2014 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Kelly Huntington
Kelly Huntington, president of Indianapolis Power & Light Co., takes the long-term view for the electric utility.
Kelly Huntington, president of Indianapolis Power & Light Co., takes the long-term view for the electric utility.
Jennett Hill, senior vice president and general counsel at Citizens Energy Group, has a history of adapting to new surroundings.
Melissa Cotterill, chief operating officer of Indy Chamber, juggles several tasks, including occasional tour guide to other cities.
Terri Cope-Walton, news director of WRTV-TV Channel 6, prefers to gauge success by the station’s content, not its awards.
Mary Beth Claus, senior vice president and general counsel of Indiana University Health, is responsible for all legal and compliance matters for IU Health’s system of 20 hospitals and other health care facilities.
Leslie Carter-Prall, area president for Regions Bank, says the chief differentiators between banks are their people.
Julie Carmichael, system vice president and chief strategy officer for St. Vincent Health, sees a big part of her jobs as balancing business and mission.
Karen Burns, senior vice president at the Indianapolis Zoo, has been a driving force behind many of the zoo’s signature achievements.
Lori Ball, chief operating officer at BioStorage Technologies Inc., is also is a mentor and created and funded an endowed scholarship at Anderson University for Indiana students with financial need.
Kelly Altman, founding head of school at The Oaks Academy at Brookside, says education is one of just a “few things that can truly transform a person.”
The exhibit features artifacts, including a still, and a mini-church where an actor playing Indiana’s own Billy Sunday, who railed against “Hell’s best friend,” preaches a sermon.
Angela Braly, an attorney by trade, served as CEO of health insurer WellPoint Inc. from 2007 to 2012, when she resigned amid pressure from shareholders. Braly has continued serving in corporate boardrooms since her departure, albeit with a lower profile.
Mother’s Day is a splendid opportunity to think about the evolving economic effects of women as parents, how this influences their economic lives, and how women value motherhood in economic terms.
Indianapolis officials plan to use a downtown light show and $30 million in pre-raised corporate cash to wow the NFL’s team owners into granting the Circle City the title of Super Bowl host for the second time in six years.
More small businesses in Indiana are securing loans as owners learn to present their companies better and banks warm to small-business lending after years of hesitation.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay gave a clear signal in 2012 about his long-term succession plan by naming his three daughters vice chairwomen and co-owners. His March 16 arrest might hasten the launch of that plan, or at the very least give Colts fans a glimpse of what it will look like.
Ersal Ozdemir, who heads the development and construction firm Keystone Group, has charmed elected officials for years with big ideas—and hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions.
At the Statehouse, the crime in progress is voluntary bondage—not in the sexual sense, but what Dictionary.com calls “the state of being bound by or subjected to some external power or control.”
Production workers for the aerospace giant voted narrowly to accept benefit cuts in order to assure the plant would be built in the Seattle area.