The TCB 100 - 2024

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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

Shawn Weber

Shawn Weber

Shawn Weber has been in the hemp business since 2019. His Morgan, Minnesota-based company manufactures oils, topicals, edibles, and other products under its own brand for sale throughout Minnesota. In…
Carlene Wilson

Carlene Wilson

Since Covid-19 surfaced in early 2020, Carlene Wilson has been focused on ways to adapt workplace spaces. She leads Minneapolis-based Atmosphere Commercial Interiors, which provides design consultations and sells office…
Dawanna Witt

Dawanna Witt

In 2022 Hennepin voters chose Dawanna Witt, a veteran of nearly 20 years in county law enforcement in Minnesota, to be their next sheriff. While the sheriff’s office used to…
Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

Construction, as you likely know if you’ve tried to build a home or remodel an office in the last few years, has been facing a major labor shortage on top…
Leah Wong

Leah Wong

The concerts, games, and markets that brought energy to Nicollet Mall on summer Thursdays are largely thanks to Leah Wong, a 15-year veteran of the Minneapolis Downtown Council. She secured…
Ebony Wyatt

Ebony Wyatt

In 2023, Ebony Wyatt became the first Black woman to serve as sales vice president at General Mills, a role that has her overseeing $2 billion in sales to 50…
Zhi Yang

Zhi Yang

Technology that can read minds to give amputees better control of prosthetic limbs sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Zhi Yang says it’s steadily becoming a reality at…
Kurt Zellers

Kurt Zellers

Like his predecessor, Charlie Weaver (the partnership’s CEO for two decades), Kurt Zellers was a longtime Republican leader in the Minnesota Legislature. Since leaving office in 2015, he’d been working…