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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, Louisville Metro Council
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 Kentucky 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
Of Louisville’s Top 100 Influencers, did you know?
26 are elected officials 36 are University of Louisville 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
46 David Tandy Attorney, Bingham Greenebaum Doll Sponsored By
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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 Jerry Abramson 64 80 Council Member, Louisville Metro Council Executive in Residence, Bellarmine University
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
72 Mary Woolridge Council Member, Louisville Metro Council Sponsored By
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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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