Kathy Martin Harrison’s company, Ed Martin Automotive Group, was the largest woman-owned business in Indianapolis last year, according to IBJ research. It owns nine car dealerships representing 12 manufacturers in Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville and Anderson.
Pamela Jo Hynes is responsible for daily operations at Sharpen, which operates a cloud-based, customer service platform and made the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America.
Janney oversees the operations of IU Health, the state’s largest health care system, with 16 hospitals, and its second-largest private employer, with more than 34,000 team members and more than 2,500 physicians. And this year, she took on an unexpected but important role: incident commander of the COVID-19 emergency response team for IU Health.
Donna Kelsey, a 26-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Naval Reserve, took over at American Senior Communities amid a crisis at the company. She reorganized the company, prioritizing the care of the residents and adding controls to guard against the fraud that had felled her predecessor.
Sarena Lin, who joined Elanco Animal Health three years ago, leads the company’s ongoing separation from former parent Eli Lilly and Co. and is simultaneously leading the integration into the company of Bayer Animal Health, which Elanco acquired this year for $7.6 billion.
Patricia A. Martin is head of BioCrossroads, the group that promotes Indiana’s life sciences industry, a pillar of the state’s economy,
Sandy McCarthy runs OneAmerica’s retirement services business, which serves more than 1 million people saving for retirement and is responsible for just more than $60 billion in assets.
Mel Raines leads the team responsible for managing Bankers Life Fieldhouse and the adjacent St. Vincent Center/Indiana Pacers Training Center.
At Faegre Drinker, Marilee J. Springer serves as outside general counsel to charitable entities that provide critical services to families and their local communities.
LaTonya Turner is the first African American woman to serve as a dean at Marian University.
As the United Way’s chief impact officer, Sara VanSlambrook works to help individuals and families find stability in crisis and gain financial and social mobility.
Virginia Booth Womack is one of the nation’s leading advocates for increased participation of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
More than a year before the pandemic struck, Braden led the development of best-in-class remote connectivity infrastructure that allowed his team to easily shift to working from home.
Lenard’s team has focused on improving dealership reporting, which is key to a dealership’s day-to-day functionality, by creating dashboards that replace unreliable legacy systems with easily accessible and timely data and analytics.
Wyss has 33 patents and is known in the customer service industry as one of the world’s leading experts in voice technology software.
Watts suggested that the company combine its multiple pieces of banking software into one fully integrated platform, a move that has fueled rapid growth.
Adams, the senior vice president of product engineering at Jobvite, has led the company’s recent advancements on the artificial intelligence front with machine learning and sentiment analysis, as well as analytics.
Dalton has led the vending machine company through a comprehensive digital transformation of its core systems and applications.
Fisher has been instrumental in migrating KAR Global’s core technology platforms to the cloud, including providing real-time live-stream auctions, a capability that took on added importance with the onset of COVID-19.
Nair, who leads a team of more than 1,000 engineers, has played a key role in keeping Salesforce a global leader in customer relationship management.
