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Jonathan Duhon and the Business of Getting There
Before overseeing operating support at Jones Capital, Jonathan Duhon led a company that built temporary roads. His career follows the practical work that makes growth possible, from accounting to access mats to logistics.
Innovate Mississippi puts $50,000 behind the homework
A statewide nonprofit pairs startup coaching with capital and local connections. Its wager: founders can build an investable business without first leaving Mississippi.
Lanny Griffith and the art of keeping a door open
From Mississippi campaigns to the White House and BGR Group, Lanny Griffith built a career around bringing people together. The buildings he restored and the scholarship bearing his family’s name tell the quieter half of that story.
The Focus Group Sells the Gulf Coast to Itself - Then to Everyone Else
From shrimp selfies on digital billboards to a census spot voiced by Morgan Freeman, this Biloxi agency has learned that regional knowledge becomes valuable when it can make somebody act.
The $78 Bet That Learned to Speak Pentagon
A Mississippi agency started with a tax refund, challenged a state's caricature, and found a durable niche explaining complicated things to skeptical people.
The Mississippi Telco That Ran Google's Fiber Playbook - And Kept the Whole State
How a Gulf Coast cellular start-up became the biggest privately held wireless carrier in America - by making towns compete to get fiber first, then wiring the rest of the state anyway.
Keith Carter
Keith Carter is a healthcare technology operator with deep roots in medical imaging and surgical data infrastructure. Currently VP of Implementations & Integrations at Caresyntax - the AI-powered surgical intelligence platform used in 3,500+ operating rooms worldwide - he also serves as CEO of Cloud9PACS.com, a digital PACS system he built from the ground up. Carter's career traces the arc of healthcare IT: from PACS architect at Medlink to running his own imaging solutions company, to joining one of the most-funded surgical AI ventures in the industry. He is based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.