A steel-town childhood, a procurement desk at BHEL, and a question about who does the chasing. How the founder of ProcMart came to see a business in the purchases factories would rather not think about.
Aircraft grow old slowly. Brian Sartain has built a career around the less glamorous, more exacting question of what keeps them useful when their original parts become yesterday's business.
Bob McCollum is the long-serving CEO and driving force behind R.S. Hughes Co., Inc., an employee-owned industrial distributor headquartered in Sunnyvale, California that has grown into a $527 million enterprise spanning North America. A University of Michigan alumnus and former college quarterback, McCollum spent decades building RS Hughes into one of North America's top 50 industrial distributors, known for its culture of integrity and genuine care for employees. He has been recognized for significant philanthropic contributions to the University of Michigan athletics program, endowing the quarterbacks coaching position with a $2 million gift in 2022.