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2019 Chief Sales Officer of the Year: Mike Gassmann

Mike Gassmann Chief Growth Officer Van Meter Inc. Chief Sales Officer of the Year Nominated by Bailey Ellinwood, Learning and Development Coordinator   Known within the company as “a true...

2019 Chief Marketing Officer of the Year: Jessalyn Holdcraft

Jessalyn Holdcraft Director of Marketing NewBoCo Chief Marketing Officer of the Year – Nonprofit Nominated by Aaron Horn, Chief Operating Officer   In leading a top-to-bottom rebranding of her organization...

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...

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