DELAWAREBUSINESS EDITORIAL STAFF Message from the President Gary R. Stockbridge Michael J. Quaranta Denée Crumrine Christina Jones Chairman President Editor Graphic Design

Today we celebrate twenty BOARD OF DIRECTORS years of Superstars in Business! CHAIR Martha S. Gilman Bonnie Metz Salvatore J. Our 2018 winners are an Gary R. Stockbridge Gilman Development Verizon, “Chip” Rossi Delmarva Power Company Mac Nagaswami Bank of America excellent group and worthy of VICE CHAIR Michael Houghton Carvertise Dennis M. Salter Katie Wilkinson Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Janice E. Nevin, Summit Realty this distinguished award, yet as Fulton Bank, N.A. Tunnell, LLP M.D., MPH Advisors, Inc. they bask in the glow of this great TREASURER Nicholas P. Lambrow Christiana Care Mark A. Turner Barry Crozier M&T Bank Health System WSFS Bank recognition, let’s look back at Scott Malfitano Robert (Rob) Rider, Jr. CSC - Corporation O.A. Newton some past winners and see how Service Company everybody is doing. In 1998, Superstars celebrated its first BOARD OF GOVERNORS Tony Allen, Ph.D. Jason D. Gonzalez Chris Perdue Michael J. Quaranta winner, a gallon of gasoline was Delaware State University DuPont Perdue Farms $1.06, Titanic won “Best Picture” Steve Baccino Glen Gray Robert W. Perkins Delmarva Power CAI Brandywine Public Strategies and the New York Yankees swept the San Diego Padres in Christopher W. Baker, P.E. Dr. LaVerne T. Harmon Roy Proujansky, M.D. the World Series. EDiS Company was the inaugural winner George & Lynch, Inc. Wilmington University Nemours Children’s Health System Greg Ballance Pete Hayward Ted Prushinski that year. A little brewery in Milton entered the competition Diamond Technologies, Inc. University of Delaware, Retired Citizens Bank, NA a few years later and had so much success that it took its “off Michael B. Berardi John E. (Jack) Healy III Michael Ratchford Wohlsen Construction Company Healy Long & Jevin, Inc. W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. centered craft brewed ales” on to the national stage. Robert A. Book II Vera Holmes Bettina Tweardy Riveros Another local favorite, millicare by EBC, made a clean Delaware Electric Cooperative Ashland, Inc. Christiana Care Health System Pete Booker Tom Horne Rhett Ruggerio sweep of the awards a few years later! Fast forward to more The Smart Drive Foundation JPMorgan Chase Ruggerio Willson & Associates, LLC Jennifer Gimler Brady Bryan B. Horsey Greg Sawka modern history and Superstars in Business celebrated the Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP Bloom Energy Corporation Bancroft Construction Company innovative trim and matrix removal work of Precision Mark T. Brainard Timothy J. Houseal Fred C. Sears II Delaware Technical Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, Delaware Community Foundation, AirConvey in 2016. Even the keynote speaker at our 2018 Community College LLP Retired Kevin Broadhurst Christopher L. Kenny Jeffrey Sills awards banquet, Scott Kammerer of SoDel Concepts, is a past ShopRites of Delaware Capital One winner. Now, with over ten restaurants, a catering company, Robert L. Byrd Lisa Kirkwood Greg Smith The Byrd Group TD Bank The Company hospitality consulting firm, a hospitality management Bruce H. Colbourn Richard LaPenta William Smith company and a charitable nonprofit, SoDel Concepts is PNC Bank Insurance & Financial Services Ltd. Environmental Alliance, Inc. Stuart Comstock-Gay Stephan Lehm W. Laird Stabler III, Esq. making its mark in Delaware and beyond. Delaware Community Foundation VanDemark & Lynch, Inc Laird Stabler & Associates, LLC Every year our Superstars in Business program recognizes Timothy J. Constantine Rodger Levenson Mark Stellini United Concordia WSFS Bank Assurance Media some truly exceptional businesses. For some, it’s just the Pam Cornforth Alan Levin Grace Stockley beginning of something much larger and even greater than Ronald McDonald House SoDel Concepts FideliTrade Incorporated of Delaware Renee Lewandowski Dian C. Taylor perhaps anybodynybodyy imagined.imagined. Charlie Copeland Agilent Technologies Artesian Water Associates International, Inc. Lisa Lindsey James A. Tevebaugh Rick Deadwyler Delaware City Refining Company Tevebaugh Associates DuPont Andy Lubin Michael S. Uffner Ernest Dianastasis Delaware Financial Group AutoTeam Delaware The Precisionists, Inc. William Manning Richelle Vible Brian DiSabatino Saul Ewing LLP Catholic Charities, Inc. EDiS Company Guy Marcozzi Michael D. Waite Denis Dunn Duffield Associates, Inc. WJBR FM 99.5 AT&T Delaware Nick Marsini Clinton Walker @DEStateChamber Jerry Esposito PNC Bank, Delaware -- Retired Barclaycard, US Tidewater Utilities, Inc. Paul McConnell Robert W. Whetzel G. Kevin Fasic, Esquire McConnell Development, Inc. Richards, Layton & Finger Offit Kurman Chad Moore Stu Widom Delaware State Chamber of Commerce Jeffrey M. Fried, FACHE Beacon Hospitality Calpine Corporation Beebe Healthcare Nicholas A. Moriello, R.H.U. Thomas C. (Tom) Wiedemann Donald T. Fulton Highmark BCBS AAA Mid-Atlantic Weiner Benefits Group Terry Murphy Stephanie Wiswall Delaware State Chamber Jeffrey Garland Bayhealth Medical Center AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP University of Delaware Chris O’Neill PSCI STAFF DEStateChamber Michael J. Quaranta Mark A. DiMaio Fred Miller President Director Grassroots and Research Advertising/Retention Cheryl Corn Linda D. Walsh Bill Osborne Chief Operating Officer Accounting Associate Interim President, DPPI Denée Crumrine Ken Evans Matt Volk Communications Manager Account Executive Digital Advertising Sales DELAWARE STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE William H. Hastings, Jr. James DeChene Controller Kelly Basile Sr. Vice President Government Affairs Assistant to the President, 1201 NORTH ORANGE STREET, P.O. BOX 671 • WILMINGTON, DE 19899-0671 Chuck James Events Manager (302) 655-7221 • (800) 292-9507 • WWW.DSCC.COM Sr. Vice President Membership

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