
The CTI chief marketing officer began by pulling cable and commissioning systems. Two decades later, he is still testing every message the same way: does it work in the real world?

She joined Gazelle Sports to help customers find shoes. Fourteen years later, she became one of its two owners - proof that durable brand strategy may begin by listening on the shop floor.

For two decades, the Grand Rapids engineer kept asking one stubborn question: can a label carry enough intelligence to make the physical world more accountable? The answer became two companies, a portfolio of patents and a $54 million acquisition.