February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJAs a North Central High School senior, Kendale Adams went through a 100 Black Men mentoring program that paired him with a
police officer. By his senior year at Ball State University, he’d already begun the process of joining the Indianapolis
Police Department.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJThe numbers tell Sarah Aubrey’s story: Since founding her grant-writing company in 2007, she’s secured nearly
$60 million for clients in 38 states. In an average year, she writes several hundred grants and boasts a 90-percent success
rate.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJEdward Battista owns the trendy Bluebeard restaurant in Fountain Square and is in the middle of law school at IUPUI. The last
time he slept, he jokes, was two years ago.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJBrad Beaubien came from Sioux City, Iowa, to Ball State University to pursue an education in landscape architecture and urban
planning. Give or take 75 miles, he’s still there.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJEver since moving from Wabash to Indianapolis to attend Butler University, Linda Broadfoot has focused on ways to make Indianapolis
better.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJIn the three years since Timothy Carter became Butler University’s first director of its Center for Urban Ecology, he’s
been busy defining the center’s vision, setting goals and building relationships within the campus as well as the Indianapolis
community.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJStrengthening relationships is key to Elizabeth Childers’ success. A marketing leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers, one
of the “big four” accounting firms, Childers nurtures the company’s ties to its communities, clients and
alumni in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio with frequent travel among four offices in the three states.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJAsk Jamar Cobb-Dennard who he is and he answers, “I am a businessman, community leader and future politician, speaker/author
and single father.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJMichael Crafton and his friends from Indiana University had grand plans after graduation: They wanted to be Mark Cuban.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJKatie Culp has amassed enough frequent flier miles to move up to first class frequently. That’s good not only because
she’s 5-foot-11 but also because she does a fair amount of traveling.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJFrank Dale has spent most of his career in the entrepreneurial world. Happily.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJFor five years, Scott Fadness has focused on what’s best for Fishers. Three years from now, what’s best for the
town of 80,000 will include the end of his job, as the town becomes a city that will have a mayor to handle the work Fadness
now does as town manager.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJWhen Claudia Fuentes was elected Marion County treasurer in November, she became the first Latina elected to countywide office
in Indiana. She considers that milestone “huge.”
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJChris Gahl is passionate about his hometown. As vice president of marketing and communication for Visit Indy, he turns his
enthusiasm loose on meeting planners and travel professionals, showing them the best Indianapolis has to offer, which was
on display for millions in 2012 during Super Bowl XLVI.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJBen Gale grew up in Anderson, graduated from Anderson University, left town for a few years and came back “committed
to being a positive influence in a community that’s really struggled.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJAndrew Held had an impressive law career going—as an Indiana University-Bloomington law student, he clerked for federal
Judge Sarah Evans Barker and Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Margret Robb before joining Hackman Hulett & Cracraft LLP
and then Bose McKinney & Evans LLP in its Real Estate Group.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJAs founder and executive director of Growing Places Indy, Laura Henderson sees the big picture. People making healthier food
choices feel better, and when many people feel better, the result is a healthier community.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJFrom frat boy to fundraiser to faculty—that’s how Matthew Holley describes his career trajectory.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJMichele Jackson splits her week between her Harden Jackson Law LLC firm, where she handles domestic adoptions and reproductive
law cases, and MLJ Adoptions, where she specializes in the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes heartbreaking world of international
adoption.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJHannah Joseph has a fondness for small businesses—the one she owns with her husband, Brent—King David Dogs—and the 150 or
so that are her clients at law firm Katz & Korin.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJRob Laycock says that when he’s at work, there’s no better feeling than seeing Bankers Life Fieldhouse packed with fans. As
vice president of marketing for Pacers Sports & Entertainment, he has a hand in making that happen.
“It’s a collaboration
of everyone who works here,” he said. “This is a great organization, and I’ve been given a lot of opportunities.”
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJAnyone who knew David Leazenby at Westfield High School must have figured he’d end up in some area of design and development.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJIn 2009, Matt MacGregor was working as a consultant in Vietnam when Chuck Dietzen, the founder of Timmy Global Health, asked
him to apply for the executive director’s job at Timmy.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJBecca Manolov left Indiana 10 years ago to try something new. Now she’s back to promote something new—CityWay, the apartment/hotel/retail/YMCA
complex downtown.
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February 2, 2013
Marc and Martha Allan / Special to IBJJayson Manship’s job title is Lead Nerd.
Co-founder of Indianapolis-based inSourceCode, Manship and his 12 coworkers
write code for websites serving clients ranging from major political entities to professional sports teams. He has also done
the Web work for the two “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” projects in Indiana.
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My favorite magician is Mickey in Fantasia.
I ate at a Steak n Shake a couple of weeks ago and was amused to see a poster of him (and a lineup of employees) just inside the entrance. You don't see that at other chains -- OK maybe Dave the Wendy's guy, but that was when he was also in their TV ads.
Well he wasn't a magician in the latest movie, but up in Fort Wayne he was featured on Happy the Hobo when I was a kid and I LOVED THE SHOW!
Shake Shack>Steak n' Shake
I really enjoyed the Hollywood Bar and Film works, they had good food and decent prices I understand that parking was one of the reasons for its closing. If other major events were going downtown parking was expensive if not impossible. Hope the new cinema bar will have parking.