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Ryan Gellert, Patagonia’s C.E.O., Has a Mission: ‘Save Our Home Planet’
An unofficial qualification to become chief executive of Patagonia seems to be an interest in extreme sports, a strong meditation practice or both. The previous C.E.O. practiced Tibetan Buddhism. The one before that was a ski bum who liked to meditate. Yvon Chouinard, the company’s eccentric founder, was a mountain-climbing Zen Buddhist. So when Ryan Gellert was named C.E.O. of Patagonia in September 2020, his pedigree was hardly surprising. Mr. Gellert is an avid mountaineer and skier who has spent his career at outdoor retailers, including Black Diamond. Though he is not a Buddhist, he has a decades-long track record of social and environmental activism, making him well suited to…
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Rochester mother loses her home and business to fire
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Rochester mother is thankful she and her two young children escaped unharmed from a serious fire late Wednesday night. However, she not only lost her home, but her livelihood as well. What You Need To Know A Rochester mother lost her home and business to a fire The Bougie Cookie Boutique caught fire late Wednesday night The owner lives above shop, and escaped with her two young children unharmed “It was overwhelming,” said Channelle Kimber. “It happened so fast.” Kimber is trying to wrap her head around the fact that she lost both her home and her business on Culver Road. “So I originally noticed the…
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Home sales booming across New Mexico | Business
Homes are selling quickly at record prices in Santa Fe — and Angel Fire, Silver City, Alamogordo and Ruidoso. New Mexico Association of Realtors statistics show robust increases in home sales and home prices from 2019 to now in nearly all of the state’s 33 counties. New Mexico — not just Santa Fe — has become an escape hatch for big-city folks in neighboring states and beyond. People are flocking to New Mexico to retire, work from home or just not be in Texas, Colorado and California anymore. Think of New Mexico as one big city with different neighborhoods: the high-end neighborhoods, rustic neighborhoods, resort neighborhoods and neighborhoods where people…
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Consultant Brings Business Home To W.Va.
As part of our “Returning Home” radio series, Eric Douglas spoke with Crystal Mersh about her return to Calhoun County. Mersh is the CEO of Quality Executive Partners, a consulting firm that provides expert support in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, advanced therapy and medical device fields. In October, Mersh and others from the community announced the 1982 Foundation to restore the old Calhoun County High School in Grantsville as a community center and business incubator. To make that happen, Mersh has moved back to West Virginia from Atlanta. Douglas spoke with Mersh from a local pharmacy in Calhoun County because it was where she had to go to find a reliable…
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Business round-up: Home Telecom names new COO | Business
Home Telecom announces new COO Anthony Douglas has been named the new chief operating officer of Moncks Corner-based Home Telecom. In a statement, Home Telecom said Douglas comes to the company from Comcast in Atlanta where he has been vice president of the Big South (Central) Region for the past five years. He has also been senior director of Technical Operations for Comcast in Charleston, Augusta and Savannah, Ga. for seven years. Douglas has a business management degree from the University of Phoenix. “Not only is Anthony proficient in integrating streamlined day-to-day Telecom business operations, but he is a leadership and team development expert, with a steep background in organizational…
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Texas will be ‘home of semiconductor manufacturing’ amid chip shortage: Gov. Abbott
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott discusses the impact of companies moving their headquarters to the state, the rise of the omicron variant and the migrant surge. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared Sunday that his state “will be the home of semiconductor manufacturing going forward” as the chip shortage has been affecting companies around the globe. “The country made a mistake over the past one or two decades to farm out manufacturing of all these essential supplies, whether it be now semiconductors or could be health care supplies that we needed during the time of COVID, whatever the case may be, we need to not depend upon China or other countries for our essential needs, for things like semiconductors,” the Republican governor argued during an exclusive…
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