Donna Kelsey, a 26-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Naval Reserve, took over at American Senior Communities amid a crisis at the company. She reorganized the company, prioritizing the care of the residents and adding controls to guard against the fraud that had felled her predecessor.
Sarena Lin, who joined Elanco Animal Health three years ago, leads the company’s ongoing separation from former parent Eli Lilly and Co. and is simultaneously leading the integration into the company of Bayer Animal Health, which Elanco acquired this year for $7.6 billion.
Patricia A. Martin is head of BioCrossroads, the group that promotes Indiana’s life sciences industry, a pillar of the state’s economy,
Sandy McCarthy runs OneAmerica’s retirement services business, which serves more than 1 million people saving for retirement and is responsible for just more than $60 billion in assets.
Mel Raines leads the team responsible for managing Bankers Life Fieldhouse and the adjacent St. Vincent Center/Indiana Pacers Training Center.
At Faegre Drinker, Marilee J. Springer serves as outside general counsel to charitable entities that provide critical services to families and their local communities.
LaTonya Turner is the first African American woman to serve as a dean at Marian University.
As the United Way’s chief impact officer, Sara VanSlambrook works to help individuals and families find stability in crisis and gain financial and social mobility.
Virginia Booth Womack is one of the nation’s leading advocates for increased participation of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
Purdue professor Roxane Gay is one of the hottest feminist writers in a time that is celebrating feminism.
When Brooke Thompson arrived in Indiana in 2017 to lead the market, she not only focused on the numbers, but also on company morale and community givebacks.
Emerging from the health care services arena and state government sector, Audrey Taylor founded risk-management services company Netlogx in 1998.
Melissa St. John’s company specializes in corporate moves and has a long list of prominent clients, but the awards she’s received have as much to do with corporate citizenship as with the bottom line.
Taking over as the leader of Girl Scouts of Central Indiana in 2017, Danielle Shockey came to the job with 20 years of experience working with Indiana youth.
Working at Eli Lilly and Co. right out of college, Christi Shaw went on to other major drug companies before returning to head a division that represents about 40 percent of Lilly’s worldwide revenue.
After beginning her Cummins career working on advancing fuel cell technology, Jennifer Rumsey now guides the company’s second-largest function, leading a global team that includes 7,000 engineers.
Overseeing Eli Lilly and Co.’s philanthropic work in the United States, Kenya and Mexico, Courtney Roberts also leads a pilot program to address barriers to diabetes care in three local neighborhoods.
Karen Plaut leads Purdue’s highly ranked College of Agriculture, where she oversees more than 300 faculty members, nearly 3,600 students and an extension service that reaches all 92 Indiana counties and more than 60 countries.
A member of Roche’s Global Quality & Regulatory Leadership Team, Danelle Miller built its regulatory policy function from the ground up.
Andi Metzel tried her first legal case before she even graduated from law school. Now a partner at Taft, she is also president of the Indiana State Bar Association and its board of governors, leading the largest legal organization in the state. Affiliations: In addition to her role with the Indiana State Bar Association and its foundation, […]
