A small group of engineers in West Lafayette were told countless times their vision to help the blind and visually impaired was impossible. But Dave Schleppenbach, CEO of Tactile Engineering, kept toiling at his start-up company situated near Purdue University. All that swimming against the current paid off for Schleppenbach – a serial entrepreneur, inventor and tireless advocate for [...]
Christopher Day will never be accused of being unambitious. Shortly after the Hoosier tech entrepreneur was named CEO of Elevate Ventures last summer, he audaciously announced plans to “double Elevate’s activity statewide.” The means doubling the programming conducted and the roughly $15 million annually invested by Elevate, the non-profit venture investment arm of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Out [...]
Michael E. Schrage, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Centier Bank, is pleased to welcome Doug Wood as Market President serving the bank’s Greater Fort Wayne office. Wood joins Centier after serving in various leadership roles in the banking and financial industry over the past 30 years, including regional president, group head, and commercial loan officer. [...]
Dr. James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History, American Studies and Africana Studies at the City University of New York, will discuss the mid-19th century debate over the meaning of the Constitution at 6 p.m., May 3 in the Indiana State Museum Auditorium. Admission is free, but registration is encouraged. Oakes’ lecture, “Dueling Constitutions,” will examine the way the national [...]
Grocer accepts EBT payments for customers using digital services Kroger Central Division, serving much of Indiana and Illinois, announced it now accepts EBT payment for all online grocery orders. “Thousands of Kroger shoppers place digital orders every week,” said Colleen Juergensen, president of Kroger Central Division. “Now, we are opening our digital grocery shopping experience to more people, with [...]
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has launched a unique research fellowship program designed to give the world’s most gifted science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students the opportunity to conduct meaningful research during their first and second years on campus. The new Rose Research Fellows program creates an environment of excitement and recognition for undergraduate research on the Rose-Hulman campus. [...]
Centier Bank was recently presented two awards by the United States Small Business Administration’s Indiana District Office for its lending performance in 2022. A group of Centier Bank business bankers gathered at the bank’s Corporate Centre in Merrillville to accept the Community Lender Award (Silver) and Third Party Lender Award from Peter Smith and Sharon Harvey from the Indiana [...]
BGBC CPAs and Advisors announced that former Indiana revenue commissioner Adam Krupp has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. An experienced business leader, Krupp will support the continued growth of the firm by providing elevated operational and strategic support. Throughout Krupp’s rich career path, he has had measurable impacts on the companies he has served, most [...]
The FORVIS Foundation has donated $30,000 to the Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) to support hundreds of families of children awaiting organ transplants. The gift will fund needed supplies for 300 COTA-logoed backpacks that families keep as “go bags” for the moment when they are notified that an organ is ready for their loved one and they must quickly [...]
F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co., Inc. is celebrating its 100th anniversary on May 9, 2023. The company started in 1923 and grew from modest beginnings. With an eighth-grade education, a deep passion for helping others, and a need to support a growing family, founder Francis A. Wilhelm built a porch for his neighbor. That first project laid the foundation that [...]
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