Dennis Mietz has come full circle, in a manner of speaking. His first job as a preteen was as a newspaper carrier. One of the houses he delivered to now serves as the home to Brighton Volunteer Ambulance, where he ...
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Real estate lawyer brings down-to-earth style to Howard Hanna 
Fred Corsi was supposed to be sending criminals to prison; that was his intention leaving law school and why the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office in downtown Pittsburgh had a job waiting for him upon graduation from the University of ...
Read More »Midwest transplant helping to improve well-being of Rochester-area folks 
Matt Kuhlenbeck came from humble beginnings. At 16, his first job was working as a fry cook at McDonalds. Throughout college he built houses and worked steel, a field he loved. Now, at 41, he oversees a $250 million endowment ...
Read More »Dean works dynamically to create more doctoral programs at RIT 
Twyla J. Cummings has a big job ahead of her. As associate provost and dean of graduate education at Rochester Institute of Technology, she’s tasked with changing the mindset of colleges at RIT so they can produce a lot more ...
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Read More »Owner of Fedder brings same intensity to job as he does to car racing 
As a teen, Christopher Fox differed from other guys his age in one way. “My first magazine when I was a kid in high school was not Sports Illustrated or something like that. It was Fortune Magazine,” says the 55-year-old ...
Read More »Bringing a spark to business at Hewitt Young Electric 
As the co-owner’s son, Cody Hewitt did not volunteer but rather was volunteered — by said co-owner — to spend summers during his high school years working at Hewitt Young Electric LLC. To be clear, this was not a job taken ...
Read More »Leader of pro bono group sees strength in legal community 
Tina Monshipour Foster has seen the impact that a community of lawyers can have when deployed to tackle a problem. She led a multi-year effort to recruit hundreds of attorneys in the early 2000s to represent Guantanamo Bay detainees and ...
Read More »Accounting firm leader brings his best to work with clients, employees 
Mark Kovaleski and Tom Rogers have known each other for some time and in different settings. Kovaleski’s firm has provided accounting services to two companies that Tom Rogers has worked for and both served on the same charitable board. But the ...
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Read More »Intivity CEO comfortable taking risks with backing of family, colleagues 
When Fabricio Morales’ colleagues call him a risk-taker, they’re not kidding. Morales came to the U.S. from Mexico as an exchange student in 1977, returned to Arkansas for college where he met his future wife, went back to Mexico to ...
Read More »MRB Group president keeps firm focused on aiding small towns 
When Ryan Colvin looks to the future and maps out his firm’s objectives for the quarter or the year, there is no dry-eraser board highlighting earnings projections that must be met. As the president at MRB Group, he isn’t issuing ...
Read More »‘Scrappy’ CEO wins praise from colleagues at KJT Group 
Renaissance man. A true visionary. Illustrative. Incredibly entrepreneurial. Not a one-trick pony. These phrases have been used to describe Ken Tomaszewski, CEO of KJT Group, by three colleagues who have known him for over 10 years. “Scrappy” is the description ...
Read More »Once a high-flyer at Chase, John McKenna gets closer to the soil at Tompkins 
Earlier in his career in banking, John McKenna was living the life. Following five years with Citibank in Rochester, he became an investment banker with what’s now known as JP Morgan Chase and worked at the largest bank in the ...
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Read More »Manny Marcano Jr. leads tight-knit family of employees at EMA Design Automation 
Manny Marcano Jr. is nothing if not fearless. It’s a quality that is rooted in his eight years in the U.S. Air Force and the dozens of times he jumped out of airplanes as a paratrooper. “I say it’s 59 ...
Read More »Birmingham keeps focus on Western NY as head of Five Star Bank 
You can plan for what may happen in life, but you can’t really plan life itself. Life just happens, as Five Star Bank president and CEO Martin K. Birmingham can attest. Take, for instance, how he met his wife, ...
Read More »Chief lawyer at UR returns to private practice at the top of her game 
Gail M. Norris, former vice president and general counsel at the University of Rochester, is entering a new phase of her career. In November, Norris, 61, retired from her position at the region’s largest employer and moved to the law ...
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