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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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...