
From underwriting desk to chief marketing officer, Michael Sheeley's four-decade UFG career is a study in institutional memory, earned range and the quiet power of showing up.

A grandfather’s $35,000 home-equity gamble gave a rejected lube technician one shot. Justin Strickland answered with a national service business built around a scarce American luxury: getting an errand over with.

At Southland Trailers, a second-generation operator turned shop-floor lessons into a system for growth - then made apprenticeships, welding classrooms and a very large pancake breakfast part of the same plan.