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Evan Hyndman, CPA and controller for Angel Corps and its affiliates, grew up here, attended college here and has settled into a nice career here, which is proof positive that we are slowly beating the brain drain in northeast Indiana.

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Address: 528 West Washington Boulevard s a Columbia City High School student in This is tall praise, considering Rick is Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 the late 90’s, Evan Hyndman planned to a former U.S. Navy submarine officer and be a civil engineer, working wherever the CPA, who has worked with dozens of highly 704 West 7th Street job market offered opportunity. So how motivated young people during his career. Auburn, Indiana 46706 did he eventually become a CPA and “Our business can be hectic. Evan’s 201 East Market Street Controller of a family-owned group of quiet competence and dependability are Bluffton, Indiana 46714 health care businesses in Fort Wayne? reassuring,” says co-owner Dorian Maples. Angel Corps, Home Nursing The brain-drain of young people leaving Owners: Rick and Dorian Maples Services, First Call Medical Staffing and northeast Indiana for college and life in the Dorian Maples & Associates serve over 400 big city is a common concern among area older adults and disabled persons, as well as business leaders. Angel Corps healthcare facilities, such as nursing homes. When asked why he stayed in the Telephone: (260) 426-4357 “My job is to ensure that our over 300 area, Hyndman says, “Fort Wayne offers Website: www.CorpsOfAngels.com employees receive weekly paychecks and a reasonable cost of living, it is easy to get Years in Business: 8 that we bill and collect from our clients’ involved in the community and our families Number of Employees: 120 pay sources and pay our bills on time,” are nearby.” says Hyndman. Hyndman is a board intern with Services: Non-medical home care. In addition, Hyndman manages the The History Center, following his recent businesses’ computer system, implements completion of Leadership Fort Wayne. He Home Nursing Services new software, procures supplies for three serves on the Finance Committee of Hope Telephone: (260) 424-1237 locations, prepares financial statements and House Inc., prepares income tax returns income taxes, runs the weekly management for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Website: www.InHomeNursingServices.com meetings, and assists with acquisitions of program, and is a tutor with The Study Years in Business: 13 other businesses. Connection. He is married to Sarah, also a Number of Employees: 140 While spending his freshman year at Columbia City native and a teacher in Fort Services: Medical home health care. IPFW and a semester at Purdue, Hyndman Wayne Community Schools. They purchased says, “I realized I didn’t enjoy engineering, their first home last year. so I changed my major to accounting and Hyndman and the Maples view the First Call Medical Staffing returned to IPFW.” match from different perspectives. Telephone: (260) 424-1329 After a summer internship ended at Hyndman says, “I got lucky. I found Website:www.FirstCallMedStaff.com Steel Dynamics, he responded to a part- a dynamic company in an industry of the time job opportunity posted with IPFW future that offered me a chance to grow with Years in Business: 13 Career Services to help with billing and it. I like the service we provide, the way we Number of Employees: 60 collections at Home Nursing Services. He treat our employees and the challenges of Services: Temporary staffing of health care facilities. had no experience in the healthcare field but home health care. The owners are generous offered what every employer wants: a desire and supportive. I never saw myself doing to learn and a willingness to work hard. this kind of work. Now I can’t see myself Dorian Maples & Associates The company was able to accommodate his doing anything else.” Telephone: (260) 918-1141 school schedule and eventually offered him Dorian adds, “Evan proves that you Website: www.IndianaGeriatrics.com a full-time position after graduation. can grow up in this community, get an Years in Business: 6 “Evan is smart, has a great capacity for outstanding education and find a good job Number of Employees: 3 learning, and has the best work ethic of any without leaving. I am confident that Evan is a young person I have worked with,” says co- future Fort Wayne business leader. And I am Services: Geriatric care management. owner Rick Maples. sure that there are others in our midst.”• u business profile u