Chris Gahl is passionate about his hometown. As vice president of marketing and communication for Visit Indy, he turns his enthusiasm loose on meeting planners and travel professionals, showing them the best Indianapolis has to offer, which was on display for millions in 2012 during Super Bowl XLVI.
When Claudia Fuentes was elected Marion County treasurer in November, she became the first Latina elected to countywide office in Indiana. She considers that milestone “huge.”
For five years, Scott Fadness has focused on what’s best for Fishers. Three years from now, what’s best for the town of 80,000 will include the end of his job, as the town becomes a city that will have a mayor to handle the work Fadness now does as town manager.
Frank Dale has spent most of his career in the entrepreneurial world. Happily.
Katie Culp has amassed enough frequent flier miles to move up to first class frequently. That’s good not only because she’s 5-foot-11 but also because she does a fair amount of traveling.
Michael Crafton and his friends from Indiana University had grand plans after graduation: They wanted to be Mark Cuban.
Ask Jamar Cobb-Dennard who he is and he answers, “I am a businessman, community leader and future politician, speaker/author and single father.
Strengthening relationships is key to Elizabeth Childers’ success. A marketing leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the “big four” accounting firms, Childers nurtures the company’s ties to its communities, clients and alumni in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio with frequent travel among four offices in the three states.
In the three years since Timothy Carter became Butler University’s first director of its Center for Urban Ecology, he’s been busy defining the center’s vision, setting goals and building relationships within the campus as well as the Indianapolis community.
Ever since moving from Wabash to Indianapolis to attend Butler University, Linda Broadfoot has focused on ways to make Indianapolis better.
Brad Beaubien came from Sioux City, Iowa, to Ball State University to pursue an education in landscape architecture and urban planning. Give or take 75 miles, he’s still there.
Edward Battista owns the trendy Bluebeard restaurant in Fountain Square and is in the middle of law school at IUPUI. The last time he slept, he jokes, was two years ago.
The numbers tell Sarah Aubrey’s story: Since founding her grant-writing company in 2007, she’s secured nearly $60 million for clients in 38 states. In an average year, she writes several hundred grants and boasts a 90-percent success rate.
As a North Central High School senior, Kendale Adams went through a 100 Black Men mentoring program that paired him with a police officer. By his senior year at Ball State University, he’d already begun the process of joining the Indianapolis Police Department.
Welcome to the 20th annual Forty Under 40, one of Indianapolis Business Journal's most popular and talked-about features.
Although he hasn’t been in Indianapolis for two years yet, Patrick O’Donnell, 30, already is making an impact.
Darcey Palmer-Shultz, 30, has at least 60 first cousins. She still likes to spend time with her large extended family, but she also knows that not every child has such positive experiences.
Justin Ohlemiller, 33, made his name in government, working his way up from writing letters and proclamations for Mayor Bart Peterson to become his deputy chief of staff.
Sarah Moore, 34, spearheads The Mind Trust’s “Grow What Works” campaign, an $18 million fundraising initiative to invest in the most promising education reform organizations in Indianapolis.
John Ryan, 39, started with Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman P.C. straight out of Indiana University law school and took only 12 years to ascend to president and managing partner of the Indianapolis-based law firm.
