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| Every Tuesday, Crain's highlights four newsmakers, including one stand-out quote from our issue from somebody who is "speaking out." Here are the archived pictures and stories from People in the News. To see this feature every Tuesday, register for free daily e-mail alerts. |
SPEAKING OUT
Mary Campbell
Managing director Ann Arbor-based EDF Ventures
"We've been pretty hungry for new blood and new energy in the VC space in Michigan. We haven't had any in a while. Both Tom and I have committed to invest. If you're going to support something with your energy, you ought to support it with your money, too."
Michael Godwin and Jason Townsend didn't follow traditional paths toward their MBAs from the University of Michigan. And they certainly didn't follow the usual path toward closing the first deal of their fledgling venture capital firm, which was founded in June. Read the story »
Bryce Moore
Co-owner of Context Furniture Manufacturing
Bryce Moore started designing furniture because he couldn't find pieces he liked. Read the story »
Kim Frane
Co-owner of a Speedpro Imaging franchise
Fourteen years ago, Michael Ansley opened his first Buffalo Wild Wings franchise. Read the story »
Lorenzo Creighton
Former president and COO of MGM Grand Detroit
Lorenzo Creighton knows enough to leave the casino when he's up. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
John Nussbaumer
Associate dean of the Auburn Hills campus of the Auburn Hills campus of Thomas M. Cooley Law School
"What we are hearing more of is some (graduates) who get a part-time, contract position on a set contract, and we're coaching our students that one way to play onto the team is to take interest in these jobs."
Investment always comes with risk — and local universities have begun to warn the swelling ranks of prospective law school students that investing in a future legal career is getting riskier. Read the story »
Gail von Staden
Designed the colorful headquarters of Quicken Loans Inc. in Detroit.
In April 2009, Gail von Staden was laid off from the Detroit office of a national architecture firm, unsure of her next move. Read the story »
Jerry Campbell
Owner of Pinnacle Race Course
Pinnacle Race Course in Wayne County's Huron Township hasn't paid a combined $1.46 million in property taxes for 2009 and 2010 because it didn't receive its tax bills — a bureaucratic snafu, the county and township said. Read the story »
Dan Frost
Owner of Frost Cadillac in Novi
Dan Frost's business represents, in many ways, the ups and downs of the local car dealership community. Read the story »
Carol Miller
Chairwoman of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering at Wayne State
"We're attempting to look at a better link between emissions and energy consumption. The water distribution system is complex, and creating a more efficient control system will reduce emissions."
Reducing energy use and emissions of water systems is the goal of software being developed by a research team based at Wayne State University. Read the story »
Jerry Singh
RTI Laboratories Inc. president
At RTI Laboratories Inc. in Livonia, scientists and chemists toil over chemical compounds and the material properties of alloys. Working among them are entrepreneurs who also call its two facilities home. Read the story »
Ann Kalass
CEO of Starfish Family Services
The cost savings, new grants and revenue and benefits of shared expertise continue to add up for the Family Service Alliance for Southeastern Michigan as it enters its third year. Read the story »
John Hoffecker
Managing director of AlixPartners' global automotive practice
Private-equity funds, which have been quiet in the auto industry after being dragged through a mud puddle of bankruptcies, will return as major investors in auto-parts suppliers because of trends in credit markets, consulting firm AlixPartners predicts. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Kathleen Griffiths
CEO of Chelsea Community Hospital
"We have three smaller clinic buildings that will be demolished in February or March. The new facility will go in that place and wrap around existing courtyards."
Chelsea Community Hospital is beginning a $60 million renovation to build a new two-story wing, convert all its semiprivate rooms to private rooms and change the main entrance of the hospital that is licensed for 113 beds. Read the story »
Joan Gehrke
Founding chair of St. John Hospital Foundation
During the foundation's first major capital campaign from 2006 to 2007, Gehrke led the board to raising more than $30 million of the hospital's recent $163 million expansion program, which included building the Van Elslander Pavilion, a larger emergency department and a six-floor tower with 144 private rooms. Read the story »
Rodney Carey
CEO of Woodward Asset Capital
Rodney Carey likes to joke that his company has created a product with the potential to be highly successful — yet completely kill the business model on which the company was founded. Read the story »
A. Alfred Taubman
Founder of Taubman Centers Inc.
With some glimmers of hope indicating a positive end of the year for retailers, Robert Taubman is comfortable looking back on the past year for the Bloomfield Hills-based mall owner Taubman Centers Inc. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Jenenne Whitfield
Executive director of the The Heidelberg Project
"What was originally cast off as a funky man who's doing something wild and crazy (with found art) has taken root and had an impact internationally. (And) because of the strong economic-development piece of the cultural village, foundations are getting more interested."
The Heidelberg Project's decade-old plan to provide housing for artists-in-residence and educational and economic-development projects is finally gaining traction with local and national foundations. Read the story »
Anessa Kramer
Partner in the IP practice group at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
Nurturing international expertise within intellectual property practices is helping metro Detroit law firms find stability and growth in client work with global ties. Read the story »
Mohammed Qazi
Ciena CEO
Southfield-based Ciena Healthcare has opened one of Southeast Michigan's first nursing home cardiac rehabilitation units — at Hartford Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Detroit — and is working with DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital to reduce hospital readmissions. Read the story »
Bob Whitton
CEO of TheraMatrix Physical Therapy
CEO Bob Whitton of TheraMatrix Physical Therapy said he plans to use the $4.6 million judgment his company won from Blue Cross Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to hire back some of the 60 employees who have been laid off the past year and to expand the company's network by adding several outpatient therapy clinics. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Sandy Baruah
Detroit Regional Chamber President and CEO
"This is a state that needs to focus on business, entrepreneurship and high-growth business ..."
With the hotly contested gubernatorial primary just over a week away, the state's business vote is still up for grabs. Read the story »
Steven Grant
Executive vice president of physician partnerships at Detroit Medical Center
After a whirlwind first month in May as executive vice president of physician partnerships at Detroit Medical Center, Steven Grant, M.D., said he is starting to make progress on his main responsibility: bringing together private practice and academic physicians into a business partnership with DMC. Read the story »
Terri Pomfret
Director of technical training at Johnson Controls Inc
Idle automotive equipment and lean systems expertise from Johnson Controls Inc. could help World Medical Relief increase its medical supplies and equipment distribution by more than 20 percent annually. Read the story »
Robert Allen
Part-owner of Allen Brothers Inc.
After watching revenue of their roofing business fall for the past five years, brothers Robert and Gary Allen have put their lifetime of roofing experience to work in the solar industry. Read the story »
Brian Kramer
Owner of Rosie O'Grady's and Cantina Diablos
Brian Kramer, owner of Rosie O'Grady's, is heading to Royal Oak and he's bringing the devil — Cantina Diablos — with him. Read the story »
Don Runkle
CEO of EcoMotors International
Don Runkle, the wunderkind who helped spin Delphi Corp. out from the former General Motors Corp. as a public company, approached Michigan venture capitalists first about funding his startup EcoMotors International,a Troy-based engine company. Read the story »
Craig Thomas
Senior economist for PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
If the rest of the summer tops a once gloomy forecast for home sales, local real estate firms can thank poor financial policies in Greece. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Jesse Thomas
President of Molina Healthcare
"This was not done like last year where there was a cut to the (physician) rates. You will have an impact because you have $50 million pulled out of the rates."
Michigan's 14 Medicaid HMOs are bracing for a 2.4 percent payment cut beginning this month from the MichiganDepartment of Community Health because of rate-setting errors and Medicaid program overspending. Read the story »
Gary Brown
Detroit City Council President Pro Tem
Last fall, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced that an Operations Restructuring team — dubbed the “O.R.” — would take on the task of restructuring the sprawling bureaucracy of Detroit's city government. Read the story »
Tony Hollamon
Executive Vice President of Epitec Group
Corporate demand for local contract IT employees is on the rise with a resurgence in budgets for computers, software and data center upgrades. Read the story »
Tony Masco
Vice president of food, beverage and business development for Greenleaf Hospitality Group
When Zazios opens in downtown Birmingham on July 23, it will rely on a menu with a range of prices and a reinvigorated interest in dining out to help it navigate an economy that has seen some well-known restaurants close and others change menus. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Robert Pliska
Managing director of Sperry Van Ness/Property Investment Advisors LLC
"Three years ago, it took 60 seconds based on the (capitalization) rate and the vacancy of the building. Now it's a mind-boggler."
With real estate sales still coming in at a trickle, appraisers and brokers say establishing value for commercial real estate has become increasingly difficult. Read the story »
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