
David Salzman
David Salzman is a Hollywood executive and producer, and a serial entrepreneur in a number of markets that include television news and entertainment, magazines, sports, and musical events.
Profiles below offer the chance to dig deeper into stories about the researchers, business leaders, and community projects that play roles in opening doors to Michigan’s future.
David Salzman is a Hollywood executive and producer, and a serial entrepreneur in a number of markets that include television news and entertainment, magazines, sports, and musical events.
Al Ratner has been in the commercial and residential real estate industry with his family’s Forest City Enterprises since 1951 and is well known as a long-time booster for Cleveland and a leader in the Jewish.
In 2010, the Wall Street Journal dubbed Denise Hazime “Queen of the chickpea spread called hummus.” And no wonder. Hazime’s interactive video instruction on how to make the popular spread has become the No. 1 hummus…
Russell and his partner, fellow University of Michigan graduate Jerry Carlson, his lifetime friend and mentor, have created an environment at Skilled Manufacturing Inc. that’s all about its people, customers and the…
Surendra Gupta first came to the United States from Mumbai, India in 1963 (on a very slow 23-day boat trip) to earn a doctoral degree at Wayne State University on the recommendation of one of his professors at the Indian…
Elizabeth Charnock, the founder and CEO of Cataphora Inc., has successfully done what virtually no Silicon Valley startup before her has been able to do: take a company from concept to profitability and a successful…
Howard Birndorf, along with his partner Dr. Ivor Royston, are credited with founding Southern California’s biotech industry—the second largest biotech hub in the nation behind Boston.
A serial problem-solver, James Anderson has earned an impressive track record for finding solutions to problems that others deem “unsolvable.”
The University of Michigan spinout “HandyLab”may bear his name, but seasoned biotech entrepreneur Kalyan “Handy” Handique will be the first to tell you that he didn’t get there on his own.