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Top 100 Influencers in Louisville

Louisville is a city of growing influence, and there are intelligence resources to identify those who are making many people in the community who are contributing a significant mark. Founding a company and getting to the forward momentum. Some are executives of our involved in community endeavors are factors that largest companies. Others are shaping politics. Then, weigh heavily on an individual’s ranking. Other variables there are the change-makers and groundbreakers considered range from leadership roles to board who stand out for the bold ways they do things in the affiliations to social media presence. corporate and nonprofit worlds. Our research team is constantly updating our data and So how does Insider Louisville measure influence? certifying new profiles. Are you among Insider 502’s most Using our Insider 502 platform, our team of researchers influential? Visit Insider 502 to view more than 4,000 curates and mines data from publicly available business unique profiles.

Greg Fischer Click the names of influencers to see 1 Mayor, Louisville Metro Government their complete Insider 502 profiles.

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Sandra Frazier Did You Know? 3 CEO, Tandem Public Relations Louisville’s Top 10 Influencers represent 67 corporate and nonprofit board Michael Mountjoy positions, including... 4 Chairman and Managing Partner, Mountjoy Chilton Medley (MCM) 5 4 Barry Barker 5 Exec. Director, Transit Authority of River City 4

6 David Yates President,

Marita Willis 8 businesses were founded by the top 7 Major Gifts Officer, American Red Cross, 10 leaders Louisville Chapter 7 are Leadership Louisville Center David Jones, Sr. 8 graduates Community Leader 6 have degrees from universities Cynthia Knapek in 9 President, Leadership Louisville Center

Alice Houston 10 President, Houston-Johnson, Inc. Photo Credit: Louisville - Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project Sponsored By

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Ruth Brinkley John Yarmuth 11 16 President and CEO, KentuckyOne Health U.S. Representative, U.S. House of Representatives

Donna Hargens, Ed.D. Phoebe Wood 12 Superintendent, Jefferson County 17 Public Schools (JCPS) Principal, CompaniesWood Properties

John Schnatter Nikki Jackson 18 13 Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve CEO, Papa John’s International, Inc. Bank of St. Louis

Deb Moessner 19 Mary Ellen Wiederwohl President, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield - 14 Chief, Louisville Forward, Kentucky Louisville Metro Government

20 Charles Denny Sadiqa Reynolds 15 President, PNC Bank President and CEO, Louisville Urban League

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26 are elected officials 36 are graduates, 10 are University of Kentucky graduates

Gill Holland Kent Oyler 21 26 Managing Partner, The Group Entertainment President and CEO, Greater Louisville, Inc. (GLI)

Attica Scott Bill Weyland 22 27 State Representative, Kentucky State Government Executive, Weyland Ventures

Stephanie Horne David Jones, Jr. 23 28 CEO, Horne Title Chairman and Managing Partner, Chrysalis Ventures

Wendy Dant Chesser Todd Spencer 24 29 President and CEO, One Southern Indiana CEO, Doe-Anderson

Bruce Broussard Lesa Seibert 25 30 CEO, Humana CEO, Mightily Sponsored By

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Pattie Dale Tye 31 Vice President, Humana Of Louisville’s Top 100 Diane Medley 32 Managing Partner, Mountjoy Chilton Medley (MCM) Influencers, did you know?

Bill Hollander 12 are startup experts 33 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council 21 are business owners Junior Bridgeman 34 President and CEO, Manna Inc.

Bob Saunders 35 Partner, OCA Ventures

Barbara Sexton Smith Jim Allen 36 47 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council CEO, Hilliard Lyons

Christina Lee Brown Neville Blakemore, III 37 48 Community Leader President, Great Northern Building Products, LLC

Paula Harshaw Jeff McKenzie 38 49 Community Leader Partner, Bingham Greenebaum Doll

Turney Berry Yvette Gentry 39 50 Partner, Wyaatt, Tarrant & Combs Executive, Louisville Metro Government

Todd Lowe Bill Bardenwerper 40 51 President, Parthenon Managing Partner, Bardenwerper, Talbott & Roberts

Kevin Cosby, D. Min. Angela Leet 41 52 President, Simmons College Council Member, Louisville Metro Council

Frank Harshaw Laura Douglas 42 53 President and CEO, Harshaw Trane Former Vice President, LG&E

Angela McCormick Bisig Ben Ruiz 43 54 Judge, Jefferson County Circuit Court CEO, Adhawks Advertising & Public Relations

Ronald J. Murphy Matt Bevin 44 55 Community Leader Governor, Kentucky State Government

David James Kellie Watson 45 56 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council General Counsel, Louisville Metro Government

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Vidya Ravichandran Jonathan Blue 57 73 President, GlowTouch Technologies Chairman and Managing Director, Blue Equity

Ben Richmond Gerald Neal 58 74 President, Rebound State Senator, Kentucky State Government

Ellen Hesen Dennis Heishman 59 75 Chief of Staff, Louisville Metro Government CEO, Old National Bank

Glen Stuckel Julie Denton 60 76 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council Council Member, Louisville Metro Council

Madonna Flood Joseph Kurtz, D.D. 61 77 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council Archbishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville

Robert Brown, Ph.D. Susan Bergmeister 62 78 General Counsel, Healthcare Asset Network Assistant Director, University of Louisville College of Business

David Armstrong James S. Welch, Jr. 63 79 Community Leader Community Leader

Jessica Green 64 80 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council Executive in Residence,

65 Steve Trager CEO, Republic Bank

66 Susan Barry President and CEO, Community Foundation of Louisville Top 100 by Industry 67 Emily Ledford Lawrence Principal, The Glenview Trust Company 16 nonprofit

68 Ankur Gopal CEO, Interapt 8 education

Tim Mulloy 69 25 government President, Mulloy Commercial Real Estate

7 Legal 70 Brandon Coan Council Member, Louisville Metro Council 7 Healthcare 71 Tori Murden McClure President, Spalding University

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Steve Huey Abby Shue 81 91 CEO, Capture Higher Ed Vice President, Fund for the Arts

Rick Blackwell Tonya York Dees 82 92 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council CEO, York Management

Doug Whyte Stephen Gault 83 93 Chief Development Officer, ARGI Financial Group President, Stephen C. Gault Co.

Chris Brady James Ramsey, Ph.D. 84 94 Professional, Norton Healthcare Community Leader

Bill Strench Report Sponsor Ted Smith, Ph.D. 85 95 Partner, Frost Brown Todd CEO, Revon Systems

Brent Ackerson Kent Taylor 86 96 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council Chairman and CEO, Texas Roadhouse

Randy Coe Marianne Butler 87 97 President, Kosair Charities Council Member, Louisville Metro Council

Linda Duncan Craig Greenberg 88 98 Community Leader President, 21c Museum Hotels

Mary Michael Corbett Henrietta Pepper 89 99 Community Leader President, The Pepper Group

Alex Rankin Diane Porter 90 100 President, Sterling G. Thompson Co. Community Leader

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