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Hunter Harlow and the map inside the hat
A geology student helped turn a desert souvenir into Sendero Provisions Co. The trail led through a growing apparel business, an unexpected basketball partnership, and a deliberate decision to stay in Waco.
Jose Lozano and the trouble with separate rooms
From Houston agency builder to CEO of Gravity Global, Jose Lozano has spent years getting specialists to work together. His next test is making that habit travel.
Boyd Bailey and the Story Before the Headline
A television reporter became an airline marketer, then founded Reputable in Santa Barbara. Boyd Bailey’s career follows a persistent curiosity: how an issue becomes news, and who gets to explain it.
Tommy Graunke Built a Golf Club for the Hours the Sun Forgot
He learned digital attention in e-learning and gaming, then found a stubbornly physical problem in Dallas: serious golfers had nowhere nearby to practise before dawn or after dark. Scratch Golf Club became his answer.
Mike Meyer
Mike Meyer is Chief Marketing Officer at Fleet Farm, the roughly 70-year-old Midwestern farm-and-home retail chain headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin. He arrived first as a consultant, embedded with the leadership team, and then stepped into the top marketing seat. A Baylor University graduate based near Fort Worth, Texas, he works at the intersection of rural retail heritage and modern digital marketing, writing publicly on topics like early-mover advantage and B2B intent data.
Kathy Wallace
Kathy Wallace is the CEO of LifeCare Hospital of Plano, part of LifeCare Hospitals of North Texas. A registered nurse with roughly 35 years in healthcare and about 18 of them at LifeCare, she rose through clinical and executive roles into the corner office. She is one of an all-female group of CEOs, all trained in critical care, who lead LifeCare's North Texas long-term acute care hospitals. Her focus is on early-intervention and mobilization protocols that shorten recovery times for the most fragile, critically ill patients while cutting readmissions.
Victor Boutros
Victor Boutros is the CEO and co-founder of the Human Trafficking Institute, a Dallas- and Washington-based nonprofit that embeds investigators and lawyers inside the criminal justice systems of developing countries to help them dismantle trafficking networks at the source. A former U.S. Department of Justice federal prosecutor who tried human trafficking cases of national significance, he co-wrote the Washington Post bestseller The Locust Effect with Gary Haugen, work that earned the 2016 Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas Improving World Order. He left a stable government career with no safety net in 2016 to build an organization that has helped Uganda prosecute traffickers at nearly ten times the global average.