ROI’s Into the Corner Office Podcast: Powerhouse Middle Market CEOs Telling it Real—Unexpected Caree...

Bill Canady is the CEO of Ohio Transmission Corporation , and the President and CEO of Swagelock.  is a global business executive in industrial, engineered and consumer products. He aligns with key stakeholders to set a clear and compelling vision that will rally the organization to drive growth, control cost, and increase profitability. Bill also develops strong leaders and management teams and e...

For nearly 22 years Thomas was a serial entrepreneur. He founded or co-founded six businesses in both the US and overseas in fields as diverse as construction, graphic design, and water bottling. He has an extensive cross-cultural background which includes living 10 years in the Middle East, traveling with significant cultural exposure in over 50 countries, and operating at different times in four...

Adam Bryant is a respected and noted expert on executive leadership whose work includes 525 Corner Office columns for the New York Times. He joins Merryck & Co as managing director and partner after a distinguished career as an editor and journalist. Adam has a proven ability to distill real-world lessons and insights from his hundreds of interviews and turn them into practical tools, presentation...

Joel Penton is the Founder and CEO of LifeWise Academy, a program that provides Bible education to public school students during school hours. Since its launch in 2019, LifeWise has quickly grown to serve more than 100 schools across the U.S. each week. Nearly 14,000 students attend a LifeWise program and receive a Bible class as part of their public school day. Joel’s 15-year career as a nonprofi...

Francesco and Ignacio co-founded Grove Bay Hospitality Grou p and both are currently its’ Co-CEOs. The group has successfully launched an array of chef driven restaurants in partnership with celebrity chefs such as Jeremy Ford, Marcus Saumelsson, Jeff McInnis, Janine Booth and Giorgio Rapicavoli. Currently, the company owns and operates 9 different restaurants in Miami, and is bracing to launch fi...

As an International Best-Selling author and highly credentialed Investment Banker, Brian Callanan has created the program Chief Exit Officer™️. The vision was to simplify the very complex world of mergers & acquisitions for business owners. Brian’s experience in Private Wealth Management uncovered breakdowns costing these business owners millions of dollars in value and taxes. Owners often learn v...

Molly Sargent is Founder & CEO of ProImpress, a dynamic keynote speaker, a master facilitator and author of the forthcoming book, Mastering Authentic Influence™. Since 1985, Molly has successfully trained and coached tens of thousands of Trusted Advisors and teams (and the leaders who love them) to wield greater, positive influence in their client-facing and colleague-collaborating exchanges — fac...

Jeff Totten is the Founder and CEO of Evergreen Services Group and focuses his efforts on vision, capital allocation, team building and growth. Prior to founding Evergreen, Jeff was a Vice President at Alpine Investors where he led investments in business services companies and was a board member of Risk Management Strategies, MidAmerica, YouCaring and Constructive Media. Jeff Totten graduated Phi...

Matt is the Founder/CEO of Uniquely Normal, LLC. Uniquely Normal exists to equip and train leaders to build flourishing team members and organizations through empathy, empowerment, and excellence. Matt has had the honor of training leaders, teams, and boards in over 40 countries over the past 20+ years. Prior to launching Uniquely Normal, Matt served in C-Suite roles in private equity, banking, an...

Mike Plaia is a proven hands-on leader and senior executive with over twenty years of leadership and business experience in small, medium, and large companies. He is responsible for the overall performance of PharmaPoint, an innovative technology-enabled pharmacy management and software company focused on medication optimization and outpatient retail pharmacy management for hospitals, health syste...

For over three decades, Corey has been engaged in the global world of direct selling. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Japan, China, Australia and, of course, the United States, solving complex business issues. Corey has worked in senior C-level positions for two billion dollar-plus consumer product companies that market products through direct selling–one being doTERRA. Developing competent...

Wiley Mullins is the founder and president of Uncle Wiley’s Specialty Foods, Inc., a Fairfield, Connecticut-based firm that produces and markets Wiley’s “Healthy Southern Classics” seasonings and spices. A passion for southern cooking and a starting base of his grandmother’s recipes, combined with ten years of marketing expertise in the packaged food industry enabled Wiley to launch this business...

Doug is Chairman of Newport LLC, a national partnership of CEOs and senior executives who advise emerging middle market companies and assist private equity firms to invest in and grow portfolio companies. He is also a member of the Teaching Faculty at the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship at Florida State and also Advisory Board Chairman for the Business Dynamics Research Consortium at the Univ...

Anne Beiler began twisting pretzels in 1987 to support her husband's vision of offering free counseling services in their community.  What started as a single farmer's market stand grew into Auntie Anne's®, the world's largest hand-rolled soft pretzel franchise.    Anne's journey towards success began many years before she rolled the first pretzel when she and her husband experienced any parent's...

Howdy Holmes started working at Chelsea Milling Company in 1963 as a sophomore in high school. He worked in many departments, learning the company from the ground up during his high school and college summer breaks. He left the company in 1968 saying he would return later, but first, he was going to pursue a boyhood dream. He wanted to be a race car driver. He spent 20 years in motorsports winning...

Jodi Daniels, founder & CEO of Red Clover Advisors, national keynote speaker,  co-host of She Said Privacy/He Said Security podcast, and co-author of the  Wall Street Journal Best Selling Book, Data Reimagined: Building Trust  One Data Byte At A Time, knows just how important trust is when it comes to building a business and growing a brand. As founder & CEO of Red Clover  Advisors, Jodi works han...

Jeremy Macdonald is the CEO of Bonney Plumbing, Electrical, Heating and Air where he and his team are on a mission to build the most trusted home services company in California. Prior to joining Bonney, Jeremy worked as an entrepreneur in South Africa’s rapidly evolving telecoms industry. Jeremy moved to the US with his family 5 years ago in search of better opportunities and adventure. At Bonney,...

Harish Goyal, Essel Group Chief Executive Officer – Health & Wellness, is a veteran in the media and telecom industry. With more than 2 decades of in-depth understanding related to media, telecom, infrastructure, health & wellness, consumer durables & electronics, Harish drives the Group’s strategic discourse with a staunch belief that media, telecom & health synergies in partnership will accelera...

Steve Hedrick is Chairman, President & CEO of AVN Corp. (AVN) in South Charleston, W.Va. AVN delivers market-driven innovation, research, technical engineering, and technology commercialization for the chemical, energy, environmental, and advanced software sectors. Mr. Hedrick has more than three decades of broad-based leadership experience, with more than 20 years of experience in the petrochemic...

Tom Gillespie is the President and CEO of Mendota Heights, MN-based Living Well Disability Services , a leader in providing exceptional services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  Gillespie has more than 15 years of senior management experience working across the spectrum of roles in the disability services industry including executive leadership, operations management,...

Mikkel Thorup is the founder and CEO of Expat Money, and is the world’s most sought-after expat consultant. He focuses on helping high-net-worth private clients to legally mitigate tax liabilities, obtain a second residency and citizenship, and assemble a portfolio of foreign investments including international real estate, timber plantations, agricultural land and other hard-money tangible assets...

Avi Kahn joined the Hilti Group Executive Board in January 2020, with responsibility for Asia and the Americas. Prior to that role and at time of recording, he was Hilti North America ’s operations as president and chief executive officer, overseeing businesses in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Guam. Prior to this role, he served as president of Hilti Canada. Kahn holds a Bachelor of...

Francesca Schuler is passionate about growth and delivering results by building teams, brands and businesses with signature cultures and diverse leadership teams. As the CEO at In-Shape Health Clubs, a California-based chain full service health clubs, Francesca and her team transformed the organization to create a people and experience focused culture. She prioritizes team member development and d...

Marcel Botha, MIT SMArchS ’06, is an entrepreneur, architect, and investor. Botha specializes in guiding product development teams from concept to viable product and is currently locked in a wave of parallel experimentation, feeding off his passion for product acceleration, and digital manufacturing. In 2012 he co-founded Infant Ventures LLC, a company innovating at the stress-points between infan...

Pat is an experienced leader adept at building alliances and gaining cooperation with critical stakeholders on challenging organizational issues.  He is results-driven with a demonstrated ability to acquire and manage scarce resources by leveraging partnerships and technology to resolve organizational challenges.  An entrepreneur, he founded and grew two startups in the Public Sector, with each fi...