Willard “Lee” Frickey, CEO, Sizewise

FINALIST The concept for Willard “Lee” Frickey’s company, Sizewise, began to germinate in the 1980s. An accident left Frickey temporarily unable to walk the floors of his grocery business. In this same time period, he had to deliver groceries to an obese customer who was unable to shop for his own food. Both incidents showed […]

Mike Sechrist, CEO & Elena Whorton, president of ProTransport-1

SERVICES, FINALIST Mike Sechrist and Elena Whorton didn’t like that emergency transport companies had to make nonemergency patients a lower priority, so they created ProTransport-1 to provide essential service to patients underserved by those companies. “We put the patient needing transport to a scheduled brain surgery or life-saving dialysis treatment first,” Sechrist says. “No other […]