Blois Olson wears many hats, some of them seemingly incompatible. He describes himself as a content provider to thought leaders and a counselor to business and public officials. The content…
The TCB 100 - 2023
Meet the business leaders, trailblazers, and newsmakers poised to make an
impression in 2023.
Every summer, the editors of TCB sit down and make a list. A list of the people in and around Minnesota business likely to make news and drive change in the year ahead. Then we cut the list down to 100, and that’s no easy task, because this list includes not just business, but also government and philanthropic worlds that intersect with business. We like to think of the TCB 100 as the proverbial “little black book” of key people to watch in our coverage area. So sit back, share in the success of some old friends, and get to know some new ones. —Adam Platt
By Liz Fedor, Allison Kaplan, Winter Keefer, Stephanie March, Tina Nguyen, Dan Niepow, Adam Platt, and Gene Rebeck.
A lawyer by training, Bob Paulson started his 25-year career in medical technology at Medtronic. Since then, he’s worked at a number of venture-backed medical companies. His most recent endeavor…
2023: In 2000, Argentinean Daniel Del Prado quit a job in Buenos Aires to attend a wedding in Miami and decided to stay. In 2013 he was making $12 an hour…
The Prudden Co. brand is sleek, with a company goal to “do things differently,” using a culture-focused model. Launched in 2017 by Jessica Prudden and two support staff (with Peter…
Marika Reese, a self-described “serial social entrepreneur,” launched Ubuntu Care Services in 2017 to provide outpatient mental health programs for African American clients. The name of the organization is a…
As the first new CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Ruth Richardson says equity in health care access is her…
When Suzanne Rivera arrived at Macalester College in 2020, things were quiet due to the pandemic, and it would be a year before life started to return to normal. Her…
In 2021, when entrepreneur Marc Lore and retired baseball great Alex Rodriguez were revealed as Glen Taylor’s anointed successors, jaws dropped. The partners will own 40% of the franchise by…
A respected beauty and wellness insider who came up at Aveda and has run the successful Spot Spa in Minneapolis for 20 years, Nell Rueckl is taking her business—and the…
With the death in 2021 of the Southwest Journal, one of the most authoritative and established of Minneapolis’ neighborhood newspapers, a whole swath of the city found itself without hyperlocal…
Since moving to Duluth 10 years ago, Sumair Sheikh has been widely active in the city’s education and nonprofit realms. In June, he took the helm of the Duluth office…
A Mitchell Hamline School of Law graduate, Beth Soholt was hired two decades ago to become executive director of Wind on the Wires; later renamed Clean Grid Alliance, it’s a…
St. Louis Park is a good place to be these days. What was once a sleepy bedroom community of tiny lots and housing all built in the same decade is…
Stephen Spears built a career in financial services after earning a finance degree from Western Michigan University in 1991. He joined St. Paul-based Bremer two years ago in a senior…
The main thing that Manny’s Steakhouse sells is not steak, it’s service. You could argue that the foundational teachings of this belief took root when Randy Stanley captained Manny’s. These…
John Stanoch will spend the next six months trying to convince an international panel of judges that the next expo—commonly called a world’s fair—should take place in Minnesota, on the…
A graduate of Kendall College of Art and Design in Michigan, Angela Two Stars is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe. She came to NACDI in 2019.…
A 1996 graduate of the University of Minnesota law school, Keiko Sugisaka worked as an intellectual property attorney and assistant attorney general before joining Maslon in 2007. A trial lawyer,…