Kevin Thorn
Kevin Thorn never planned to enter pest management. Finishing his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University, he intended to attend medical school and become a Pediatrician, exploring small businesses for sale mostly as a way to fund his education and avoid debt. In September 2007 he purchased a modest pest control operation with two employees […]
Guy Timothy
Guy Timothy built his career by seeing where an industry was headed before others did. Starting with SBR in 199, the future Chief Executive Officer of Vision Graphics LLC used his position at a small company to learn every aspect of business operations. Sensing that the traditional reprographics trade would shrink as digitization advanced, he […]
Amanda Twede Crawford
When Amanda Twede Crawford took command of Owlet Inc.’s finances, the company was fighting for its life. The maker of hospital-grade infant monitoring technology had gone public in 2021, only to receive an FDA warning letter asserting that its wellness device was in fact a medical product requiring formal clearance. Sales of the flagship product […]
Chuck Wach
Chuck Wach learned early what scale could command. At Nestle, Heinz and Pepsi, the Chief Executive Officer of Intermountain Nutrition LLC experienced the classical definition of a Titan, where revenue, shelf space and negotiation power were the metrics that mattered and size seemed to win every contest. Yet when he moved into the nutritional supplement […]
Hayden Wadsworth
The idea that became HydroJug arrived through a YouTube video. In 2016, while finishing his MBA and working full time, Hayden Wadsworth watched a fitness influencer pick up water jugs on a grocery shelf one by one and dismiss every option as too flimsy, poorly designed or wrongly built. The future Chief Executive Officer of […]
Mike Wagstaff
Legacy runs through everything Mike Wagstaff has built. Holiday Oil Company began in 1964 when his father Jerry opened a single service station grounded in a simple mission: Serve people well and build a business on trust and community. The Chief Executive Officer of Holiday Oil Company grew up immersed in that world, learning firsthand […]
Matthew Wardle
JD Machine started as a true mom-and-pop shop, born when J. Don and Mary Ann Wardle rented a small space inside a poultry processing plant with two manual machines and a single customer. That first customer remains a valued partner today. For the first decade the Founders intentionally kept the business small, building financial stability […]
Greg Weeks
Greg Weeks built his career on a single conviction: when legacy systems limit performance, you do not complain, you reengineer the system. Long before becoming Chief Executive Officer of Max Connect Digital in 2019, he helped lead the team that built the first-ever digital cinema distribution network for Technicolor, accelerating the industry-wide shift from physical […]
Jennifer Welding
The company began as a response to a real problem. In the middle of a project, a critical architectural component failed to arrive despite being ordered months in advance, and facing potential delays, two of the original partners asked a bold question: Could they make it themselves? Producing gypsum-based columns in-house seemed ambitious at the […]
Ben Wheeler
Ben Wheeler’s story is defined not by founding a company but by building and shaping one from the inside. Over 14 years at Myriad Genetics, the Chief Financial Officer has applied an entrepreneurial mindset to scale the company’s financial engine, strengthen its foundation and help lead it through transformative moments that reshaped the business. When […]