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March 26, 2007 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 9 MARY KRAMER: On political civility and public service

When former President Gerald sides of the partisan There’s no doubt its scholars, who are selected on the knows what works and what does- Ford died in December, his passing aisle. Former Gov. which side of the fence basis of financial need, not neces- n’t when it comes to education. prompted some soul-searching William Milliken cele- Carley is on. sarily the best high school grades. Carley will be part of the 25th about the hotly partisan state of our brates his 85th birthday “Name me one other Besides money to go to school, anniversary for that nonprofit this political and civic life these days. today. Happy birthday person who left their the scholars are contacted at least year. The foundation hopes to The lack of leadership and the to a Michigan treasure. entire estate, all their twice a week by foundation staff, draw more than 500 people to a big unwillingness to compromise wealth, to the future of by phone or e-mail. They attend fundraising dinner in May. among leaders in both political Loving a city, the city,” he says, refer- regular dinner meetings on their If you’re interested in making a parties in Michigan’s budget crisis ring to the Coleman A. campuses with staffers or volun- contribution to a scholarship pro- called to mind Ford’s remark on and its students Young Foundation, teers. The foundation’s Web site gram that produces results, call receiving the John F. Kennedy where he serves as vice proudly lists scholar alumni who Claudette Smith, the foundation’s Profile in Courage award in 2001: Speaking of legacies, president of the board. now work at area companies, in- executive director, at (313) 962-2200. “I have never mistaken modera- Garry Carley knows “He loved the city.” cluding Henry Ford Hospital, Gen- Mary Kramer is publisher of tion for weakness, nor civility for that the late Coleman Each year, the foun- eral Motors Corp. and AT&T. Crain’s Detroit Business. Her weekly surrender. As far as I’m con- Young, the five-term mayor of the dation provides financial help for A retired banking executive and take on the latest business news airs cerned, there are no enemies in city of Detroit who died in 1997, is a Detroit teens attending college. The attorney, Carley has a string of vol- at 6:50 a.m. Mondays on the Paul W. politics — just temporary oppo- hero to many and a lightning rod foundation boasts a phenomenal 92 unteer roles at schools and univer- Smith show on WJR AM 760. E-mail nents who might vote with you on for others. percent college graduation rate for sities, public and private. And he her at [email protected]. the next roll call.” If the people we appoint and elect in Lansing would only walk that talk, Michigan would be a lot further ahead. Michigan has within it at least one more politician who, once elected, worked effectively on both

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PROFILES Dreamers online Profiles of Crain’s American See a slide show of Crain’s Dreamers are on Pages 12-21. 29 Dreamers, plus a few Fadi Achour ...... 12 alumni from our March 1999 Hotel St. Regis American Dreamers section, Jelani Aliyu ...... 12 on www.crainsdetroit.com. www.crainsdetroit.com General Motors Corp. American dreamers Anan Ameri ...... 12 Arab American National Museum Nicola Antakli...... 12 Intraco Corp. Graham Beal ...... 13 Detroit Institute of Arts Dreams for the future Wael Berrached ...... 13 usanne Pryce has a good reason to want to see more young immi- EView 360 These stories of grants coming to metro Detroit to establish their lives — they’re good Albert Berriz ...... 14 S for business. McKinley Inc. So far this year, the co-owner of Commerce Township-based Bakers Loaf Inc., success show how a specialty and wholesale bakery, booked wedding cakes for brides from Ger- Mulugetta Birru ...... 14 many, Japan, Mexico and Armenia. It has become a new trend after 30 years Wayne County EDC in the business, she said. Randal Charlton ...... 15 immigrants are “At least in these times of doom and gloom, there are still some young people Asterand plc MEET THE DREAMERS who are not dissuaded from our city, but, Come network with Crain’s American John Coumbe-Lilley ...... 15 helping to fuel in fact, are excited about coming here and Dreamers, who will be honored at an Mich. Inst. for Health Advancement making a contribution to its rebirth,” April 26 reception and strolling Pryce said. dinner, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at The Sam Danou ...... 15 Reserve in Birmingham. Tickets are the local economy Not all of Crain’s 29 Ameri- Danou Enterprises $75 each. For reservations, visit can Dreamers are just start- www.regonline.com/amdreamers Paul Edwards ...... 15 ing their lives in metro De- by April 19, or call (313) 446-0300. Four of the 2007 American Dreamers (from troit, but each one has done Henry Ford Health System left to right): Jelani Aliyu, Kook-Wha Koh, Fadi Achour and Hortensia Neely. his or her part to build the region’s economy. Elias Gutierrez ...... 15 According to a 2005 American Community Survey conduct- Latino Press Inc. ed by the U.S. Census Bureau, Detroit’s future economy might rely even more on contributions from those born in other David Kahan ...... 16 countries. Premier Realty That survey showed that about 387,000 foreign- Kook-Wha Koh ...... 16 born lived in Detroit in 2005, an increase of 61,000 Chrysan Industries Inc. since the 2000 census. Most of those came from Asia, including India, Japan and Korea, and Rodrigo Manriquez ...... 16 Latin America. They fill a critical population SmithGroup Inc. gap for the region, said Kurt Metzger, di- rector of research for the United Way of Ewa Matuszewski ...... 16 Southeastern Michigan. Medical Network One P.C. A study Metzger conducted in 2000 Anil Menawat ...... 16 showed that about three-quarters Menawat & Co. Inc. of Asian Indians had graduated from college. More than 60 per- Mani Menon...... 17 cent of Chinese and Japanese Henry Ford Health System had received four-year degrees, Nader Najafi...... 17 and almost 50 percent of those of Korean descent had. Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. “We are getting this educat- Hortensia Neely ...... 17 ed, young immigrant group Global LT Ltd. that can provide that base that businesses are looking for,” he Raj Patel ...... 17 said. “They’re educated and Plante & Moran talented enough to start new Ennio ‘Pete’ Petrella...... 17 businesses.” And they are coming at a Synergy Group Inc. time when Detroit’s native- Gnanadesikan Ramanujam ...... 18 born are leaving. Somat Engineering Inc. About 10,250 Michigan resi- dents ages 25 to 44 years left the Navot Shoresh ...... 18 region between 1995 and 2000, Spire Integrated Systems L.L.C. but during the same period, Mohsen Sohi ...... 18 more than 53,400 foreign-born in the same age group made Freudenberg-NOK metro Detroit their home. Gerard van Grinsven ...... 20 The groups that are here are Henry Ford West Bloomfield from the fastest-growing economies in the world, Metzger said. “We need Wei Wu ...... 20 to be embracing that and understand- Pacific Industrial Development Corp. ing how we can increase those connec- Sajid Zuberi ...... 21 tions.” Detroit Metro Convention & — Michelle Martinez, assistant managing editor/Focus Visitors Bureau GLENN TRIEST DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 03-26-07 A 12 CDB 3/23/2007 10:01 AM Page 1

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But in 1994, he moved to Dear- said, “and we achieved a record- Supper Club in the Renaissance Fadi Achour, 50 born because of the large Lebanese breaking profit margin during my Center. Through Taylor, Achour General manager population here, including rela- four-year stay there.” met Herb Strather, and that entre- Hotel St. Regis tives of his wife, Fadwa. He then managed food and bev- preneur put him in charge of the $3 Detroit Here, he was hired by Michael erage operations at the Westin Ho- million renovation of the 125-room Country of origin: Lebanon O’Callaghan, currently COO for tel in Southfield for two years, and Hotel St. Regis in Detroit. Fadi Achour has parlayed a de- Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors from 2000 to 2002 worked to up- Achour has secured deluxe cate- sire to wine and dine guests and a Bureau, to manage food and bever- grade the food and beverage ser- gory membership for the St. Regis penchant for connecting with peo- age operations for the former Novi vice at Henry Ford Museum and with Worldhotels, an international ple into a successful hospitality ca- Hilton. Greenfield Village. organization based in Germany reer that now has him revitalizing “He’s a great example of people In 2002, Achour started his own representing more than 500 inde- a New Center hotel. ed my first job as a dishwasher at coming to this country looking for hotel and restaurant consulting pendent hotels. He came to the U.S. in 1978 at age the Hyatt Hotel in Monterey,” he re- opportunities who excel in their company, working for The Melrose The St. Regis also will feature a called. There he worked as server, 21 to finish college, first attending areas of expertise,” said Hotel Group of New York; he helped new Frank Taylor restaurant, La wine captain and maitre d’hotel in Monterey Peninsula College in Cali- O’Callaghan. Wine Spectator maga- open new operations in Manhat- Musique, themed after Motor City several famous area restaurants zine ranked Achour’s Novi Hilton tan, Dallas and Washington, in- artists, Achour said. fornia for a two-year hospitality such as the Sardine Factory and degree, then graduating in 1986 Carmel-by-the-Sea’s Anton & Michel. restaurant wine list among its top cluding the Library Bar in New York Achour said he hopes to aid from Saint Mary’s College of Califor- His hospitality career continued 400 in the world, O’Callaghan said. City. Strather Associates in opening oth- nia with a bachelor’s degree in in several well-known hotels such “I was responsible for increas- Restaurateur Frank Taylor er hotels and casinos in the Mid- management. as the Mission Inn resort in River- ing food and beverage revenue by hired Achour in 2004 to help him west. “While attending college, I start- side. more than $2 million,” Achour open Seldom Blues Restaurant and — Bob Ankeny

Jelani Aliyu, 40 don’t realize that when you don’t have That year, the Arab Community Center Anan Ameri, 61 public transportation, you feel like for Economic and Social Services in Dear- Senior creative program designer Founding director you’re in jail.” born recruited Ameri to chair its cul- General Motors Corp. Arab American National Museum She began taking doctor- tural arts depart- Detroit Dearborn ate-level courses at Wayne ment. Country of origin: Nigeria Country of origin: Lebanon State University a year-and-a- “What’s great about Ameri led efforts half later, became active in to build the Arab American National At General Motors Corp., Jelani Aliyu has found his Coming to Detroit with her husband student groups and started this museum is it Museum in Dear- ideal job. in 1974 was one of the hardest things making friends of her own. born for the next Ever since he was a child growing up in a middle- Anan Ameri said she has ever had to do. She got her drivers license really allows me to five years, develop- class family in Nigeria, Ameri held a bachelor’s when she was ing a vision for its Aliyu was sketching cars. 30, and became cherish both cultures degree from Jordan Univer- exhibits, programs “I’ve always wanted to an American sity in Amman, Jordan, and educational citizen in 1979. — my homeland and do car design … but I re- and a master’s degree in outreach. She was member a lot of people say- sociology from Cairo Uni- Ameri my new country.” named director of ing I should give that idea versity in Egypt. founded the the museum in up,” Aliyu said. Beirut, her home, was nonprofit 2004, the year be- He didn’t. Aliyu attend- “a very vibrant, safe city Palestine Aid Society of fore it officially opened. ed Birnin Kebbi Polytechnic with nightlife,” Ameri America a year later to ad- Today she oversees annual gross rev- from 1986 to 1988 and said. vocate and raise funds for enue of about $2 million and a staff of earned an associate’s de- By contrast, in Detroit, Palestinian refugees. 25. gree in architecture. While she did not know the lan- She moved to Washing- “What I like about my job right now he was there he began guage. She’d left her ton, D.C., in 1989 to open is it can bridge intellectualism and ac- seeking admission into design schools in Europe and friends and family behind, and there an office for the nonprofit, after divorc- tivism at the same time,” Ameri said. the U.S. that would lead him to a career in automotive was not a social scene like she’d known ing her first husband, and served as di- “What’s (also) great about this muse- design. in Beirut. rector of the society until 1993. Ameri um is it really allows me to cherish In 1990 Aliyu entered the College for Creative Studies in People warned her to be cautious at returned to Detroit in 1997 to marry her both cultures — my homeland and my Detroit and joined GM after he graduated. night, and the city had no public trans- second husband, Noel Saleh, a semire- new country.” At General Motors Aliyu has worked on the Oldsmo- portation system, she said. “People tired attorney. — Sherri Begin bile Bravada, Buick Rendezvous and the Opel Astra and was the lead exterior designer for the Pontiac G6 and the Chevrolet Volt, a hybrid electric vehicle with a sleek, arcing roofline. For the Volt, GM’s designers had about 10 months to create one of the most technologically advanced vehi- Nicola Antakli, 76 takli said. “I feel that the U.S. is the distributor of glass for Libby Owens Ford cles at the North American International Auto Show and greatest country in the world, and in the Middle East and remains a top were also instructed to create something that could ac- Chairman and CEO think anybody can achieve anything distributor today for the company, tually be produced. Intraco Corp. you want to achieve.” which is now part of St. Helens, Eng- Aliyu’s design was chosen over proposals from about Troy Antakli started out teaching math at land-based Pilkington Group Ltd. 20 competing teams. For inspiration Aliyu looked Country of origin: Syria Our Lady of the Lakes, a private Catholic Despite trade difficulties created by where he typically looks for ideas — the earth and the school in Waterford Township. In 1963 U.S. war in Iraq, Intraco continues to ocean. Nicola Antakli came to America in he was hired by Federal-Mogul Corp. to grow quickly. Sales more than doubled “Look at a tiny leaf, it is only a millimeter thick and 1955 from Syria because he said the U.S. manage its sales to the Middle East from $48.9 million in 2005 to nearly $100 yet it is a highly efficient factory,” Aliyu said. “I try to was the best place to get a college educa- from Beirut, Lebanon. It was there that million in 2006 because of construction understand nature’s efficiency and design and I pulled tion. Antakli said he developed booms in Dubai, Kuwait and Egypt. those concepts and applied them to the Chevrolet Volt.” Antakli said he often relationships and business “Our problem is that we can’t find In addition to a leaf, Aliyu also said the Volt’s design worked several part- connections that would ships now,” Antakli said. draws from the shapes of sharks, whales and sea rays, time jobs to pay for col- serve him for years to Because of the U.S. war with Iraq, the which Aliyu said are all “very efficient and practical lege, and struggled for come. U.S. military is first in line for access to and yet stunning.” several years to find a In 1971 Antakli left Fed- shipping containers, which is putting a While actual production of the Volt won’t happen un- job he liked after he eral-Mogul to become an in- strain on capacity. til advancements in lithium ion batteries are achieved, graduated. Today An- dependent manufacturer’s Still, Antakli credits his success to GM is optimistic that the technology can be created and takli is chairman and representative based in his U.S. education and said the future of say the Volt could be in production by 2010. CEO of Intraco Corp., an Beirut for automotive com- his business is bright and is in good As soon as the Volt was introduced in January it re- exporter of architectural panies that wanted to ex- hands with his daughter, Nicole, as ceived international praise both for its design and its glass and automotive re- port goods to the Middle president and COO. technology — and also catapulted Aliyu into the spot- placement glass to the East. “I’m a very lucky man,” Antakli said. light, especially in Nigeria. Middle East that had 2006 annual sales His company got off to a slow start “First of all to come to the U.S., No. 2, to Aliyu is hoping the attention will inspire others in of more than $100 million. and grossed just $278 in sales during its have a wonderful wife and marriage … Nigeria to pursue their dreams. Antakli obtained a degree in liberal first year. But by 1975, sales neared $1 and all of my children all of are very “When the Nigerian newspapers carried the story … arts with a minor in math from million. Civil war in Lebanon forced good — I have seven grandchildren — that was big news over there and it moved a lot of peo- Lawrence Technological University and an Antakli to move to the U.S., and he has and I hope that they will be working for ple to know that this is possible,” Aliyu said. MBA from University of Detroit Mercy. run the company from here ever since. the company one day as well.” — Brent Snavely “I used to work 80 hours a week,” An- In 1978 Antakli became the exclusive — Brent Snavely DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 03-26-07 A 13 CDB 3/23/2007 9:58 AM Page 1

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Museum of Modern Art. He came to Graham Beal, 59 Detroit in 1999 to oversee the first Director, president and CEO radical renovation of the Detroit In- Detroit Institute of Arts stitute of Arts footprint and the way Detroit its artwork is displayed since the Country of origin: England early 1970s. Beal led a campaign that raised $231 million of its $331 million You might say that America’s goal. When a proposed property lack of a rigid class system is what tax to fund cultural brought Graham Beal institutions was de- to the U.S. feated in 2002 and As “a grammar renovation costs school boy” or some- spiked after the dis- one who attended covery of asbestos in state rather than elite the museum’s walls, private schools in his Beal and the DIA native England, Beal launched a new $180 felt he was subject to million campaign a glass ceiling. AW]ZKWUXTM\MÅVIVKQIT[WT]\QWV late in 2004. “If you don’t come To date, the cam- 2OBERTô(ALFô)NTERNATIONAL WILLôHELPôYOUôkNDôTHEôOPTIMALôBALANCEôOFôTEMPORARY from the right educa- paign has raised $80 PROJECTôCONSULTING ôANDôFULL TIMEôkNANCIALôRESOURCESôTOôMAXIMIZEôPRODUCTIVITYôANDô tional background (in million to complete the renovation PROkTABILITYôWITHINôYOURôORGANIZATION England), then you seem not to be and to fund operations for the next selected for the top job as the head 10 years, for an endowment and ôrôRHICOM of a major museum,” he said. the reinstallation of more than ILVBOññ/%&    Beal earned his undergraduate 6,000 pieces of art. degree in English and art history During Beal’s tenure, the DIA’s !CCOUNTEMPS ô2OBERTô(ALFô&INANCEôô!CCOUNTINGôANDô2OBERTô(ALFô-ANAGEMENTô2ESOURCESôAREôTHE from the University of Manchester in unrestricted operating endow- LEADERSôINôSPECIALIZEDôkNANCIALôANDôACCOUNTINGôSTAFkNGôFORôTEMPORARY ôFULL TIMEôANDôPROJECTôPLACEMENT ôRESPECTIVELY England and a graduate degree in ment has nearly doubled to $56 art history from the Courtauld Insti- million from $30 million in 1999. tute of Art in London before taking “I didn’t want to do another con- a teaching position at the former struction project, but I did relish Associated Colleges of the Midwest, the thought of rethinking the way where he met the American the DIA’s art is presented to the woman he later married. He came general public,” Beal said. to the U.S. in 1973 to become direc- The DIA plans to close this sum- 4%-0/2!29  02/*%#4  &5,, 4)-% tor of the university art gallery at mer to complete renovations in Washington University in St. Louis.

time for a grand reopening in No- ×ñ ñ/L?BOQñ%>ICñ&KQBOK>QFLK>Iñ&K@ ññKñ"NR>Iñ,MMLOQRKFQVñ"JM Beal has worked at universities vember. and art museums across the U.S., “If the reinstallation goes well, including the University of South that will be my lifetime contribu- Dakota, the Walker Art Center in tion to the field,” Beal said. Minneapolis and the San Francisco — Sherri Begin

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Its portfolio includes 103 proper- ment position in 2004. Albert Berriz, 50 ties, including 16,477 apartments Mulugetta Birru, 60 Two of the most important pro- CEO and 5 million square feet of com- Director jects Birru said he has been in- McKinley Inc. mercial space in nine states. Wayne County Economic volved in are the Pinnacle Ann Arbor Berriz started as a senior real Development Department Aeropark project and last year’s Country of origin: Cuba estate executive, became COO Detroit trade missions to China. The Pin- and then CEO when Weiser re- Country of origin: Ethiopia nacle project aims to develop 1,200 tired in 2001. acres of land in Romulus and Albert Berriz’s father, Arman- Typically, the company buys Huron Township to become a do, spent two years orchestrating Most people would admit it’s distressed real estate in good loca- mixed-use business and technolo- his family’s safe escape from easier to work in a country if the tions that may need better man- gy park. The park’s Cuba just as communism began government isn’t agement or renovation. Berriz is progress has been in the country. Fidel Castro’s watching your every er family members. He earned a bullish on apartments and also stalled many times, forces overthrew the former gov- move. Mulugetta Bir- bachelor’s degree in architecture has confidence about McKinley’s but Birru said the ernment in 1959. The elder Berriz ru was born in at the University of Miami and an home state; about half the compa- project is moving left behind his real estate busi- Ethiopia, but he and past speculation. MBA at Northwestern University. ny’s assets are in Michigan.But ness and started over in Miami. his family fled the “It’s been in the After graduation, he worked as even as the company hits mile- “There’s two things we heard country in 1980 after plans for years, but a real estate lender at the Conti- stones like acquiring 3,000 apart- every night: No one can take your a militant communist now we’re designing nental Illinois National Bank and ment units in two years or help- education or your regime ascended to roads and sewer sys- Trust Co. He then ing to bring major companies like willingness to work power. Birru had at- tems to open 450 went to work for a Google Inc. to Michigan, Berriz hard,” said Albert “There’s two things tended graduate acres. It will be a client of the bank, talks with just as much passion Berriz, who was 3 school in America first-class park,” he Granada Construc- about promoting a culture of car- and his wife was an years old when the we heard every said. tion Co. in Orlando, ing at the real estate company. American, making family took the “It was a great But Birru said Fla., from 1982 to Berriz, for example, led the fund- them both targets of plane ride out in night: No one one of his greatest 1988. raising efforts for the $4.2 million the government. the middle of the feeling, because I accomplishments is Because Ron Neutral Zone teen center in Ann Birru and his never missing an night. can take your Weiser, McKin- Arbor and rallies employees to family joined his election since his Complementing could now vote. ... ley’s founder, was participate in assisting nonprofits. brother in Chicago first opportunity to his father’s determi- education or your an investor in A call to action for construction before moving to (Since then) I’ve vote in 1986. nation was a desire willingness to work Granada, Berriz workers might entail volunteer Orlando, Fla., and “It was a great to help others. The got to know him, work on drywall and painting for a later Pittsburgh, never missed an feeling, because I younger Berriz said hard.” and McKinley nonprofit project instead of writ- where Birru was could now vote for he learned by exam- bought some of the ing a check. Berriz said both his fa- hired by the Urban election.” president, mayor ... ple why it was im- assets when ther and Weiser instilled this qual- Redevelopment Au- and it was the first portant to give a hand. Granada was sold. Weiser recruit- ity in him. thority of Pittsburgh, time I could. (Since Albert Berriz, who began to ed Berriz to come to Ann Arbor to “We’re truly blessed,” he said. rose through the ranks and be- then) I’ve never missed an elec- learn English in first grade, al- work for him in 1989. “How can we not give back? It’s came its executive director. tion. That is the feeling of democ- ways knew he wanted to work in McKinley is a national real es- core. You’ve got to do it.” Birru was recruited to Wayne racy,” he said. real estate like his father and oth- tate firm with $1.5 billion in assets. — Jennette Smith County’s top economic-develop- — Bowdeya Tweh

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wick finished building a full-scale the business instead of writing In 1983, Charlton returned to the Charlton. Randal Charlton, 67 replica of the Mayflower and with about it and in 1971 co-founded Uni- U.S. for good, first as a consultant Today, Asterand is thriving in CEO, Asterand plc a crew of 33 volunteers sailed it to versal Livestock Resources, which and later as CEO of a biotech com- TechTown, and he’s looking to Interim managing director, TechTown the U.S. It is now a sold frozen sperm pany in Connecticut. Later, after hire a successor as CEO. Charlton Chairman, MichBio tourist attraction in from champion falling in love with New Orleans has taken on the positions of the Plymouth, Mass. bulls. Detroit culture, he opened a place called incubator’s interim managing di- “From an early Charlton first Country of origin: England Café New Orleans. Unfortunately, rector and is WSU’s entrepreneur- age, I had an affection came to the U.S. in he didn’t open it in Louisiana — he in-residence and chairman of for and interest in the 1966, having won a opened it in Sarasota, Fla., and it MichBio. Randal Charlton was raised a U.S. I can tell you journalism scholar- went belly-up. “One thing I really love about fan of America. His father, a jour- every losing vice ship, to study Ameri- In 1999, he came here to scout America is the willingness to try nalist, was transported home from presidential candi- can cattle breeding. out a possible location for a new something new. Americans some- north Africa after World War II on date back to Estes Ke- He traveled the West an American ship. The U.S., he’d fauver,” said Charl- and fell in love with company that planned to become a times forget how open they are to tell his son later, had saved the ton, referring to the country. “It was tissue bank for researchers new ideas. And that applies to world by its involvement in the Adlai Stevenson’s just a magical expe- around the world, based on news business,” said Charlton. “People war. running mate in 1956. rience. You’d be standing in a pas- that Gov. John Engler was inter- aren’t afraid to fail. I come from a His father, Warwick, had a Charlton was also a journalist, ture and pick up a piece of flint, ested in supporting biotech. much older culture, where people grand plan to give something back writing about the livestock indus- and the farmer tells you that’s a “I literally got out the phone aren’t given credit for trying and to the U.S., which took hundreds of try for a London-based publication piece of an Indian arrowhead. It book, looked up the address of the failing. There’s a stigma with fail- thousand of pounds in donations called Farmer’s Weekly. On a dare was like stepping into a movie Michigan Economic Development ure that doesn’t happen here.” and years of labor. In 1957, War- from a friend, he decided to enter set.” Corp., and drove to Lansing,” said — Tom Henderson

al holdings, including the Sam Danou, 65 Danou Research and Develop- Elias Gutierrez, 53 Owner, director ment complex. That complex Founder and president Danou Enterprises and World includes office, distribution Latino Press Inc. Trade Center Detroit/Windsor space and land in Allen Park. Detroit Allen Park Danou’s latest high-profile County of origin: Chile Country of origin: Iraq deal was an agreement to sell 10 acres in Corktown for a Elias Gutierrez had been in Michigan two Sam Danou was born in new FBI headquarters in De- troit. years, working as a handyman and painter, Baghdad and came to the U.S. when he decided in 1993 there was a need for in 1965 after attending college Danou’s businesses gener- ate revenue of about $9 mil- Spanish-lan- at Al-Hikma University. He was guage news in 21 and, like most of his peers, was exposed lion a year. metro Detroit. John Coumbe-Lilley, 36 to media and pop culture that showcased In recent years, Danou has worked on re- development proposals for the Pontiac Silver- He used the COO the opportunities that could be found in the dome and proposed a Wayne County horse money he’d U.S. Michigan Institute for Health racing and entertainment project. While saved to start Enhancement His start in business was as a jewelry ar- these ideas did not move forward, Danou Latino Press tisan for Sidney Krandall & Sons, which was , a Detroit said he’s still thinking big about his next in Highland Park at the time. He got the en- monthly news- Country of origin: England moves. trepreneurial bug a few years later and paper devoted to “We want to have an impact,” he said. bought a party store in Pontiac. He expand- the interests of Growing up in the United King- “We want to do as much as we can to be part ed that store into a supermarket and then the region’s dom in the 1970s and ’80s, John of reviving Michigan’s economy.” rapidly acquired other grocery stores and growing Span- Coumbe-Lilley said the U.S. al- But Danou also wants Michigan brain- markets. At its peak, the operation had 15 ish-speaking ways looked like the proverbial power to get involved in stabilizing his stores and more than 450 employees, he community. country on the hill. home country. said. “When I decided to make this publication I “People can criticize the States While Michigan has the largest concen- didn’t think of it as a business, but a way for all they want. … I’d rather have After developing distribution and train- tration of Iraqi-Americans in the country, the problems we’ve got here than ing programs, he began to notice the compa- federal agencies have fallen short in tap- the Hispanic community to contact and com- (the ones in) other places,” ny becoming a training ground for larger ping that expertise in contracts for transla- municate with each other,” said Gutierrez. Coumbe-Lilley said. grocery store chains. He also began to learn tors, he said. “Later, it just transformed into a business Coumbe-Lilley first came to the more about the real estate business because Danou started his own translation-ser- when thousands of Hispanics began to arrive U.S. in 1990 to work at a summer some store acquisition deals came with real vices program through the Detroit/Windsor in Michigan. They wanted to know ... where camp in Pennsylvania for children estate. World Trade Center but is baffled at a lack of to buy from, to eat, hire a lawyer, a doctor or with special needs. The experience Real estate, in the end, turned out to be interest by legislators and others as he has a place to dance.” helped him “cut his teeth” as a more profitable, and Danou sold his grocery tried to spread the word. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 247,000 counselor and develop his passion stores in 1993. “We have the knowledge and the will and people in Michigan said they speak primarily Danou’s real estate portfolio includes res- to work with children, he said. the know-how to stabilize Iraq,” he said. Spanish at home — up from 137,000 in 1990. idential, such as a 320-unit condominium The experience was critical for “Nothing is getting done.” The free newspaper, which today distrib- development in Utica; offices; and industri- another reason. Coumbe-Lilley — Jennette Smith utes 20,000 copies from Detroit to Toledo and played rugby while at Manchester Port Huron, proved attractive to advertisers Metropolitan University in the Stu- as Michigan’s Spanish-speaking population dent Rugby League and in the Scot- grew. Gutierrez, who has a degree in industri- land Rugby League against interna- departments at Harlem Hospital al design from the University of Santiago, moved tional competition until he broke Paul Edwards, 52 Center in Harlem, N.Y., Wash- from monthly to weekly publication by 1998. his ankle in 1996. The injury put ington Hospital Center in Wash- his life in perspective, he said. Chair Today, Latino Press Inc. has expanded to in- ington and at the National Eye Armed with an undergraduate Ophthalmology and Eye Care clude weekly special sections, a Spanish-lan- Institute in Bethesda, Md., be- degree, he went to Chicago in 1997 Services guage Web design service and radio program- fore settling in Detroit. He to be the managing director of now- Henry Ford Hospital ming, and saw revenue last year of $450,000. It came to the area after getting a defunct Essential Sports USA L.L.C., Detroit has seven employees. The expanded weekly spot in Henry Ford Hospital’s and work toward his doctorate at Country of origin: Jamaica print offerings include publications devoted ophthalmology medical resi- the University of Illinois-Chicago. He to sports, women’s issues, and autos. A chil- dency program. He later was was tapped for a consultant job at dren’s section is in the works, Gutierrez said. Paul Edwards reasoned if awarded with a research fel- Medical Network One P.C., a physi- he stayed in Jamaica to con- lowship and a full-time posi- He also publishes Hispanic business directo- cians group in Rochester, in 2003. tinue medical school, he tion at the hospital. ries for Wayne and Oakland counties. Coumbe-Lilley joined the physi- wouldn’t be able to learn newer surgical Edwards was named chair of the ophthal- “While American publications lose circula- cian group’s chronic disease man- technologies. mology and eye care services department tion and subscribers, we are going the oppo- agement branch called Michigan In- They were being taught in America. So five years ago. He said he was the first per- site way. This is due to the immigrants that stitute for Health Enhancement L.L.C. Edwards left the Jamaican branch of the son of African descent that he knew of to be keep arriving in Michigan,” he said. in 2003. Since Coumbe-Lilley University of the West Indies after his medical Gutierrez, who settled in Detroit after trav- joined MIHE, the company has internship in 1980 to adopt a surgical spe- named to the head of a clinical department eling the country because the city reminded added a fourth health center in cialty and do his medical residency. at the hospital. metro Detroit. And in February “I always feel that the world is a very That department’s revenue has increased him of Santiago, also is looking to distribute 2006, the institute established a small place (and) you can’t stay in your cor- to $60 million a year since he was named his newspapers in more Michigan cities, such Type 2 diabetes management pro- ner and expect to know everything,” Ed- chair, compared with $45 million five years as Taylor and Grand Rapids, where the His- gram for adults. wards said. Edwards received further med- ago. panic population is on the rise. — Bowdeya Tweh ical training in the general surgery — Bowdeya Tweh — Bill Shea DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 03-26-07 A 16 CDB 3/23/2007 9:45 AM Page 1

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parlayed them into success in real cumstances, Kahan begin to see op- ed to become a developer with Lee David Kahan, 78 estate. His company, Premier Realty, portunities to invest in property. Stein and Burt Farbman as invest- President has a portfolio including more than He would assume mortgage pay- ment partners. Since then he has Premier Realty 700,000 square feet of property. ments and tax liabilities, putting amassed a variety of projects and Troy As a teen, Kahan immigrated to down a few hundred dollars up- land holdings including a 30-acre the U.S. through Ellis Island and front. Then he’d find renters. Country of origin: Romania park in Plymouth Township, vari- was sent by the Jewish Federation of “I was so poor in Europe … now I ous Stephenson Highway proper- New York to Minneapolis with $5 in sounded like a capitalist,” he said. ties in Troy, and sites in Auburn When David Kahan was first lib- his pocket. Plumbing contractor friends in- Hills, Livonia and Warren. erated by the U.S. Army during Romanian friends encouraged troduced Kahan in 1967 to industri- Kahan said his personal success World War II, he described himself him to come to Detroit in 1951, al real estate investment and sales. is a true example of how the U.S. as a walking skeleton. where he worked in a machine At that time, there was booming Kahan, who had been born in treated as slave labor until his res- shop, Hawthorne Metal, and part- demand for machine shops. presents opportunities unlike any- Romania’s Transylvania, (the cue in 1944. time as a shoe salesman. A co- Kahan was so impressed by a place in the world. He went from northern portion that became part “I saw many of my friends die of worker at Hawthorne, Al George, Royal Oak investment that he left living in poverty to living in of Hungary temporarily during starvation and beatings,” he said. had gone into real estate and en- residential real estate to work for Bloomfield Hills on Upper Long the war) survived two concentra- “You had to be strong in body and couraged Kahan to join him and J. Rand Associates, then Schostak Lake. tion camps in Munich. His par- soul to survive another day.” try out a career selling houses. Bros. & Co. and then Farbman /Stein “This is the greatest country in ents, sister and brother were Kahan later took his survivor in- When some home sales went and Co. the world,” he said. killed, while Kahan, then 15, was stincts and belief in hard work and south due to family or financial cir- Twenty years ago, Kahan decid- — Jennette Smith

that her legacy will continue. to 25 employees in Michigan, Kook-Wha Koh, 70 “We plan for the long term,” Ohio and Indiana, and has anoth- Founder and consultant she said. “It’s working well.” er 14 employees in a China office. Chrysan Industries Inc. Koh immigrated from South The Michigan Minority Business Plymouth Korea in 1965 to earn her doctor- Development Council named Country of origin: Korea ate in chemical engineering at Chrysan Minority Supplier of the the University of Iowa. She and her Year in 2001, and a group of sev- When Kook-Wha Koh retired husband came to metro Detroit in eral Michigan small-business or- from Chrysan Industries Inc. last 1976 when Kwang Koh took a job ganizations named the company year, she considered it one of her with Michcon. Family-Owned Small Business of most significant professional Kook-Wha Koh began working the Year in 2005. achievements. Koh and her husband, Kwang as a chemical engineer for a local Koh said she’s hopeful that Plymouth-based Chrysan, Koh, have been working as con- firm, but said she soon got the Chrysan will continue to grow Anil Menawat, 49 founded by Koh in 1977, makes sultants for Chrysan since their urge to open her own business. and receive recognition as metalworking fluids and indus- retirement, and their son, Suk- “It was the right time and the younger generations take more Founder trial chemicals. The company Kyu Koh, has taken the helm. right area,” said Koh, whose hus- leadership. Menawat & Co. Inc. generated $8 million in revenue Kook-Wha Koh said the fact band began working for Chrysan “We support 100 percent what Saline last year and expects revenue of that Chrysan has grown since the in 1985. they’re doing,” she said. Country of origin: India $10 million in 2007. transition gives her confidence Since then, Chrysan has grown — Sheena Harrison As a child growing up in India, Anil Menawat’s grandfather told him to “live in the future.” Menawat, who moved to the U.S. Rodrigo Manriquez, 36 a week after two years of prepara- said. at age 15, said that quote taught him tion to get in. “I wasn’t really He moved to Detroit as a light- to look forward rather than dwell on Principal and senior lighting planning on staying in Chile,” he ing designer and worked on com- past mistakes. He applied the advice designer said. “I was looking for some way mercial projects including the last year when he co-founded SmithGroup Inc. to come back to the U.S. and con- lighting design for Ford Field and Menawat & Co. Inc. in Saline. Detroit Menawat helped develop a busi- tinue my education.” for the McNamara terminal at De- Country of origin: Chile ness theory called “profit mapping,” Manriquez attended college in troit Metropolitan Airport. which helps companies make deci- Rodrigo Manriquez’s introduc- Kansas, living with the same Today, as senior lighting de- family that hosted him during sions to improve their bottom lines. tion to the U.S. began when he signer, principal and co-leader of In, 1997, he opened a business called high school, and eventually was just 14 years old when his the lighting group, he oversees Afion Inc. in Saline that sold profit- transferred to the University of family hosted two exchange stu- five staff members and is leading mapping software to companies. tor. You keep your ducks in a row Kansas. Detroit-based Smith Hinch- dents — one from Texas and one a push to expand the group’s Afion’s clients often had a hard by fear,” Manriquez said. man & Grylls Inc., today known as from Tennessee — in their home clients outside of the other design time understanding how to inter- in Chile. At that time, Chile still After hearing about the U.S. SmithGroup Inc., recruited him af- units within SmithGroup. pret the software’s results, Menawat was a dictatorship. Although from the students, Manriquez ter his graduation in 1997 to help Under Manriquez’s direction said. While he had high hopes for Manriquez and his family were came to Atlanta, Ga., at 17 as an revamp their lighting group Afion, Menawat said, the company the lighting group recently land- never directly affected by the exchange student to study for one which had dissolved in the 1980s was losing money, and he had to re- tyranny, they knew of people year and stay with a host family. because of the economy. ed the contract for the lighting think his strategy. who’d disappeared after speak- Manriquez graduated high “There was a culture here at master plan of 47 underground Menawat, along with co-founder ing against dictator Augusto school in the U.S. and returned to one point of lighting being a criti- stations for the Washington Metro- Adam Garfein, reorganized the com- Pinochet and his regime. Chile in 1990, the same year as cal component of the design politan Area Transit Authority in pany as Menawat & Co. last year. “It was a very controlled way the fall of Pinochet. He attended process. It had just been lost over Washington, D.C. Unlike Afion’s do-it-yourself ap- of life, just like every other dicta- the architectural college for only a period of 10 years,” Manriquez — Sherri Begin proach to profit-mapping, Menawat & Co. analyzes the profit-mapping results for its clients and advises them on how to use the information. The change in strategy seems to be Germans during World War II so many wonderful partners working so far. Menawat & Co., Ewa Matuszewski, 56 and held prisoner until 1946. Her here.” which opened in 2006, generated CEO and co-founder mother also was captured and in- Today, the company has 54 em- $350,000 in revenue last year and ex- carcerated in a concentration Medical Network One P.C. ployees, is composed of about 415 pects 2007 revenue of about $1 mil- camp. Rochester physicians and had revenue of lion. The company has five employ- After the war, dislocated from Country of origin: Germany $28 million last year. ees in the U.S. and Ireland and is their homeland of Poland, her Matuszewski received her Though she came here when parents met and married in Ger- working to expand its European busi- bachelor’s degree in political sci- only three months old, Ewa Ma- many. ness through the Ireland office. ence from Wayne State University tuszewski keeps close ties to fam- When Matuszewski was three Menawat said his grandfather’s in 1973. ily and friends in eastern Eu- months old, the family moved advice continues to push him to rope. from Germany to Detroit. Matuszewski said her goal is to make his company a success. The 56-year-old co-founder and I could, just to take in the cultur- She founded Medical Network continue fostering the growth of “We’ve made an enormous num- CEO of Rochester-based Medical al components and historical val- One, a physicians group, with Medical Network One by adapt- ber of mistakes and learned from Network One P.C. said she goes to ue,” she said. her husband, Al Juocys, in 1981. ing the company to changing pa- them,” Menawat said. “We’re at a Poland, her family’s ancestral She’s lucky to be able to do any “Michigan is a great place to tient and physician needs and stage where we’re no longer afraid home, at least once a year. of it. have a business,” Matuszewski technology. to make mistakes.” “I would go back every week if Her father was captured by said. “We’ve been able to develop — Andrew Dietderich — Sheena Harrison DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 03-26-07 A 17 CDB 3/23/2007 9:54 AM Page 1

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geons use a robotic arm to perform at the University of Madras in Chen- Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. Mani Menon, 58 the procedure while looking at a nai, India. He came to the U.S. in He moved to Detroit and the Director, Vattikuti Urology Institute magnified three-dimensional im- 1973, receiving additional training Henry Ford Health System in 1997 Henry Ford Health System age on a screen. The process is at Bryn Mawr Hospital in suburban and is proud of what he’s been able Detroit minimally invasive, takes less Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins Hos- to do. Country of origin: India time than older procedures and pital and Health System in Baltimore. “We have revolutionized the speeds recovery from weeks to Menon said he intended to be- field of urology surgery in the last When Mani Menon came to the days. Menon leads a team of 150 come a brain surgeon but learned 10 years by making it as minimally U.S. in 1973, his plan was to learn and continues working to develop that the training he received invasive as possible,” Menon said. as much as he could here and take new methods of surgery. would not be accepted in India be- “We have seen enormous benefits his knowledge back to India. “I needed the resources that in- cause of laws there that prohibit when it comes to patient care.” It didn’t happen. clude a progressive team of sur- medical training in the U.S. Menon said he hopes to intro- Instead, Menon wound up in De- nized authority on robotic surgical geons and the financial backing So Menon switched his training duce the methods of surgery to oth- troit and pioneered the used of ro- treatment for prostate cancer. such as the Vattikuti Institute to to focus on urology, stayed in the er areas, such as surgical proce- botic surgery at Henry Ford Health The institute, led by Menon, has move forward, and the best oppor- U.S. and worked his way up to be- dures involving women’s health System’s Vattikuti Urology Insti- performed more than 3,000 prosta- tunity was here in Detroit,” he said. come chairman of the urology de- and the liver. tute. Menon is a nationally recog- tectomies. That procedure has sur- Menon attended medical school partment at the UMass Memorial — Andrew Dietderich

try, and I had a passion for it.” recognition in the U.S., Patel said, a Nader Najafi, 45 The company has been a fre- Raj Patel, 37 significant difference from the President, CEO, chairman quent winner of multimillion- Partner United Kingdom, where individual- Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. dollar research grants from fed- Plante & Moran ity is not praised in the workplace, Ypsilanti eral agencies, including the U.S. Technology Consulting and Solutions and from Kenya, where who you Country of origin: Iran Department of Defense, the Nation- Practice know is the critical factor. al Science Foundation, the National Southfield “You have to have some influ- Nader Najafi got his doctorate Institutes of Health and National In- Country of origin: India ence or a family name and someone in electrical engineering from stitutes of Standards and Technolo- supporting you and pulling you the University of Michigan in 1992, gy. Raj Patel moved to the United up,” Patel said. then landed a secure job in Research collaborators have States in 1995 with the belief that Patel moved to Detroit near the Burlington, Vt., as a research sci- included scientists at the Cleve- there were no limita- end of 1999 as part of entist with IBM, a company then ways wanted to be an entrepre- land Clinic Foundation, UM and tions to what he could the Daimler-Benz and known for providing lifetime se- neur. And I realized at IBM, I am Wayne State University. Projects become. Chrysler merger and curity. But he quit just two years not a ‘big company’ person,” he have included sensors to monitor Patel has traveled was one of the em- later, determined to be an entre- said. heart stents and devices to moni- the globe since he was ployees working on preneur in the emerging field He moved back to Ann Arbor tor intravenous drug flow and a child. He was born the account. He called MEMS. and in January 1995 founded Inte- make sure the correct drugs are in India, but spent joined Plante & Moran MEMS stands for micro- grated Sensing Systems with his being administered in the correct most of his childhood P.L.L.C. in 2002 and electromechanical systems and older brother, Khalil, an engi- volume at the right pressure. in Kenya, where his made partner within neering professor at UM, and father was helping the involves combining tiny mechan- Najafi said the company, three years. ical features such as gears, levers Kensall Wise, his former faculty British build a rail- which employs 30, is poised to Patel governs the and microfluidic channels with adviser who is considered one of make the transition from being road line in the coun- security assurance the crystalline technology dri- the world’s pioneers in MEMS. grant-based to market-based. It try. He left home to and consulting area of the practice ving silicon chips and the com- Why be an entrepreneur here has begun selling sensors to study at Emile Woolf College in Eng- and supervises 12 employees. One puter revolution. The tiny de- instead of his homeland? When Asian manufacturers of small land in 1990, but spent summers in of his goals is to add 20 employees vices are the technology behind he arrived at UM for graduate fuel cells that can power laptops, St. Louis, Mo., where his parents such products as automotive air studies in 1988, the U.S. made for cell phones and other small elec- had moved. After Patel graduated to the practice in the next three bags and hold great promise in a good respite from the travails of trical devices. The sensors con- with an accounting degree, he years as data security and technol- fields from health care to alterna- the Iran-Iraq war. By the time the trol the buildup of water and car- moved to St. Louis as well to study ogy issues gain prominence in tive fuels to air- and water-quali- war was over and his education bon dioxide, which can limit at the University of Missouri. Michigan. ty monitoring. complete, he knew he had found battery life. Hard work brings promotion or — Bowdeya Tweh “I was very passionate about a new home. “We started off making them in taking this technology from pa- “Staying here was not an easy the ones and twos and now are pers on a bookshelf to real prod- decision to make,” said Najafi. providing them in the hundreds. away from drawing and into con- ucts that impact lives,” Najafi “The U.S. is an amazing place. It We will be ramping up produc- Ennio ‘Pete’ struction, eventually assuming re- said. accepts people of different back- tion in the millions of units a year sponsibility for construction, design The move for Najafi was made grounds if you are willing to work in the next few years. This is one Petrella, 51 and furniture for EDS’ real estate in with great deliberation. “They and do what it takes. I felt I could of the most intriguing markets Principal and COO Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. say the scariest thing in the be happier here than anywhere for us now,” he said. Petrella joined The Kojaian Cos., world is the unknown, but I al- else. I accepted this as my coun- — Tom Henderson Synergy Group Inc. Bloomfield Hills where he oversaw all tenant con- Country of origin: Italy struction projects in the Midwest commercial, industrial and retail Ennio “Pete” Petrella was 13 sectors. With a former Kojaian exec- buy lesson books, begin paying when his father, a seventh-genera- utive in 1996, he co-founded design- Hortensia Neely, 59 teachers and get Langua Tutor tion blacksmith in Pe- build construction off the ground, she said. President trella, Italy, brought firm Synergy Group Inc., Langua Tutor’s name was Global LT Ltd. the family to the U.S. retaining Kojaian Troy changed to Global LT in 2004 to Relatives in the De- work while pursuing Country of origin: Cuba better reflect the company’s troit area eased the other clients. reach. Today, the company has transition, but adjust- The company, Providing language and cul- taught or translated in 60 lan- ing was not easy. which had revenue of tural training for executives has guages, including Spanish, “The language bar- $100 million in 2006, turned into a steadily growing French, Arabic and Swahili. rier was the tough- has 40 employees in business for Hortensia Neely. Neely was diagnosed with est,” Petrella said. Michigan and 20 in Neely is president of Troy- stage-three breast cancer in Sep- Speaking no English, guage instructor, Neely said, she Florida, where it ex- based Global LT Ltd., which has of- tember and is receiving treat- he entered St. Eugene was inspired to start her own panded last year. fices in California, Massachu- ment through a clinical trial she Catholic school three company after a divorce left her Petrella said that if setts, Arizona and Hong Kong and says is “going very well.” days after arriving in Detroit. wondering how she would pro- he’s faced challenges in his career, plans to open an office in London “I know that I’m going to be He went to Wayne State University vide for herself and her daughter. “I didn’t see them, I just worked this year. The company generated fine,” she said. “It’s my faith and then to Schoolcraft College, where he “I lacked a college degree, but I right through them.” $5 million in revenue last year. my strength.” got an associate’s degree in archi- had language skills,” Neely said. And while Michigan’s struggling Neely and her family left Cuba Neely said breast cancer has tecture and also pursued a lifelong “So I had to use them to help me economy has caused some to lose in 1961 to escape Fidel Castro’s inspired her to take a positive goal to be a soccer player. He was survive after my divorce.” regime. Neely, who was 13 when outlook on her life and to strive to drafted by a professional team, the faith, Petrella said he has a belief in she came to Miami, said her fam- Neely founded Birmingham- help poor Hispanic and expatri- Dallas Tornados, but with his first the state that is his home. ily owned and operated a paper based Langua Tutor Inc. in 1979 and ate women battling the disease. move still fresh did not want to “I just want to grow our company mill on the island, which helped immediately secured Ford Motor “I want them to know they’re leave Michigan and his parents. here in Michigan. My roots are not direct her to become a business Co. as its first client. Her second not alone, that there is someone Working for an architect and then in Italy; my roots are here in Michi- owner later on. client, Bendix Corp., provided Lan- out there who cares for them and for a company that designed metal gan,” Petrella said. “I think there’s “I guess being an entrepreneur gua Tutor with a $10,000 advance will help give them the courage panels for industrial buildings, Pe- so much potential in this town, and is in my blood,” she said. for language lessons. to fight the disease and win.” trella went on to Electronic Data Sys- the state.” After years working as a lan- That check allowed Neely to — Sheena Harrison tems Corp. There, he said, he moved — Amy Lane DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 03-26-07 A 18 CDB 3/23/2007 9:51 AM Page 1

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FOCUS:AMERICAN DREAMERS Gnanadesikan neer after procuring a professional OurOur Region.Region. OurOur Future.Future. engineers’ license. He was approached by Somat Ramanujam, 42 leaders to become president and President and CEO CEO, just 10 years after joining the Somat Engineering Inc. firm. Ramanujam said he was im- Detroit pressed that a person could “work Granholm’s Country of origin: India hard, and get recognized” at Somat and in the U.S. Born in India and raised in Somat has since added about 15 budget plan: Africa, Gnanadesikan Ramanujam employees, reaching 46 full- and came to the U.S. in 1986 seeking to part-time workers, and has diversi- broaden his international and civ- “I was always very positive that fied services. The company, which Boon or bust? il engineering knowledge. I would find a good job, and I took had 2006 revenue of $7 million, has “I wanted to get a higher degree, this as part of life. I said, ‘I am pret- opened two new offices, including and I also wanted to visit the ty sure that this is something that one in Bangalore, India, in 2006. world,” said Ramanujam, who helps build character.’ ” Returning to India as a success- Forth in a series goes by ‘Ram.’ “I believed that edu- Ties to his younger brother ful businessperson was “extreme- 4 cation was not in the classroom; brought him to the Detroit area, ly gratifying,” Ramanujam said. Honigman is pleased to sponsor real education was being exposed and in 1990 he took a job with Somat “For me, this is home now. I am to all kinds of environments and Engineering Inc. as a field engineer. an American citizen. But it is ex- the series of critical issue surveys seeing the world.” The outside work in winter, taking tremely satisfying to go back and Ramanujam graduated in 1989 soil samples and monitoring con- see your parents and your family with Crain’s Detroit Business. with a master’s degree in civil engi- tractors, was an adjustment. take pride in your success,” he said. neering from Vanderbilt University “My first winter here was quite “A lot of people say the Ameri- but found job prospects slim in his an experience, because I had never can dream is to make a lot of mon- field. For a year he worked odd jobs, experienced this kind of cold be- ey,” Ramanujam said. “The Amer- Highlights from this survey appear driving a truck for a furniture-mov- fore,” he said. “I used to think that ican dream, I think, is to be able to ing company and serving as a chef’s 70 was cold.” control your own destiny. That is in today’s issue. assistant. Ramanujam lived with Ramanujam advanced to staff how I see the American dream.” Go to honigman.com or crainsdetroit.com friends, and finances were tight. engineer and then project engi- — Amy Lane for complete results.

to architects and interior designers. Navot Shoresh, 38 The company, which moved in Founder and CEO January from Pleasant Ridge to Spire Integrated Systems L.L.C. Troy, reported $1.3 million in rev- Troy enue last year and has six employ- Country of origin: Israel ees. While most of Spire’s work is for the high-end residential market, As a sergeant in an elite Israeli the company is increasing its com- special-forces unit, Navot Shoresh mercial portfolio, Shoresh said, became intimately familiar with with plans to expand into northern high-tech gadgetry, relying on it to Michigan, Ohio and Florida. stay alive and complete missions While Shoresh considers Israel in the hot spots seen on nightly Michigan-Dearborn as an electrical more open to new ideas than Michi- television news. engineering major. “That’s really where I started to The relationship ended, but he gan, he plans to stay here. He and get into the electronics side of decided to stay and left the class- his wife, Betty Chu, an obstetrician things,” he said. room in 2001 to found Spire Integrat- and gynecologist, have a son and After leaving the army, he ed Systems L.L.C., a company that are expecting another this summer. worked for an Israeli company specializes in home automation. “I don’t know what it is about that did cable-television infra- That’s defined as central control of Michigan for me, but I like the peo- structure work in new, high-rise lighting, heating and air condi- ple, and I have a lot of friends here. construction. A relationship with tioning, home theater, security It’s been very good to me, very sup- a Michigan woman in 1994 led him and other electronic devices. portive,” he said. “Michigan offers from his home outside Haifa in “I found a niche, and I stuck with a lot of opportunity for me.” northern Israel to the University of it,” he said. Spire markets its work — Bill Shea

Member FDIC Equal Housing Lender Ohio-based NCR Corp., where he be- Mohsen Sohi, 47 came senior vice president. Many a successful business was President and CEO Since joining Freudenberg in Freudenberg-NOK General 2003, Sohi has kept the company founded on a coffee napkin. Partnership growing during a difficult time in Plymouth the automotive industry by ac- Country of origin: Iran quiring nonautomotive companies Your ideas helped launch your business, now you and working to diversify Freuden- need a financial partner to help fuel your growth. With student opposition to the berg-NOK’s customers. For almost 10 years, Michigan Heritage Bank government in Iran rising and regu- “We have had to make adjust- lar military crackdowns on cam- ments at this plant and that plant has provided small and mid-sized companies the pus, Mohsen Sohi decided to leave … but what we have avoided is financial resources to take ideas to the next level. the university, his country and his 1977. But he left shortly afterward broad-based cuts,” Sohi said. family and pursue an education in as fundamentalist forces rose up to Freudenberg-NOK is a joint ven- We can personally serve all your banking needs the U.S. protest the government, which was ture between Freudenberg & Co. in Sohi came to the U.S. in 1978, led by U.S.-backed Mohammad Germany and NOK Corp. in Japan. by providing commercial checking, money market learned English, obtained a doctor- Reza Shah Pahlavi. In 2006 Freudenberg-NOK’s sales accounts, loans, remote deposit and more. ate in engineering and an MBA. In In the U.S., Sohi said, he was fi- rose by several percent due in part March 2003, he became president nancially strained, but life was to acquisitions. This year Sohi said and CEO of Freudenberg-NOK General Troy Farmington Hills easier. the company is projecting a single- 1917 E. Big Beaver 28300 Orchard Lake Rd. Partnership, an automotive supplier By 1989 he received a doctorate digit percentage sales increase. 248-619-0264 248-538-2546 with more than $1 billion in sales. in engineering from Washington His advice to anyone who has re- Novi Wixom Sohi’s achievements far exceeded University in St. Louis and went to cently arrived in the U.S. to go to 21211 Haggerty Rd. 28345 Beck Rd. his own early expectations. Grow- work as an engineer at AlliedSignal college is to concentrate on classes 248-380-6590 248-468-0205 ing up poor about 15 miles north of Inc., an aerospace, automotive and and don’t take shortcuts. Livonia 1-800-914-3524 Tehran, Sohi simply wanted to be engineering acquired by Honeywell “The U.S. is still the best place on 18770 Farmington Rd. www.miheritage.com 248-442-9650 one of the lucky few who tested well International Inc. in 1999. planet Earth for people who have enough to get into college. Sohi received his MBA from the ambitions and are willing to work Questions? Comments? Call us, and we’ll respond personally “My plan was to get into Universi- University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton hard,” Sohi said. “So, really pursue within the same business day. That’s our guarantee. ty of Tehran, and graduate and be- School of Business in 1998 and be- your dreams, because here is one come an engineer or something,” came president of Honeywell Elec- of the very few countries in the CHECKING • SAVINGS • LOANS • TREASURY SERVICES Sohi said. tronic Materials in 1999. He left Hon- world where you can take risks.” Sohi entered the university in eywell in 2000 to join Dayton, — Brent Snavely DBpageAD.qxd 1/11/2007 5:12 PM Page 1

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Gerard van Grinsven, 45 in Asia at properties owned by In- because Michigan reminded me a service excellence to the forefront terContinental Hotel Group, Mandarin lot of Netherlands,” van Grinsven of health care. He was hired to run President and CEO Oriental Hotel Group, Ramada Hong said. “The Dutch are water people a 300-bed, $310 million hospital in Henry Ford West Bloomfield Kong Hotel and The Peninsula Hotels (and Michigan has) incredible West Bloomfield Township to open Hospital in destinations such as Jakarta, In- lakes. (There’s) a similar climate, next year, even though he had no West Bloomfield Township and the people are very down to donesia; Bangkok, Thailand; and health care industry experience. Country of origin: The Netherlands Manila, the Philippines. earth.” He also touted the high He said he is orienting himself But in 1996, van Grinsven ar- quality of life and schools in metro Gerard van Grinsven found out to the health care industry to bet- rived in America for the first time Detroit. as a young man working weekends ter understand the needs and While managing the Dearborn as a bartender in the Netherlands working in an Atlanta sales office for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. L.L.C. hotel, he was later promoted to wants of all parties involved. that he was good at making people “(I want to) really go and look at comfortable in their surroundings After he got a bachelor’s degree But soon, he wanted to manage his vice president and area manager health care (and see), how can we regardless of where they called in hotel management from the own hotel, and the company gave of Ritz-Carlton hotels in Cleveland, create a culture where the work home. Maastricht Hotel Management School him a choice of cities to work in. St. Louis and Philadelphia. “I liked dealing with people and in the Netherlands, he went to He chose Detroit and became the Then a very different opportuni- force is engaged so we drive ser- (wondered) how I could create a work in a Holiday Inn in London. day-to-day manager of The Ritz-Carl- ty presented itself. Detroit-based vice excellence every day,” van welcome experience for cus- Van Grinsven gained most of his ton, Dearborn. Henry Ford Health System tapped Grinsven said. tomers,” Van Grinsven said. experience in the service industry “I felt it was the right thing to do him last June to bring customer- — Bowdeya Tweh

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in 30 minutes or less, learned to bureau alongside his former Novi line by $1 million and is highly re- Sajid Zuberi, 52 navigate the city and was happy to Hilton general manager, Michael garded by our board members,” Vice president, finance/CFO have a job,” Zuberi said. O’Callaghan, who is COO and ex- O’Callaghan said. Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors After a few months at Domino’s, ecutive vice president for the bu- At the bureau, Zuberi has Bureau Zuberi was hired by The Ritz-Carl- reau. helped create Microsoft Access- Detroit ton, Cleveland as credit The bureau has 35,000 hotel based accounting systems with Country of origin: Pakistan manager/assistant controller, He rooms in its jurisdiction, and Zu- key checks and balances for then became controller for the Dan- events, inventory, purchasing and In just eight years, Sajid Zuberi beri oversees an $11 million bud- bury Hilton & Towers in Connecticut travel. went from delivering pizzas to be- get for a staff of 51 people. before coming to metro Detroit as Detroit’s bureau has received About 79 percent of the budget is ing a vice president and CFO of the controller at the Novi Hilton. many awards as a leader in finan- spent on direct marketing and pro- Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors He had worked in the hospitali- cial systems from the International Bureau, where he’s worked for sev- couldn’t get a job interview in his ty business since 1977, including at motions for the region, Zuberi Association of Convention and Visitors en years. field. a resort hotel in Pakistan and an- said. The bureau also oversees the Bureaus. Zuberi arrived in the U.S. from So when Domino’s Pizza in other in Bahrain. Zuberi also had Detroit Metro Sports Commission, the “My goal is to continue ensuring Pakistan in 1990 with a bachelor’s Cleveland offered him a job as a de- done accounting for a trading and Tourism Action Group and the that the DMCVB gets the most for degree in accounting, a master’s in livery driver for $4.25 an hour plus trucking company in Saudi Ara- Tourism Economic Development Coun- its dollars and members,” Zuberi political science and 15 years of ex- tips, he took it. bia. cil. said. perience in three countries, but “I delivered one pizza at a time, In 1999, he joined the convention “He has increased our bottom — Robert Ankeny

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The Director, Annual with industry, government organiza- For more information or to apply for development and marketing of the firm’s Tremendous Investment Fund, will serve as a key member of the or- products to clients. tions, other institutes and universities in • 3-1/2 Miles of Road Frontage for Future this specific position, please visit ganization’s Institutional Advancement Team. the energy arena. For more information www.umich.edu/~jobs and Development Inquiries from qualified candidates should be Candidates must possess: on MMPEI, visit www.mmpei.umich.edu. reference Job Posting # 7138. • Bachelor’s degree • Hardwoods, 30,000 + Pines Planted, sent to: Tracy Wasko, 20900 Oakwood Blvd., To review the entire position description Rolling, Streams, Ponds The University of Michigan is a non- • 2-3 years of finance experience Dearborn, MI 48124. Fax: 313-982-6226. with applicant qualifications and to apply, • Home of Partridge, Turkey, Duck, discriminatory, affirmative action employer. [email protected]. Complete • Strong academic record visit http://www.umich.edu/~jobs/ Trophy Deer job description can be viewed at our web site • Excellent analytical skills and refer to job posting ID #7005. $2,200,000.00 www.thehenryford.org. The University of Michigan is an equal EOE For consideration please email your resume Crain’s Classifieds Gets Results to [email protected]. opportunity/affirmative action employer. (586) 752-2776 DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 03-26-07 A 23 CDB 3/23/2007 11:40 AM Page 1

March 26, 2007 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 23 CRAIN’S REAL ESTATE CALENDAR TUESDAY AUCTIONS OFFICE BUILDING MARCH 27 TROY CHAMBER TO DISCUSS ‘ONE D’ MINIMUM BID AUCTION! Economic Outlook From Detroit & the Changing Structure of the U.S. Auto In- The One D 104 Main St. Lake Leelanau, MI 49653 dustry. 5:30-7:30 p.m. German Ameri- initiative and Le Naro Pub can Chamber of Commerce of the Mid- what it means (Previously Named “Key to the County Restaurant”) west. Thomas Klier, senior economist, for regional Zoning is C-1 commercial allowing for Mixed Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. revitalization is Use! Beautifully remodeled, appointed and Townsend Hotel, Birmingham. $25 the subject of equipped Restaurant and Bar. This mixed use pre-registration, $35 at the door. Con- an April 3 Troy restaurant and bar includes but is not limited tact: [email protected] to many opportunities for uses and rental Chamber lunch revenue such as Restaurant, Banquet Facility, Dennis Archer, Office, Retail, Galleries and a 2 Bedroom attached apartment. Own your own Saturday April 14th at 12:00 Noon Economic Outlook. 7:30-9:30 a.m. Dear- chairman of diversified shopping district in paradise! Minimum Bid $599,000 Preview/Registration at 11am born Chamber of Commerce. Speakers the Detroit include Maxine Berman, director of Visit www.bethroseauction.com for property info. Archer Regional Rose Auction Group, LLC special projects, Gov. Jennifer Gran- Chamber, and Visit www.proxibid.com for online bidding info. 877-696-7653 holm; Azzam Elder, Wayne County Edsel Ford II, COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Deputy CEO; Mike Shapiro, director, lead champion Regional Business Development Pro- of One D: Clinton Twp. - office condos sale or lease DEARBORN SALE - 132,600 Sq. Ft. New roof 2005, gram, Detroit Regional Economic Transforming Milford - downtown retail or office corner new office and lunch room 2006, 3 cranes 5-22 tons, Partnership; and , exec- St. Clair Shores - new medical offices Jim Townsend Regional 20’ ceiling, near expressways, New reduced priced. utive director, Tourism Economic De- , will Troy - fully leased office investment VAN BUREN TWP., SALE-155,000 Sq. Ft. on 28 Detroit DAKALE GROUP 586.228.8800 useable acres. Great mfg. or whs. facility. 1998 velopment Council. Dearborn Inn. $25 discuss the WE BUY SHOPPING CENTERS construction, expandable. Primary power, 22’ -30’ members, $35 others. Contact: (313) initiative during We are principals who can close quickly. clear, 1000+ ft along rail. 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CRAIN’S RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES WOMEN IN FINANCE CONFERENCE SET FOR THIS WEEK Michigan Women in Finance will Kathleen DeBoer, executive host its fifth annual conference, director of the American Volleyball “Managing Change: Women and WATERFRONT PROPERTY WATERFRONT PROPERTY Coaches Association, speaking on Leadership,” Thursday and Friday in how men and women approach CROOKED LAKE FRONTAGE LAKE MICHIGAN FRONTAGE (FSBO) Dearborn. work and play. Near Nub’s Nob, ski and fish off the dock 180 Degree lake view on low bluff On Thursday, the event runs from 6- Gloria Herndon, president, G.B. 5 bedroom party house. www.8475surfsidedrive.com 10 p.m. at the Call Linda (231) 548 - 9336 708-202-6804 (Daytime) Henry Ford Museum Herndon and Associates, on the and includes a buffet dinner. international business climate. NOW TAKING RESERVATIONS! Sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. Friday Anne Doyle, principal of Anne Beautiful waterfront 1 acre estate lots Executive Log Home at the Ford Conference and Event Doyle Strategies, speaking on in Brighton. New exclusive 10 lot com- Center. “Transitions: A Change Agent’s munity on large all sports Woodland on Mullett Lake Debbi Fields, founder of Lake! Each lot has appx. 160’ of front- Mrs. Fields View of the Power of Change.” age on paved road. Brighton Schools. 586-412-1558 or Google Cookies, is the keynote speaker. Tickets are $75. To register or for Easy X-way access. Have "up north" Other speakers are: more information, visit lakefront living minutes from work! www.luxurylogcabingetaway.com State Treasurer Robert Kleine on www.michiganwomeninfinance.org. Call Vantage Construction Company For More Details the economy and business taxes. — Joanne Scharich 810-220-8060 Crain’s Classifieds Gets Results DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 03-26-07 A 24 CDB 3/23/2007 9:45 AM Page 1

Page 24 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS March 26, 2007 PEOPLE ARCHITECTURE marketing coordinator, C/D/H, Royal Kristen Whise to associate, Grissim IN THE SPOTLIGHT Oak, from marketing and graphic de- Metz Andriese Associates Inc., sign coordinator, Reliance Software Northville, from landscape architect. Kaydon Corp. director James Systems Inc., Farmington Hills. O’Leary has been appointed CONSTRUCTION president and CEO, according to a LAW company statement Wednesday. John Fekaris to Roberta Granadier to shareholder, Midwest Regional O’Leary, 44, has been a board Butzel Long, Bloomfield Hills, from operations man- member at Ann Arbor-based ager, The Dailey senior attorney. Also, John Benko to Kaydon since 2005 and most Co., Lake Orion, shareholder, Detroit and Lansing, Commercial Real from project man- recently worked as executive vice from associate; and George Donnini ager. president and CFO of Atlanta- and Craig Stanley to shareholders, De- Estate Conference based home builder Beazer Homes troit, from associates. DISTRIBUTORS USA Inc. Matthew Henzi, Nicole Nugent, Maria O’Leary, who will take the helm Meldrum and Adam Lumberg to share- • American and Canadian experts present Frank Ralko to today, replaces Brian Campbell, holders, Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Pat- MAY 3 – 5 vice president of who plans to retire from Ann Arbor- ton P.C., Southfield, from members. commercial real estate trends, opportunities intellectual ser- Detroit Marriott based Kaydon on May 1. Clay Thomas to member, real estate and strategies vices, Handleman Fekaris practice group, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & at the Co., Troy, from “I am excited by the opportunity to Weiss P.C., Southfield, from associate, Renaissance Center • Hot topics: sustainable building, waterfront assistant vice president of United lead the team Brian has Dykema Gossett P.L.L.C. redevelopment, eminent domain and urban States operations. Also, Brad Shana- assembled and build upon the lifestyle centers han to assistant vice president of mar- strong foundation in place at keting, from director of customer mar- Kaydon,” O’Leary said. “The years MANUFACTURING • Networking receptions with hundreds of keting; Jayne Salembier to assistant ahead will provide many Kevin McManus to president, robotic industry professionals from 11 Midwestern vice president of product analytics, opportunities to create further solutions business area, KMT Robotic Solutions, Auburn Hills, from presi- states and Ontario from director of merchandise coordi- value for our shareholders.” nation; Chris Kwant to director of op- Kaydon designs and manufactures dent, Robotic Production Technology, erations, national customer team, custom-engineered products, Auburn Hills.

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© EDUCATION Commercial Real Estate Women Detroit and commercial banker in specialized Relations, Bing- Trish Almquist to development direc- industries, Chase, ham Farms, from Photos: Non-members/men and women welcome! tor, College for Creative Studies, De- Detroit, from vice president. troit, from marketing director, Luna health care bank- Robin Kujawa to Entertainment, Novi. ing specialist, vice president, Fifth Third Bank, print production ENGINEERING Southfield. supervisor, Mc- Cann Erickson, Charles Hookham Dennis Gistinger to senior vice Birmingham, to vice president, Nixon from print pro- Cummins & president of health care lend- duction supervisor. Also, Jeff Barnard Inc., Ann Michaels to vice president senior net- Arbor, from asso- ing, TCF Bank, Troy, from senior work engineer, from senior network ciate vice presi- engineer; Christine Cowan to account dent, Black & Hausman vice president and manager of director, Travel Michigan and Detroit Veatch, Ann Ar- Medical Center businesses, from ac- bor. corporate banking. Also, Guy Rau to senior vice president and manager of count supervisor; and Laura Murphy Timothy Bedenis the corporate banking division, from to senior account supervisor on to manager- state director of business banking, Buick, from account supervisor. geotechnical ser- Charter One, Southfield. Hookham vices, Soil and SERVICES Materials Engineers Inc., Plymouth, Jason Dworin to vice president admin- continuing as principal and chief geo- istration, ProfitGuard, Global Com- Peggy Schodowski to marketing di- technical engineer. mercial Credit/ProfitGuard, Bingham rector, Shelving Inc., Auburn Hills, Farms, from financial analyst. from research consultant. Also, Karen John Seelbach to Hiyama to corporate counsel, from as- civil/survey man- Edwin Herbert to general counsel, As- set Acceptance Corp., Warren, from sistant U.S attorney, Eastern District ager, Carter & of Michigan, Detroit. Burgess Consul- equity partner and a member of the fi- tants Inc., Bing- nancial institutions practice group, Andrea Rie to human-resources man- ham Farms, from Shumaker, Loop ager, Henry Ford Village, Dearborn, vice president of & Kendrick L.L.P., from senior human-resources general- Toledo, Ohio. engineering, Pro- ist/recruiter, Pinnacle Airlines, De- fessional Engi- Anthony Lasher to troit. Also, Jon Lipman to information- neering Associ- assistant vice technology manager, from manager, ates, Troy. Also, president, Oxford Erickson Resident Computer Service David Oz to me- Bank, Oxford, project. Seelbach chanical engi- from bank officer John Kourletakis to information-tech- neering manager, and marketing di- nology site manager, Fox Run, Novi, from mechanical rector. Also, from help-desk manager, Real Estate engineering man- Nathan Davidson One corporate office, Southfield. ager, Poggemeyer to bank officer, Design Group, Lasher from supervisor of TELECOMMUNICATIONS Bowling Green, the bank’s inter- Ohio. nal audit function; Leonard Powell to district manager-re- and Sandra White- tail sales, Verizon Wireless, South- Bruce Roesler to head to assistant field, from regional director, Midwest manager, paint vice president, Area, Radio Shack, West Bloomfield and environmen- from items pro- Township. tal group, Design cessing manager Systems Inc., and bank officer. Oz Farmington Hills, from senior engi- INDUSTRY GROUPS PEOPLE GUIDELINES neering manager, and Durr Systems Malik Goodwin Announcements are limited to to Inc., Plymouth. Wil Tamminga management positions. Nonprofit Whitehead directors of project and industry group board management, De- appointments can be found at FINANCE troit Economic Growth Corp., Detroit, www.crainsdetroit.com. Send Roger Cregg, ex- from senior project managers. Also, Tiffi- ecutive vice presi- ni Smith to manager of corporate com- submissions for People to Joanne dent and CFO, munications, from Scharich, Crain’s Detroit Business, Pulte Homes Inc., economic develop- 1155 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, MI Bloomfield Hills; ment assistant; 48207-2997, or send e-mail to Roesler and T. Kevin DeNi- and Olga Savic to [email protected]. Releases cola, senior vice president and CFO, director of strategy must contain the person’s name, Lyondell Chemical Co., Houston; to and external af- new title, company, city in which the board of directors, Comerica Inc., fairs, from chief of the person will work, former title, Detroit. staff, office of State former company (if not promoted Rep. Steve Toboc- William McCarthy Jr. to managing from within) and former city in man, Detroit. partner, Michigan offices, Willis, which the person worked. Photos Novi, from sales manager for the are welcome, but we cannot Michigan market, Aon, Southfield. INFO/TECHNOLOGY guarantee they will be used. Elizabeth Hausman to vice president Umbarger Anne Umbarger to