
From Disney Stores and Gap to airport concessions, Padraig Drennan built a career around bringing familiar brands into unfamiliar settings. At Stellar Partners, that work took him from a founder’s succession to a 51-store acquisition and a new kind of airport newsstand.
From Amazon sellers to airport coffee counters, Lendistry finances businesses that do not fit neatly into a bank’s checklist. Its next test is making that approach work beyond the emergency-aid boom.
Hudson built an airport empire on the things travelers forget. Its next act is turning dead time at the gate into a locally flavored, digitally streamlined retail business.