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Martin joined Ceridian in 2012 after six years as CFO at Capella Education Co., where she guided the education firm’s emergence as a public company. She arrived at Ceridian—which offers…

Marwin runs her family business based on the values instilled by her grandfather George, who founded the Warroad company more than a century ago. She steered the business through a…

The last few years have been challenging for Richfield-based Best Buy, amid management shakeups and a tough climate for retailers everywhere. CEO Hubert Joly gets most of the attention but…

2021, Rooted: Since she took over Graywolf in 1994, Fiona McCrae has turned the press based in Minneapolis’s North Loop into a worldwide cultural powerhouse, its books and authors snagging…

The affable, low-profile successor to the polarizing Bill Kling, McTaggart—an MPR lifer—has the challenge of guiding APMG through the decline of terrestrial radio and the growth of internet broadcasting. His…

Dave Menke knows the nuts and bolts of development. Since he joined Opus in 1995, he’s presided over the development of more than 10 million square feet of office space…

One might wonder when Jamie Millard has time to breathe: Just five years out of college, she has launched and runs the literary magazine Paper Darts, doles out social media…

Mishek was tapped to lead Hazelden in 2008, after a period of tumult for the venerable addiction treatment nonprofit. He joined after a long career in health care, including a…

Puerto Rican by birth, Alberto Monserrate is deeply passionate about the Latino community. His Latino Communications Network is a tour de force in marketing to Spanish and bilingual speakers across…

Growing up the daughter of Stanley S. Hubbard, the broadcasting business is one that Ginny Morris knows well. She rose to president of Hubbard Radio in 2000 and has become…

The name John Nasseff is well known in St. Paul, Nasseff’s hometown. Nasseff began working for West Publishing in 1946. Fifty years later, when the legal publisher was sold for…

It's a wonder that Nelson is as trim as he is, cosidering the volume of snacks close at kand as CEO of KLN Family Brands. Fortunately, he can always confine…

Duluth has been a tourist destination for a long time, but under Don Ness's leadership, the Zenith City also is becoming a business destination. He can't (and wouldn't) take all…

Mohamud Noor demonstrated his ability to marshal the electoral power of the Somali community in his DFL primary contest against Rep. Phyllis Kahn. Although he lost the August election, it…

When Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Carolyn Parnell to be the state’s CIO in 2011, Parnell was tasked with leading a years-long consolidation of government IT operations. This meant seeing her…

As the former director of the University News Service, Amy Phenix was well-versed in the ways of the U when President-designate Eric Kaler made her his first management hire as…

The highest-profile of banking legend Carl Pohlad’s dynamic but low-profile sons, Bill Pohlad has built a reputation as a producer (financier, really) of high-quality Hollywood films, and as an occasional…