Chris McFadyen
Multifamily Housing – Downtown Digs, Coast to Coast
President and founder of Birmingham-based Capstone Building Corp., Jay Chapman is one of the leading Alabama general contractors in one of the few truly...
Sony Attack – Risk Assessment: Exceedingly Vast
Daniel Clemens is the founder of Birmingham-based Packet Ninjas, a small cyber security company that counts among its clients Nasdaq, Harvard University, Energen and...
Private Equity – Alabama and the Lively Private Equity Market
Since the 2008 recession and tightening of bank lending, private companies have increasingly turned to private equity investors as a source of growth capital...
Southern Rail Commission: Update on Alabama’s Passenger Rail Progress
The last step to restoration of passenger rail service between Montgomery and Birmingham was initiated in October, when the Southern Rail Commission completed an...
YMCAs: Making the Most of Serving Nonprofits
Dave Gray is the CEO of Birmingham-based Daxko Inc., one of the state’s most successful information technology companies. Daxko makes money in one of...
Vulcan Materials: Hard Rock Mining Easing Up
Tom Hill, in July, was named president and CEO of Vulcan Materials Inc., the second largest nonbank public company in Alabama, with revenues of...
World’s Largest Rocket: The U.S. is Returning to Deep Space
Huntsville-born Virginia Barnes is head of the team that is building the world’s largest rocket, one expected to launch astronauts to Mars in about...
Sunbelt Deal: Long Awaited Benchmark in Housing
Gary Allen is the managing director of Sunbelt Housing Management, a Charlotte, N.C.-based company that in July announced one of the biggest new single-family...
Remington Outdoor Co.: Directing Rapid Gun Growth
George Kollitides is chairman and CEO of Remington Outdoor Co. Inc., the world’s largest firearms and ammunition manufacturer and Alabama’s most recent big coup...
The Money-Printing Machine: Electronically Printing Money
Since 2008 the U.S. Federal Reserve has been printing money like nobody’s business, more than $4 trillion of it. It’s not actually printed, of...