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Feb 24, 2020

Brent Barkin was working at Shoe Station as a young boy. The store was a concept his father originated and shortly after the first one was open, the second store opened in Pensacola. Today there are nineteen stores throughout the deep south and Brent is now running the show. Each location sees its own trends in...


Feb 17, 2020

Brian Garish leads Banfield Pet Hospitals. One of the Mars family of businesses (think M&Ms), the pet care industry is booming. More pets today than ever before are leading to a major shortage of veterinarians. And the Millennial generation, per Brian, is much more interested in pet preventative health care...


Feb 10, 2020

Corey James is the Director of Operations for Mobile, Alabama's Innovation PortAL, overseeing startup consulting, community development initiatives, marketing, and communications. Cullen Millsap is a Parter and Vice President of Legal Imaging in Mobile, performing digital forensics and eDiscovery for the legal...


Feb 2, 2020

LuAnn Pappas began her casino and hospitality career in a casino gift shop in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Today she's the CEO of the Scarlet Pearl Casino in D'Iberville, Mississippi. LuAnn recognizes the need to know your customer in HER entirety, and the for the Scarlet Pearl, LuAnn's customer is a fifty-year-old female...