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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 ...

  In many ways, the Genesee Brewing Co. is much like any other brewery. The warm, slightly saccharine scent of steeping malts drifts through its corridors; the shimmering stainless steel tanks are perched atop cement floors and vats of spent ...

  When he completed high school and headed off to Shepherd University, Rob Minter knew he wasn’t destined for a career on the ball diamonds of Major League Baseball. Scouts were clamoring about guys named Justin Verlander, Jared Weaver and ...

Many IT companies stick to the beaten path when it comes to growing and developing their business. But Innovative Solutions’ owner and CEO Justin Copie has a vision for the company that is just that: Innovative. Business owners often mistake ...

What does living on the Upper West Side of New York City have to do with being the executive director of New York Wine & Grape Foundation, which is headquartered in Canandaigua? Plenty, it turns out. Sam Filler, who became the new ...

  Sometimes it’s what you don’t say that speaks volumes about who you are. When Michael Manikowski joined the Ontario County Office of Economic Development three decades ago, then-county administrator John Hicks put him through a subtle test. “When he ...

The modern landscape of public health is one riddled with trials. From classic hurdles such as poverty to more contemporary issues such as the opioid epidemic, it’s a field constantly facing new challenges and barriers to break through. For Michael ...

For a good four years, starting in 1999, Steve Metzger spent the majority of his workweeks bringing to fruition the terminal building at the Port of Rochester. As vice president and director of civil engineering for LaBella Associates, Metzger was ...

Cressida Dixon, chair of the trust and estates department at Bond, Schoeneck & King, is now deputy managing member of the Rochester office. “I’m very excited about taking on new opportunities on the management side. This is a great opportunity ...

Jerry Grant juggles a demanding schedule as the owner of a private computer consulting business and part-time digital forensics investigator for the Federal Public Defender’s Office, but he claims he’s never worked a day in his life. Grant, who has ...

It may be hard to fathom, but imagine a manufacturer losing 30,000 years of experience in one fell swoop. That’s what happened following Delphi Automotive Systems’ 2005 bankruptcy filing, which resulted in more than 1,000 early retirements. And that was ...

In the kitchen of her home off Lake Avenue, Christine Wagner scurries between her oven and the half dozen trays of unbaked bread resting on countertops, preparing for their journey to the annual church bake sale. In the center of ...

  You read Pete Giovenco’s request to the 400-plus employees of Bergmann in his quarterly in-house newsletter and you don’t envision the warm smile, the down-to-earth demeanor and the raised-by-Italian-immigrants work ethic he possesses. You also don’t see someone who ...

In 2010 Elizabeth Zicari decided it was time to hang up her Jazzercise shoes, but her energy has not waned. Many people in the community recognize the Brighton native as the first Jazzercise instructor in Rochester, introducing the fitness class ...

When David Munson Jr. tells you that engineers are disproportionately represented in marching bands and glee clubs, it’s just as much an insight into his personal history as it is about the multi-talented students he’s serving as the new president ...

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