Recent Articles from Lynn Bronikowski
Executive edge: Niki Frangos Tuttle
On New Year’s Eve 2010, Denver lawyer Niki Frangos Tuttle worked into the night on an intriguing television deal before arriving late to a dinner party chock full of celebrities. It was the launch party for the Oprah Winfrey Network, and the partner in Hogan Levells’ Denver office had just cemente...
Executive edge: John Hayes
When John Hayes was 4 years old, he’d peek over the pew of his church in suburban Chicago, decked out in hockey gear so he’d be ready to hit the nearby ice rink as soon as he said his last amen. “I’ve played hockey my whole life,” said the CEO of the Broomfield-based Ball Corp. “Hockey […]
Executive edge: Rob Schuham
On a summer morning, Rob Schuham rides his bike up Boulder’s Flagstaff Mountain, looks out over the Flatirons and sighs, “I’m so glad I live here.” That same day he packs his bags for Istanbul where he’ll share a platform with former vice president Al Gore to speak on the global climate crisis and...
Executive edge: Barbara Raynor
On her 50th birthday, amid the cheerful wishes and celebratory notes, Barbara Raynor’s email inbox contained a note that moved her to take a stab at changing the world. The email consisted of a job description for the managing director’s position at Boomers Leading Change in Health – a grassroots...
Executive edge: John Ikard
Thirty-two years ago – fresh out of Colorado State University with a degree in psychology – John Ikard answered a newspaper ad for a job in banking. “I thought I’d do it for a year or so,” said Ikard, who would never leave his first employer and in 1999 would be named president and CEO of Lakewood...
Executive edge: Kelly Manning
When Kelly Manning travels throughout Colorado, she thinks about the small businesses she has helped nourish and grow. She thinks of Shelley McPherson, better known as the Rag Diva, who formed American Wiping Rags Inc. in Pueblo by simply recycling cloth and turning it into rags used by companies...
Executive edge: Chris Lewter
Within weeks of moving to Colorado as president of the Mountain Region for Verizon Wireless, Chris Lewter faced his first crisis – devastating fires that engulfed 18,000 acres of Colorado Springs. “Our facilities and some of our network towers were in jeopardy,” recalls Lewter, who watched an 18-w...
Executive edge: Robert McBride
For Robert McBride, owner and operator of Metro Taxi, Denver’s largest taxi company, it all began with a 1973 Cadillac limousine with 350,000 miles on it and his parents’ driveway as his business address. By day, he’d work in a fiberglass plant in his native New York; by night he’d make runs to the airport, […]
Executive Edge: Nicole Singleton
Nicole Singleton last spring was named president and CEO of the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce, heading up an organization that represents 300 companies and 1,000 individuals.
Executive edge: Don Elliman
Don Elliman has dined with royalty, walked the Oscars’ red carpet, attended countless sporting events including the Olympics and been on stage with 22 supermodels. But on a fall day in downtown Denver, the chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus gets a charge out of...
Executive edge: Linda Arneson
When Linda Arneson started her career at Delta Dental, she worked out of the basement of a two-bedroom apartment in central Denver. At age 18, she would painstakingly file paperwork as a temp worker in an effort to gain business experience. In 1972, the graduate of Aurora’s Hinkley High School was...
Executive edge: Richard Martinez
Richard Martinez grew up in Pueblo, the son of a steel worker who witnessed first-hand the ups and downs of the steel industry – long layoffs, strikes and several injuries to his father. "Even after being injured he’d continue to return to work, and work very hard," said Martinez, president and CE...