester is a city of technological prowess. Approach any building on nearly any street in the metro area and you’re bound to come across someone picking away at something, be they a fledgling garage startup with a good idea and ...

  For Jocelyn Goldberg-Schaible, when it comes to her company, bigger doesn’t mean better. “Better is better,” she believes. So when she founded Rochester Research Group some 33 years ago, she was intent on providing not simply statistics but comprehensive ...

Streamlining and interdisciplinary work. Those appear to be main objectives of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station’s newest director, Jan Nyrop, 62, who did the job on an interim basis starting in March 2017 and was appointed permanently in ...

Charlie Eagle smiles when he recalls his nickname at work. It’s a compliment, after all. “They joke about me being the Energizer bunny around here … go, go, go,” says the 46-year-old vice president of Art-Craft Optical Co. Inc. “It’s ...

  In many ways, the Genesee Brewing Co. is much like any other brewery. The warm, slightly saccharine scent of steeping malts drifts through its corridors; the shimmering stainless steel tanks are perched atop cement floors and vats of spent ...

  When he completed high school and headed off to Shepherd University, Rob Minter knew he wasn’t destined for a career on the ball diamonds of Major League Baseball. Scouts were clamoring about guys named Justin Verlander, Jared Weaver and ...

Many IT companies stick to the beaten path when it comes to growing and developing their business. But Innovative Solutions’ owner and CEO Justin Copie has a vision for the company that is just that: Innovative. Business owners often mistake ...

What does living on the Upper West Side of New York City have to do with being the executive director of New York Wine & Grape Foundation, which is headquartered in Canandaigua? Plenty, it turns out. Sam Filler, who became the new ...

  Sometimes it’s what you don’t say that speaks volumes about who you are. When Michael Manikowski joined the Ontario County Office of Economic Development three decades ago, then-county administrator John Hicks put him through a subtle test. “When he ...

The modern landscape of public health is one riddled with trials. From classic hurdles such as poverty to more contemporary issues such as the opioid epidemic, it’s a field constantly facing new challenges and barriers to break through. For Michael ...

For a good four years, starting in 1999, Steve Metzger spent the majority of his workweeks bringing to fruition the terminal building at the Port of Rochester. As vice president and director of civil engineering for LaBella Associates, Metzger was ...