Luckie And Co. – Marketing Transformation
John Gardner, in May 2014, was named the president of Birmingham-based Luckie & Co., one of Alabama’s oldest and largest advertising agencies. He took...
Jack Hawkins – Bridge Builder for International Studies
Jack Hawkins, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, barely survived his combat experience. But today, as chancellor of Troy University, he is working to use...
Louis Lazzari: An Economic History of Family Farming
Despite encroaching residential and commercial development, Baldwin County’s Belforest community remains predominantly a patchwork of family farms, most rooted in the late 1800s. Third-generation...
BizTech Huntsville – Investment Leverages BizTech Reboot
When Larry and Kim Lewis’ company was new, they met with the owners of the BizTech incubator building in Huntsville to see about opening...
HealthSouth – Robust Recovery, Peak Performance
Jay Grinney is CEO of HealthSouth Corp. (NYSE: HLS), which owns and operates the largest network of post-acute, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in the U.S.
Grinney...
Jenna Bedsole – Again Miss Nina Speaks Out
Birmingham attorney Jenna Bedsole didn’t intend to add “documentary filmmaker” to her already impressive resume. However, soon after Bedsole began researching the life of...
Deborah Barnhart Describes Herself as a “Rocket Baby”
Deborah Barnhart is a self-described “rocket baby, ” a child who grew up in Huntsville during the booming years when the von Braun team...
Seven Eleven Fabrication – Design Partners
Maybe it was by design that Robert McCown and Kevin Hollingshead became partners in a sideline business.
They went to rival high schools in the...
Banking and Bankers – Rising Stars of Alabama Banking
Meet 13 emerging leaders in banking, chosen from the standouts of the Alabama Bankers Association’s two programs for talented young bankers — Alabama Banking...
Healthcare – Birmingham is Builder’s Launchpad
Florida-based DeAngelis Diamond Healthcare Group chose Alabama as the base for an aggressive geographic expansion, setting up, in 2011, a regional headquarters in Birmingham,...
