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Kyle Salem and the business of asking better questions
A research scientist became an Omaha CEO without quite leaving the classroom. Across two decades at Cassling and CQuence Health, Kyle Salem has made teaching part of the work of building a business.
Jared Hollinger’s bet on what needs tending
From a Nebraska property business to farmland and open-air retail, Jared Hollinger has built his career around the work that follows a purchase. At Sower Investment Partners, the deal is the beginning of the job.
Mary Ann O’Brien and the promise a brand has to keep
She was signing her name “CEO” in third grade. From Gateway Computers to OBI Creative in Omaha, Mary Ann O’Brien has built her career around a harder question: does the customer get what the company promises?
Greg Andersen and the $100 question about Nebraska
After 26 years in New York and Los Angeles, Greg Andersen came home to Omaha with a question for advertising: how well do you know the people beyond your own postcode? At Bailey Lauerman, the answer has become both a business strategy and a research project.
Terry Kroeger Bought the Next Chapter Instead of Retiring Into the Last One
He started near the bottom of a newspaper company, kept sneakers under his desk for emergency lawn duty, and eventually ran Warren Buffett's newspaper group. Then Terry Kroeger traded the publisher's office for an Omaha agency with a future to write.
Brooke Brockman Built Her Career by Listening Before She Marketed
Her route to the C-suite ran through customer success, lifecycle marketing and one useful conviction: a brand gets stronger when the people using the product can recognize themselves in its story.
Richard Westin
Richard Westin is the co-founder of Agemark Senior Living, an Omaha-based operator of 28 communities across six states. The first American to work full-time for Club Med, he imported a resort-style hospitality ethos into a category usually defined by clinical efficiency. He led Agemark as CEO from 1987 until 2022 and now sits as a principal as his son Forrest steps into co-CEO.