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…

Tom Hanson has put a lot on Duluth’s plate. He opened the Duluth Grill in the Lincoln Park neighborhood west of downtown in 2001, and its farm-to-table offerings made it…

Blake Hastings led the local office of CBRE Group Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm, for nearly six years; Los Angeles-based CBRE is a global operation with…

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…

Hyde Development isn’t a big name on the level of Opus or Ryan in development circles, but it was part of one of the largest recent redevelopment projects in the…

In 2017, Melvin Carter was elected the first African-American mayor of St. Paul. He got 51 percent of the first-choice votes, easily outdistancing four major challengers. Now he’s grappling with…

John Johannson was a college hockey standout for the University of Wisconsin before getting into the commercial real estate business. Today he’s known and respected as one of the best,…

Plymouth-based Christopher & Banks Corp., which sells women’s apparel, has been fighting the same battle as brick-and-mortar retailers everywhere: declining sales, closing stores, and online competition. Jones took the helm…

When Dick Radatz left affiliated professional baseball and co-founded the Northwoods League in 1993, minor league baseball was a shambles in the Upper Midwest. Observers scoffed at his belief that…

Twin Cities native Gavin Kaysen made a name for himself as a rising star chef in the New York City kitchens of chef Daniel Boulud before making the utterly Minnesotan…

When John Kidd was tapped to run the Radisson family of hotels in 2017, it looked like smooth sailing for the veteran industry exec. In 2016, China-based conglomerate HNA Group…

2021, Alumni: Raising a middle finger to fear has become one of the James Beard Award-winning chef’s signatures, along with genre-bending cuisine. So as other restaurants fell all around her,…

While Minnesota’s future with marijuana is still hazy, Kyle Kingsley and his physician-led company Vireo Health remain steadfast in their goal to “medicalize” cannabis. The ability to quantify the dosage…

In a period of divided politics, St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis is pursuing a path to unity. The former Republican state senator, running a predominantly white community of 68,000, invites…

After initially joining Recombinetics in 2016 as corporate affairs chief, Tammy Lee took over as CEO in 2017 just as the emerging gene-editing company was working on a $34 million…

Spawned by the University of Minnesota’s Learning Technologies Media Lab in 2012, Flipgrid (formerly known as Vidku) aimed to modernize the classroom with an app that lets students and teachers…

Just about everyone in the local startup community knows Melissa Kjolsing Lynch, who previously led the MN Cup entrepreneurial competition. She served as the founding manager of the Lunar Startups…

Founder of 16-year-old Minneapolis digital agency Clockwork, Nancy Lyons has built a national reputation as an expert on technology, entrepreneurship, and workplace culture. Compelled to make a difference beyond the…