2013 Innovation Awards – Sponsors
LaCentre LaCentre is innovative in all components of event planning — the in-house catering, event planning and audiovisual services provide unique menus, ideas, products and experiences to clients and their guests. When planning an event at LaCentre, clients initially work with the sales team to discuss their needs, vision and budget. The creative and knowledgeable […]
2013 Innovation Awards – Rising Star – Nelson Medical Enterprises LLC
Dr. Dvora Nelson, President and CEO Nelson Medical Enterprises LLC Unless you are naturally gifted to perform a particular skill, it takes a lot of practice to get good at it. In the case of medical skills, that practice, while necessary, can create a significant risk to the person on whom the skill is […]
2013 Innovation Awards – Rising Star – Checkpoint Surgical
Len Cosentino President and CEO Checkpoint Surgical The team at Checkpoint Surgical knew there had to be a better way. The options available for nerve stimulation were either outdated or complicated and time-consuming to use. So under the leadership of Len Cosentino, the company’s president and CEO, a world-class team of surgeons and biomedical […]
2013 Innovation Awards – Master Innovator – Saint Gobain Performance Plastics
Thomas Kinisky, President and CEO Jean Angus, Innovation process director Saint Gobain Performance Plastics Innovation has always been top of mind for Thomas Kinisky and his leadership of Saint Gobain Performance Plastics. He works hard to empower his people to be both innovative and forward thinking in their daily work. When you have employees who are […]
Movers and Shakers: September 2013
Nesco Resource, one of the nation’s leading providers of human resource solutions and the largest national staffing firm based in the Cleveland market, has expanded its senior management team to accommodate significant company growth. Andrew Deutsch has been promoted to executive vice president, Central USA Division and Risk Management. An alumnus of Cleveland State University, […]
Ready, set, think
Thinkers solve problems. Mark Zuckerberg found a better way to connect people with friends and family through Facebook. Larry Page and Sergey Brin invented a better way to search the Internet by creating Google. Steve Jobs showed us a better way to obtain and listen to music through the invention of the iPod. None of […]
2013 Innovation Awards – Master Innovator – Fairmount Minerals
Steve Schilling, Team leader Cole Nuyen, Co-leader Fairmount Minerals Business Innovation Team It’s easy to talk about innovation, and many businesses use the word and think that’s enough to demonstrate that their company is on the leading edge of new ideas. That’s never been the case at Fairmount Minerals and nowhere is that more evident than […]
Kurt Canova sticks to his father’s core principles to keep Tech Electronics on top
Over the course of 50 years in business a lot can happen. In the case of Kurt Canova and Tech Electronics, many of those years have been successful, but that success hasn’t been achieved without a few issues in need of fixing. Canova’s father started Tech Electronics, an independent provider and integrator of commercial communications […]
How Kevin Horner used his background as Alcoa’s CIO to become Mastech’s CEO
When D. Kevin Horner took the reins of Mastech as president and CEO in 2011, he had the confidence of the company’s leadership and board of directors, but the people in the business were saying, “Why him? He’s never been in the staffing business. What does he know?” “Frankly, it was a very reasonable question,” […]
Leslie Braksick: How good employees create a magnet for other good employees
As parents, we are vigilant about our children’s choice of friends. We are rightly concerned with peer influence on our daughters and sons alike, and we go to great lengths to ensure that certain people are either “in” or “out” of our children’s lives. We know our kids will be judged in part by whom […]