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(Photo by Kimberly McKinzie) Craig Lewis was told as a youngster that he would never work in his father’s business. “You’re never going to work in the tire store. It gets complicated with families,” Lewis recalls his father saying. But ...

Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli leads a department with 850 employees

Ragni Mehta leads a roughly $1 billion organization at Xerox

Karen Brown is the new executive director of Garth Fagan Dance. (Kimberly McKinzie) Karen Brown was raised to believe she could be anything she wanted to be as long as she worked hard enough to earn it. For a black ...

Kevin Ryan wonders: What do millennials want? For Ryan, the question is more finely tuned. He wants to know what millennial lawyers want and what if anything the Monroe County Bar Association needs to do to keep and attract them ...

Katrina Busch, president of Roberts Communications, focuses on delivering strategic insights

Daniel Menelly is the first chief science officer at RMSC

Daniel Goldstein, a CPA, now serves as CEO of Royal Oak Realty Trust

James Sunser became Genesee Community College’s president in 2011

CEO Alice Calabrese oversees a nearly $7M budget at the Humane Society’s Lollypop Farm

Rochester Chamber CEO Robert Duffy has served as police chief, mayor and lieutenant governor

(Photo by Kimberly McKinzie)   John DiMarco II is not one for a lot of back-and-forth on email. He prefers, instead, to have in-person contact. “When you’re reading something, it’s open to interpretation,” he says. “When you’re speaking to someone ...

Meredith Dragon last month began as CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester

Patrick Bernunzio owns Leo’s Bakery & Deli in East Rochester

Jacqueline Mozrall serves as dean of the Saunders College of Business at RIT