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Emily Shoff
Emily Shoff, Owner and Chief Executive Officer of The Phoenix Recovery Center, leads a company whose very name speaks to rising from the ashes, and few understand that meaning as intimately as she does. The story begins long before the company itself. In 2008, the market crashed and the small construction business she ran with […]
Darrell Bret Smith
Darrell Bret Smith, Owner and President of Dale T. Smith & Sons Meat Packing Co. Inc., traces his entrepreneurial instincts to a boyhood love of animals. Already raising cows, horses, dogs and sheep, he added chickens to sell eggs and began breeding rabbits for meat and fur. At one point he tended more than 350 […]
Jason Smith
Jason Smith, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SponsorCX, built his company on a problem he had watched play out from every angle. Before founding the business, he spent years working closely with brands, sports teams, entertainment organizations, nonprofits and event operators, helping brands maximize sponsorship impact while partnering with the properties responsible for selling, […]
Jordan Smith
Jordan Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Jet Dental, turned a personal frustration into a nationwide company. Before founding the business with his father, Jeff Smith, he served as Vice President of Sales at a large health services company, carrying a passion for leadership alongside a desire for entrepreneurship. Father and son wanted to build something […]
Marcus Sorensen
Marcus Sorensen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Caddis Sports, took the leap that defines every entrepreneur, and he did it on national television. With several years of experience in the outdoor and survival space, he and his business partner set out in 2017 with a goal to start an affordable high-end cooler company. They […]
Mark Strickland
Mark Strickland, President and Chief Executive Officer of Crispi USA, has built his career on a simple pattern: Start small, execute with discipline and build lasting value. 18 years ago he founded an online retail company in his basement with just $6,000 in startup capital. For the first two years he bootstrapped the business from […]
Ryan Stucki
A rejected application for a job paying little more than minimum wage set Ryan Stucki on the path that would define his career. Determined to answer to no one, the future Chief Executive Officer of Smart Wave Solar launched a carpet cleaning business to fund his studies at Utah State University, where he had planned […]
Cory Tanner
The insight that launched Exit IQ came from a pattern Cory Tanner watched repeat far too often. Growing and selling his own companies, the Co-Founder and President saw talented Owners spend entire lifetimes building successful businesses only to arrive at the moment of exit unprepared financially, emotionally and strategically. Strong revenues on paper masked hidden […]
Ken Thompson
Some entrepreneurial stories are about founding a company. Ken Thompson’s is about transforming one. When he stepped into the top role at AlignOrg Solutions, the Principal Partner and Chief Executive Officer inherited a respected but modest consultancy operating largely as a lifestyle business: a small group of talented advisors working under a shared logo and […]