Growth is a choice. As president and founder of Career Start Workforce Management Group, Lindsay McCutchen has chosen growth for her company. As of the end of May, Career Start’s revenue is up 52 percent compared to last year at ...
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Jason Barrett and the spirit(s) of Rochester 
You’d be hard-pressed to find a story more “Rochesterian” than that of Black Button Distilling founder Jason Barrett. It’s a story of industrialism, perseverance, proud family legacies and forging one’s own path. Barrett’s story, or at least his family’s, begins ...
Read More »Z-Axis owner succeeds through focus on customers, employees 
Michael Allen says it’s easy to buy a company. “You convince the seller that he’s going to hold a note for 10 percent. You convince the county that they’ll come in for 5 percent. You convince the SBA to provide ...
Read More »Tom Matthews leaves a legacy of leadership at SUNY Geneseo 
Thirty-eight thousand. That’s a conservative estimate of how many workshops in leadership that SUNY Geneseo students have taken under Tom Matthews’ direction. The founder of the Geneseo Opportunities for Leadership Development program, or GOLD, Matthews knows that number because he ...
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Read More »Bridge to success: CPL president stresses collaboration at work 
You had to figure Dan Duprey Jr. was going places based on how quickly he was taking charge of the job site with his first employer. Fresh out of college and armed with a degree in civil engineering from Tri-State ...
Read More »ACT Rochester leader Ann Johnson takes an analytical approach 
Ann Johnson’s experience has shown her there are two factors crucial to getting others to make a decision. For Johnson, a position built on a foundation of solid data, coupled with persistence, is key to change. “Throughout my career I’ve ...
Read More »Dresden Engle is the real thing in public relations 
Dresden Engle requires two things of her public relations clients: “They have to be ethical, and I need to have a direct line to the CEO.” Another way to say it might be that things need to be real. And ...
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Read More »Kim Condon gives strength to the fragile at Daystar 
Kim Condon is not afraid to pick up garbage, wipe down a trash can or mop a floor at the agency she heads. Nor is she afraid to shed a tear or two when asked about the children and families ...
Read More »Girl Scouts CEO works to improve young lives, expand program’s reach 
Judy Cranston lives by the Girl Scout motto: “Do a good turn daily and be a sister to every Girl Scout.” A Girl Scout herself and CEO of Girl Scouts of Western New York, Cranston is devoted to the ...
Read More »Jay Advertising co-founder the music man behind HBO, Wegmans
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 ...
Read More »Dave Fuehrer helps people with cancer, inspired by his own journey 
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 ...
Read More »Glass sculptor Elizabeth Lyons burnishes an international reputation 
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 ...
Read More »A practiced leader and technology enthusiast oversees growth at Ambrell 
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 ...
Read More »At Luminate, Sujatha Ramanujan guides startups to growth 
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 ...
Read More »Jocelyn Goldberg-Schaible brings insight to research group 
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 ...
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