Monthly Archives: September 2019
2019 Chief Operating Officer of the Year: Tim Schroeder
Tim Schroeder
President & Chief Operating Officer
Neumann Monson Architects
Chief Operating Officer of the Year – For-Profit
Nominated by Kevin Monson, Chairman
As an architect and leader of...
2019 Chief Marketing Officer of the Year: Wendy Nielsen
Wendy Nielsen
Vice President, Marketing
Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust
Chief Marketing Officer of the Year – For-Profit
Nominated by James Klein, President
Wendy Nielsen has seen it all...
2019 Chief Financial Officer of the Year: Dennis Bockenstedt
Dennis Bockenstedt
Finance Director
City of Iowa City
Chief Financial Officer of the Year – Government
Nominated by Geoff Fruin, City Manager
If city finance directors are tagged as...
2019 Chief Technology/Information/Security Officer of the Year: Lucas Kuhlmann
Lucas Kuhlmann
Chief Technology Officer
ACT
Chief Technology/Information/Security Officer of the Year
Nominated by Julie Divoky, Senior Program Manager
The work of Lucas Kuhlmann, chief technology officer at ACT,...
New CBJ podcast aims to broaden ‘diversity’
Diversity Straight Up hosts Sarika Bhakta and Anthony Arrington. PHOTO BEN HIGH
By Christine Hawes
news@corridorbusiness.com
It turns out that diversity can be, well, stereotyped.
It’s often defined...
(Un)Hired Help: Reflecting on a year of workforce reporting
This marks the conclusion of the CBJ's members-only series exploring the causes and symptoms of Iowa's worker shortage. We look back at some of...
When is it time to outsource HR?
By Brenda LaMarche | Guest Column
Human resources represents a wide variety of tasks ranging from payroll and taxes to benefits administration to legal compliance....
How PR has gone social
By Betsy McCloskey | Guest Column
The field of public relations has seen dramatic shifts over the past 10 years with the rise of digital...
CBJ Q&A: Kevin O’Brien
Kevin O'Brien
President, Creative Management Inc.
O’Brien Family McDonald’s
By Dave DeWitte
dave@corridorbusiness.com
O’Brien Family McDonald’s of Coralville, the area’s largest McDonald’s franchisee, is expanding in the Corridor with...
Target sets a (smaller) bullseye on Iowa City
Target is opening smaller-format stores at a rapid pace, including this one in Minneapolis' Uptown district. The "campus store" in Iowa City will span...