The largest digital incubation platform for entrepreneurs with early-stage ideas, Twin Cities-based IdeaGist has participants in 195 countries pursuing more than 4,000 ideas. Hassan Syed’s vision to provide training through

Shortly after becoming COO of CaringBridge in 2014, Liwanag Ojala was named CEO. Ojala, whose background was in for-profit e-commerce, was tasked with setting a vision and executing a new

Back in 2005 the idea of a public radio network starting an alternative music station seemed like an experimental gamble. But The Current, which marks its 15th anniversary next month,

Chad Hoehne patented his table games management system back in 1996, designed to make life easier for casino management by automating table game operations. Hoehne launched Table Trac after a

Two years ago, the Twins brought on Daniel Adler to make the organization state of the art in baseball analytics. A year ago, Jason Lee joined to do the same

When Mary Ceruti became the Walker’s executive director in early 2019, she stepped into a role left vacant for a year, following a contentious time in the Walker’s history. She

At 17 years old, Leensa Ahmed leads a youth-run bakery in North Minneapolis. Ahmed, along with a group of teens, founded Green Garden Bakery in 2014. Vegetables grown in the

Starting as a college student inspired to connect people to nature through everyday products made of sustainably sourced wood, Ben VandenWymelenberg has become a serial entrepreneur with interests in commercial

Askov Finlayson made national headlines in January with a pledge to begin calculating the annual cost of its carbon footprint and donate 110 percent of that amount to organizations dedicated

Danielle Bjorling is a pastry chef and baker. Her husband, Chris, has an accounting background. They plowed some profits from managing rental properties into Danielle’s dream, a cake-driven restaurant on

Love Your Melon’s new high-profile North Loop studio is the latest big idea from co-founder Zachary Quinn, a risk-taker born of the social media age, in which you’ve got to

Luxury women’s footwear brand Marion Parke lacks the name recognition—and, based in Minneapolis, the posh address—of Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo, but it has something those industry giants don’t: a

Jennifer Pennington, her husband, Chris, and two friends founded Can Can Wonderland in 2017. Less than a year after opening the whimsical indoor mini-golf course in St. Paul, Pennington announced

The $12 billion health care institution known as Mayo Clinic has a tradition of rotating out top leadership every seven to 10 years. Current CEO John Noseworthy was asked to