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Mann’s Jewelers CEO Nancy Mann is a ninth-generation jeweler

Kenneth Johnson leads Leonard’s Express, which logged $200M in revenues in 2015.

James Norman has led Action for a Better Community since 1992

Suzanne Klingler Johnston has served as president of Our Lady of Mercy School for 12 years.

Robert Bechtold began Harbec, now with 140 workers, in his garage in Webster.

Vincent Esposito is director of the regional office for Empire State Development.

Jewish Senior Life CEO Michael King oversees a $58 million organization

It took a dreamer, a century-old estate and serendipitous timing to start a transformation in Ontario County. The dreamer was Norbert H. Schickel Jr., the estate was Geneva on the Lake and the timing was the summer of 1977. Schickel’s ...

Ontario County administrator Mary Krause oversees 775 full-time employees and $213 million budget

Anyone arriving in the corner office of James Barger stops short at the view from the 17th floor of Legacy Tower. A 3-D panorama of the south and west side of the city stretches below, with the sun glinting off ...

(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 ...