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Mae Fox is soft spoken, gentle, compassionate, empathetic—the list goes on. So, when her counselor suggested she try anger management classes 20 years ago, she was rightfully stunned. “I said, ‘I think you need to look at the chart you ...

As a business owner, Maureen Ballatori thrives off of creativity and change. It was that yearning to be more freely creative that pushed her to start her business, 29 Design Studio, in the first place. 29 Design Studio began as ...

It can be hard to let go of a business you started from scratch and patiently nourished to success. However, Chris McEntee put her business in the right hands when she sold Splatters Studio Ltd. a decade after she opened ...

  Meals by DeLeo started by accident. Owner and executive chef Jason DeLeo was meal prepping for himself when a friend, Nick Benedetto, approached him at a body building competition and asked him about his regimen. DeLeo told him about ...

  Heather Collins suffered from problematic skin. When she couldn’t find any successful treatments, she took matters into her own hands and created her own soap company, Indie Goat Soap, with her business partner, Amanda Marino. Originally from Pennsylvania, Collins ...

Bob Whipple has become so knowledgeable on the topic of trust that he has earned himself the title “Trust Ambassador.” Like many other locals, Whipple spent 31 years working for Kodak. Always fascinated by leadership, he spent much of his ...

People are paying more attention to what they wear on their feet. And I’m not referring to shoes. Jeff Rogers noticed people were turning away from plain old black or white socks and advertising funky sock patterns. An entrepreneur by ...

  For Bobbie Goheen, helping others achieve their goals is her bread and butter. Goheen is a leadership consultant who launched her own business, Synthesis Management Group, in 2000. Before setting out on her own, she spent 18 years working ...

As the first generation in her family to attend college, Jodi Rosenshein Atkin has a deep appreciation for higher education. Decades later, she has now found herself in a career centered on helping others navigate their path toward higher education. ...

Michael Caceci was once a transplant who knew little about the Rochester community beyond the walls of Xerox Corp. Today, however, he is a well-connected small business owner who has networked with thousands of professionals inside and beyond Rochester. Caceci ...

  Anthony Imburgia joined the Profeta Painting team as a project manager in April 2016 and just a year and a half later he and his brother, Nick, are co-owners of the business. The Imburgia brothers purchased the business from ...

No matter what the job, Lauren Goetz has always been dedicated to her work. But after her fifth tap on the shoulder in April 2016, she decided to take her determination and pour it into developing her own company. Exactly ...

Reenie and Stan Feingold hoped that their small business could withstand the test of time, but when rapidly advancing technology forced them out of the 35mm slide duplication business, they switched gears and launched Store Smart in 2007. Located at ...

Only a fortune teller could predict that David Lanni, owner and president of Cable Systems Inc., would expand his business into the same building where his first telecom job was located 40 years ago. Lanni began his career in the ...

When Mandy Newell began printing funny T-shirts for her daughter and her friends’ children, she did not expect it to lead to her designing a children’s clothing line. Newell comes from a family of boaters, and her father owns a boat called “Amorita.” Newell and many of her friends have kids around the same age, so she began having T-shirts printed locally that read “Future Amorita Crew.”