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LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE HILLIARD LYONS TO BECOME PART OF BAIRD; COMPANY THORNTONS BEING BOUGHT WILL RETAIN A ‘SIGNIFICANT PRESENCE’ IN LOUISVILLE BY PARTNERSHIP THAT WILL KEEP NAME, EMPLOYEES L Financial Services, the parent company of Louisville-based wealth , a Louisville- management firm and HORNTONS Inc. H Hilliard Lyons based gas and convenience store , agreed to sell the Hilliard Lyons Trust Co. Tchain that is one of the city’s largest two companies to , an international Baird private employers, has agreed to be financial services firm. acquired by a joint venture created The agreement has been approved by between affiliates of Bowling Green-based , the majority shareholder of HL ArcLight Capital Houchens Industries Inc. and . Financial Services. Financial details of the agreement have not been released. Partners BP The joint venture will continue to Established in 1854, Hilliard Lyons is one of the nation’s oldest investment operate all existing stores under the firms. It has nearly 1,000 employees, including more than 380 financial advisors, Thorntons name and will retain the in more than 70 offices in 11 states. Along with sister company Hilliard Lyons employees working out of the store Trust Co., the firm offers wealth management, trust and estate planning services, support center in Louisville. investment banking, municipal finance and asset management services. The company has over $50 billion in client assets and had more than $280 million in revenue for its fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018. Baird, established in 1919 and headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisc., is an employee-owned wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm with more than $200 billion in client assets. The company has over 3,450 associates, including 890 financial advisors, at 97 locations in 30 states. Hilliard Lyons’ top leadership – Chairman and CEO Jim Allen, President Tom Kessinger III and Executive Vice President and Director, Private Wealth Alan Newman – will stay in their roles, working with Baird’s private wealth management (PWM) leadership to ensure a smooth transition for the firm and its clients. When the merger is completed, likely in the second half of 2019, Allen will serve as a vice chairman of Baird and a member of Baird’s executive committee out of Louisville; Thorntons gas stations and convenience stores will Kessinger will serve in a PWM leadership role in Lexington while continuing to continue to operate under the Thorntons name serve his wealth management clients; and Newman will serve in a PWM leadership following its acquisition by a joint venture between role in Evansville, Ind. All will remain active in their respective communities as BP and ArcLight Capital Partners. leaders at Baird. Thorntons currently operates 191 Baird has said the company plans to maintain a “significant presence in the stores across Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisville community.” Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The company employs approximately 2,500 STATE people, some 950 of whom are located in Louisville. The company had $1.8 KENTUCKY LAUNCHES COMMERCIALIZATION CENTER TO billion in revenue for its most recent HELP TAKE INNOVATIVE IDEAS INTO THE MARKETPLACE fiscal year. Energy giant BP, headquartered in ENTUCKY has created a partnership between the state’s universities and colleges Great Britain, operates in 70 countries to translate intellectual property and innovations into market-ready products. with 74,000 employees. Boston-based K Led by the Cabinet for Economic Development’s KY Innovation office, ArcLight is a leading private equity firm the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, the idea behind that focuses on energy infrastructure the Commonwealth Commercialization Center (C3) is to have one place for investments. Kentucky schools, their faculty and students to find support for commercializing “My family and the Thorntons team their innovations and inventions. There is also hope that companies looking to are incredibly proud of the company we invest in Kentucky will reach out to C3 to find research or innovation help. have built over the last 47 years. While C3 will be funded in part through a $1.2 million grant we are proud of where we are today, our from KY Innovation. vision extends well beyond 191 stores in “C3 will offer a single point of entry for startups and six states and we know this new joint corporations interested in engaging with our universities venture will help us to accelerate store and the talent and innovation that can fuel growth for their growth and serve even more guests every businesses,” said Brian Mefford, executive director of KY day,” said Thorntons Chairman and Innovation. “We want C3 to become known as a key partner CEO Matt Thornton. “We are excited to for innovation, research and development for entrepreneurs begin this new chapter and are pleased and CEOs who are looking to locate or grow their business in Kentucky.” that we are able to take these next steps The state’s flagship universities will also use KY Innovation resources to connect in our hometown working with our all public institutions with federally funded commercialization and existing team. This partnership is a win- entrepreneurship programs, allow easier access to the marketplace for research- win for everyone involved.” driven IP, promote industry-sponsored collaborative research opportunities for all Financial details of the transaction participants and aggressively pursue grants. have not been disclosed.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS LOUISVILLE BRIGHTSPRING, PHARMERICA MERGE TO BARDSTOWN TARGET HIGH NEEDS HOME CARE MARKET ■ Heaven Hill Distillery has RIGHTSPRING Health Services (formerly ResCare) announced plans for a and PharMerica Corp. have announced plans to join $17.5 million together to become a leading provider of home and Ky. Tourism photo Tourism Ky. B renovation, expansion community-based health and pharmacy services for high-need and rebrand of its Bourbon Heritage and medically complex individuals. Center. The project is Louisville-based BrightSpring part of a multi-year $65 Health Services is one of the nation’s million investment plan to expand production capacity in Bardstown. In largest providers of diversified home addition to the visitor center expansion, Heaven Hill will also be adding and community-based health services production capacity with new barrel warehousing, bottling line and to complex populations of all ages. Its equipment upgrades, and increased holdings of aging bourbon whiskey, primary businesses include: behavioral amounting to a total of $47.5 million. health (including autism services); BULLITT COUNTY home health care; neuro therapies; ■ The state has announced plans to construct a new interchange on pharmacy and telecare ancillary Interstate 65 in Bullitt County, south of Shepherdsville. State and local technologies and services; and job placement and vocational officials say the new interchange will reduce the travel distance between training. BrightSpring employs more than 40,000 people in over I-65 and the Cedar Grove Business Park, improving connectivity and 40 states. supporting increased economic development in the county. Current PharMerica, also headquartered in Louisville, serves the long- occupants of the business park include major employers such as and . term care, hospital pharmacy management services, specialty Amazon Gordon Food Services home infusion, and oncology pharmacy markets through 96 DANVILLE institutional pharmacies, 20 specialty home infusion pharmacies ■ Centre College is building a new 176-bed residence hall that is set to and five specialty oncology pharmacies in 45 states. be complete by August. Since the new building will provide housing for Following the close of the transaction, BrightSpring President additional growth of the student body, it gives the college the flexibility and CEO Jon B. Rousseau will lead the combined company with to close older housing that can no longer be managed. PharMerica President and CEO Greg Weishar serving as a EASTERN KENTUCKY strategic advisor and continuing on the board of directors. ■ The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has been selected to receive As part of the transaction, private equity firm Onex Corp. is a USDA rural development grant of more than $337,000 to support selling its interest in BrightSpring. Upon close, the combined rural healh-care facilities in Hazard, Carlisle, Owingsville and enterprise will be owned by KKR with an affiliate of Walgreens Williamstown. The project will train health professionals and peer Boots Alliance Inc. as a minority investor. recovery specialists in the prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery support of opioid use disorder. EASTERN KENTUCKY ■ Big Sandy Health Care Inc. will receive nearly $371,000 from the NCI GRANT EXPANDS MARKEY ONCOLOGY USDA to provide primary care, specialty care, opioid education, counseling and treatment via telemedicine and distance learning in five TRAINING PROGRAM TO HIGH SCHOOLERS school sites and five clinic sites in a four-county area of Eastern Kentucky. Patients at the clinics will be able to participate in educational FTER successfully launching an sessions through distance learning technology and receive telemedicine oncology training program for visits from specialty providers not available at the clinics. AAppalachian undergraduate FLORENCE students in 2016, the University of ■ The University of the Cumberlands has Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is begun accepting applications for a new now expanding the program to include physician-assistant program at its Northern high school students. Kentucky campus in Florence, where classes The Appalachian Career Training in are slated to begin next fall. The program has Oncology (ACTION) Program is also partnered with Appalachian Regional funded through a nearly $2.3 million Healthcare, which will provide 300 clinical Kristin O’Leary, a rotation slots to UC’s Northern Kentucky PA grant from the National Cancer participant in the ACTION students. According to the U.S. Bureau of Institute. program, studying acute Labor Statistics, the rate of employment for PAs is growing ACTION is a two-year program that lymphoblastic leukemia in significantly faster than the national average. The median yearly wage provides students with research and the lab. of PAs in 2017 was $104,860. clinical experience through both Markey and UK HealthCare, mentoring, professional FRANKFORT development, and outreach opportunities in their own ■ Louisville-based has announced plans to open Goodwood Brewery communities. High school students will participate in a a brewpub in the historic Vatter building in downtown Frankfort, overlooking the Kentucky River. The new location will house an onsite residential camp on UK’s campus for five to six weeks during the brewery and full kitchen that will serve lunch and dinner. summers, and will engage in academic activities from home throughout the rest of the year. Each student will have a goal of HEBRON planning one outreach event in their hometown per year. ■ Pomeroy, long one of Northern Kentucky’s largest companies, is “It’s a training program that really gets to the heart of the now officially operating as Getronics following its acquisition last July cancer problem in Kentucky,” said Nathan Vanderford, by the Netherlands-based IT services firm. As part of the restructuring, 32 jobs are being cut at the company’s Hebron headquarters facility director of ACTION and assistant professor in the UK College and the global service center in Hebron will close by the end of of Medicine. “We’re training these students to be change February, eliminating 163 jobs. agents in their own communities.”

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BUSINESS BRIEFS STATE NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIPS PROGRAM HEBRON EXPANDS TO HELP KENTUCKY EMPLOYERS ■ Spirits retailer Cork N’ Bottle has opened a satellite store in Concourse A of national apprenticeship the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky program is now helping International Airport. The 200-s.f. store Kentucky manufacturers A RCBI photo offers a variety of spirits with a focus on tackle their workforce needs Kentucky bourbon and serves as a “trail- through registered

head” for Kentucky’s popular bourbon trail. CVG photo apprenticeship programs. HENDERSON Based in Huntington, ■ The Kentucky Network for Development, Leadership and W.Va., the Robert C. Byrd Engagement (KYNDLE) has opened a new co-working space in Henderson Institute (RCBI) launched its that allows individual entrepreneurs the opportunity to work independently Apprenticeship Works or collaboratively in an affordable, shared office space. The Henderson initiative in 2016, with support Hydraulic Services and Supply in Entrepreneurial and Technology (HEAT) Lab offers members high-speed Ashland is partnering with the fiber internet connections, conference rooms, essential operating services, from a U.S. Department of Labor grant. Since then, the Apprenticeship Works initiative to mailing services, and access to start-up advisory and mentoring services, as train CNC programmers. well as professional development training opportunities. apprenticeship initiative has grown steadily as manufacturers across the U.S. have recognized ■ Nylene (Custom Resins), a company that has been producing nylon in the benefits of an apprenticeship program in resolving their Henderson since 1957, has broken ground on an $8 million expansion training needs. project that will double the company’s existing square footage by adding Kentucky’s apprenticeship office approved the 80,000 s.f. The company anticipates adding 40 new jobs as a result of the expansion. Construction is expected to be complete by July. Apprenticeship Works’ standards last fall. The approval gives the initiative permission to work directly with manufacturers LEXINGTON to establish and manage their apprenticeship programs, ■ Gray Construction, a Lexington-based design-build firm, has making apprenticeship more accessible and affordable. completed the first step of a long-term collaboration with SPEC The first Kentucky company to partner with Engineering, a specialty process engineering and equipment fabrication Apprenticeship Works is Hydraulic Services and Supply in company located in Plainfield, Ill. SPEC is becoming affiliated with the Gray Ashland, which is launching an apprenticeship to train Inc. family of companies through an initial equity investment and other capital support by Gray, with the equity stake expected to grow substantially programmers of its CNC (computer numerical control) over time. SPEC has 40 years of experience in the food and beverage, machines. bakery, nutritionals, chemical and energy markets, with specialized The RCBI program also operates in Alabama, Arkansas, capabilities in dry material-handling systems. Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, ■ Lexington-based Community Washington and West Virginia. Ventures has been recognized by the Kentucky Small Business Administration for the 12th year in a STATE row for its high-impact efforts in lending throughout Kentucky. The company has KY GAINS FEDERAL APPROVAL TO MOVE been named SBA Microlender of the Year and SBA 504 Lender of the Year. FORWARD WITH MEDICAID WAIVER PLAN The Microlender of the Year award was presented in recognition of Community Ventures’ efforts to extend lending opportunities to startups ENTUCKY has received approval from the federal and entrepreneurs throughout the state. The 504 Loan Program focuses on Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) promoting the growth of small- and medium-sized businesses by expanding to proceed with the implementation of community their access to affordable long-term, low-interest, fixed-asset financing. K engagement and premium requirements for its Medicaid ■ After a lengthy delay in construction, a $220 million mixed-used waiver plan known as Kentucky HEALTH (Helping to project in downtown Lexington – once called CentrePoint and now Engage and Achieve Long Term Health). known as City Center – is finally taking shape. The Webb Cos., which Kentucky HEALTH involves requiring Medicaid recipients is developing the property, has announced that The Lexington who are deemed “able-bodied” to complete 80 hours of Marriott City Center and Residence Inn Lexington City Center are community engagement each month. Work, attending school set to open in fall 2019. The hotels will share some amenities, such as a or volunteering all qualify as community engagement. The fitness center and a rooftop pool and sky bar, and will both be serviced by a three-story underground parking structure. plan originally gained federal approval in early 2018 but was sent back for further review due to litigation. LOUISVILLE While the plan has met opposition from some, supporters ■ Mondi Bags USA has closed its plant in Louisville, where it produced note that it enables recipients to earn rewards for healthy woven polypropylene industrial bags for the agricultural feed, pet, food and lifestyle choices and gives them a stake in their health-care specialty chemical industries. In announcing the closure, the company said services, which could lead to improved long-term health. the plant’s “product portfolio is not a core part of our business and is no The plan also includes expanded access to substance use longer sustainable.” The closure eliminated 100 jobs. disorder (SUD) treatment for Medicaid beneficiaries. Estimates from the state project that Kentucky HEALTH ■ Historic Locust Grove Inc. has received a $1 million gift from the late B. Preston Thomas, a longtime board member, to lead its $3.2 million will save the Kentucky’s Medicaid program more than $2 capital campaign. Locust Grove is a 55-acre, 18th-century farm site and billion during the five-year demonstration period, with more national historic landmark in eastern Jefferson County owned by the than $300 million in savings to Kentucky’s General Fund. Louisville Metro government and operated as a historic interpretive site State officials also say the plan will ensure availability of by Historic Locust Grove Inc. Funds raised for the capital campaign will be Medicaid resources to those who need it most. used to refurbish and enhance the visitors’ center, build a pavilion for additional programming and rental space, and improve access and With the CMS approval, the program can begin as soon as connections between the grounds and outbuildings. April 1, 2019.

12 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT STATE BUSINESS BRIEFS INITIATIVE AIMS TO ENSURE COLLEGE GRADS HAVE ‘EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS’ LOUISVILLE ■ Messer/Harmon JV (joint HE Council on Postsecondary Education, joined by six venture) has been named the Kentucky colleges and universities, has launched an construction contractor for Tinitiative that brings together employers and educators to Louisville City Football ensure that higher education programs are graduating students Club’s new $65 million soccer stadium. The 11,300-seat with “essential employability qualities.” stadium is the centerpiece of a Essential employability $200 million, 40-acre mixed- qualities include people skills used development adjacent to such as collaboration and Louisville’s Waterfront Park teamwork; problem-solving near downtown. The two companies have teamed up before to build the abilities; and professional $63 million expansion of UofL’s Cardinal Stadium. strengths such as communication, ■ The Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Louisville- work ethic and technological based Humana Inc., has launched a new community relations initiative agility. Over the course of the 18-month initiative, 20 programs at in Louisville. The initiative awarded $2 million to Louisville-area the associate and bachelor’s levels will be assessed. organizations in 2018, with over $1 million of that in grants ranging “Employers are telling us what they look for and need in their from $25,000 up to a maximum of $100,000. Grants are awarded to employees,” said CPE President Aaron Thompson. “This strategic proposals that improve the quality of life in the Louisville area and initiative builds bridges from the classroom to the workplace to quality of place proposals that make the area a more appealing place fulfill those needs, while adding significantly more value to the to live. degrees our students earn by their ability to thrive in a rapidly ■ The University of Louisville has expanded its Regional Scholars changing workplace over the duration of their careers.” Program for out-of-state students to include Evansville and Indianapolis. Participating institutions include Bluegrass Community The program provides eligible prospective students from designated and Technical College, Gateway Community and areas outside of Kentucky with up to $16,000 in scholarships to attend Technical College, Jefferson Community and Technical UofL. The initiative is part of an effort to increase out-of-state College, Kentucky State University, Murray State enrollment by offering financial incentives. Prospective students who and the . meet eligibility requirements are automatically awarded a $10,000 University University of Kentucky tuition discount upon their acceptance. Other areas included in the Regional Scholars Program include Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, WESTERN KENTUCKY Nashville and Washington, D.C. MURRAY STATE TO LEAD REGIONAL HUB ■ Ford Motor Co. is DESIGNED TO SUPPORT AREA STARTUPS shifting personnel in Louisville to ramp up Ford photo Ford production of its high- HE KY Innovation office has selected Murray State and its partners to establish a regional hub in demand SUVs and pickup University trucks. The company plans TWestern Kentucky that will attract, cultivate and serve more to eliminate a shift at the innovative entrepreneurs and startup businesses in the area. Louisville Assembly Murray State University’s Center for Telecommunications Plant (LAP), which Systems Management (CTSM) will partner with the Technology produces the Ford Council of West Kentucky (TCWK) and entrepreneurship Escape compact SUV and providers to launch a Regional Innovation for Startups and the Lincoln MKC luxury crossover SUV, and will move those 500 Entrepreneurs (RISE) hub in Western Kentucky. employees over to the Kentucky Truck Plant, which produces the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator models. According to Ford, RISE hubs are part of KY Innovation’s 120-county effort to Navigator sales are up more than 80 percent over the last year while modernize Kentucky’s support for high-tech, high-growth- Expedition sales are up 36 percent. In response, Ford plans to increase potential businesses. West Kentucky’s consortium, which includes production of the Expedition and Navigator by 20 percent. partners in Murray, Henderson, Hopkinsville, Madisonville and Paducah, will build on the successes of area tech startups, focus ■ Baptist Health has accepted a buyout offer from Personal Fitness on regional collaboration to support early-stage businesses & Rehabilitation for its ownership stake in Baptist Health through capitalization and commercialization, and develop the Performance Training LLC in Louisville. The facility will continue to be owned by several investors, including and former region’s culture for supporting entrepreneurs and innovative NFL University of Louisville football players Breno Giacomini, Eric Wood, Deion Branch startups. In addition to Murray State’s CTSM and Small Business and Chris Redman, along with Chad Miller, one of the partners in Development Center and TCWK, the Purchase and Pennyrile Personal Fitness & Rehabilitation. Area Development Districts will also act as lead partners. The partners will provide businesses and entrepreneurs a ■ Churchill Downs Inc. has signed an agreement to pay $291 million full range of services, including business planning, investor- in cash to acquire 100 percent of the ownership stake in Midwest financing readiness evaluations, software development Gaming Holdings held by Clairvest Group Inc. Midwest Gaming is the parent company of Rivers Casino Des Plaines in Des Plaines, Ill., vetting, and advising on the incorporation process, tax and just outside of Chicago. The acquisition will give CDI a 50.1 percent permitting obligations, intellectual property protections and interest in the casino. CDI has also offered to purchase additional units partnership agreements. of Midwest Gaming held by High Plaines Gaming, an affiliate of Rush The west Kentucky innovation hub will receive $428,684 in Street Gaming and Casino Investors. After the closing, CDI and Rush state funding, representing a nearly threefold increase in Street will control Rivers Des Plaines, with Rush Street’s management annual funding over the prior Kentucky Innovation Network team handling the day-to-day operations. CDI CEO Bill Carstanjen said office model. the transactions reflect CDI’s strategy of investing in gaming properties with stable, predictable cash flows in diverse markets, particularly in KY Innovation recently announced hubs for Eastern and populous states that may ultimately grant access to online casino gaming Central Kentucky as well. and sports betting to their brick-and-mortar casino license holders.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS STATE 4 KENTUCKY COMPANIES RECOGNIZED LOUISVILLE FOR WORK IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE ■ Appriss Inc., a Louisville-based data and analytics services provider, has moved into its new headquarters building in Jeffersontown. The HE World Trade Center move is part of an $11.3 million expansion that includes adding 200 Kentucky recently honored jobs with an average wage of $80,000 per year. The company currently Tfour companies selected to employs 670 people in Louisville, Southern California, the UK and receive the 2018 Martha Layne Poland. Appriss’ new headquarters building was previously occupied by Collins Award for Excellence in BrightSpring Health Services (formerly ResCare Inc.), which recently moved into a new facility in Louisville. International Trade. Named for Kentucky’s 56th ■ Turning Point Brands, a governor, the annual award is given to Louisville company that is a companies that have excelled in leading marketer of tobacco international business and successfully navigated global trade products, has acquired a 19.99 markets in order to positively benefit the state. Collins was percent stake in Canadian instrumental in attracting numerous Japanese automotive American Standard Hemp Inc. (CASH). Turning Point President and CEO Larry Wexler said the investment “is the first of many moves the makers and parts suppliers to Kentucky in the mid-1980s. company expects to make in the flourishing alternative products The 2018 award recipients included: space.” Turning Point’s products include chewing tobacco, cigars, pipe • Small Enterprise (50 or fewer employees ): ACE tobacco and electronic vapor products, sold under brands such as Compressor Parts & Services Inc., Mayfield , , and . Stoker’s Beech-Nut Zig-Zag VaporBeast • Medium Enterprise (500 or fewer employees): Dippin’ , Paducah, and , Louisville NORTHERN KENTUCKY Dots Against the Grain • Large Enterprise (greater than 500 employees): ■ The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce has partnered Zoeller with .Jobs to provide its members a new and improved talent-attraction Co., Louisville website. The new website acts as a central geographic resource for The award is based on a company’s success through employers and job seekers within the Northern Kentucky region and is outstanding commitment to and performance in available to chamber members for no change. Employers looking to international trade; evidence of executive management and expand their reach will be able to programmatically distribute their job organization-wide commitment to international business; posts to the .Jobs Universe, which is comprised of more than 35,000 uniqueness and creativity of international strategy/plan; and sites based on geography, industry and niche. overall contributions to the local community through world PIKEVILLE trade. ■ The University of Pikeville Inc. has been awarded $128,675 from the USDA to expand its distance-learning facilities for a program that NORTHERN KENTUCKY will deliver a career- and business-driven curriculum to high students throughout a seven-county area in rural Eastern Kentucky. The grant STATE GRANT BOOSTS REGION’S EFFORT will provide computers, video conferencing units, software and infrastructure to support STEM-based education (science, technology, TO ENCOURAGE HIGH-TECH INNOVATION engineering and math) at 16 end-user sites, allowing students at multiple schools to interact with one another as well as with the HE NKY Entrepreneurship Council has received a individuals leading the session. $750,000 grant to emphasize entrepreneurship and Tinnovation as part of Northern Kentucky’s economic RICHMOND development. ■ Beginning in fall 2019, students enrolled at Eastern Kentucky The funding is part of the state’s new RISE (Regional University will be able to earn scholarships based on prior EKU dual- Innovation for Startups and Entrepreneurs) program, a credit course work for their performance on advanced placement (AP) exams. The Study Strong Award, which provides one-time scholarships 120-county effort to modernize the Kentucky’s support for of up to $2,400, can be stacked on top of EKU’s new merit awards and high-tech, high-growth-potential businesses. combined with other scholarships and financial aid. Study Strong is The Entrepreneurship Council was formed last year by the designed to enhance the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship Northern Kentucky Tri-County Economic Development (KEES), which rewards strong high-school GPAs and ACT scores, and Corp. (Tri-ED) to take a new approach to economic development provide an additional incentive for students who challenge themselves that collaborates with community partners to share goals and with college coursework in high school. resources. The council consists of both public and private-sector VERSAILLES leaders and includes Northern Kentucky University, Aviatra ■ Ledvance has informed employees that the company plans to close its Accelerators, Cintrifuse, Gateway Community and Versailles plant by September 2019, a decision that will eliminate 260 jobs. Technical College, Square1 and UpTech. Normand In a statement announcing the decision, company officials noted that the Desmarais, NKU board of regents’ secretary and co-founder of lighting industry continues to move toward LED products and is seeing TiER1 Performance Solutions, serves as chair of the NKYEC. diminished demand for the fluorescent tubes and traditional light bulbs The council plans to use the funding to establish an and flood lights manufactured at the Versailles facility. The Midwest innovation cluster that will focus on informatics, health Distribution Center and R&D Lab in Versailles, which employs approximately 100 employees, will not be affected by the plant closing. innovation and logistics innovation. “We now have the resources and a new private-sector- WHITLEY COUNTY driven model to accelerate business success,” said Desmarais. ■ Dataseam, a Louisville company that provides industry certifications “We are adopting and implementing best practices in and technical support to help IT professionals in schools utilize education innovation from entrepreneurial communities around the technology, has created a new apprenticeship program in Whitley County. world, deploying the latest in digital and social technologies, Through the two-year paid apprenticeship program, Whitley County and connecting entrepreneurs to resources specific to their students will work alongside experienced professionals to maintain, configure, install, repair and troubleshoot computer, network and software business and personal needs.” at their school. Dataseam is also supplying the school district with more than The Entrepreneurship Council plans to match the grant $15,000 of computers to benefit all students. with local dollars to drive even greater results for the region.

14 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT STATE BUSINESS BRIEFS NEW C-TECH APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM MEETS NEED FOR TELECOM WORKERS WILLIAMSBURG ■ The Master of Science in Nursing- N a partnership with the Kentucky Family Nurse Practitioner program Education and Workforce Development at University of the Cumberlands Cabinet, is (UC) has officially received I C-Tech Associates Inc. accreditation through the sponsoring state-approved Commission on Collegiate Nursing apprenticeships in Kentucky to help meet Education, a national accrediting the need for more entry-level body recognized by the U.S. telecommunications workers. Department of Education. C-Tech, a leader in career and Cumberlands’ two-year, online technical education, has established a network of more than program allows registered nurses 650 certified training facilities (CTF) across the country that (RNs) to further their education administer training programs, with many sites located across and become prepared for independent practice as nurse the commonwealth. practitioners (NPs). Nurse The telecommunications apprenticeship program will practitioners are granted more prepare the next generation of technicians to power the autonomy in their job than RNs and “internet of things.” The technicians will be trained to install, may order tests, write prescriptions test and troubleshoot networking and smart devices for both and develop treatment plans, among other duties. According to residential and commercial settings. the Bureau of Labor Statistics, NPs earn approximately $40,000 more Graduates of the C-Tech apprenticeship program will per year than RNs, and there is an expected 31 percent growth for NPs between now and 2026. receive internationally recognized certifications in a wide array of disciplines, including telecommunications, network STATE cabling, telephone systems, audio/video installations and ■ Effective Jan. 1, all HealthSouth facilities and services in Kentucky green energy systems. Graduates will also receive continuing are operating as Encompass Health as part of a rebranding initiative education credits to help further their careers. that the Alabama-based company began in 2018. Encompass Health “This program allows apprentices to earn on the job while operates rehabilitation hospitals in Lexington (Cardinal Hill), receiving state-of-the-art training in careers with excellent Elizabethtown (Lakeview) and Edgewood (Northern Kentucky Rehabilitation Hospital); provides home health services in stability and growth potential,” said Derrick Ramsey, secretary Elizabethtown and Owensboro; and has an outpatient facility in of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. Elizabethtown.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS TENNESSEE MIMEO MOVING HQ FROM NEW YORK INDIANA TO MEMPHIS, CREATING 300 NEW JOBS ■ Omen USA, a manufacturer of aluminum parts for the automotive industry, is investing more than $15 million to expand its manufacturing IMEO, an online-managed operations in Richmond, Ind., adding up to 200 more employees to its content distribution and 100-member workforce by 2022. The company, a subsidiary of Israel-based Mprinting company, has Omen Casting Group, is adding more square footage and production announced plans to move its lines to meet growing demand from U.S. and German automakers for its aluminum drivelines, steering components and oil pumps. headquarter operations from New York City to Memphis, creating 300 ■ Alliance Steel, an Illinois-based manufacturer of flat-rolled steel supply new jobs. and coil processing, is investing nearly $20 million to establish operations in Mimeo manages and distributes Gary, Ind. The new facility, which will create up to 130 high-wage jobs by content in print and digital formats for a variety of enterprises, 2023, will allow the company to expand its production to meet customer educational institutions and consumers. Founded in 1998, the demand within the automotive, construction, agriculture, transportation, company has grown into a global organization with nearly 1,000 energy, material handling and appliance industries. The Gary plant is expected to be operational by January 2020. employees across the U.S., Europe and Asia, delivering content in more than 149 countries. GM photo OHIO Mimeo’s company network includes more than 50 print- ■ General Motors’ Lordstown Assembly production facilities and partners, including its expanding Plant in Warren, Ohio, is one of three GM global flagship facility in Memphis. assembly plants slated to close in 2019 Mimeo’s Memphis facility is located adjacent to the following the company’s recent announcement , enabling large volumes of last-minute outlining its plan to improve overall business FedEx Global Hub performance. GM is also closing assembly content to be shipped anywhere in the world for delivery as plants in Detroit and Canada, and propulsion early as the next morning. Company executives said the plants in Baltimore and Warren, Mich. GM said expansion and location of the headquarters in Memphis will the actions are expected to increase free cash flow by $6 billion by the enable Mimeo to better route customer work to the most end of 2020. Closing the Lordstown plant, which has produced the strategic locations for fulfillment to end delivery. Chevrolet Cruze since 2010, will result in the loss of approximately 1,600 hourly and salaried jobs. INDIANA ■ Ohio has become the first state in the nation to accept tax payments BRAZILIAN AG-TECH COMPANY TO HIRE via cryptocurrency. “We’re doing this to provide Ohioans more options and ease in paying their taxes and also to project Ohio’s MORE THAN 300 FOR NEW U.S. HQ SITE leadership in embracing blockchain technology,” said Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel. Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency currently eligible for OLINFTEC, a payment at OhioCrypto.com, but Mandel said the state is hoping to digital add other cryptocurrencies in the future. Sagriculture company based in Sao ■ The E.W. Scripps Co. has agreed to pay $521 million Paulo, Brazil, has to acquire 15 television stations from Cordillera announced plans to Communications. The acquisition grows the expand its operations Cincinnati-based media company’s local television-station footprint to 51 stations in 36 markets, with a reach of to the United States nearly 21 percent of U.S. TV households. In a separate and has selected West Brazil-based Solinftec’s technology-based transaction, Scripps is acquiring Triton, a global leader of Lafayette, Ind., as the digital audio technology and measurement services, for $150 million. Triton farm management system has grown quickly site of its U.S. powers or measures streaming music and podcasting for companies in Latin America and is now moving into the United States. headquarter including Pandora, Spotify, iHeart and Cumulus. operations. The Gaylord/Tammy Henry photo TENNESSEE company anticipates hiring 334 employees in West Lafayette by the end of 2022. ■ Gaylord Opryland Resort’s much-anticipated $90 million waterpark in Nashville has officially Solinftec offers an “internet of things”-based farm opened, offering more than 100,000-s.f. of fun for management system enabled by a suite of technologies – adults and kids alike. SoundWaves’ indoor including proprietary hardware, a telemetry attractions include a multi-slide tower; indoor communications network and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) surfing; rapid and lazy rivers; an activity pool with platform – to support the increased efficiency of agricultural rock climbing, obstacle course and basketball; and operations like planting, harvesting and spraying. The private cabana rentals. The outdoor features, which will open this coming summer, include a multi-slide technology digitizes all aspects of agricultural operations, tower; a wave pool with giant LED movie screen; a kids’ pool with a multi- monitoring all processes and providing real-time insights to level play structure and more. Guaranteed admission is available only with a increase crop returns. SoundWaves Water Experience overnight package at the resort. Solinftec grew quickly in Latin America by making sugar cane and row crop operations more efficient. Its solution is ■ Ernst & Young (EY), a global professional services firm, is investing now being used in more than 16 million acres and more more than $20 million to establish a facility in Nashville that will than 100,000 daily users monitor its equipment in real time. specialize in managed services for clients and tax technology The new Indiana facility will enable the company to operations. EY’s new Exceptional Delivery Growth Engine Center will house software development, design and testing, and focus on expand its solutions to new crops and accommodate delivering technology-enabled tax-managed services for clients. The increased demand in North America. The company is now company expects to hire 600 people over the next five years to support in the process of hiring for positions in sales and IT, as well the hub’s operations. as data scientists, engineers and agronomists.

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THE POWER OF PERSUASION: KENTUCKY’S TOP LOBBYISTS Ranked by billings

OUGHLY 450 lobbyists working in Kentucky during the 2018 regular legislative session split earnings of more than $9.7 million between them, The Kentucky Gazette reports. Lobbyists and their employers must file regular spending and Rcompensation reports with the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission. This list ranks lobbyists by billings reported for January through April 2018 during the 60-day regular session of the Kentucky General Assembly.

RANK LOBBYIST BILLINGS EMPLOYER,CITY

1 John McCarthy III $315,003 McCarthy Strategic Solutions, Frankfort 2 Bob Babbage $315,000 Babbage Cofounder, Lexington 3 Patrick Jennings $281,627 Commonwealth Alliances, Frankfort 4 Ronny Pryor $245,800 Capitol Solutions, Prospect 5 Karen Thomas-Lentz $209,073 Commonwealth Alliances, Frankfort 6 Sean Cutter $201,380 MMLK Government Solutions, Frankfort 7 John Cooper $193,405 Capital Link Consultants, Frankfort 8 Leigh Ann Thacker $186,267 Top Shelf Lobby, Frankfort 9 Kevin Payton $179,800 Top Shelf Lobby, Frankfort 10 Chris Nolan $170,847 MMLK Government Solutions, Frankfort 11 Laura Owens $162,300 JYB3 Group, Frankfort 12 Jason Bentley $160,517 MMLK Government Solutions, Frankfort 13 Marc Wilson $148,314 Top Shelf Lobby, Frankfort 14 Jason Underwood $145,000 Capital Strategies, Louisville 15 Kelley Abell $127,350 The Rotunda Group, Louisville 16 James Higdon $123,867 MMLK Government Solutions, Frankfort 17 Rachel Bayens $122,654 Government Strategies, Frankfort 18 Dustin Miller $115,963 Government Strategies, Frankfort 19 Russ Woodward $105,804 Capital Link, Frankfort 20 John Y. Brown III $103,875 JYB3 Group, Frankfort 21 Katherine Hall $101,328 Commonwealth Alliances, Frankfort 22 Prentice Harvey $96,407 Government Strategies, Frankfort 23 Bart Baldwin $96,218 Bart Baldwin Consulting, Frankfort 24 Michael Shea $94,439 Government Strategies, Frankfort 25 Renee Craddock $92,627 Consultant, Lexington 26 David Moss $90,000 North Star Strategies, Lexington 27 Mike Helton $86,160 Government Strategies, Frankfort 28 Marie Cull $85,798 Attorney, Frankfort 29 Amy Wickliffe $83,911 McCarthy Strategic Solutions, Frankfort 30 Brooke Parker Robertson $81,450 Frost Brown Todd, Lexington

Additional lobbyists: 31 Steve Robertson, Frost Brown Todd, Lexington; 32 Richie Sanders, Capital Link, Frankfort; 33 Stephen Huffman, HCM Governmental Relations, Lexington; 34 Greg Brotzge, Impact Government Relations, Louisville; 35 David M. Whitehouse, Whitehouse Group, Lexington; 36 William May III, HCM Government Relations, Lexington; 37 John “Tom” Underwood IV, The Rotunda Group, Louisville; 38 Trey Grayson, Frost Brown Todd, Florence; 39 Mike Biagi, The Rotunda Group, Louisville; 40 James “Jitter” Allen, Allen and Associates, Frankfort; 41 Julie Denton, The Denton Group, Louisville; 42 Stephanie Stumbo, Goss Samford, Lexington; 43 Julia Crigler, Commonwealth Alliances, Frankfort; 44 Jason Baird, The Limestone Group, Frankfort; 45 Ellen Williams, Ellen Williams LLC Frankfort; 46 Judy Taylor, Keeneland Association, Lexington; 47 Libby Milligan, McCarthy Strategic Solutions, Frankfort; 48 Bert May, Dinsmore, Frankfort; 49 Timothy Corrigan, The Rotunda Group, Louisville; 50 Sherman Brown, McCarthy Strategic Solutions, Frankfort; 51 Lloyd “Rusty” Cress Jr., Dinsmore, Frankfort; 52 Jeffrey Busick, McCarthy Strategic Solutions, Frankfort; 53 Elizabeth Owens, JYB3 Group, Frankfort; 54 Andrew “Skipper” Martin, McCarthy Strategic Solutions, Frankfort; 55 Pamela Jenkins, Consultant, Lexington; 56 Matt Niehaus, McCarthy Strategic Solutions, Frankfort; 57 Carl Breeding, Dinsmore, Frankfort; 58 Ronald Geoghegan, McCarthy Strategic Solutions, Frankfort; 59 Gay Dwyer, Consultant, Frankfort; 60 Ed O’Daniel Jr., Consultant, Springfield; 61 Charles Lambert, MMLK Government Solutions, Frankfort; 62 Julie Babbage, Babbage Cofounder, Lexington; 63 Warren McLean, McLean Communications, Frankfort; 64 Greg Coker, Capital Link Consultants, Frankfort; 65 Jerald Young, Consultant, Frankfort; 66 Sheila Schuster, Advocacy Action Network, Louisville; 67 Dwight Butler, Consultant, Campbellsville; 68 Chad Grant, Grant Consulting, Lansing, Mich.; 69 Bob Heleringer, Attorney, Louisville

Source: The Kentucky Gazette

THE LANE REPORT • LANEREPORT.COM JANUARY 2019 17 CORPORATE MOVES New leadership for Kentucky businesses

■ Barry Kuhnke has been PHARMACEUTICAL BIG MOVES named general manager of ■ Patrick Lee has been promoted to chief ■ Mitchel Denham has joined DBL Law as the Lexington Marriott City financial officer for Louisville-based a partner in the firm’s Louisville office. Center and Residence Inn PharmaCord LLC. Lexington City Center. ■ Andrew Pellino has joined DBL Law as a ■ Adam Townsend has been named chief partner in the firm’s civil litigation practice GOVERNMENT commercial officer for Louisville-based Apellis group in Louisville. ■ Raymond DeBolt has Barry Pharmaceuticals Inc. been named commissioner of Kuhnke ■ Mike Quinn has joined Fortune Realty, a the Kentucky Department of RESEARCH commercial real estate firm in Lexington, Juvenile Justice. ■ Covington-based CTI as a commercial broker. Clinical Trial and Consulting ■ Kenneth Churchill Imes has been named Services has promoted county judge/executive of Calloway County. Günter Stetter to vice BANKING president, global regulatory ■ T. Clay Stinnett has been named chief HEALTH CARE affairs study start up. financial officer of Louisville-based Stock ■ Dr. Tom Hustead has been Günter Yards Bancorp and Stock Yards Bank & Trust named medical director of TECHNOLOGY Stetter Co., effective May 1, 2019. Stinnett will the HMH Medical Group in ■ Louisville-based Waystar has succeed Nancy B. Davis, who is retiring from Elizabethtown. announced the following additions to its the company on April 30. Michael B. Newton executive leadership team: Tad Kendall – chief has joined the company as senior vice ■ Karen Venis has been sales officer; Jeff Hurst – executive vice president president and principal accounting officer. named chief executive officer of client success team; – senior Tom Peter J. Siavelis and executive director of Sayre vice president of health systems and hospitals; Hustead CONSTRUCTION Christian Village in Lexington. and Tracey Weinberg – senior vice president of ■ Juva Barber has been marketing. named executive vice ■ Dr. Vishal Agrawal has been named chief president of the Building strategy and corporate development officer for OTHER Industry Association of Louisville-based Humana Inc. Agrawal succeeds ■ David Reingold has joined Louisville-based Greater Louisville. Christopher Hunter, who has assumed Malone Workforce Solutions as executive vice leadership responsibility for the company’s president of staffing solutions. ECONOMIC Juva group, specialty and military lines of business. DEVELOPMENT Barber ■ John Duffy has been named president of ■ The Greater Owensboro INSURANCE RJE Business Interiors’ Kentucky business. The Economic Development Corp. has hired ■ Chris Lau has joined Louisville-based DPL Indianapolis-based company has offices in Brittaney Johnson as president and chief Financial Partners as chief distribution officer. both Louisville and Lexington. executive officer. LAW ■ Jonathan Shell has been named director of EDUCATION ■ Trevor state initiatives for Pegasus Institute, a ■ Courtney Collins has Nichols, Louisville-based research organization that been named director of Thomas focuses on state and local policies. parking and transportation “Neal” Morris, services at Eastern Kentucky Anne-Tyler DEPARTURES University. Morgan and ■ Rich Geruson has resigned Peter Rosene as president, CEO and director ■ has been Peter Anne-Tyler Tomarra Adams Courtney have joined the of Lexington-based Lexmark named dean of undergraduate Lexington Rosene Morgan International Inc. Collins education at Spalding office of McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie & Kirkland. University. ■ Charlie Powell, president ■ Michael J. Lacourse and Andrew K.N. of Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Rich ■ Judith Daar has been Williams have joined Sturgill, Turner, Barker Hospital in Louisville, has left Geruson named dean of the Salmon P. & Moloney PLLC. to accept the position of chief Chase College of Law at operating officer at 21st Northern Kentucky University. MEETINGS/CONVENTIONS Century Oncology in Fort ■ Kentucky Venues, which operates the Kentucky Myers, Fla. FOOD/SPIRITS/ Judith Exposition Center and the Kentucky HOSPITALITY Daar International Convention Center in Louisville, ■ J. Barry Barker has retired ■ Blain Shortreed has been has announced the following promotions: Linda as executive director of the named chief operating officer – executive director of business Transit Authority of River City Edwards Barry for Louisville-based Long development and marketing; – (TARK) in Louisville. Kevin McCoy Barker John Silver’s. executive director of facility planning and management; and Shawn Hensler – executive ■ Dave Crowley has rejoined director of public safety and security. Lexington-based A&W Restaurants as director of franchise recruitment. Crowley Blain Shortreed worked with A&W between 1997 and 2010 in various We love sharing success stories! development positions. To submit information for yourself or someone in your company, please ■ Gabe Isaac has been visit lanereport.com/submissions. appointed general manager Linda Kevin Shawn We accept listings for promotions, Edwards McCoy Hensler of the 21c Museum Hotel new hires, title changes, and Lexington. association and board appointments. Gabe Isaac

18 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT ON THE BOARDS Kentuckians named to organizational leadership roles

ASSOCIATION OF TECHNOLOGY, KEENELAND development director at the Child MANAGEMENT AND ■ Everett Dobson, S. Walker Hancock Jr. and Development Center of the Bluegrass. APPLIED ENGINEERING W. Gray Lyster IV have been named to ■ Lindsay Childs has been elected to serve as Keeneland’s advisory board of directors. Dobson KENTUCKY STATE LIBRARIES, the student member of the board of directors is the owner of Candy Meadows Farm near ARCHIVES AND for the Association of Technology, Lexington. Hancock is president of Claiborne RECORDS COMMISSION Management and Applied Engineering, a Farm, near Paris. Lyster is co-general manager of ■ Christi Garner Unker, Connie Cobb, collegiate accrediting agency and a Ashview Farm, near Versailles. Shamara Jackson and James Ebert have professional organization with more than been appointed to the State Libraries, 1,000 student and professional members. KENTUCKY AGRICULTURAL Archives and Records Commission. Unker, of Childs is pursuing her Master of Science FINANCE CORP. La Grange, is a librarian for the Kentucky degree in Engineering and Technology ■ Jonathan T. Noe and Donna M. Amburgey School for the Blind. Cobb, of Georgetown, is Management at Morehead State University. have been appointed to the Kentucky a librarian/media specialist for Clark County Agricultural Finance Corp. board of directors. High School. Jackson, of Lexington, is a BLUE GRASS Noe, of Lancaster, is the vice president and chief records manager with Lexington-Fayette COMMUNITY lending officer for the Central Kentucky Urban County Government. Ebert, of FOUNDATION Agricultural Credit Association. Amburgey, of Mt. Richmond, is the police chief for the ■ Richard Wehrle has been Sterling, is a retired marketing and assistant Richmond Police Department. elected to the board of security officer for Whitaker Bank and the directors of the Blue Grass co-owner of Amburgey’s Charolais Farm. LEGAL MARKETING ASSOCIATION Community Foundation, a ■ Lauren Parsons has been selected to serve public charity that supports Richard KENTUCKY COMMISSION as director of outreach for the Legal Marketing Association’s Southeast region the quality of life in Central Wehrle ON MILITARY AFFAIRS and Appalachia Kentucky ■ Kelli N. Pendleton and James T. Iacocca board of directors. Parsons is director of through philanthropy and civic engagement. have been appointed to the Kentucky marketing and client relations for the Wehrle is a member of the law firm of Stites & Commission on Military Affairs. Pendleton, of Lexington law firm of Sturgill, Turner, Barker Harbison, based in the Lexington office. Hopkinsville, is president and CEO of the & Moloney PLLC. Christian County Chamber of Commerce. DRI Iacocca, of Fisherville, is president and CEO of LEXARTS ■ Stephanie M. Wurdock, the Knox Regional Development Alliance. ■ LexArts, which serves as the Lexington area’s an attorney with Sturgill, arts council and united arts fund, has selected Turner, Barker & Moloney KENTUCKY EMERGENCY seven new members to its board of directors: PLLC in Lexington, has been RESPONSE COMMISSION David Bugg, Toyota; John E. Cole III, African appointed second vice chair ■ Taylor Allen Payne has been appointed to the American Forum; Emily Downey, Alltech; of the DRI Young Lawyers Kentucky Emergency Response Commission. Stefania Greene, Fayette District Court; Ana Committee for 2018-2019. Payne, of Lexington, is an assistant attorney , Work and Play; Stephanie Maldonado-Coomer Christa DRI is a leading organization general for the Commonwealth’s Office of the Marrillia, Keeneland; and Jeff Murphy, of civil defense attorneys and Wurdock Attorney General. KentuckyOne Health. Continuing LexArts board in-house counsel. members for FY 2019 are: James Brown, KENTUCKY FILM COMMISSION Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council; Julia GOD’S PANTRY FOOD BANK ■ Raymond Carcione and Lisa Fath have Offutt Cauthen, Julia O. Cauthen ■ The following individuals have been elected been appointed to the Kentucky Film Bloodstock; Brian L. Frye, University of to serve on the board of directors of God’s Commission. Carcione, of Louisville, is Kentucky; Enrique Gonzalez, artist; Gina Pantry Food Bank in Lexington: Colmon president and owner of Kentucky Chrome Greathouse, Commerce Elridge III, Kentucky Education Association; Works LLC. Fath, of Lexington, is a pageant Lexington; Astarré Gudino, independent Scott McCauley, Limestone Bank; and Paul coordinator and real estate agent. consultant; Catherine Ladd Kenneally, Cross B. Mulhollem, Clairebrook Farms. Gate Gallery; Donald Mason, The Lyric Theatre; KENTUCKY LEAGUE OF CITIES Steve Matherly, Fifth Third Bank; Marc A. ■ The Kentucky League of Cities has announced Mathews, Transylvania University; Connie its 2019 board and officers: President – Mayor Miller, Group CJ; Becky Neal Ochenkoski, Teresa Rochetti-Cantrell, Mayfield; First Vice tribeca trunk; Jeremy Paden, Transylvania President – Mayor Bill Dieruf, Jeffersontown; University; Mary Quinn Ramer, VisitLEX; Jon Second Vice President – Mayor Troy Rudder, Stewart, Kentucky Employers’ Mutual London; KLC Executive Director/CEO – Insurance; and Frank X. Walker, poet, professor Jonathan Steiner; Immediate Past President – and playwright. Colmon Scott Paul Mayor Jim Barnes, Richmond. Board: Mayor Elridge III McCauley Mulhollem Dan Bell, Taylor Mill; Mayor Rita Dotson, LIMESTONE BANCORP INC. Benton; Mayor Jeff Edwards, Monticello; ■ Celia Catlett has been GOVERNOR’S SCHOLARS PROGRAM Councilmember Marty Fulkerson, appointed to the board of ■ Thomas T. Noland Jr. has been appointed Elizabethtown; Chief Guy Howie, Glasgow; directors for Limestone to the Governor’s Scholars Program board of Mayor Michael Hughes, Auburn; Commissioner Bancorp and Limestone directors. Noland, of Louisville, is senior vice Pamela Smith-Wright, Owensboro; Mayor Les Bank. Catlett, of Louisville, president of Louisville-based Humana Inc. Stapleton, Prestonsburg; Mayor Brian Traugott, serves as general counsel and Versailles; Mayor Martin Voiers, is a member of the executive GREATER LOUISVILLE INC. Flemingsburg; Mayor , Bowling team at Louisville-based Bruce Wilkerson Celia ■ Greater Louisville Inc. has announced the Green; City Administrator , Texas Roadhouse Inc. Tim Williams Catlett following new appointments to its board of Crestview Hills; and Mayor Jan Yonts, Greenville. directors: Charles Scholtz, Brown-Forman; MEDICAL ASSISTING Kevin Smith, Beam Suntory; Aimee Jewel, KENTUCKY PEDIATRIC CANCER EDUCATION REVIEW BOARD University of Louisville; Karl Schmitt, RESEARCH TRUST FUND BOARD ■ Jill Ferrari has been appointed to the Louisville Sports Commission; and Glenn ■ Dr. John August D’Orazio and Heather D. Medical Assisting Education Review Board. Sullivan, Sullivan University System. Scholtz Shaw have been appointed as members of the Ferrari is program director of Sullivan and Purna Veer, of V-Soft Consulting, have Kentucky Pediatric Cancer Research Trust University’s medical assistant program at the been named to the nonprofit organization’s Fund Board. D’Orazio, of Lexington, is a school’s Lexington campus. executive committee. physician-scientist at the University of Kentucky. Shaw, of Lexington, is the

THE LANE REPORT • LANEREPORT.COM JANUARY 2019 19 COVER STORY Kentucky Expecting Ongoing Growth in 2019 “In just three years, Kentucky has moved to the forefront of national influence, steadily gaining recognition as America’s center for engineering and manufacturing excellence. Matthew Bevin The commonwealth’s Governor, transformational pro- Commonwealth business policies, of Kentucky legislation and programs are yielding truly historic results – more than $17.3 billion in private investment, nearly 48,000 new jobs created and the highest workforce participation in state history. There is still much work to be accomplished, however, as we enter 2019. We must continue our progress on meaningful tax, tort and pension reform, and address vital infrastructure needs. Kentucky is on an exciting upward trajectory toward becoming the greatest possible version of itself, as we build a strong foundation for future economic growth and prosperity. As we seize the opportunities that good government fosters, I’m confident our unprecedented momentum will continue. Kentucky is becoming a marquee national and global destination, proud to show the world what it means to say … We are Kentucky!”

“Despite economic Strong bourbon, vehicle production, logistics sectors should offset challenges from tariffs agribusiness weakness, keep most state businesses expanding and trade, higher interest rates and cyclical downturns, our economic BY MARK GREEN optimism continues to be fueled by consumer Susan confidence, low Elkington unemployment rates and President, ENTUCKY business leaders their upswing and continue to attract Toyota Motor fuel prices. Over the next see a year of continued hotel projects. Agribusiness had a bumpy Manufacturing three years, Toyota will economic expansion. The 2018 with trade trouble on top of still Kentucky Inc. introduce 31 new, urban centers are where the weak commodity prices, but is redesigned or refreshed most activity is, with big encouraged by the new federal farm bill; models in the Toyota and Lexus lineup. Kconstruction and development projects if trade policy becomes predictable again, We anticipate total North America driving dollars into the financial arteries. Kentucky communities that rely on industry sales to be relatively stable over Logistics and related operations are agribusiness will be even more the next three years with cyclical, yet surging at and near the Northern encouraged. The urban areas and the modest decreases. Toyota typically picks Kentucky and Louisville international state in general are working to retool up market share during these cycles. airports. Kentucky’s significant vehicle education and training to be more in Despite a consumer shift to more trucks manufacturing sector expects stable sync with the skills needed by advanced and SUVs, Toyota remains committed to business despite slight overall sales manufacturing in particular, whose jobs the sedan market led by our ever-popular decreases as the sector eases back after pay well and can achieve momentum if Toyota Camry. It’s exciting to be part of several successive record years. Bourbon Kentucky can grow and attract enough the mobility industry and part of making and bourbon tourism continue skilled workers. the amazing Toyota team in Kentucky.”

20 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT “We hope 2019 will be a “We enter 2019 off a year encourages them to proceed with year of continuing that, make no mistake, was projects before further price increases. economic expansion and difficult for Kentucky and That may change, but for now it’s full the year our nation’s American agriculture in steam ahead.” trade relationships settle every way. A federal farm into a more predictable bill was passed in “I’m optimistic about and sustainable December and the new 2019’s economic outlook. Dave Ryan year shows promise that SIS continues to see digital Adkisson pattern. On the home Quarles President/CEO, front, we want to make Commissioner our trade relationships transformation gain Kentucky additional gains in the of Agriculture, overseas will stabilize, momentum with our Chamber of 2019 General Assembly Commonwealth giving Kentucky farmers clients, regionally, Commerce toward improving the of Kentucky and agribusinesses the nationally and business climate of certainty they need to plan Steve Sigg internationally. Cloud CEO, SIS Kentucky and investing in our state’s for success. As second vice president of the adoption and emerging infrastructure. Workforce issues will National Association of State Departments technologies are enabling organizations to continue to top the business of Agriculture, I am represent our reinvent themselves and provide community’s list of serious concerns, Kentucky farm families in Frankfort and exceptional value to customers. These and we’ll be making major efforts to Washington. The Department of investments in technologies, processes engage employers in creating ‘talent Agriculture’s Hunger Initiative has helped and people allow startups and traditional pipelines’ as a solution.” Kentucky’s food banks secure and store businesses to compete on a more even more foods for the food-insecure playing field and adapt quickly to changes “A strong U.S. economy in population, and we look forward to more in the market. 2019 will see a continued 2018 was beneficial for air success stories in 2019.” focus on the customer providing travel throughout the opportunities for growth and expansion at country. Blue Grass Airport “In 2019, focus on the SIS and the Lexington business continues to experience consumer experience, community as a whole.” passenger growth, with the already prevalent in sales addition of nonstop service and services, will increase “Economies are tough to Eric Frankl to Destin, Fla., last year and in every industry. Economic predict. While there Executive Washington Dulles service conditions and an appears to be some slowing Director, that begins in February accelerated change of of the national economy, 2019. The new Dulles Erik market will favor those of us in Northern Blue Grass Dunnigan Airport service and the growth of Managing companies equipped to Kentucky’s Southbank United in the Lexington Director, operate quickly, adjusting cities along the Ohio River Jack market will provide expanded hub options Coastal Cloud resources and strategy in are optimistic about 2019. to the Northeast and international real-time. This level of Moreland Corporex Cos. is pumping President, destinations for the local traveler. In 2019, engagement requires digital Southbank $70 million into the mixed- work also begins on enhanced food and transformation leveraging cloud-based Partners use Ovation site at the beverage offerings that will provide platform solutions. These platforms confluence of the Ohio passengers with new choices as well as are now easier to adopt and are replacing and Licking rivers in Newport, jump- great grab-and-go options.” the need for multiple systems for starting a project that could ultimately marketing, sales, accounting, billing, reach $1 billion in investment. The newly “Kentucky’s real estate operations and service. ” opened KY 9 corridor connects I-275 and market has typically Northern Kentucky’s suburbs with followed the national “2018 was a banner year downtown Newport, opening new trend in recent years, for Murphy Construction opportunities for industrial, residential posting year-over-year Group. Revenues and commercial development. Across the record-setting sales volume increased more than 30 Licking River in Covington, the city has and units sold. National percent, with 2019 hired Cooper Carry, an Atlanta-based Steve home sales in 2018 slowed looking like an even global architecture and design firm, to Stevens Chief Executive and are predicted to better year – backlogs are create a development strategy for the decrease approximately 3 G. Michael up 40 percent from last 23-acre IRS site in the city’s urban core; Officer, Murphy Kentucky percent in 2019. Kentucky, CEO, Murphy year. Our success remains the IRS is closing the processing facility in Realtors® however, has shown Construction in the manufacturing and the fall.” stronger numbers and is Group the medical sectors of new on track to match or exceed its record in and expanding business, “Moving back to 2018. Inventory shortages continue to but commercial construction is also Kentucky from China this drive up home values at a pace that strong in the 80-mile radius of our year, I was struck by exceeds the rest of the country, which may workforce’s residences. We see a opportunities the eventually create affordability problems promising immediate future in our Bluegrass has if we can for first-time buyers. With the economy highway-structures division with the overcome a few still strong, we hope the Fed will be less beginning of the Kentucky Bridge challenges. We have a aggressive in raising rates, which can drive Replacement Program, which intends to Mark young, educated and Lyons rebuild over 400 bridges. Slight interest- enthusiastic workforce. a vibrant construction market that will President/ begin to match our strong demand. rate increases and the related or CEO, Alltech We are listed often as a Kentucky should see continued nonrelated increase in material cost great place to live, but we commercial and residential real estate from tariffs have not caused clients to have to get people in the door. To growth in 2019.” refrain from growing but rather achieve that, we need to collaborate

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more to showcase what is special and while being open to new and fresh ideas “Louisville’s tourism tackle the issues we face. One challenge that inspire confidence, build their brand, economy saw significant that surprised me upon returning was and strengthen their high quality. Third, advancement in 2018 and the significance of the opioid crisis, and if you find yourself discouraged at a high is poised for growth in it will take all our combined efforts to level – regardless of your political 2019. U.S. Travel rid our communities of this problem. persuasion – take heart, go back and read (Association) is predicting Together we can ensure Kentucky some history, and don’t get overly increases of over 2 percent achieves its full potential, and I am confident or disheartened. Balance in all Karen nationally in domestic Williams delighted and humbled to be in a things will win the day.” travel and over 3 percent President/CEO, position to play a role in that effort.” Louisville in business travel. With an “Northern Kentucky is Tourism expanded downtown “Jeffersontown expects its entering 2019 with an eye convention center, 2,000 base of office users to toward innovation and hotel rooms recently opened and 1,500 increase in 2019, following transformation. As we more in the pipeline, Louisville is a trend that began in consider the next 30 continually improving our product. More 2018. Appriss Inc., a years for our community, strategic partnerships in the public and longtime Jeffersontown- a focus on regionalism private sector from the airport to based business, marked its Karen combined with elevated headquarters businesses will help Finan Mike steady growth by growth through meetings achieve their attendance goals. Kmetz President/CEO, Director, relocating to five floors of Northern economic development is Leisure growth is being fueled by our ever- Jeffersontown an 11-story Plainview Kentucky key. Our economy is expanding bourbon tourism offerings and Economic office tower. Other Regional strong and diverse, culinary-fueled growth is anticipated with Development significant office projects Alliance; backed by an expanding the “Top Chef” effect as Kentucky is Authority include expansions to new Interim business base searching showcased on national television.” office space by Sazerac Co. President/CEO, for continued efficiencies and Statewide Mortgage. All three of Northern and prosperity. Like so “Affordable, reliable these businesses took advantage of our Kentucky many regions throughout energy is as important as innovative JOBS Program. Business Tri-ED the country, NKY’s ability ever to the 1.1 million decision makers tell us they see the value to provide an ongoing Kentucky residents served of locating in Jeffersontown, where our talent pipeline; an educational system by our co-ops, and business parks are close to restaurants, that provides a skillset matched to especially businesses shops and quality housing across the workforce and career needs; and a competing in the global price spectrum.” healthy community are key to success in Anthony marketplace. Kentucky’s “Tony” 2019. We anticipate the arrival, growth Campbell central location for “Louisville Water expects and impact of Amazon Prime over the President/CEO, accessing coal and natural to see continued, steady next several years and view this as an East Kentucky gas keeps costs low. While growth in 2019. We’ll opportunity for our existing business Power the new administration has expand our service area base. We welcome all that 2019 brings, Cooperative set a refreshing tone for with the completion of a in concert with infrastructure regulations, compliance pipeline along Interstate improvements and regional unity.” with federal rules continues to be costly. 64 that will deliver water to Over the next five years, EKPC will spend Spencer Bruce Shelbyville, and with a “Investing in water system over $250 million on compliance at just President/CEO, large increase in requests infrastructure remains a one power plant. EKPC works with our 16 Louisville Water for water-main installation, Kentucky American owner-member cooperatives to draw jobs Co. we’ll add new commercial Water priority, with plans and investment to the communities we and residential customers. to invest approximately serve, a job that is made considerably easier Louisville Water is focused on highlighting $25 million in our by state legislative adjustments such as the value of water and our business regional systems and right-to-work. Through November, our Nick Rowe advantage with unique branding at President, facilities in 2019. Among co-ops have assisted with new or expanding popular tourism and business destinations. Kentucky these investments are business projects totaling $2.59 billion in From bourbon distilleries to the renovated American projects to further investment and 2,698 direct jobs.” convention center and Louisville’s airport, Water upgrade our treatment we’re connecting our “liquid assets” as a facilities and replace “Pension reform will driver for economic development.” aging water mains to maintain quality determine the economic water and/or wastewater services to outlook for Kentucky’s “I believe 2019 will be a rural and urban customers in portions higher education year full of promise for of 14 counties. Ongoing system renewal institutions in 2019. guarded optimism. First, is critical for providing customers Without it, regional we are sure to observe reliable, quality service, and we’ve comprehensive univer- slower growth, but not invested more than $400 million in the Ashish sities face catastrophic come to a screeching halt. last decade. We also will remain focused Vaidya consequences. Last year, President, Second, organizations and on controlling operational expenses, NKU was fortunate to get a John Northern institutions that do better providing a fair return to investors, and Kentucky reprieve from an Roush will be those that work growing our footprint in the anticipated $13 million President, University Centre College harder, smarter and more commonwealth to bring services to increase in our pension creatively. This requires additional communities.” contribution, but it is only for one year. In staying focused on what it is they do best, a proactive manner, the impacted

22 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT universities came together to create a “We have never fifth in exports per capita. While a truce pension-reform proposal for legislators to experienced a year like between the U.S. and China during the consider during the 2019 General 2018 in terms of tariffs, G20 Conference in December alleviated Assembly. We created a re-negotiation and trade fears of additional tariffs, it does not consensus proposal built on shared policy upheaval. Our global remove tariffs already applied. Tariffs on responsibility that allows each employee to economy remains on $250 billion of Chinese goods targeted by make a decision based on what’s best for course to grow at 3.7 the U.S. since July are still in place, as are them. There are no mandates and no Darren percent in 2018, the same duties China imposed on $110 billion of Srebnick fluctuating contributions for universities. Chief Trade as in 2017. Kentucky U.S. goods. We are concerned about the With true pension reform like this, Officer, World historically trends lower amount of affected intermediate goods Kentucky higher education has a bright Trade Center than the national economy, that modern supply chains depend upon outlook with the ability to invest in and Kentucky but it shines on the for competitiveness. The first half of 2019 grow the student population for economic international front, ranking looks promising, but we see a slight development and social mobility.”

“Aviation is big business for Kentucky, and business is booming! A report published by Airports Council International- North America, utilizing 2017 statistics, notes Candace S. McGraw commercial-service CEO, airports in Kentucky have Cincinnati/ a total economic impact of Northern $13.3 billion and 104,000 Kentucky direct employees for our International state. Passenger growth is Airport estimated to continue at a rate consistent with the national average in 2019. In addition to passenger service, Kentucky is the premier cargo venue for North America LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2019 – serving as home to DHL’s second largest operation in the world, the soon-to-be- constructed Amazon Prime Air hub, and UPS Worldport. Kentucky plays a key role in e-commerce, both domestically and internationally, with growth anticipated to increase in 2019. We look forward to blue skies ahead.” Wednesday | march 6, 2019 “As opposed to last year’s optimistic outlook for Connect with top regional leaders and engage in interactive workshops 2018, we see a very different picture for that will increase your ability to lead and in uence others Kentucky’s automotive industry in 2019. Our Learn More and Register at LeadershipLouisville.org industry, like many others, Dave Tatman is facing some significant Sixth Annual Summit held at The Kentucky Center Executive headwinds in the domestic Director, and global economy that Kentucky create significant Automotive uncertainty. Chief among Industry these challenges are the Association steel and aluminum tariffs Incredible speaker announced in 2018, as well line-up including as the Commerce Department investigation of possible automotive tariffs. best-selling author Nevertheless, sales of cars and light trucks, Dr. Ken Blanchard and particularly SUVs and crossovers, remain strong, albeit slightly softer than levels a member of Simon Sinek’s year ago. Lower fuel prices and the new global team, CEO and tax laws have sustained our positive numbers, but it is possible global author Kristen Hadeed economic uncertainties could soon affect consumer purchase decisions.” PRESENTED BY

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downturn in the second half of 2019. We strategically rethinking and positioning projects that kicked off in the last year, and urge Kentucky manufacturers to dig into their total compensation package to resource availability will continue to be a their supply chains and look for cost-savings attract and retain great employees. We challenge. Messer is recruiting and opportunities to weather this storm.” anticipate the demand for qualified retaining project management and skilled employees in 2018 to intensify in 2019, trades talent; we work with Kentucky “We anticipate slower indicating a strong vibrant economy in colleges and universities with full-time and economic growth in the commonwealth.” co-op/intern needs, as well as workforce outlays at the federal and development agencies.” state level, which will “We expect the economic continue to put pressure success we saw this year to “NAWBO Kentucky is on higher-education continue in 2019. Fueled advancing women in budgets. Interest rates and by the tremendous growth business throughout the Mike our broader economy do in both domestic and Bluegrass. We have a lot of Benson President, have an impact and cargo traffic at our momentum that will influence on the decision international airport continue to propel women Eastern Brent Kentucky students – our consumers Cooper (CVG), manufacturing into leadership positions. – make in pursuing higher and logistics are leading Jesika Women-owned firms are University President/CEO, Young education. The focus Northern the way and continue to President, the fastest-growing coming out of Frankfort leans toward Kentucky expand, followed closely by National economic segment in the work-ready careers versus preparing our Chamber of growth in the health care, Association U.S., while a mere 30 years citizenry to compete and invent the Commerce IT, finance and of Women ago a woman needed a economy after 2019. We believe in a both/ construction sectors. Given Business male co-signer to obtain a and strategy for Kentucky versus the projections for expansion, we believe Owners business loan. In 2018, an either/or strategy, and we look forward growing, attracting and retaining talent is Kentucky NAWBO celebrated the to working with our General Assembly and the top priority. That is why you’ll hear us 30th anniversary of the the governor on strengthening our talking about what a great place Northern passing of HR: 5050, a legislative piece that economy for all Kentuckians.” Kentucky is to live, work and play as part of NAWBO National led. We will continue to our regional marketing strategy.” advocate for small-business owners as well “The University of as women in business everywhere.” Kentucky is the essential “When collaboration and engine of a robust and innovation collide: The “2018 has proven strong modern Kentucky result is true and lasting for the industrial sector. economy. Our teaching transformation. Tax and regulatory reform enterprise provides the Appalachia Kentucky helped pave the way for in-demand skilled stands on the right side of growth and investment in Dr. Eli workforce for the the digital divide, and we U.S. manufacturing. From Capilouto commonwealth’s economy Jared are leveraging technology Gray Construction’s world President, Arnett and culture. Through our like never before to disrupt Stephen of engineering, University Executive Gray high-tech research poverty and bring new architecture and of Kentucky Director, President/CEO, enterprise and Shaping Our opportunities across our Gray construction, these positive commercialization efforts, we are at the Appalachian region. From industrial Construction moves from 2018 have set forefront of innovation in health care, Region recruitment, advanced the stage for an equally drug development, energy, agriculture and manufacturing, strong 2019. We expect particular growth confronting an insidious opioid crisis. technology, remote work, small businesses in the food and beverage sector with Understanding the important role private and beyond, the people of Appalachia automation solutions serving as a philanthropy will play in our success, UK Kentucky stand ready, able and willing to differentiator for food safety and efficiency. recently launched a $2.1 billion put their ingenuity to use to make The anticipation of infrastructure action comprehensive capital campaign to Kentucky a global leader in innovation could have a positive impact on local, embolden our efforts in teaching, and to create the 21st-century Appalachia national and global economies. The research, service and health care. If we envision.” biggest challenge we’re expecting is the Kentucky wants a dynamic economy, availability of labor for the construction partnering with the public and private “The construction industry industry as well as the manufacturing/ sectors will be critical for our success. was very busy in 2018, with industrial sector. While many economists Together, we will show the world what signature projects that will are predicting a softening in 2019, our Kentucky can do.” carry forward into 2019 outlook is positive through 2020.” and beyond. Higher “The economic currency education, industrial and “Central Kentucky’s in employee benefit hotel/convention-space economy remained strong consulting is the demand Mark Hill work continues to be in 2018, and with low Vice President/ strong, with a special unemployment, an for employees. Across all Lexington the broad industry market Region Leader, interest on the booming educated workforce and a segments Bim Group Messer spirits industry. In diverse economy, this serves, the demand for Construction Lexington, we anticipate should continue into 2019. L. Briggs Bob Quick great employees is Co. fewer large projects However, local business Cochran President/CEO, President/CEO, palpable. Employers who coming to market in 2019. Commerce leaders are concerned Bim Group are successfully meeting Many local subcontractors are already Lexington Inc. about several issues, this demand are extremely busy performing work for including Kentucky’s

24 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT pension crisis and opioid epidemic, global retirement. Expect to see even more Louisville and The Software Guild will trade talks, a lack of land for development diversification of hospitality offerings rapidly scale our tech-based economy. Our in Fayette County, and a few significant through newly developed brands. Beyond leadership in the aging and health tech downsizings and closures – all with long- industry trends, recent natural disasters sector is writing the next chapter on caring term implications for Lexington. Despite and tariffs are both affecting pricing and for the nation’s aging population. Our our low unemployment rate, many the ability of new projects to be profitable. 2019 focus is to even more rapidly scale employers still need workers to fill open We expect new construction to slow until our tech workforce, build on our positions, but the region is fortunate to prices stabilize.” prosperity and ensure our momentum is have nearly 17,000 college graduates shared by every citizen in every annually entering the workforce. With “Louisville’s economic neighborhood.” several key ongoing development projects renaissance is in full swing. in the heart of downtown, strong capital The past eight years added “Lexington’s healthy investment by new and existing companies, 80,000 jobs and 2,700 economy is expected to and a booming entrepreneurial ecosystem, businesses. We’ve grow in 2019, offering Lexington continues to attract national announced $13 billion in unparalleled opportunity attention as a top city in economic and capital investment the last for our citizens. Our city quality of life categories.” Greg four years – nearly $1 is poised to become one Fischer Mayor, billion in historically of the largest gigabit “We see a slowdown in the under-resourced Linda cities in the country this Louisville Gorton commercial office sector Metro neighborhoods west of Mayor, year, bringing in more that we believe could Ninth Street. Our built Lexington good, high-tech jobs. As continue through much of environment continues to experience we prepare for this leap next year. This has to do tremendous momentum, with plans for a into tomorrow’s economy, we must put with uncertainty in the $200 million Louisville City FC soccer people first, with targeted job training market and an increase in stadium district and Louisville Urban and education opportunities that meet Madison rates that is affecting the League’s $35 million learning and sports local business needs and ensure Silvert President, start of new businesses. facility. The skyline is changing with hotel everyone is prepared to benefit. In Malcolm The hospitality sector, projects, including the $300 million Omni addition, properties now dedicated to Bryant Corp. however, remains strong, Hotel, two urban bourbon experiences, economic development, including 50 driven by the trend of and the completed $207 million Kentucky acres that are shovel-ready in millennials valuing experiences over International Convention Center Coldstream Research Campus and 200 “stuff” and baby boomers enjoying renovation. Training programs like Code acres fronting on I-75, are a once-in-a- Thanks for your leadership, Joe Craft! 2018 Kentucky Chamber Board Chairman

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lifetime opportunity for job growth, performance across our system, with a home-based monitoring devices and especially in advanced manufacturing.” commitment to the community and the personalized science are increasing the legacy of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. opportunity to leverage the growing “2019 will be a year of We will continue this commitment and sophistication of analytics, artificial growth and expansion for our expansion into 2019 and beyond.” intelligence, natural language processing, Lexington Clinic. In 2018, and machine learning. Electronic medical we added several providers “Kentucky job growth will records are increasing the velocity and and physicians and look continue in its top five volume of information and allowing for forward to adding more sectors of advanced more complete and timely decisions. team members in 2019 to manufacturing; health More companies will access data to create Dr. Andrew Henderson meet the demand of our care; transportation/ consumer-engaged business models that CEO, growing patient base. logistics; business services/ encourage competition, foster innovation Lexington Clinic will IT; and construction/ and force our industry to evolve. But Lexington Dr. Jay Box Clinic continue offering trades. This will continue technology will only take this so far. It’s up President, customized, premier Kentucky to push secondary and to physician and clinician offices, health network options for progressive employers Community postsecondary education plans and government to help consumers through population health and premier and Technical to align programing in have a real-time, detailed understanding provider agreements. Lexington Clinic will College System these areas to better of their health.“ begin construction in 2019 on a new prepare skilled workers to building for our South Broadway campus meet the needs of business and industry. “In the health-care to allow us to expand our offerings to the Last year 75 percent of the credentials we industry, change is people of Central Kentucky. The building awarded were in these five sectors. constant. After a federal will be up and functional by our 100th Additionally, we will see more experiential judge ruled the Affordable birthday in 2020.” learning that provides students with Care Act unconstitutional, hands-on experience, such as we expect additional “In 2018, Louisville apprenticeships. Higher education will activity around Medicaid Adam D. International Airport embrace innovative ways to deliver its Kempf expansion as appeals are increased capacity, its programs to get students trained and into SVP/CFO, made. This leaves health number of enplanements the workplace as quick as possible.” Norton care providers working and added 10 new service Healthcare within very tight budgets. markets. We witnessed a “Louisville Gas & Electric Hospitals and health care dramatic increase in Co. and Kentucky Utilities organizations will continue looking at ways Dan Mann ultralow-cost leisure service Co. are committed to to provide access to care as patients Executive Director, by Allegiant and Frontier. advancing technologies demand options in a consumer-based Louisville Los Angeles (LAX) service and meeting customers’ model – something that is already a focus Regional begins in April, adding to needs. We work with state for Norton Healthcare. With initiatives Airport the current record 33 and local economic such as video visits, same-day Authority nonstop destinations from Paul W. development personnel to appointments, and expanded hours and Thompson Louisville. The 2019 attracting new and call-ahead waiting for our immediate care Chairman/ schedule is showing strength and trending CEO/President, expanding businesses to centers, we are responding to the up with a 10 percent capacity increase over LG&E and KU Kentucky. Our economic increased demand for services and access.” last year. Area travelers can expect more development rate, coupled options to more cities with great airfares. with our sustainable offerings, incentivize “Lexington’s hospitality As the world’s seventh busiest cargo business growth and development. We industry continues to airport, SDF will continue to play a help businesses install solar at their grow! In 2018, new hotels significant role in national and global facilities, offer a subscription-based Solar opened, two historic economic activity. The future for air cargo Share Program, and provide new publicly bourbon distilleries started and logistics in the region is bright.” accessible and customer-hosted electric welcoming visitors and vehicle charging stations on Kentucky travelers flocked to area “This is an exciting time roadways. LG&E and KU have been Mary Quinn restaurants and bars. Ramer for our organization, as we named nine times as one of the top 10 President, Lexington’s 2018 October recently launched a three- utilities in the country for economic VisitLEX hotel occupancy reached year strategic plan, titled development by Site Selection magazine. an all-time high 75.5 RENEW. The Saint Joseph These types of programs, along with our percent, up 2.8 percentage points over and Flaget facilities in continued low rates, will keep advancing October 2017, and several points above Central and Eastern Kentucky’s economy.” national levels. VisitLEX opened new Bruce Tassin Kentucky are focused on headquarters in the restored Old Fayette Market CEO, improving convenience “We are at a pivot point of Courthouse. In 2019, City Center in President, for our patients, physicians greatly improving health downtown will open in addition to a Saint Joseph and customers, through care. More people are boutique property at The Summit. Hospital expansion of locations/ being treated under Bourbon and culinary tourism are services, and a high- reimbursement models – booming, and we anticipate continued performing access center. A recent like Medicare Advantage – demand for our culinary offerings as “Top example is the opening of our Express that incent complete Chef” Season 16 airs on Bravo TV. Care location in the Palomar Centre in Bruce health, not just the delivery Construction of the Lexington Center Broussard Lexington. The initiatives from RENEW President/CEO, of care. 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seeking a second term. Attorney General Andy Beshear, D-Louisville, is out on the hustings, while the minority leader of the Quick Study House, veteran Rep. Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Hook, is also actively Andy Beshear New faces in Frankfort campaigning. The consensus is that face a daunting short Adam Edelen, D-Lexington, will join the session race in mid-January. His running mate is set to be , a Louisville BY BOB AND JULIE BABBAGE Gil Holland Rocky Adkins urban neighborhood HE faces of Frankfort are The Senate GOP caucus chair is Sen. developer. Secretary of State Allison ever-changing, and in the Julie Raque Adams, R-Louisville, while Grimes is termed out, but her plans 2019 General Assembly, Rep. Suzanne Miles, R-Owensboro, have not been announced. every third member of the chairs the House majority caucus. Rep House is new. Across Joni Jenkins, D-Louisville, is the House Tleadership posts there are numerous minority whip. new faces. Lining up for the seminal election for state office are familiar faces seeking new positions. The political lines are laced with pension aftershock. Adam Gil Allison Some two years ago, Edelen Holland Grimes Gov. Matt Bevin led Financial plans are always under various business and Julie Suzanne Joni scrutiny and revision, with tax reform a Raque Adams Miles Jenkins political leaders on the permanent issue. Speaker Osborne is call for pension reform, When the Senate gavels already proposing the elimination of given the enormous in it will be Sen. Damon the 6 percent sales tax on charitable accumulated obligation Thayer, R-Georgetown, events, stemming from a that is owed to employees Gov. Matt managing the floor. Rep. state court case; the tax Bevin but not funded. John “Bam” Carney, just started last July. After the landmark pension vote on R-Campbellsville, will move The Senate budget SB151 during the 2018 session went into the floor leader role in Damon Thayer chair, Sen. Christian down 7-0 on a Supreme Court ruling the House, having served McDaniel, R-Taylor Mill, (based on the way the bill was passed), as education chair in recent years. is continuously weighing the legislature went back to work impacts and options. Christian under heavy circumstances. The In a short session it McDaniel December special session lasted right takes a supermajority to at 24 hours with no outcome achieved. pass a fiscal measure. Lines are drawn on this for the Budget bills must foreseeable future amid battle fatigue, originate in the House, lingering high emotions and continuing where Rep. Steven high stakes. Bam Carney David Givens David Meade Rudy, R-Paducah, studies With over two decades the numbers and needs. Steven in the chamber, Senate Now backing up Stivers is Sen. David Heading the pension Rudy President Robert Givens, R-Greensburg, as president pro oversight board, a key Stivers, R-Manchester, tem. The speaker pro tem panel tracking all aspects will shape the course of is Rep. David Meade, of pension funds, is Rep. action starting Jan. 8. His R-Stanford, another move Jim DuPlessis, GOP supermajority grew up for the young lawmaker. Robert R-Elizabethtown. following the election. Stivers Senate Democrats Health care drives the Similarly, the House have a new leader in Sen. budget upward. Both Republicans hold a 60-39 Morgan McGarvey, health committees have Jim seat edge, and have D-Louisville. The caucus Morgan new chairs, each coming DuPlessis chosen Rep. David stands at 10, pending the McGarvey from a professional health Osborne, R-Prospect, to special election to background, and each with move from acting replace outgoing Sen. detailed knowledge of speaker to the real job. Ray Jones, who will be Medicaid, the expanded Some 13 women join David judge/executive of Pike and complex federal the legislature, a record Osborne County. program. number. For the first Well-known figures Sen. Ralph Alvarado, time ever, three women are in are in the race for M.D., R-Winchester, Ralph Ray Jones Alvarado leadership simultaneously. governor, with Bevin heads the health panel

28 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT with a lengthy agenda. The House chair is Rep. Kim Moser, R-Taylor Mill, who inherits a full plate of considerations.

Kim Daniel Danny Moser Elliott Bentley Rep. Daniel Elliott, R-Danville, chairs Medicaid oversight. Rep. Danny Bentley, R-Russell, plays a role as a voice for changing the House Minority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins, the budget lead on health. gas tax. The House chair D-Sandy Hook (left), speaks with then-House Education always is Ken Upchurch, Speaker Pro Tem David Osborne, R-Prospect, at looms large. Rep. R-Monticello. Rep. Sal the Speaker’s desk in a recess of the House during Regina the December Special Session. Huff, R-Williamsburg, is Santoro, R-Boone new to the chairing role. County, figures in as the Sen. , budget committee lead Max Wise Regina Huff Ken R-Campbellsville, returns for transportation. Upchurch as Senate chair, having Energy issues always The field of candidates invested numerous days come to the forefront, for constitutional leading the school safety especially involving coal statewide office races working group. Expect policy. Natural resources looks sparse at the key proposals on how to is headed by Rep. Jim moment. Westerfield make schools safer. Gooch, R-Providence, joins Allison Ball, the The budget leaders on with Sen. state treasurer, and Max Wise Brandon Mike Allison , R-Hazard, Sal , the state education are Rep. Smith Harmon Ball James Tipton, R-Taylorsville, and Rep. assuming the Senate role. Santoro auditor, in the envied Steve Riley, R-Glasgow. position of being unopposed – for now. Insiders expect these races to draw competition. Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Mike Jim Brandon Danny Quarles is seeking a Harmon James Steve Whitney Gooch Smith Carroll second term. Secretary of Tipton Riley Westerfield Jobs growth and state has several GOP Leading the Senate judiciary workforce readiness are contenders, but no committee is Sen. Whitney constant concerns. Sen. Democrat. Westerfield, R-Hopkinsville. Issues Danny Carroll, For those pondering a like sports betting come before this R-Paducah, is the new run, the deadline is Jan. subset. Additionally, Westerfield is the Senate chair paired with 29. Tradition dictates the Rep. , closing of the main door Ryan lone candidate for attorney general at Russell Webber Russell Webber Quarles the moment, an open seat. R-Shepherdsville. by the secretary of state at His neighbor the next Small business and tech has Rep. exactly 4 o’clock. This then opens the county over, Rep. Jason Diane St. Onge, R-Lakeside Park, campaign season in full force against an Petrie, R-Elkton, is the continuing at the helm. intense short session that ends March new House chair for 29. The primary election is May 21. judiciary. On the heels of a challenging The governor is one of special session; a short session with many to call for lingering difficult decisions; plus modernization of how the Jason Petrie governor and statewide races looming state funds roads and in November; 2019 is shaping up to be transportation. It’s based now on a significant year for Kentucky. ■ gasoline consumption. Fuel efficiency Diane Bart Jared coupled with trends such as cycling to St. Onge Rowland Carpenter work and increased use of With many bankers and insurance electric cars have changed agents in the state, the banking and Bob Babbage and Julie Babbage are the model. Needs grow insurance committee gets stacked up with with the Babbage while funding stagnates. issues, key decisions like what benefits are Cofounder Sen. Ernie Harris, covered. Rep. Bart Rowland, government R-Prospect, is the long- R-Tompkinsville, chairs the House side. relations firm. time chair of Senate The Senate chair is Sen. Jared Carpenter, transportation and Ernie Harris R-Berea.

THE LANE REPORT • LANEREPORT.COM JANUARY 2019 29 HEALTH CARE Medical MVP Looks Like a Winner UK neurologist Dr. Justin Fraser, shown here demonstrating a medical procedure, teamed with Dr. Gregory Bix, director of the UK Center for Advanced Translational Stroke Science, to research new treatments to protect brain tissue after a stroke. Their clinical trial, called MAVARIC (Magnesium and Verapamil After Recanalization in Ischemia of the Cerebrum), was awarded funding from the Multidisciplinary Value Program at UK.

investigator, and projects relevant to the health challenges and disparities faced by Kentucky. To be eligible for a grant, a team was required to have a project ready to quickly “make an impact,” DiPaola said. The award process was facilitated by the pilot funding infrastructure of CCTS, which seeks to accelerate the pace of discoveries for human health and specifically the health challenges of Kentucky and Appalachia. Eight of the 13 U.S. counties where life expectancy is declining are in Appalachian Kentucky. “There are many health challenges that dominate the landscape of Kentucky, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and substance abuse,” said Dr. Philip A. Kern, director of the CCTS. “The Researcher-clinician teams at UK best efforts to address these pressing problems will not come from the lone get new treatments to patients faster researcher in his lab, but from a collaborative team where each member BY LORIE HAILEY builds on each other’s special expertise. “The MVP program accomplishes this,” Kern said, “by building teams that include physicians, basic scientists and other health professionals with a goal of NIVERSITY of Kentucky processes) before it actually gets into exploring new ideas, soundly rooted in patients are getting quick the clinic,” he said. “This (the MVP) was science, that have a high likelihood of access to cutting-edge constructed to increase the speed by becoming the therapies of the future.” medical treatment ideas which we have an impact for the Nine teams were awarded funding to and health outcomes in discoveries that are made at the conduct trials and get new therapies or Uthe commonwealth are improving University of Kentucky.” protocol out of the lab and into the through a two-year-old pilot program Shortly after beginning his tenure as clinic. Eight of those teams have gone that is leading to external funding for dean of the College of Medicine in on to conduct trials. So far, the teams full research trials. March 2016, DiPaola developed and have been awarded 12 additional The Multidisciplinary launched the MVP in conjunction with external grants to continue their work. Value Program (MVP) Lisa Cassis, UK’s senior vice president of Those external grants “were about brings together UK research, and UK’s Center for Clinical fourfold the amount that we invested,” medical researchers, and Translational Science (CCTS). It DiPaola said. “That’s exceptional.” scientists of different built on the university’s existing MVP research teams are tackling disciplines and expert translational research capacity by tough health-care issues such as clinical physicians to offer Dr. Robert bridging areas of strength across addiction treatment, stroke, sepsis, ALS new trials or therapies in DiPaola, disciplines and clinical specialties. (formerly called Lou Gehrig’s disease), clinical settings. Dr. Robert Dean, They set aside an initial $100,000 colon cancer, acute lung injury and DiPaola, dean of the UK University pool for MVP grants and invited other challenges. College of Medicine, said of Kentucky researchers and clinicians to submit the goal is simple: get new College of proposals. More than 30 teams applied. A chance to save lives and billions of dollars Medicine science to patients sooner. Priority for grants was given to teams For UK internist and faculty member “If there’s a discovery in a laboratory, including at least one member with Dr. Laura Fanucchi, the it could take 10 years (under traditional strongly funded research, a physician Multidisciplinary Value Program was a

30 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT chance to explore better treatment options for patients who suffer from opioid-use disorder (OUD) and a resulting bacterial infection called infective endocarditis (IE). Increased rates of injection drug use have led to a rise in incidences of IE, which enters the bloodstream and clusters on heart valves. Without treatment, it can be fatal. The infection requires prolonged antibiotic treatment administered through a peripherally inserted central catheter (a PICC line) in a vein returning blood straight to the heart. IE sufferers who are not opioid- addicted are able to receive prolonged antibiotic therapy at home and on an outpatient basis after becoming stable. But patients with a history of substance abuse must stay in the hospital – as long as six weeks – for treatment due to concern Members of the original six teams of researchers and physician scientists awarded pilot funding through the about drug use through the PICC. University of Kentucky’s Multidisciplinary Value Program are shown with Dr. Robert DiPaola, dean of the Extended hospitalization forces opioid University of Kentucky Medical School (far right). From left, they are: Yekaterina Zaytseva, PhD; Kristin withdrawal, Fanucchi said, which can Ashford, PhD; Tianyan Gao, PhD; Sharon Walsh, PhD; Heidi Weiss, PhD; Peter Hardy, PhD; Laura create such tension between patient and Fanucchi, MD, MPH; B. Mark Evers, MD, PhD; Daret St. Clair, PhD; Chi Wang, PhD; Eun Young Lee, health-care providers that it leads to early MD; Luksana Chaiswing, PhD; Ed Kasarskis, MD, PhD; Haining Zhu, PhD; Richard Kryscio, PhD; Mehdi Khosravi, MD; Tony English, PT, PhD; Markos Leggas, PhD; Travis Sexton, PhD; Melody Ryan, PharmD, discharge and recurrence of endocarditis. MPH; Susan Smyth, MD, PhD; John Abt, PhD; Zhenyu Li, MD, PhD; and Cale Jacobs, PhD. “Once you’re feeling better, it’s really hard to stay in the hospital for six receive antibiotic treatments at home and administered antibiotics, as well as weeks,” she said. “It’s in an outpatient setting. buprenorphine for opioid use. Patients boring, you’re away from “There are no data to suggest that who left the hospital earlier had an average your family, and it’s keeping these patients in the hospital length of stay about 20 days shorter than expensive.” affects rates of completion of antibiotic those hospitalized full time, Fanucchi said. Patients need evidence- Dr. Laura treatment or of reoperation or that The results: All patients finished their based treatment to repair Fanucchi, doing so prevents illicit drug use. There antibiotics, and the proportion of study their hearts, Fanucchi Internist and may in fact be harm associated with participants who reported illicit opioid use said, but the underlying Faculty prolonged hospitalization …,” wrote while on the buprenorphine was about cause of endocarditis – Member, Fanucchi and Dr. Michelle R. Lofwall, the same in the two groups, she said. opioid addiction – lacks University an addiction medicine specialist at UK, “It was actually a little bit better in of Kentucky evidence-based treatment in a 2016 article published in the New the group that left early,” Fanucchi said. and intervention during hospitalization. England Journal of Medicine. “We felt like the results suggest this is a Using MVP funds, her team set out to The team recruited 20 patients with possible model (of care) that is feasible prove hospitalization for endocarditis OUD and IE to participate in a and safe for a population of patients.” presents an opportunity to introduce randomized clinical trial. Ten patients were The study was not large enough to medication-assisted therapies for opioid medically stabilized and released from the show whether one model is better than use, such as buprenorphine (Suboxone), hospital, then received intensive, the other, she said, “but it was big methadone or naltrexone. They also transitional outpatient antibiotic therapy enough to show that is a reasonable wanted to find out whether patients in and medication-assisted therapy thing to try. I think we need better medication-assisted therapy for opioid (buprenorphine); the remaining models than just keeping people in the use could safely (and simultaneously) participants were hospitalized and hospital for six weeks.”

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UK internist and faculty member Dr. Laura Fanucchi, left, and Dr. Michelle R. Lofwall, an addiction medicine specialist at UK, are both working on an MVP team researching methods to improve addiction treatment for hospitalized opioid dependent patients.

“Not only is it very costly, but it’s not what patients want to do,” Fanucchi said. “And it may not necessarily be safer from a long-term outcome treatment perspective.” If replicated in a larger study, these results could support outpatient care for some opioid-addicted patients with endocarditis. It could save lives and billions of dollars, she said. Her team has applied for federal MVP program, Bix and best standard of care – bringing in a funding to conduct a larger trial to Fraser developed a clinical catheter (threaded through blood demonstrate efficacy. If approved for trial called MAVARIC vessels) to remove the clot – but at the funding, the larger trial would likely (Magnesium and same time infusing these agents start in the summer of 2019. Verapamil After (magnesium and Verapamil). It gives a “That was the big point of the MVP Recanalization in Ischemia patient an option for something that program, to internally fund small pilot of the Cerebrum). wouldn’t have been available before.” It investigates Dr. Gregory The same can be said for patients studies that can be used as preliminary Bix, Director, work to support external proposals,” she administering blood UK Center for involved in the other MVP trials too, said. vessel dilators Verapamil Advanced DiPaola said. They have treatment and magnesium sulfate Translational options for serious illnesses that were Improving stroke care, recovery immediately upon Stroke Science not available just a year or two ago. Stroke is the third leading cause of minimally invasive “This program is a novel model that death in Kentucky and the fifth surgical clot removal to can not only do great things for UK nationally. But strokes occur at an reduce brain damage and research but also save lives and allow earlier age in the commonwealth than promote healing in our citizens to participate in research in the rest of the country. stroke survivors. (A that will improve their lives,” said Cassis. Despite the prevalence of stroke, related study, called “I am especially excited about the current standards of care include only BACTRAC, is developing potential for these initial teams … to two potential treatments. Both can be a tissue bank of thrombi Dr. Justin develop into broader groups of highly effective in removing the clot (stroke-causing clots) Fraser, interdisciplinary teams that are that caused the stroke, but neither and distal and peripheral Neurologist, competitive for large grant mechanisms. therapy treats injuries caused by it. blood to examine the University These large applications give us the best of Kentucky Dr. Gregory Bix, director of the UK immediate molecular chance of having the most significant Center for Advanced Translational Stroke changes that occur at the stroke site. impact on these health disparities that Science, whom DiPaola calls a “superstar in Both studies are the first of their kind.) our citizens experience.” the laboratory,” teamed with neurologist “Patients coming in today now have The other MVP projects include Dr. Justin Fraser to develop new treatments an option under the umbrella of the teams studying: using existing therapies to protect brain clinical trial,” DiPaola said, “of not only • Altered lipid metabolism as a novel tissue after a stroke. With funds from the getting the treatment that might be the target for colon cancer treatment. • Treatment of FUS-related ALS with betamethasone. Sponsors Sought to Fund More MVP Teams • Assessing effects of electronic cigarettes on airway resistance in ITH eight clinical trials underway or completed and 12 external grants received so far, asthma. the Multidisciplinary Value Program is proving to be a success. • Early anti-inflammatory treatment W The MVP provides researchers the opportunity to conduct more clinical trials and in patients with acute ACL tears and publish the results, and then “it becomes even broader than just an opportunity for patients in painful effusions. Kentucky,” DiPaola said. “They (the researchers) apply for federal grants, go to podium sessions nationally to broadcast what they’re doing here and their results. That’s how you lead to new • The INFUSE trial (Intervening standards of care and national impact for us.” with Platelet Transfusions in Septic To build on the success, continue the momentum and fund even more research projects that Patients). are ready for pilot clinical trials, the university is seeking outside funding from potential donors. • Mechanisms and treatment of “Typically, it takes about $100,000 to have these (teams) launched, but think of what it’s doing: skeletal muscle weakness in acute lung taking new discoveries and getting them to have impact in the clinic with a high rate of return and injury. follow-up,” DiPaola said. “We’ve been working on more fundraising for opportunities to sponsor a • Application of theory and evidence team or part of a team to be able to continue to do this (program) over time.” Any business or organization that would like to learn more about how full or partial to promote full recovery from pediatric sponsorship of an MVP team might work can contact Kim Harris, senior director of philanthropy injury. ■ in the UK College of Medicine, at (859) 257-3145 or [email protected]. To learn more about MVP, visit med.uky.edu/mvp-teams. Lorie Hailey is a correspondent for The Lane Report. She can be reached at [email protected].

32 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT WOMEN IN BUSINESS SPONSORED CONTENT Women Worthy of Note daughter was 8 months old. With a two- Women who are making a difference career family, my husband and I had to in the commercial life of Kentucky work together to balance family, work and life. All of our family and friends were in Canada, so we had no support BY LORIE HAILEY network. Two things we did to make it work: We got a babysitter every Saturday morning through the warmer months so my husband and I could go UR occasional feature, Top accomplishment: As senior biking together; and we made Saturday Top Women in Business, director of marketing for Hershey’s “family dinner night” where the four of highlights some of the seasonal products, I accelerated this us went out together. women around Kentucky $1.9 billion seasonal portfolio by who are making an impact forging a new vision and strategy, My advice to younger women in Oin business, the professions, politics and delivering four consecutive years of business: One of the biggest mistakes economic development. The intent is to above-plan sales, profit and market women make is thinking their results recognize not the household names, share (+2.2 points share). will speak for themselves. You need to but those in key roles whose work ethic network inside and outside your Education: Bachelor of business organization so you can learn from and body of work are making important administration with marketing focus contributions to commerce – and life – others, but don’t be afraid to share the and economics minor, Wilfrid Laurier great things you are doing. Then those in the area. University, Canada. The seven women featured in this issue people can be your advocates when are among the many such women The Person(s) who most influenced or senior leaders are looking for the next Lane Report editorial board has identified. mentored me: Rick Rocchi, vice person to tap for a new opportunity or We welcome your suggestions for others president of marketing at Hershey, was new promotion. who also are deserving of recognition for a key mentor and sponsor for me when their efforts to boost the economy. Send I led the U.S. seasonal business there. Beth Davisson your recommendations to editorial@ He was instrumental in helping me lanereport.com. grow as a business leader, and move into bigger global and regional Sylvia Buxton marketing roles. What inspires/drives me: My love of marketing began in high school when I ran several small companies as part of Junior Achievement. As my career has progressed, I have become a passionate coach and mentor, with a particular emphasis on nurturing emerging women leaders. I see the role of a senior leader pretty simply: Set the vision, lead the people and enable success. Hobby/interests/volunteer work: To keep me balanced and reduce stress, I keep fit by swimming on a Masters team. I usually attend two or three competitions each year, some local and Beth Davisson was born in Harrodsburg and raised in Louisville, where she currently resides. some national or international, so that I have goals to work toward. To give Title/company: Executive Director, back to my community, I volunteer with Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Sylvia Buxton is a native of Montreal, Canada, the Network of Executive Women (new. Foundation – The Workforce Center. who resides in Lakeside Park, Ky. org). This is a fantastic organization for How long at company/position: Title/company: President and CEO, women in business. Two years. Perfetti van Melle, North America. Currently reading and/or recent Previous jobs/positions: Director of How long at company/position: movie/play/concert attended: career services, Sullivan University; Almost three years with the company; Book – “Go Put Your Strengths to executive search consultant, The Oliver in current role since mid-August. Work”; concert – Indigo Girls. Group; marketing segment leader, Greater Louisville Inc. Previous jobs/positions: Vice My biggest challenge and how I Moving from Canada to president of marketing North America overcame it: Top accomplishment: Recently, I am for PVM; various marketing roles at the U.S. was a big shift for my family. most proud of opening The Workforce Hershey (U.S. and Canada) and Reckitt When my husband and I moved to Center for the Kentucky Chamber of & Coleman (Canada). Pennsylvania, our son was 2 and our Commerce Foundation. The first of its

THE LANE REPORT • LANEREPORT.COM JANUARY 2019 33 WOMEN IN BUSINESS SPONSORED CONTENT kind in the nation, the center is designed not have time for this. Women hold only What inspires/drives me: My work. to ensure the talent needs of the business 24 percent of leadership roles, and less I’m excited Leadership Kentucky will community are met. Over the past two than 3 percent of executive positions are be celebrating its 35th anniversary this years, it has grown from just myself to a held by women of color. We have to year. I’m inspired by our 1,700-plus staff of eight, and greatly increased our support each other and lift one another alumni doing community work, capacity to serve Kentucky’s economy and up; there is room for us all at the table. So holding political offices, leading support a healthy and thriving workforce. find your tribe, support those around you, companies and making a difference. On a personal note, my husband and I form positive relationships, and watch Hobby/interests/volunteer work: recently decided to foster to adopt. While (and be) the magic in the work you create. Traveling, scrapbooking and movies are we’re not foster parents yet, I believe this some of my favorites. I volunteer with the will be the most rewarding Janice Sword Way Northern Kentucky Chamber of accomplishment of our lives. Commerce, KET, American Heart Education: Bachelor of arts, University Association, and the Association of of Kentucky; master’s in business Leadership Programs. administration, Sullivan University; trained behavior analyst, The Predictive Currently reading and/or recent movie/play/concert attended: With Index; Leadership Louisville – Bingham Leadership Kentucky, I travel a lot, and Fellow, Class of 2017; Talent Pipeline this affords time to listen to audio Management graduate and course books. One of my favorites is “Team of facilitator, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Person who most influenced or My parents, Wayne and My biggest challenge and how I mentored me: overcame it: Through good and bad, I Deborah Harper. learned to keep pushing forward, make Hobbies/interests/volunteer work: I ethical decisions, seek counsel from love to kayak. I volunteer as a Big Sister trusted colleagues and have faith that in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program things will work out. in Louisville and serve as a workforce chair for the Kentucky Society for My advice to younger women in business: Develop a network of Human Resource Management. supportive professional friends and Janice Sword Way is a native of Pikeville who Currently reading and/or recent resides in Northern Kentucky. mentors. They will motivate you movie/play/concert attended: I just through the tough times and celebrate finished reading “The Child Finder,” a Title/company: President, Leadership your successes. Never be afraid to try gripping page turner, and getting ready Kentucky. something new. You will be working a to crack open Michelle Obama’s long time, so make sure you are “Becoming.” I saw the Piano Guys at the How long at company/position: challenged, create an important Louisville Palace and Justin Timberlake at Four years. difference for others, and have fun! Rupp; both were AH-mazing! Previous jobs/positions: I began my television career at WKYT-TV and My biggest challenge and how I Kentucky Educational Television in Angie McDonald Evans overcame it: I could not find a job out of college. I had earned a marketing degree Lexington. Later, I worked as an anchor/ from UK but no experience. I was reporter at WYMT-TV in Hazard and waitressing late every night to pay the bills WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tenn. Prior to and interning for free Monday through Leadership Kentucky, I enjoyed a 25-year Friday at a top PR firm in Louisville. I had career in public relations and fundraising holes in the soles of my waitress shoes and management at The St. Luke Hospitals was struggling to make the ends meet, but and St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Northern I never gave up. After about eight Kentucky. months, I landed an incredible role with Top accomplishment: My greatest the Louisville Chamber of Commerce accomplishment is being a good mom to (GLI.) That was nearly 15 years ago, and my three boys. They have brought me the while I have faced many significant greatest joys of my life. Being part of the challenges since, those moments taught original team launching WYMT is a me just how much grit I have, to set fear highlight as the station has been aside and always bet on myself. transformational for Eastern Kentucky. Advocating and fundraising for the My advice to younger women in hospitals was extremely significant. Now, I business: It is so important to build work relationships and not burn bridges. The have an extraordinary opportunity to Angie McDonald Evans is a native of Louisville, only way truly great work gets done is witness a new group of leaders each year where she currently resides. who recognize Kentucky’s amazing through strong partnerships. To this day, I Title/company: Vice president, work with, or around, nearly all of my attributes and desire to improve our state. corporate responsibility and previous employers, and am constantly Education: B.A. in broadcast/journalism community affairs, LG&E and KU reminded how critical it is to end from Eastern Kentucky University and Energy LLC. relationships on a positive note. Women M.A. in telecommunications from the How long at company/position: can have a reputation of not getting along University of Michigan. I hold a CFRE Four years. with other women in business, and we do (Certified Fundraising Executive).

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Previous jobs/positions: Vice Meredith Rozanski Power of a Positive Team” by Jon president, corporate leadership – Gordon and “9 Rules of Engagement” Community Foundation of Louisville; vice by Harris Faulkner. president, private banker – National City, now PNC Bank; director of planned My biggest challenge and how I overcame it: Losing my father in 2008 giving, University of Louisville. to cancer. While I don’t have him here Top accomplishment: The success of to provide advice and counsel, I reflect my children, former employees and on what his advice would be to me as I mentees. face adversity and do my best to overcome the situation at hand in a Education: B.A. in English, classical studies minor, Centre College; juris manner that he would be proud of. He doctor, University of Kentucky College lives on in me and my siblings as well as of Law. Graduate of Leadership in our children. Louisville, Ignite Louisville and My advice to younger women in Bingham Fellows programs. business: “Anything boys can do, girls can do better.” In all seriousness, break Person(s) who most influenced or the stereotypes! If you have a passion mentored me: My father, Larry M. McDonald (retired Humana executive and a talent for something, pursue it and be great at it. and current president of the Lincoln Meredith Rozanski spent most of her life in Foundation) and my grandmother, Angie northwest Florida, but has lived in Bowling Green V. McDonald; Martha Ash, the eighth- for six years. Ellen McGeeney grade English teacher who helped build my confidence and introduced me to Title/company: Chief operating Centre College; the late Mary H. Griffith officer, Bowling Green Area Chamber and Mayor David L. Armstrong, who gave of Commerce. me my career start in Jefferson County government; Laura Douglas, Phoebe How long at company/position: Six years. Wood, Alice Houston, Merrily Orsini, Carolle Jones-Clay and Lois Mateus, who Previous jobs/positions: Chief are amazing, successful and kind women. financial officer of Avalex Technologies; chief operating officer of My What inspires/drives me: Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of commitment to make the world a Commerce; senior accountant, better place for the socioeconomically Saltmarsh, Cleveland and Gund. disadvantaged. Top accomplishments: Creating SCK Hobby/interests/volunteer work: LAUNCH initiative in Bowling Green/ Currently serving on the Centre College Warren County, a partnership between Board of Trustees and the board of the Bowling Green Area Chamber of directors for Actors Theatre, American Commerce, the Bowling Green Printing House for the Blind, Bates Independent School District, Warren Ellen McGeeney is a native of Louisville who Community Development Corp., County Public Schools and local currently resides in Lexington. Community Foundation of Louisville, businesses. James Graham Brown Foundation and Title/company: President/COO, Women Influencing Louisville. I love to Education: Master of accountancy, Ale-8 One Bottling Co. travel, visit the ocean and read. University of West Florida; licensed CPA. How long at company/position: Currently reading and/or recent Person who most influenced or Five years. movie/play/concert attended: mentored me: My father, a career Air Currently reading “Becoming” by Force man and the epitome of an Previous jobs/positions: CEO, former First Lady Michelle Obama; I ethical person who always looked out Optasite (a communications and recently saw “Ralph Wrecks the for the underdog. technology company in Connecticut); Internet” and “The Grinch” with my management consultant in health-care What inspires/drives me: I’ve always 3-year-old grandson and my husband. and communications tech, Vertex been a very driven person, even as a Partners; consultant in consumer My biggest challenge and how I child. I love new experiences, meeting products group with Booz-Allen in New overcame it: Managing my demanding new people and seeing new things. I York City; consulted for start-up life. I work at it every day and have was raised that all things worth doing Rooibee Red Tea in Louisville. learned to say “no” to some things and are worth doing well, so I try to give the Currently serving on the board of the “yes” to the people and projects that best of me in all I do. Kentucky Beverage Association and get priority. Hobby/interests/volunteer work: Brinly-Hardy in Louisville. Spending time with my daughter (a My advice to younger women in Top accomplishment: My kids are far business: Be trustworthy, reliable, senior in high school) and attending and away what I am most proud of, but at kind and genuine as you build sporting events. I love football and am Ale-8, I am proudest of two things. First, professional relationships. You will learning to be a basketball fan since what we have done for our employees: We encounter the same people in different moving to Kentucky. have grown to approximately 120, ways along your career path. Build and Currently reading and/or recent creating 35 new full-time jobs. We have protect your brand. movie/play/concert attended: “The grown compensation levels, and especially

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I recently read Second, we are making the company “Reengineering Retail” for our book Person(s) who most influenced or mentored me: I’ve had many mentors more resilient by expanding our club at work to help us imagine what over my career, so identifying just one geography and diversifying our product the future of retail will look like and is difficult. The mentors who have portfolio. We launched the first flavor of how we can succeed in that most influenced me have Ale-8-One in 92 years, Cherry Ale8, and environment. demonstrated their confidence in me, we have more exciting flavors in challenged me with more development. My biggest challenge and how I overcame it: Finding balance. I responsibility, rewarded my hard work, Education: B.A. with honors, Brown meditate. and in some ways, taught me how to be University; MBA from Yale University. a better person. They also “had my My advice to younger women in back,” which allowed me to feel Person who most influenced me: My business: Guard your time. My grandmother on my mother’s side and girlfriends and I always joke that “balance comfortable making decisions. my aunt on my father’s side were both is for ballerinas,” meaning I do not What inspires/drives me: Knowing hugely influential. Being around my believe it is possible to “have it all,” at least that someone has faith and confidence grandmother was like being under a not at one time. If you’re putting in the in me. My co-workers inspire me on a magical spell; in her presence you felt time to be good at anything, other areas daily basis. Positive and passionate smarter, wittier and more beautiful. She will get short shrift. I believe you can craft people inspire me to work harder. taught me true leaders serve those they the life you desire with a lot of thought, Hobby/interests/volunteer work: lead and are gifted at bringing forth hard work, some tough decisions and Golf is my hobby. Volunteer activities: the greatness in others. My aunt, Jane, plenty of good fortune. Once you’ve 2018 chair of American Heart had the strength of 100 bulls, and is a made your decisions, go easy on yourself. Association’s Go Red for Women voice I lean on when things get tough Recognize that you’re in a season, and Experience. Board member of: to remind me how very fortunate I am. enjoy and make the most of the season Lexington Humane Society, Big Today, Leah Park, my HR manager, is you are in. Brothers/Big Sisters, Operation Read, my mentor. She is half my age and twice National Conference for Community as wise and makes me a far better Billie Dollins Justice, Women Leading Kentucky, leader than I otherwise would be. Kentucky Women’s Leadership What inspires/drives me: I am Network, The Living Arts & Science inspired and motivated every day by Center, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, our incredibly dedicated employees. American Cancer Society, REACH Inc., The challenge that drives me every day and the Lexington Dream Factory. I’m is to provide jobs that are stable, safe, a graduate of Leadership Kentucky, and that offer a living wage, strong Leadership Lexington and the health-care benefits and robust Kentucky Women’s Leadership retirement benefits in a culture that is Network. warm, kind, respectful, hard-working and resilient. The family that leads Currently reading and/or recent movie/play/concert attended: Most Ale-8-One is committed to the recently, I attended a Heart concert, employees in a way that is all too rare which happened to be the 22nd time these days, and I am blessed to be able I’ve seen them! to lead with concern for our employees as a top priority in our My biggest challenge and how I decision-making, right up there with overcame it: A challenge can be made as impact on our financial strength. a positive or a negative; it depends on me to determine how I approach each one. Hobbies/interests/volunteer work: Billie Dollins is a native of Danville, who currently For challenges in which I’ve not been Outside of work, my focus at this time resides in Lexington. satisfied with the outcome, I’ve tried to is my family. I have three children who learn from those; i.e. what could I’ve are launching and I love to cook for Title/company: Market president done differently? them, take walks with them, help them (Frankfort, Georgetown, Versailles), with homework, share a service Community Trust Bank. My advice to younger women in project, or stay up late discussing the business: Be authentic, be honest, be How long at company/position: kind, be respectful and be humble. challenges of the day. My first duty Eight years. every day is to serve my family. The way Keep your word. Surround yourself I look at it, I chose to bring these Previous jobs/positions: Senior vice with quality, positive people. Stay away people into this world, and it is my president, retail banking, National City from negativity. ■ sacred duty to help see them to happy Bank; vice president and regional manager, Fifth Third Bank. and meaningful lives. After that, I love Lorie Hailey is a correspondent for The Lane Report. local food, singing, playing ping-pong, She can be reached at [email protected]. writing, teaching and traveling with friends.

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Welcome the Podcast: KyArtsCast

HE Kentucky Arts Council is proud to announce the debut of Ta monthly podcast that will focus on arts council programs, events and Kentucky artists and the work they are doing. We’re calling it KyArtsCast, and it’s downloadable at kyartscast.ky.gov and on iTunes and Google Podcast. This podcast has been in the works for several months, and we’re excited to be able to branch out into another area of communication. It will be a good opportunity to connect with Kentucky’s arts community in a convenient way. If you don’t have time to listen to the podcast right away, just download it and save it for later. TLT Photography founder/artist Ted Tarquinio of Louisville explains some of his fine photography during The first episode debuted last month the 2018 Kentucky Crafted Market sale and show. The 2019 Market is March 16-17 at Alltech Arena at the and we look forward to uploading our Kentucky Horse Park, just north of Lexington. second episode later this month. We hope you’ll subscribe. Kentucky Crafted Market Back Update on the in Lexington for 2019 Creative Industry HE Kentucky Crafted Market is great products from March 16-17 at the Kentucky Kentucky Proud food T the recent Kentucky Creative THorse Park’s Alltech Arena. producers, music by Industry Summit the arts council We’re excited to be back in Lexington Kentucky acts, and Ahosted in Georgetown, we were able for this annual event that puts a activities for the entire to report some gains in two out of three spotlight on the best in Kentucky-made family. categories we are tracking. Kentucky saw 1 art and craft. In addition to work by The word “Kentucky” percent gains in the number of jobs related Kentucky artists, The Market will feature appeared six times in the to the creative industry and in industry previous paragraph, so we earnings between 2015 and 2016. At the hope you get the idea that end of 2016, total creative industry earnings this is a Kentucky-centric event. were $2.2 billion, a gain of $13.3 million in With that in mind, I’d like to turn one year. For that same year, Kentucky your attention to March 15, a day we set created 1,000 more jobs in the creative aside for wholesale buyers, interior industry, bringing that total to more than designers, corporate gift buyers and 94,000. This includes creative industry others involved in purchasing for clients workers in full- and part-time positions, to have access to The Market for the extended proprietors and self-employed. purpose of seeing artwork and placing The arts council is tracking this orders. This is a service we provide every information via a new data reporting year at The Market. It allows those service called Creative Vitality Suite. This buyers to peruse the artwork and speak service allows us to track creative industry with the artists in a more relaxed trends and information down to the environment. county level. With this tool, we can look at So if you’re a retail business owner individual counties, clusters of counties or who’d like to start adding Kentucky- entire regions of the state. We are looking made products to your inventory, we forward to using Creative Vitality to better want you at The Market. If you’re in understand the needs and strengths of charge of purchasing corporate gifts for each area of Kentucky. your company and you’re looking for items that have a story to them, this is an Retail and corporate buyers at The Kentucky ideal event. If you’re an interior Chris Cathers is interim executive Crafted Market are guaranteed to find the best in designer who’s looking for that piece director of the Kentucky Arts Council. handmade visual art and craft by some of that will pull your concept together, Kentucky's best artists. come on down!

THE LANE REPORT • LANEREPORT.COM JANUARY 2019 37 EMERGING LANE Kentucky’s young professionals and creatives

Franchise Operator of J. Gumbos is the latest job title for Robbie Morgan, a former campaign manager for LexArts and creator of Crave Lexington Food + Music Festival.

Louisville, the quick-service chain has locations in a dozen states offering a menu of Cajun and Creole dishes. Morgan’s storefront looks a bit different from the other J. Gumbo’s restaurants, and she uses her own recipes. There’s certainly a bowl of gumbo on the menu, along with red beans and rice and jambalaya. But then, on any given week, Morgan may serve up a bowl of rice with stewed tomato and eggplant from Elkhorn Oaks Farm in Versailles, or a shrimp étouffée with shrimp sourced from Lexington’s Rolling Blue Farm and topped with hot sauce from Sav’s Grill & West African Cuisine. Her daily bread pudding often has a base of donuts from North Lime Coffee & Donuts and might come with a Kentucky bourbon sauce or a toasted-oak syrup from Gents Original Ginger Ale, a gelato from Sorella Gelateria or cookies from Martine’s Pastries. Morgan is so eco-conscious – and that stands for economical as well as ecological – she implemented “10 Dollar, No Holla Sundays” for students and nonprofit workers to bring a bag at closing time and have it loaded with food that would have otherwise been thrown away, because the restaurant is closed on Mondays. No Rest for a Restaurateur J. Gumbo’s Lexington offers takeout, catering and delivery via several services, including Grubhub. The garden behind the shop is referred to as a gARTen, of course, and is the site Serial program creator dives back into the of artist talks and live music. You can even see Morgan behind kitchen – and keeps a microphone nearby the microphone from time to time, with or without an apron. She fronts two bands, The Binders and Second Hand News, a S a child in Lawrenceburg, Ky., Robbie Morgan wanted Fleetwood Mac tribute band. to be a star. “I fully expected I would be a truck driver Morgan found the perfect spot for her restaurant on Aor a Solid Gold dancer,” she said. With boundless North Limestone, an up-and-coming part of Lexington energy, the Anderson County native took off for Chicago after known as NoLi. It’s her first foray into employer-ville, high school. although she is no stranger to heading up a staff of Morgan performed theater with the Neo-Futurists troupe, volunteers. It’s different having a staff of seven employees, cooked at a Southern reconstruction restaurant, helped open though. the flagship American Girl store café and worked as a “Meeting payroll and being responsible for other people’s community educator at an all-girls’ school in Chicago’s South livelihood is terrifying,” she said. “I take it very seriously. I Side neighborhood, which inspired her to learn more about want to be selling more and having more customers because medical sociology. I’m responsible for these people’s paychecks.” In 2003 she went to the University of Toronto and earned Her managerial style is one of “giving people tools to be a degree in sexual diversity studies and sociology. During her successful and getting out of their way.” Although it hasn’t school years in Ontario, Morgan cooked at Le Petite come naturally to her, what with so much built-in ambition Dejeuner with owner and chef Johan Maes, “where I learned and creativity, Morgan knows that vision drives the bus, not the fine dance of working in tiny kitchens,” she said. “It was artistic temperament. during my years at U of T that I began working in fundraising “As the boss or leader, you have the grand vision,” she said. and made a career shift into development.” She spent the “You have to keep your head in the macro. You can never sink next couple of years working at the university in Canada, in in the micro.”—Kathie Stamps alumni affairs and professional fundraising. Richard Young photo “I missed my family and the hug of the Kentucky mountains, so I moved back to the states and Kentucky in 2009, plopped myself right down in Lexington and got to work,” she said. Among other artistic and entrepreneurial endeavors, Morgan was the campaign manager for LexArts; she started Change for Art, a public art program involving parking meters; she created Crave Lexington Food + Music Festival and launched it with Smiley Pete in 2012; and she worked with the UK Art Museum to create Y’Art Sales. “I missed being in the weeds, stressed out and taking risks to create something big, so I dove back into a place I missed,” she said. “The kitchen.” In the fall of 2018, Morgan became a franchise owner- operator (and chief cook and bottle washer) of a J. Gumbo’s Robbie Morgan (center) with Grammy Award-winning bassist Christian restaurant on the north side of Lexington. Based in McBride (second from left) and members of his jazz ensemble.

38 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT Kentucky Artist Shines Making Artwork for Other Artists

OR many aspiring artists, a move to Nashville presents the opportunity to Fmake it big under the bright lights in an entertainment epicenter. However, nearly all Louisville’s low cost of living helped the city to of those artists’ pursuits are of the musical rank 5th best in a study by ValueGamers of the variety, whereas Stephanie “Stef” Ratliff’s is in easiest cities to become a full-time gamer. painting – a path that has led her to creating works that will be awarded to her musical Louisville Ranked a colleagues in the city’s creative community. Ratliff, a Pike County native who also dabbles Top City for Gamers with ceramics and printmaking, says that white bland furniture in her childhood bedroom was recent study by Value Gamers, a the catalyst for her artistic endeavors. As a result, video game hardware and Pike County native Stef Ratliff has created Ratliff recalls everything in her room being A software review company, looked artwork given as awards to musicians covered in stickers, acting as her first canvas of at myriad data to determine the easiest such as Jason Isbell, Loretta Lynn and sorts and reminding her that functional items and most difficult cities in the United Chris Stapleton. can be functional artwork. States to become a full-time gamer. In addition to bland childhood furniture, Ratliff credits music as one of the main Thanks to its low cost of living, influences of her artwork and creative pursuits. At a young age her brother Louisville compiled a fifth-place introduced her to punk music, leading to an affinity for Nirvana, Face to Face, Le ranking in the study, which looked at Tigre and like-minded acts. Ratliff later found out many of the artists she’d begun to 50 cities nationwide. listen to are influenced by the kings and queens of country music such as Dolly ValueGamers calculated the cost of Parton and Loretta Lynn – all of which Ratliff includes among her favorite artists living for each city by following the due to the authenticity and relatability of their lyrics. 50-30-20 rule – 50 percent of salary “I think female country music has been such an goes toward expenses, 30 percent goes inspiration to Southern women; it’s the lyrics that we toward splurges and 20 percent goes can relate to,” Ratliff said. “There are plenty of artists I toward savings – and dividing that love whom I can’t fully relate to their lyrics. But when number by the amount of money an you hear Tammy Wynette singing “I Don’t Want To average Twitch user makes per follower, Play House,” you get it and can breathe a little more which for the study was set at $3. The knowing you’re not the only one going against an result yields the average number of ideal Southern tradition.” Twitch followers people would need to Ratliff received her formal education at Morehead have in each city studied to live State University, graduating in 2010 with a bachelor of comfortably as a full-gamer. arts in art and again in 2018 with a master of arts in art. She says her academics provided To live comfortably in Louisville as a her the opportunity to learn new techniques and work with equipment she wouldn’t gamer one would need 1,406 Twitch have had to opportunity to use otherwise. Ratliff also believes the skills she learned are followers according to ValueGamers’ what has and will continue to help her work stand out from similar artists, rather than study. Ranking higher are Wichita, Kan. boxing her in. (1,364 followers); Cleveland, Ohio, While at Morehead State, Ratliff spent time working at the (1,328 followers); El Paso, Texas (1,327 Fuzzy Duck Coffee Shop, where she met Grant Alden, a co-founder followers) and Detroit (1,214 of No Depression magazine and one of the founding members of the followers). Conversely, the toughest Americana Music Association (Alden’s family also owns the coffee cities to live as a full-time gamer were shop). The two hit it off and immediately became close friends. New York City (2,687 followers); Los Prior to enrolling in graduate school at Morehead State, Ratliff Angeles (2,769 followers); Oakland, received two rejection letters from other graduate programs, but Calif. (2,910 followers); San Jose, Calif. before having time to process the moment she got an email from (3,204 followers); and San Francisco Alden asking if she could paint the awards and honors for the (3,898 followers). Americana Music Awards. She’s been doing this since 2013 for countless artists, including Esports, Twitch and Instagram have Kentuckians Loretta Lynn, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers. made it possible for avid gamers to In 2014 Ratliff had the opportunity to create art for a Lifetime Achievement for make a living playing video games. Songwriting for Kentucky legend and Queen of Country Music Loretta Lynn. The There are over 500,000 streamers on moment sticks out as one of the highlights of Ratliff’s artistic pursuits thus far. She Twitch streaming more than 220 was able to bring her father, a former coal miner, to the awards show that year. The million hours of footage. Esports is the two not only got to watch Lynn accept the award Ratliff crafted, but witnessed a fastest growing sport in the world. As performance of her hit song “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” popularity continues to grow, cities that “That moment was mind blowing for me,” Ratliff said. “Here was a woman from offer a low cost of living such as the coalfields who made herself into one of the queens of country while breaking Louisville can attract a cohort of with industry standards and giving a voice to Southern issues by performing songs aspiring professional gamers looking to like ‘The Pill.’ Seeing someone who is from the coalfields succeed in the arts is so turn a hobby into a full-time thing. inspiring and motivating to me.” For more information visit Ratliff’s artwork can be found at kyartrat.com.—Matt Wickstrom ValueGamers.com.—Matt Wickstrom

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Paul Wechman, the owner of Otto’s, with his family in front of the Covington Mainstrasse eatery.

goetta. A legacy of immigrants that settled south of the Ohio in the 1700s, this German breakfast sausage is a stick- to-your-ribs combo of pork, beef, oats, spices and water that’s boiled, shaped into a loaf, chilled and fried. Originally part of a hearty farmer’s breakfast, goetta is now available commercially at Glier’s Goetta, the world’s best-selling producer. You can tuck in your napkin to savor some across the street from Glier’s at the Anchor Grill, which serves it any way a customer asks for it. On grilled cheese, with eggs sunny side up, et al. Goetta also stars on the menu at the Greyhound Tavern in Fort Mitchell, alongside the establishment’s award- winning fried chicken on its glorious Sunday brunch buffet, and with an oriental twist, goetta egg rolls. The Tavern has quite a history. Fun Food! Originally called the Dixie Tea Room, it began in 1921 as an ice cream parlor Check out Northern Kentucky for an array of culinary delights located at “the end of the line,” where street cars turned around to head back to Cincinnati. In the ‘30s, Al Frisch bought it BY KATHERINE TANDY BROWN and named it The Greyhound Grill, in honor of his brother Benny, a successful greyhound trainer. Eventually, the ice F you believe all the cool food and four soups, including two tomato cream parlor was eliminated, the bar eateries in the top of the choices daily, you can munch on a “life- Icommonwealth lie across the river in changing” grilled-cheese doughnut or a Cincinnati, think again. Northern s’more grilled doughnut – a modern Kentucky boasts foodie spots old and take on over-a-campfire food. new, and the wintertime is perfect for a Okay, full disclosure. Tom+Chee is a road trip to fill your tummy. chain that began in Cincinnati. How about a bit of comfort food to However, every location in different warm those chilly innards? Say…hot cities serves offerings unique to the area tomato soup and a grilled cheese and its culture. And besides, three of its sandwich? As seen on Shark Tank, The four founders have Northern Kentucky Chew and the Travel Channel, roots. Seasonal faves include gazpacho Tom+Chee offers that combo as a and blue cheese chili. specialty. Located at Newport on the Their slogan is “Eat What’s Fun!” Levee, this remarkable restaurant tickles The Anchor Grill in Covington could your funny bone as it sates your hunger. say, “Eat what’s local” because that’s Tom + Chee’s slogan is “Eat What’s Fun!” – like In addition to 25-plus sandwiches, salads what this 24/7 eatery is known for: grilled mac and cheese.

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40 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT The garden at the Greyhound Tavern in Fort Mitchell offers a cozy dining experience.

Head North for Foodie Fun Anchor Grill, Covington (859) 431-9498 Greyhound Tavern, Fort Mitchell greyhoundtavern.com (859) 331-3767 Magee’s Bakery, Maysville (606) 759-4882 Otto’s, Covington ottosonmain.com (859) 491-6678 Smokin’ This and That BBQ, Florence smokinthisandthatbbq.com (859) 817-0492 Tom + Chee, Newport tomandchee.com (859) 291-2433 Wildwood Inn, Florence wildwoodinnky.com (800) 758-2335 Mandy Cummins, met during delectable treat contains only sugar, moved to its current site, a beer garden Operation BBQ Relief that helped New eggs, butter, vanilla and whipping with a jukebox was added, and “world York victims of Hurricane Sandy. With a cream. Magee’s sells whole pies and famous” onion rings, juicy burgers and shared passion for good food as a cute little tarts. And just so you know, double-deckers emerged. healing tool, the couple teamed up to those little pups are the favorite pie of Now the Tavern offers an extensive provide food for funerals, police Maysville native George Clooney. You’ll selection of bourbons. Plus, for the past officers, military service personnel and be in good company! six years, it has garnered “Best Steak in numerous other causes. Now that Northern Kentucky has Northern Kentucky” kudos from And from this, Smokin’ This and That stuffed you to the gills with fun food, Northern Kentucky Magazine. emerged. Ever had a barbecue parfait? you’ll want to put your feet up in a fun- Family-owned Otto’s offers – located The restaurant’s signature dish tops layers filled spot. Without a doubt, the on Covington’s Mainstrasse (German of barbecued meats and beans topped Wildwood Inn in Florence is the place, for Main Street) – serves up a variety of with “Miss Mandy’s house-made slaw” and complete with a heated pool in a fun dishes, such as upscale eggs. Think barbecue sauce. Or how about “Miss tropical dome, a massaging waterfall smoked salmon deviled eggs and Mandy’s loaded hot tots”? Tater tots piled and themed family or romantic suites. B.L.F.G.T.’s (bacon, lettuce, fried green to glory with baked beans, slaw, barbecue For instance, the Happy Days Suite is a tomato, egg, cheese and mayo on a sauce, cheese sauce and of course, their trip back to the ‘50s, with old Coke toasted croissant) at lunch or brunch. barbecue. Oh my! machines and a bed nestled in a 1959 Or crab hash – lump crab and potato Or simply buy that heavenly red Cadillac convertible with serious hash topped with a poached egg and barbecue by the pound to take home fins. The bed in the Rustic Country spicy sour cream sauce. Drooling yet? and brag about. Suite lies in the back of a 1949 Ford If you arrive at dinnertime, consider So far, we’ve been rollicking through pickup and you can watch TV in an the shrimp and grits, complete with gulf specials and main courses without a outhouse. A red, heart-shaped spa for shrimp and shitake mushrooms instead thought of sweets. For dessert to die for, two dominates the Cupid Suite. of the usual andouille sausage. Nice head east to Maysville, where for the All the above are sure to bring a touch, Otto’s! past 60 years, Magee’s Bakery has been smile and lighten your heart in the Meat is king in the world of barbecue whipping up transparent pie – not to be midst of a gray January. ■ and true to its name, a mouth-watering confused with pecan pie or chess pie. Originated in the 1800s, when small joint in Florence smokes a ton of it per Katherine Tandy Brown is a correspondent week. The community-minded owners farm kitchens had to be creative with for The Lane Report. She can be reached of Smokin’ This and That, Guy and ingredients they had on hand, this at [email protected].

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NBC Sports and Churchill Downs Debut ‘Road to the Kentucky Derby’ BC Sports is partnering with Churchill Downs to debut a new “Road to the Kentucky Derby” series this spring, Nleading up to NBC’s coverage of the 145th Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve on May 4. In March, NBC Sports will debut the first of the four 30-minute “Road to the Kentucky Derby” episodes, which will showcase the stars of the sport, telling the stories behind the horses and the legendary race. Produced by Churchill Downs, the episodes will provide viewers with an inside look at the extensive preparations for the first leg of the Triple Crown. Keith Wetzler, executive producer of broadcast at Churchill Downs, will produce the series. In addition, NBC Sports will add the $1 million Louisiana Derby and the $1 million Arkansas Derby to its lineup of 2019 Triple Crown prep races on NBC Sports next spring. The first episode of the new “Road to the Kentucky Derby” series will debut The most celebrated champion of the Arkansas Derby, following the Louisiana Derby on March 23, followed one week American Pharaoh in 2015, went on to become the first Triple later by the Florida Derby, on March 30. Coverage continues on Crown winner in 37 years. NBC Sports with “triplecast” coverage of the Wood Memorial, the NBC Sports’ coverage of the 2019 horse-racing season Blue Grass Stakes and the Santa Anita Derby on April 6, before the begins with the Pegasus World Cup Invitational on Saturday, Arkansas Derby on April 13. Jan. 26 at 4:30 pm ET on NBC. Markey Study Finds Theory Explaining Addiction Wins Promising Treatment Grawemeyer Psychology Award for Breast Cancer NIVERSITY of Michigan researchers Kent Berridge and Terry Robinson have won the 2019 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology for new Nature Communications study Uexplaining how our brains process “liking” versus “wanting” and how neural led by University of Kentucky sensitization of the “wanting” system plays a key role in drug addiction. AMarkey Cancer Center researchers “Liking” and “wanting” may sound like similar processes, but Berridge and suggests that an enzyme known as Prolyl Robinson found they are produced by different brain systems. “Wanting” is driven by 4-hydroxylase subunit alpha-1 (P4HA1) is large pathways in the brain that use the neurotransmitter dopamine, while “liking” is a potential therapeutic target for triple- controlled in smaller, pleasure-generating hotspots that do not use dopamine. negative breast cancer. The researchers proposed in their “Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction” Triple-negative breast that the dopamine system in addicts’ brains becomes hypersensitive to drugs and cancer is a moniker given to a drug cues, which can produce excessive particularly aggressive group “wanting” for drugs. This sensitization effect of breast cancers that often can last for years, making it harder for addicts affect younger women. Unlike to resist drugs even when they want to avoid the receptor-positive types of them and get little pleasure from taking them. breast cancer, which have Learning how to safely reverse that process biomarkers that tell could lead to a more effective way to treat oncologists which treatment addiction, they concluded. the patient should respond to, “Their idea has had a broad impact on how triple-negative breast cancers have no we understand drug addiction and other definitive biomarkers yet. If the patient addictive compulsions such as gambling, binge does not respond well to the current eating and sex,” said Woody Petry, a University standard of care, it’s up to the oncologist of Louisville psychology and brain sciences to make an educated guess about which professor who directs the award. “Its scope also chemotherapy will be effective. extends to brain disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.” Unfortunately, these conjectures mean In 1993, when Berridge and Robinson first published their theory, it ran contrary that more than 50 percent of patients are to all thinking about pleasure systems in the brain. However, studies over the past 25 likely to experience cancer recurrence in years have supported it, and their original paper on the subject has been cited in the first three to five years after treatment. other publications more than 6,500 times, Petry said. “Approximately 15 percent of all breast They both hold distinguished professorships in psychology and neuroscience at cancer cases are triple-negative breast the University of Michigan. Together they received the 2016 Distinguished Scientific cancers, and these patients frequently have Contributions Award from the American Psychological Association. Both have been metastases and a high rate of relapse after elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and initial treatment,” said GaoFeng Xiong, first have received many other prestigious prizes. author on the study. “Being able to identify The annual Grawemeyer Awards reward outstanding ideas in music, world order, a novel target like P4HA1 to suppress triple- psychology, education and religion. The winners, who receive a $100,000 prize, will negative breast cancer progression and visit Louisville in April to accept their awards and give free talks about their winning chemoresistance is crucial for treatment.” ideas.

42 JANUARY 2019 LANEREPORT.COM • THE LANE REPORT UK Receives $10 Million Gift to Support Student Scholarships IRA and Don Ball spent a lifetime building one of the country’s most successful homebuilding businesses. They also spent a lifetime giving back Min ways that strengthen lives and build communities. That generosity will continue thanks to a gift of $10 million that Mira Ball has Magazine Names given to the University of Kentucky that will support the UK LEADS (Leveraging Economic Affordability for Developing Success) initiative to fund student Lexmark a ‘Best scholarships. The gift – part of the Don and Mira Ball Endowed Scholarship Program – will Company for Dads’ fund dozens of undergraduate and graduate scholarships for students from Nelson and Henderson counties and the surrounding areas, focused specifically on EXINGTON-based Lexmark addressing unmet financial need. International, a global imaging Mira Ball grew up in Nelson County; Lsolutions company, is one of 35 Don Ball was from Henderson County. companies recognized on Working They met at UK and graduated from Mother magazine’s first list of “Best the university before launching Ball Companies for Dads.” Homes. The couple also has given to – The list recognizes organizations or helped lead – dozens of other that lead in the areas of paternity leave, initiatives across the commonwealth, phase-back programs, telecommuting including the Hope Center, which opportunities, flexible schedules and provides comprehensive assistance for more. homelessness and addiction. “Millennial dads want to be very Ball said she and her late husband, involved in raising their children and to Don, discussed the gift in detail prior do that, they need support from their to his passing, which made it all the employers,” said Meredith Bodgas, more important to make the editor-in-chief of Working Mother. “These commitment now. trend-setting companies are helping Mira Ball with University of Kentucky Board of “This is going to be something that erase the stigma attached to men taking Trustees Chair Britt Brockman (left) and UK is going to last, and we need to give to off time to bond with their new babies, President Eli Capilouto following the board’s utilizing telecommuting opportunities acceptance of Ball’s $10 million gift to UK. things that are lasting and that will mean something in the future,” Mira or flexible schedules in order to be Ball said. “Education is a big thing we need and the thing that will get us into the more involved on the homefront. Not centuries to come and keep us sustainable. I hope it continues to do for everyone only does this help dads, it helps moms what it has done for me and others here.” succeed both at home and at work, and LEADS is an initiative that attempts to address the unmet financial need of puts them on more equal footing.” students. In recent years, UK has analyzed the factors that inhibit student success. “Meeting the work/life balance Chief among them, according to the analysis, is unmet financial need. In fact, at needs of all of our employees, including $5,000 in unmet need, the success or retention rates of students drop several working dads, helps to create a healthy percentage points, irrespective of grades or other factors. work environment,” said Sharon Votaw, The UK LEADS program is a cornerstone of the university’s comprehensive Lexmark senior vice president and chief philanthropy campaign – Kentucky Can: The 21st Century Campaign for UK. human resources officer. “Our paid As part of the historic $2.1 billion campaign, UK is raising funds for 2,100 LEADS parental leave programs and workplace scholarships and $300 million for scholarships more broadly. UK already has raised flexibility offerings are designed to more than $1.1 billion toward the campaign goal, which also is focusing on research, promote that work-life integration.” health care, and campus building priorities as well as strengthening athletics and the university’s alumni network. “The incredible generosity of Mira and Don Ball is being felt right here and right Key Facts About the now at our university, but its impact will extend across time and across generations in 2018 “Best Companies for Dads” our commonwealth,” said UK President Eli Capilouto. “The ripple effect of this gift • 100 percent offer fully paid paternity will be to build stronger families, stronger communities and a healthier, more leave vs. 29 percent nationally*, with the average amount offered nine weeks. The vibrant state.” average amount taken was seven weeks. Nearly $60 million of unmet financial need exists in Kentucky alone, UK officials • 100 percent offer fully paid adoption estimate. Improving affordable access to college is critical to improving the leave vs. 28 percent nationally*, with the commonwealth’s economy. States with college graduation rates above the national average amount offered 10 weeks. The average have higher per capita incomes and generally better health statistics and average amount taken was nine weeks. outcomes. • 86 percent offer financial benefits for Over the last two years, a pilot program for LEADS, impacting approximately 500 in-vitro fertilization. students, produced retention rates that exceeded predictions by almost 20 percent, • 85 percent of men in these companies UK officials said. Expanding the program is a critical component in UK’s plans to use flexible schedules. raise retention and graduation rates – already the highest in the university’s history, • 82 percent of men in these companies approaching 85 percent and 66 percent, respectively – to among the best in the telecommute at least some of the time. country. *Society for Human Resource Management

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ASHLAND NORTHERN KENTUCKY PATHWAYS AND UNITED HEALTH PARTNER TO IMPROVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MENTAL HEALTH FOR CHILDREN IN EASTERN KENTUCKY PRESENTS JANET HARRAH WITH COMMUNITY AWARD Ashley Gallaher Quinn photo

The United Health Foundation recently awarded Pathways Inc. a three-year, $930,000 grant to implement telehealth technology capabilities that will provide improved access to mental health services for more than The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 3,000 children in Eastern Kentucky. Pictured here at the grant announcement are (from left to right): Kim recently presented Janet Harrah with the NKY McClanahan, CEO, Pathways; Anne Yau, vice president of external affairs, United Health Foundation; Community Award. Harrah, right, is the senior Adam Meier, secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services; Robin L. Webb, Kentucky state director of the Center for Economic Development senator; Doug Newton, national senior medical director, Optum Behavioral Health; and Danny Bentley, and Business Research at Northern Kentucky Kentucky state representative. University’s US Bank College of Business and for nearly a decade has shared her expertise with the chamber through her annual regional economic LEXINGTON outlook presentation. Pictured here with Harrah is Gene Kirchner, senior vice president and COO of ANNUAL SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION GALA the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. RECOGNIZES PHYSICIANS AND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS BOWLING GREEN The 30th annual Evening with the Stars Gala in November raised nearly $140,000 for the Saint VICKI FITCH HONORED Joseph Hospital Foundation to benefit the emergency department at Saint Joseph Hospital in WITH KENTUCKY TRAVEL Lexington. More than 500 people attended the ASSOCIATION AWARD event, where awards were presented to some of the area’s most innovative health-care professionals and community leaders.

Right: Leslie Smart (president, Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation), Dr. John Harris (Physician of the Year, Saint Joseph Hospital), and Bruce Tassin (market CEO for KentuckyOne Health and president of Saint Joseph Hospital).

Vicki Fitch, who retired on Nov. 30 as executive director of the Bowling Green Area Convention & Above: Bruce Tassin (market CEO for KentuckyOne Health and president Visitors Bureau after a 27-year career there, is the of Saint Joseph Hospital); Genie Whayne, Jean Jacobs, Helen Hamilton, 2018 recipient of the Mangeot-Oaken Distinguished Phyllis Cronin (Community Volunteer of the Year award recipients); and Service Award from the Kentucky Travel Industry Leslie Smart (president, Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation). Association. The award was presented on Nov. 14 during the association’s annual conference and Left: Eric Gilliam (president, Saint Joseph East) with Dr. Kathleen Traverse Gala Awards Dinner, held at the Martin (Physician of the Year, Saint Joseph East). Owensboro Convention Center.

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