2023: Twin brothers Rob and Ryan Weber have been building tech companies since college. They launched their first business, NativeX, out of a dorm room at St. Cloud State. Now, as

2023: Neel Kashkari served in key U.S. Department of the Treasury jobs and ran for governor of California before becoming president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

The $2.1 billion electrical company with a headcount of 9,000 won’t celebrate its one-year anniversary until the end of April, but in its first year, nVent Electric has so far

For the first time in eight years, Charlie Weaver will be working with a new governor on policy issues that are important to Minnesota’s largest employers. The 2019 legislative session

He’s the man behind the nearly two dozen new brands that have bolstered Target sales and shifted the retailer’s focus from limited-edition, celebrity-driven partnerships to sustainable owned labels. Mark Tritton

Andy Slavitt’s presence helps to shine a national spotlight on Minnesota, and not only because he tweets about local politics and companies. Since returning from Washington, where he served as

For the last 14 years, Derek Sharrer has been providing the day-to-day leadership for the St. Paul Saints, a remarkable period during which they have consistently emerged as the most

Longtime Sunrise Banks CEO David Reiling has plenty of bona fides as a socially conscious entrepreneur: Under his direction, for example, Sunrise became the first Minnesota bank certified as a

Political reporters watch the state Capitol and city halls, but they usually don’t pay as much attention to the seven-member Hennepin County Board of Commissioners and Hennepin County’s $1.7 billion

Laurie Nordquist, a Twin Cities resident, was promoted in August to serve as Upper Midwest regional president of Wells Fargo. A 28-year veteran of the company, Nordquist oversees bank operations

Victoria Holt made headlines years back with her claim that Protolabs, a manufacturing company specializing in quick-turnaround prototypes, would one day become a $1 billion business. At the end of

The Twin Cities is not Silicon Valley; the venture capital community here is comparatively small. Eden Prairie-based Split Rock Partners is the largest of the pack, with more than $1

Satellite broadcasting pioneer and DirecTV co-founder Hubbard remains, at 81, a guiding force in what is now the last locally owned Twin Cities TV/radio conglomerate (son Rob runs the Hubbard

Fallon and his ad agency put Minneapolis on the international advertising map. It was the hottest shop in town as the 20th century closed, and though it has lost some

Building a business empire on cheese may not be architecturally sound, but it proved to be a solid foundation for Mark Davis and Davisco Foods International. The $1 billion dairy-processing

Mary Brainerd first joined Bloomington-based HealthPartners in 1992 and was tapped as CEO of the large nonprofit in 2002. Under her leadership, HealthPartners has grown steadily, its revenue roughly doubling