Chief Financial Officer & General Manager, StratusWave Communications By Dawn Nolan LIKE MANY YOUNG BOYS, John Reasbeck dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player. “I loved the game. I watched the Atlanta Braves play every night on TBS and would keep my own scorebook. I even calculated player stats myself.” Reasbeck’s passion for sports continued…
By Randy Coleman The United States spent almost $451 billion in 2011 on foreign oil—$1,468.27 for every American man, woman and child. Almost all of that foreign oil is consumed through vehicles on highways. Natural gas vehicles have been around for decades both here and abroad. More than 100,000 exist in the U.S., with millions…
Owners, Jacob S. Meck Construction, LLC By Jennifer Jett QUITE THE PARTNERSHIP, Jacob and Malinda Meck have founded four companies in their 13 years of marriage. The long hours required for such a heavy load of responsibility have required sacrifice, determination and much planning, but their success has proven that these three elements are vital…
Chief Executive Officer, Geostellar By Jennifer Jett PLAYING SOCCER on the beach with Habib; dancing in a discotheque to a Beatles cover band with Peace Corps workers on the island of Kerkkenah; riding camels through the Sahara. David Levine spent his childhood summers traveling to exotic and unusual places with his father, an epidemiologist with…
Managing Director, Charles Ryan Associates By Dawn Nolan FAITH, FAMILY, FRIENDS and fortitude—these four things, along with her leadership, tenacity and hard work, are what Susan Lavenski credits for the successes in her life and getting her to where she is today. Lavenski, who has been with Charles Ryan Associates for 12 years, is the…
By Joseph Eddy West Virginia has a rich history in the production of energy resources such as coal, oil, gas and, more recently, hydro-electric and wind turbine energy. For more than 150 years these resources have helped fuel our state and nation’s electric power generation and chemical, steel, aluminum, polymer, wood, automotive and glass manufacturing…