Q&A With SunTrust CEO William Rogers
SunTrust – known as The Trust Company of Georgia for much of its life – is one of the top 50 regional banks in the country and the last “big bank” actually headquartered in Atlanta. Thanks to a series of…
Business Industry
2013 Family Business Awards
Meet the winners of this year’s competition, selected by Kennesaw State University’s Cox Family Enterprise Center.
Getting With The Program
In Savannah, a 60-year-old man goes to his laptop instead of the phone to schedule his annual physical. While online, he double-checks last year’s lab results and requests a refill of one of his prescriptions. In Rome, a breast cancer…
The Hits Keep On Coming
Earlier this year when athenahealth Inc. was seeking a headquarters for a major expansion of its sales, implementation and customer service operation, the Watertown, Mass.-based company bypassed many traditional tech centers for Ponce City Market in Atlanta. The $4-billion company,…
2013 Silver Spoon Awards
Restaurants have always been volatile businesses – the first to wink out in a downturn; the first green shoots to crop up with an uptick. If Georgia’s restaurants in the last year are any indication of the larger business community,…
Deal’s Kitchen Cabinet
Nathan Deal was elected to the state legislature as a Democrat, then got elected and re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat, then switched parties in the middle of his second Congressional term, then got re-elected seven…
Cell Mates
Nick Boulis has the audacity to believe, out loud, that discoveries and therapies designed to improve the human condition – world-changing breakthroughs that have been happening and are happening right now in Georgia – are just as important as…
2013 Forty Under Forty
Our 17th annual list of achievers from business, government, healthcare and nonprofits.
Making A Comeback
The waves of bank closures that washed over the state during the recession – many tied to toxic real estate loans – gave rise to predictions that recovery could be long and slow. But Georgia’s banking industry has proved…
Energizing The Markets
When news broke late last year that IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. – ICE, the Atlanta-based energy trading company started by CEO Jeffrey Sprecher 13 years ago – was buying the New York Stock Exchange for some $8.2 billion, there were rumblings…
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