Face to Face

Name: Kara Kelley Title: President and CEO Company: Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Location: Las Vegas Years in Nevada: Life Years with Company: 10 Type of Business: Providing businesses with a unique mix of products, services and advocacy to help them prosper Biggest Business Challenge: Promoting a vibrant and business-friendly economy. Nevada’s robust … [Read more...] about May 2006: Face to Face

Name: Todd Nigro Title: President Company: Nigro Development LLC Location: Las Vegas Years in Nevada: 37 Years with Firm: 14 Type of Business: Real estate development company Biggest Business Challenge: The transition plan from our father to my brother and myself for estate and future planning took about three years and was completed in 2000. At that … [Read more...] about April 2006: Face to Face

Name: Paul B. Ranslow Title: President Company: Sierra Nevada College Location: Incline Village Years in Nevada: 37 Years with company: 1 Type of business: Four-year liberal arts college Biggest business challenge: Private (independent) colleges face the challenge of attracting resources for students and faculty. Tuition and fees cover only a fraction of … [Read more...] about February 2006: Face to Face

Name: David Evans Title: President Company: Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Location: Las Vegas Years in Nevada: 7 Years with Company: 4 months Type of Business: Postsecondary education Biggest Business Challenge: Building our local student base; currently 77 percent of our business is from students who live outside Nevada. If you could start over … [Read more...] about January 2006: Face to Face

Name: Mark Harold Bouchard Title: Managing Director Company: CB Richard Ellis Location: Las Vegas Years in Nevada: 22 Years with company: 2 Biggest Business Challenge: Building a business environment that is predicated on the principal of WE. Some of the great entrepreneurs of the modern age built everything they did in partnerships with others. It’s my … [Read more...] about December 2005: Face to Face

Name: Garlyn Norris Title: President and Lead Engineer Company: Fair, Anderson & Langerman Information Technology Services Group (FALIT) Type of Business: Information technology services, advanced network systems support for small to medium-sized businesses Location : Las Vegas Years in Nevada:10 Years with Company: 6 Biggest Business Challenge: The … [Read more...] about November 2005: Face to Face

Name: Jeff Eigenman Title: Project Manager Company: Voit Development Company Type of Business: Commercial real estate development  Location: Reno Years in Nevada: 39 Years with company: 3 Biggest Business Challenge: Our biggest challenge is locating new development opportunities in the Reno/Sparks market. The market is tight, land is scarce and the … [Read more...] about September 2005: Face to Face

Name Elaine Barkdull Title Executive Director Company Elko County Economic Diversification Authority (ECEDA) Type of Business Non-profit economic development organization representing Elko County, Elko, Wells, Carlin and private industries Location Elko Years in Nevada 28 Years with Company: 1 Biggest Business Challenge: Rural Nevada is not quite on … [Read more...] about August 2005: Face to Face

Name: Mike McCabe Title: Vice president of leasing Company: DP Partners Type of Business: Industrial development Years in Nevada: 48 years Years with Company: 8 months Biggest Business Challenge: Bringing a build-to-suit 250,000-square-foot industrial facility to occupancy on a nine-month timetable without an executed lease or a selected site, with a winter … [Read more...] about July 2005: Face to Face

Name: Tommy Isola Title: Owner/Manager Company: Blue Heron Companies, LLC Type of Business Land acquisition and development Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Years in Nevada: 27 years Years with Company: 1 year Biggest Business Challenge: Our biggest challenge this year has been organizing a new company while simultaneously developing our first project. Our first … [Read more...] about June 2005: Face to Face

Name: Cornelius Eason Title: President Company: Priority Staffing USA Type of Business: Employment services, temporary staffing, executive recruitment Location: Las Vegas Years in Nevada: 7 Years with Company: 7 Biggest Business Challenge: Managing the transformation of a start-up business as it grows, without losing the flexibility and creativity that … [Read more...] about May 2005: Face to Face

Name: Eric Springall Title: President Company: Orgill/Singer and Associates Type of Business: Insurance and Investments Location: Las Vegas Years in Nevada: 41 Years with Company: 18 Biggest business challenge: Keeping up with the ever-changing, faster pace of doing business. The insurance industry is rather cyclical, as we have transitioned from a soft … [Read more...] about April 2005: Face to Face

Name Hugh Anderson, CFP, CIMA Title Vice President Company Merrill Lynch Type of Business Comprehensive wealth management for individuals, and consulting services for not-for-profits and institutions. Location  Las Vegas Years in Nevada 21 Years with Company 25 Biggest Business Challenge: Helping hard-driving, successful, busy people take a step back … [Read more...] about March 2005: Face to Face

Name: Lisa Ackerman Title: Vice President/Campus Director for Southern Nevada Company: University of Phoenix, Southern Nevada Campus Type of Business :  Private university with five Southern Nevada campus locations, offering degree programs for working adults Location :  Las Vegas and Henderson Years in Nevada: 8 Years with Company: 8 Biggest Business … [Read more...] about February 2005: Face to Face

Name Christopher W. Larsen Title Managing Partner Company Dekker/Perich/Holmes/Sabatini Type of Business  Professional consulting firm providing architecture, interior design, structural engineering, planning and landscape architecture Location Henderson Years in Nevada 4 Years with Company 11 Biggest Business Challenge: To bring in projects that are not … [Read more...] about January 2005: Face to Face