Indiana 100 2021

Below, check out IBJ’s Indiana 100, our annual report on the state’s 50 largest public companies and 50 largest private companies. Indiana 100 also features our annual list of highest-paid public company executives, as well as Q&As with leaders of some of Indiana’s most prominent businesses.

A health insurance giant and a hardware store chain are again atop our lists of largest public and largest private companies. One of the state’s most prominent executives tops the highest-paid executives list.

Largest public companies

Largest private companies

Highest-paid executives

Prominent Hoosier executives weigh in on everything from navigating the retail real estate market to bringing technological advancements to auto auctions.

Beatrice Mac Cabe
Vera Bradley
chief creative officer

She started at the company as vice president of design and is now chief creative officer, meaning she oversees the brand’s signature product designs and works closely with the product development and technical design teams.

Mathilde Merlet
Eli Lilly and Co.
Taltz global brand development leader

Mathilde Merlet oversees one of Eli Lilly and Co.’s fastest-growing products, a medicine called Taltz that treats a variety of dermatology and rheumatology disorders.

Bob Martin
Thor Industries
president and CEO

Bob Martin is the head of Thor Industries, one of the biggest publicly traded companies in Indiana and, instead of resting on his laurels, he’s creating technology-oriented executive roles within his company and looking to make big technological advancements in Thor’s products.

Kania Lottie
Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis
senior vice president, chief human resources and diversity and inclusion officer

During a 2015 lunch with the bank’s president and CEO, Cindy Konich, and its then-human resources director, Lottie told them how much she enjoyed working on human resources and employment-law issues. She thought it was a casual conversation, but her colleagues had something else in mind.

From casket-making roots, Hillenbrand branches into industrial equipment

Pandemic knocks Elwood Staffing but Columbus firm is roaring back

The company, whose largest business is medical devices, generated $2.4 billion in revenue last year and employs 13,531 people worldwide, including 7,699 in Indiana.

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Digital Indiana 100

Below, check out IBJ’s Indiana 100, our annual report on the state’s 50 largest public companies and 50 largest private companies. Indiana 100 also features our annual list of highest-paid public company executives, as well as Q&As with leaders of some of Indiana’s most prominent businesses.

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Below, check out IBJ’s Indiana 100, our annual report on the state’s 50 largest public companies and 50 largest private companies. Indiana 100 also features our annual list of highest-paid public company executives, as well as Q&As with leaders of some of Indiana’s most prominent businesses.

She started at the company as vice president of design and is now chief creative officer, meaning she oversees the brand’s signature product designs and works closely with the product development and technical design teams.

Mathilde Merlet oversees one of Eli Lilly and Co.’s fastest-growing products, a medicine called Taltz that treats a variety of dermatology and rheumatology disorders.

Bob Martin is the head of Thor Industries, one of the biggest publicly traded companies in Indiana and, instead of resting on his laurels, he’s creating technology-oriented executive roles within his company and looking to make big technological advancements in Thor’s products.

During a 2015 lunch with the bank’s president and CEO, Cindy Konich, and its then-human resources director, Lottie told them how much she enjoyed working on human resources and employment-law issues. She thought it was a casual conversation, but her colleagues had something else in mind.

The company, whose largest business is medical devices, generated $2.4 billion in revenue last year and employs 13,531 people worldwide, including 7,699 in Indiana.