2021 Women of Influence: Ronda Shrewsbury
Ronda Shrewsbury founded RealAmerica 26 years ago to develop affordable housing after she grew up “extremely poor.”
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2021 Women of Influence: Frances Lee Watson
Frances Lee Watson is the director of the Wrongful Conviction Clinic at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law. Through the clinic, she’s helped represent five exonorees.
2021 Women of Influence: Maureen Weber
Maureen Weber has served as president and CEO of Early Learning Indiana for three years, including through the COVID-19 pandemic when the organization helped launch a $25 million fund for early-learning providers.
2021 Women of Influence: Dr. Amanda Wright
Dr. Amanda Wright served as interim dean of the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2020 and 2021 before being named dean in June. She helped lead the medical school through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Q&A: Franklin College President Kerry Prather projects more growth, bigger fundraising
Prather became acting president in January 2020, shortly after the board of trustees terminated the employment of the college’s previous president, Thomas Minar. In March, the board announced that Prather will continue to lead the institution until at least July 2024.
Meeting & Event Planning Guide: Newest downtown event space expands Crystal Catering’s offerings
The Heirloom at NK Hurst, a new event center south of downtown, hosted its first event Sept. 4.
2021 Health Care Heroes: ‘A debt of gratitude’ owed to heroes
Dr. Kristina Box was thrust into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic as the state’s health commissioner.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Dashboards detailed virus’ spread, informed decision makers
The dashboards have been used throughout the pandemic to provide important data not only to health and government leaders but also to everyday Hoosiers.
2021 Health Care Heroes: School’s sample testing provided new insight on virus
At the request of Gov. Eric Holcomb, a team of researchers and practitioners at the school designed and executed several waves of sample COVID testing of Indiana’s population.
2021 Health Care Heroes: City’s EMS team shared PPE with front line workers across state
From March to December last year, IEMS crews responded to nearly 20,000 calls about potential COVID-19 cases and were ultimately in contact and caring for more than 2,300 positive patients in Marion County.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Team of Riley nurses prepared coworkers to redeploy early in pandemic
The team was charged with training nurses to be deployed anywhere they were needed during the pandemic, including areas where COVID surges and nursing shortages were expected.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Pulmonogist led Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody trial at Franciscan
Lilly’s BLAZE-1 study examined antibody therapy engineered from one of the first individuals in the United States to recover from COVID and was specifically designed to attack the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Volunteer spent six weeks in vaccine clinics 200 miles from home
Dave Skeels, a 59-year-old retired engineering consultant from Indianapolis, spent six weeks this year volunteering in a vaccine clinic in Evansville, more than 200 miles from home.
2021 CTO of the Year: José V. Martínez
José V. Martínez, OneAmerica Financial Partners senior vice president and chief information officer, studied mechanical engineering during undergrad and graduate school at Georgia Tech but learned computing and IT on the side.
2021 CTO of the Year: Tony Newcome
Tony Newcome, ActiveCampaign chief technology officer, worked at ExactTarget and Salesforce before joining ActiveCampaign in 2018.
2021 CTO of the Year: Gene Burcham
Gene Burcham, Electric Plus systems manager, has helped grow his department from one to 35 since being hired in 2019.
2021 CTO of the Year: Chris Thompson
Chris Thompson, 3Oe Scientific chief technology officer, has more than 30 years of experience in consumer products, industrial and scientific industries.
2021 CTO of the Year: Dan McFadden
Dan McFadden, ClusterTruck co-founder and chief technology officer, has been with the company since “day zero.”
2021 CTO of the Year: Jim Ostrognai
As Salesfore’s vice president of software engineering, Jim Ostrognai leads a group of engineers that has been working to build the foundation needed to move to a public cloud infrastructure.
2021 CTO of the Year: Paul DeFonce
Paul DeFonce, senior vice president of IT at Duke Realty Corp., has worked at the company for 26 years, first as an accounting team member who worked closely with the company’s information technology group.