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Dave Steigerwald is not a man who sits still for long.
As shareholder and managing director of Sparks Willson Borges Brandt & Johnson P.C., Steigerwald stays busy working with clients, volunteering and with family time.
As an attorney, he enjoys helping clients put deals together at the 30-plus-year-old firm that specializes in business law for Front Range [...] [...]
Lt. Gen. Michael Gould plans to leave his mark on the Air Force Academy.
As the commander who’s been at the post since June, Gould is overseeing the Academy’s most extensive renovation since it was built in the 1950s. Nearly every building needs an upgrade, as do the academy’s practice planes.
“It’s crazy. We’re flying tankers that [...] [...]
Angela Joslyn is the newly appointed director of the Colorado Springs Office of International Affairs, which assists local businesses in exporting goods and services.
Joslyn’s qualification comes from a previous job that uniquely mirrors her present position.
“This is my background and passion,” Joslyn said. “I lived in Japan for four years, and I taught Japanese businessmen [...] [...]
Marta Baker’s heroes are real-life problem solvers — ordinary people who go above and beyond to overcome barriers. And based on her list of accomplishments, she’s flexing plenty of her own problem-solving muscle.
The senior marketing manager for the Colorado Springs-based International Customer Management Institute has already lead an initiative to fine-tune ICMI’s online brand and [...] [...]
Tracy Gonzalez-Padron’s first exposure to the international business scene was during a high school Girl Scouts trip to India.
Gonzalez-Padron met Mother Theresa at the orphanage in Calcutta, during 1979, the year she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The experience gave her “the international bug.”
Gonzalez-Padron is assistant professor of marketing and international business at the [...] [...]
Once Tech for Less’ founder and owners were approached to sell the company to industry giant, ModusLink, a search began for just the right individual to provide transition leadership and to lead the $40 million electronics remarketer to new heights.
Following more than a year’s search led by the Dixon-Midland Co., a Chicago-based investment firm, President [...] [...]
“I’ve always been an early adapter,” said local social media guru Tonya Hall, “so I signed up for MySpace when it was launched in 2003 — and I saw then that social media would change marketing in ways that no one could imagine.”
A self-described military brat, Hall was born in Kansas and grew up in [...] [...]
While some entrepreneurs saw disaster during the recession, Michael Schlierf saw opportunity.
He left his job of 29 years at Intel, working in the “great cubeland of corporate USA” to follow his passion: green energy alternatives.
For the past seven months he has been working with a company called Solargreen and has been the driving force for [...] [...]
When you need an accountant, you need someone who is meticulous, organized and regimented.
Tad Goodenbour, CPA and tax partner for BKD LLP, is nothing if not regimented and precise.
He runs six miles each morning at 4:30 a.m. and works seven days per week. By way of apology for being a workaholic, he says, “My clients [...] [...]
Southern California native Ron Butlin came to Colorado Springs as a result of two fortuitously linked hiring decisions, which he calls his two ‘biggest breaks.’
“In 1985, I was lucky enough to be hired by Wells Fargo in Orange County,” Butlin said, “and then I hired a guy named Jeff Smith to come work with me. [...] [...]
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