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Category: Leader & CEO Profiles
CEO Profile: Michael Pound Head of Koontz-Wagner in South Bend inherited love of engineering from his father.
by Rick A. Richards
Michael Pound has become fully Americanized since coming here on a two-year temporary
work visa 23 years ago. Not the fast-food, shopping mall kind of Americanized, but the full
embrace of freedom and opportunity kind of Americanized.
Even so, he still misses the ability to drive his car very fast whenever he wants, dark
English beer and Radio 4, the BBC’s …
Read Full ArticleThe Region’s Top Leaders
Our annual reader nominations honoring business and community leaders.
Leadership is difficult to quantify. Either it exists in an organization or it doesn’t. Successful companies and organizations have it, and in an economy that’s been as difficult as this one has been for the past two years, good leadership has proven to be a valuable commodity for several Northwest Indiana businesses.
It has helped guide …
Read Full ArticleSister Jane Marie Klein, ‘Visionary Leader’
Serving others as health-care organization’s board chair.
by Michael Puente
Sister Jane Marie Klein’s calling in life is assisting people one way or another, either through prayer or making sure they receive the best medical care possible.
Her career in health care started four decades ago shortly after becoming a nun. Today, Sister Jane Marie Klein, OSF (Order of St. Francis), the chairperson of Mishawaka-based …
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Posted in Business, Leader & CEO Profiles, Summer 2011
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Jimmy Staton
NIPSCO leader builds bridges with employees and his new Northwest Indiana community.
by Rick A. Richards
Jimmy Staton is passionate about a lot of things in his life. His family. Sports, especially University of West Virginia sports. And the utility business.
“I have two sons and we’re all sports fanatics. My wife is very tolerant,” says Staton, the executive vice president and group CEO for …
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Posted in Business, Leader & CEO Profiles, Summer 2011
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Tasty Growth
Waffle-making executive earns Small Business Person of the Year honors.
by Steve Kaelble
What’s it take to bring about dramatic business growth? Some revolutionary new technology? Maybe. Or maybe just a new way to present a traditional ware, even an old product. And what could be more traditional than a piping hot breakfast, with delicious Belgian waffles?
Rick McKeel’s company has been making waffle mixes …
Read Full ArticleAndrew Fox
Great opportunities for freight along the South Shore tracks.
by Rick A. Richards
As a kid growing up in Berkeley, Calif., Andrew Fox had a unique set of babysitters – switch crews for the Southern Pacific Railroad, whose freight yard abutted his dad’s steel warehouse business.
Fox would accompany his dad, Charlie, to the office on Saturdays and while his father was finishing up paperwork …
Read Full ArticleCEO Profile: Focusing On the Customer
Nothing symbolizes the steady growth of Family Express more than its new 30,000-square-foot corporate headquarters just a few miles south of Valparaiso. Even with a full-scale store mockup inside and high-tech meeting rooms that some small colleges would envy, the building is more function than flash.
And that’s how president and CEO Gus Olympidis wants it. He has presided over the company since its founding …
Posted in Leader & CEO Profiles, Winter 2011
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Business Leaders
Northwest Indiana is blessed with solid businesses guided by visionary leaders. Even when the economy has been dismal, the region’s business leaders have found new ways to succeed, better products to deliver, innovative services to offer.
But business success is just part of what it really means to be an exemplary leader of the business community. Excellence in leadership must be complemented by dedicated mentoring …
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Posted in Fall 2010, Leader & CEO Profiles
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Championship Attitude
Brad Toothaker has a competitive streak in him. It dates back to his days as a champion swimmer for the South Bend Riley High School Wildcats in the late 1980s, and later the UCLA Bruins in college.
Toothaker, though, doesn’t make a big deal out of being a part of a state championship swim team or of trying to qualify for the 1988 U.S. Olympic …
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Posted in Leader & CEO Profiles, Spring 2010
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Peoples Bank
For David Bochnowski, the CEO of Peoples Bank and its parent, NorthWest Indiana Bancorp in Munster, the key to success in banking is building a strong team and then letting the team do its job.
In a recent interview with Hoosier Banker magazine, Bochnowski said, “My job is to build the team and keep it moving, and the bank has been blessed with an outstanding …
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Posted in Leader & CEO Profiles, Winter 2010
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