2025 Most Respected Leader: Paul Cramer, Be Our Guest
Athens, Georgia, is renowned for its unique downtown atmosphere. More than just a typical college town that fills up on weekends…
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2024 Most Respected Leader: Mike Plant, From Blades to Bricks
What do you call the combination of tenacious commitment and infectious energy in the present and a vision of the future that turns the…
2023 Most Respected Business Leader: Rich Stinson, Making Sustainability Profitable
Rich Stinson is more than just an advocate of sustainability in his industry. He practices what he preaches, seeing and acting on new opportunities in renewable energy, power distribution, 5G and electric vehicle charging. In just a few years, he…
2022 Most Respected Business Leaders Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano: A Study in Contrasts
Mashama Bailey and John Morisano finally snap into view on my computer’s split screen, after a few minutes of the typical tech glitches familiar to anyone who’s forced to communicate online these days. While Morisano is keeping an eye on…
2021 Most Respected Business Leader Kevin Greiner: Growth and Engagement
Kevin Greiner describes Gas South’s December 2020 purchase of Florida-based Infinite Energy as “a big challenge and a wonderful opportunity.” A challenge because it increases revenue and adds customers; an opportunity for the same reasons, with the prospect of growing…
2019 Most Respected Business Leader: Steve Nygren
After a successful career as a restaurateur, Steve Nygren retired to the country and found a new purpose. Serenbe, the lush green community Steve Nygren and his wife, Marie, have created in the hill country of South Fulton County, has…
2018 Most Respected Business Leader: Doug Hertz
Early in his career at United Distributors, on a trip to California’s Napa Valley, Doug Hertz was persuaded to buy two pallets – 108 cases – of Zinfandel, which he brought back to Atlanta. The purchase got a less-than-enthusiastic reception…
2017 Most Respected Business Leader: Sharing The Vision
Eighteen years ago, Carol Burrell came out of an interview at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville and said to a friend, “I think they are going to offer me a job.” Her friend’s response: “I think you will be…
Old Values, New Successes
The Saturday afternoon in 2009 when Larry Gellerstedt walked into a meeting of the board of Cousins Properties, he knew he was about to be offered the CEO’s job. Like other real estate businesses, the Atlanta company founded by Tom…
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