
After a decade chasing breaking news, the former reporter found stillness at a pottery wheel. The result was Ollo - a family-minded ceramics studio and a patented answer to the crowded kitchen cabinet.

The former hockey writer arrived at a young Maine insurer knowing almost nothing about insurance. Three decades later, he runs it with the same useful habit: ask the plain question, listen hard, and make the complicated understandable.

Before he advised companies through IPOs, lawsuits and crises, Jim Hughes reported from Denver and wartime Iraq. At TrailRunner International, he now runs a global communications firm with an old newsroom instinct: earn attention before you need it.

Before Nick Stein built marketing teams at five technology companies, he learned to chase facts at Fortune and CBC. His durable advantage is knowing that a company narrative only works when reality can carry the plot.