To Deanne Erpelding, “design is a catalyst right now for positive change.” A leader in the local interior and exterior design community, Erpelding serves as a managing director for Gensler’s…
The TCB 100 - 2024
The TCB 100 is the “little black book” of people in and around Minnesota business likely to make news and drive change in the year ahead. Meet those on the the 2024 list below. (Then watch the TCB 100 “Reveal” video).
By Liz Fedor, Allison Kaplan, Winter Keefer, Stephanie March, Tina Nguyen, Dan Niepow, Adam Platt, and Gene Rebeck
Phil Esten is no stranger to big-time college athletics, serving tours of duty at UC Berkeley, Penn State, and the University of Minnesota. It was a natural that UST looked…
2024: A veteran CEO of Hormel Foods, Jeff Ettinger is leading the University of Minnesota following president Joan Gabel’s stormy tenure and resignation. As an interim, he’s responsible for advancing…
“I have a hard time not trying to fix the system while going through it,” says serial medtech entrepreneur and investor Morgan Evans. That’s how she ended up co-founding six…
An attorney and former Minnesota Senate DFL minority leader, Melisa Lopez Franzen is the chief advocate for the University of Minnesota at the state Legislature. During the 2024 session, she’ll…
Logan Gerken moved from an athletics career to a leadership role in the construction of athletic facilities at the country’s largest contractor of U.S. sports venues. Among its many projects…
During Dan Gilbertson’s more than 11 years on Medtronic’s M&A team, the medical device giant has scooped up a number of big-ticket companies. That includes cardiac tech firm Affera and…
Leili Fatehi and Laura Monn Ginsburg, founders of Blunt Strategies, the state’s first consultancy developed exclusively for the cannabis industry, have lots of work ahead as the state’s new adult-use…
2024: Though headquartered in Cleveland, Lourenco Goncalves’ company has a huge presence on the Iron Range: Cliffs owns three of the state’s six taconite producers. In August, Cliffs offered to…
In 2022, KQ called up Steve Gorman, the legendary drummer for the Black Crowes, who was living in Nashville, and asked him to consider replacing broadcast legend Tom Barnard in…
This holiday season, Gabriella Grant-Spangler and Ben Spangler will open the first suburban outpost of their ice cream empire. Born in Uptown during the pandemic, Bebe Zito started as a…
When downtown Minneapolis advocates want advice, they turn to Gabrielle Grier. Toward the end of 2022, Mayor Jacob Frey tapped her to serve as co-chair of his downtown retail work…
Shaunie Grigsby envisions a “small little universe” of Flava Cafés, with each having its own “flava.” Her inaugural social enterprise café opened in St. Paul in 2022, and it combines…
Steve Grove is beginning his first full year leading the Star Tribune, Minnesota’s largest news organization, and has settled on a broad mandate after months of talking to readers and…
3M chose Bryan Hanson to implement the spinoff of 3M’s health care business, which posted $8.4 billion in sales in 2022. Hanson joined 3M in September after serving as CEO…
The CEO of Nokomis Health—a position he calls his “day job”—plans to open Berlin in January, a music club in the former Askov Finlayson building. A musician and music lover,…
Dominic Iannazzo has had his sights set on leading EY’s 800-person Minneapolis team since he joined the office more than 11 years ago. Minnesota is home, not a steppingstone for…
After helping produce a tech conference in 2018, Michael Jackson saw a need for a pipeline to help Black technologists get jobs. He launched the recruiting service Black Tech Talent…