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December 27, 2010 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS While 2009 sales were tough for most firms, his group still brought in $61 million in sales before revving sales up for 2010 to $120 million as of September. He’s approaching $1 billion in sales for his 10-year career and is currently working on deals in 33 states, including Alaska. to go forward as proposed in preliminary site plans approved by both cities last fall, but a portion of it still has to be released from the Federal Railway Administration. Page 69 clining. Potential patients were unaware of the 220-bed community hospital’s year-old clinical affiliation with cardiologists at the University of Michigan. So in 2007, Hornberger came up with a branding campaign called “Crittenton: Get Better Here.” Hornberger said the campaign, which included radio, TV, billboards and a redesigned website, energized the hospital. Over several years, Hornberger has led development on projects including a freestanding surgery center in Lake Orion in 2007 and planning an outpatient oncology center in a joint venture with the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. 40 Under 40 For 20 years, Crain’s Detroit Business has honored the best and brightest in Southeast Michigan who have made their marks before age 40. Some in the 2010 class are entrepreneurs, some have come up through the ranks at large companies and others are leaders in the nonprofit world. Winners were honored at an awards party Oct. 28 at the Roostertail in Detroit. Paul Brown, 38 Vice president, capital markets group, Michigan Economic Development Corp., Lansing In response to a desire by Gov. Jennifer Granholm and MEDC CEO Greg Main to help small auto suppliers and other manufacturers diversify, Paul Brown led a team that met with companies and bankers and developed the Michigan Supplier Diversification Fund. Brown presented the program to the White House and U.S. Department of Treasury as Michigan pushed for a similar federal initiative. That federal program was included in a lending bill passed in September by Congress and is expected to send about $80 million in loan enhancement dollars to Michigan. Bryan Geoffrey, 33 President and CEO, Universal Parking of America LLC, Farmington Hills Bryan Geoffrey launched Universal Parking of America LLC in 1995 with the plan to bring cheerful Disney-style service to the parking business. The company grew to include country clubs, hospitals, condos and high-end car dealerships. In 2005, Universal lost its largest account, the Detroit Medical Center (which was later regained), and reorganized with the help of software that manages parking and valet services. Universal manages about 70 parking facilities in five states and has nearly 600 employees and a 2010 revenue projection of $10 million. Peter Davis, 33 President and CEO, Impact Management Services, Southfield Early in 2009, business plummeted for Impact Management Services. For the first half of last year, Davis spent $5,000-$6,000 of his own money every week just to stay open. He began diversifying his customer base beyond engineering and manufacturing to clients in industries like durable medical equipment leasing and communications. He also began offering outsourced human resource services. Impact’s annual revenue has tripled since June 2009. He projected $10 million in revenue in 2010. Michael Ansley, 39 President and CEO, Diversified Restaurant Holdings Inc., Southfield By 1998, Michael Ansley had two Buffalo Wild Wings franchises. In June 2002, he opened the first full-service Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant, in Novi. The location would go on to lead all Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in sales for three years. In 2006, Ansley opened Bagger Dave’s Legendary Burgers and Fries concept in Berkley. Since then, he has opened Bagger Dave’s in Ann Arbor and Novi, with another opening planned in Brighton. His Southfield-based Diversified Restaurant Holdings operates 21 restaurants and was expected to generate $43 million in revenue in 2010. Tricia Keith, 39 Vice president, corporate secretary and services, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit Tricia Keith oversaw one of the best-kept secrets this year in Detroit: the announcement in July that 3,000 employees of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan would move to the Renaissance Center from their offices in Southfield. The move, which is expected to save $30 million in operating costs, will start in the second quarter of 2011 and take a year to complete, she said. Called BLUnite, the initiative is designed to achieve four goals, Keith said: cut administrative costs by reducing excessive real estate space; create a more unified corporate culture; support downtown Detroit; and increase operational flexibility for changes expected under health care reform. She also is leader on a variety of corporate initiatives. Natalie Bruno, 32 Director of development, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, Eisenhower Dance Ensemble and Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Southfield Natalie Bruno created Passport to the Arts, which offers younger patrons reduced pricing packages to six performances from October through June at seven metro Detroit arts organizations. Passport holders are treated to themed parties following the performances. All 300 passports sold during its debut season in 2009. Bruno and her team are trying to sell 400 passports this season. John Decker, 35 Partner, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss PC, Southfield John Decker says his biggest achievement is becoming general counsel to the Detroit Zoological Society in 2007, negotiating the transfer of Detroit Zoo operations from the city of Detroit to the society, and coordinating with local governments and legislators in enacting the 0.1 mill regional zoo levy to shore up its budget. Since the resolution of the zoo funding, Decker’s practice has been mainly corporate, financing and “middle market” mergers and acquisitions with a growing focus on cross-border transactions. His deals include the 2010 closing on the acquisition of an assembly plant of the former Microheat Inc. Samit Ghosh, 37 CEO, P3 North America Inc., Pleasant Ridge When Samit Ghosh opened P3 North America Inc., the local subsidiary of Germanybased PC Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, in September 2005, it had three full-time employees. Today, it has 44 and has 15 open job postings. Revenue was $5 million in 2009 and was projected to be more than $6 million in 2010 and double over the next five years. The engineering and management services company has focused on the auto sector, particularly onboard car information and entertainment capabilities. Ghosh in 2010 assumed the presidency of another of the parent company’s subsidiaries, New Jersey-based P3 Communications Inc., which provides telecom engineering services Managing director, Beringea LLC, Farmington Hills In 2002, Jeff Bocan joined Beringea LLC, which wanted to beef up the American presence of its London office. While there, he led an investment in Espotting, a Web search company that grew to $150 million in revenue and sold for $185 million in 2004. Bocan later was transferred to Beringea’s Santa Monica, Calif., office before coming to Michigan in August 2009 to help manage the $185 million Growth Capital Fund Beringea co-manages with New York-based Credit Suisse. Bocan hopes to raise a $200 million venture capital fund focused on clean technology, health care and IT companies in the Midwest. Betty Chu, M.D., 39 President of medical staff, Beaumont Hospital, Troy Betty Chu began her four-year term as medical staff president in early 2010. Working with a budget of $525,000, she is improving physician-to-hospital communication and has developed a physician website that allows access to the hospital’s new clinical information system. Chu also is seeking to align the interests of Beaumont’s 460 employed physicians and its private-practice physicians. She sees that as crucial, especially as health care reform rolls out. Kevin Kovachevich, 33 Senior vice president, Bernard Financial Group, Southfield Amid what has been one of the toughest times to get commercial real estate financing, Kevin Kovachevich originated $39 million in 2008, $44 million in 2009 and has closed $102 million through September 2010. Kovachevich hit a home run in May with a $42 million loan anchoring the $62 million sale of the Columbia Center in Troy. Very few commercial mortgagebacked security loans were being made anywhere the country, and the deal put metro Detroit on the map with the fourth such loan of the year at the time. Michael Delaney, 31 Supervisor, public policy, DTE Energy Co., Detroit Michael Delaney led a team at DTE Energy Co. that helped to found the 2009 “Business of Plugging In” conference — the first major electric vehicle conference based in Detroit. It was so successful that it came back in 2010 to the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center. Delaney also works in corporate strategy and DTE Energy Ventures, a small venture capital arm. Energy Ventures has invested more than $100 million in energy-related companies and funds, making it one of the larger Michigan-based venture capital operations. Jennifer Grieco, 39 Partner, Neuman Anderson PC, Southfield Jennifer Grieco first won election to the Oakland County Bar Association board of directors in 2003. On July 1, 2010, she became the sixth and youngest woman president. In 2009, she helped implement an initiative for recent law school grads, which included two years of free membership in the association and discounts for some events. The association also launched its Pro-Bono Mentor Match program, which seeks to pair new attorneys in need of professional experience with senior attorney. Katerina Bocci, 36 Owner and fashion designer, Katerina Bocci Designs, Shelby Township With a degree in pattern and fashion design from the Sitam Institute in Padova, Italy, Katerina Bocci went to her home country of Albania and opened a design school and boutique where she created and sold her fashion line. In 2007, after her family moved to America, Bocci opened Katerina Bocci Designs in Shelby Township. A showing of her collection during New York Fashion Week brought orders from the likes of Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, Aretha Franklin and several local television news anchors. The company was expected to reach sales of about $300,000 in 2010. Andrew Daitch, 33 Vice president of investments and senior director of the national multifamily housing sales group, Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, Southfield Andrew Daitch has consistently been one of the top sales agents for Encino, Calif.-based Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services and has been named senior director of the firm’s national multifamily housing sales group. In 2008, he and his team, the Affordable Housing Advisors, were involved with the sale of 71 properties valued at $285 million. David Kramer, 37 Vice president, lawyers professional liability practice leader, Oswald Cos., Birmingham After nearly seven years as a lawyer, David Kramer started working in insurance, joining Oswald Cos. so he could interact with people, do something more sales-oriented and have fewer routine days. Oswald now represents nearly See next page Jana Ecker, 39 Planning director, city of Birmingham Jana Ecker led a team from the Troy Chamber of Commerce and the Birmingham-Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce to develop plans for the Troy/Birmingham Multi-Modal Transit Center and an economic development strategy for its vicinity. The center has enough funding Michelle Hornberger, 37 Chief strategy officer, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center, Rochester Hills When Michelle Hornberger took over as chief strategy officer with responsibility for marketing in 2005, the market share of Crittenton Hospital Medical Center was de- PEOPLE Jeff Bocan, 37

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Crain's Detroit Business - 2011 Book of Lists
The Big Picture
10 things to watch in 2011
10 things to remember about 2010
Private 200
Fastest-growing companies
Public school districts
Top-compensated CEOs
Top-compensated non-CEOs
Metro Detroit employers
Wayne County employers
City of Detroit employers
Livingston County employers
Washtenaw County employers
Macomb County employers
Oakland County employers
Publicly held companies
Hispanic-owned businesses
Native American-owned businesses
Asian-owned companies
Black-owned businesses
Woman-owned businesses
The Motor City
Airlines Serving Detroit Metro
Professional Sports Teams
Auto Suppliers
Auto Dealers
Aftermarket Suppliers
Divisions
Defense Contractors
New Economy/Health Care
Family-owned companies
IP law firms
Group health plans
Hospital companies
Physician organizations
Graduate business degrees
Engineering companies
Environmental companies
IT companies
Biotech companies
People/Awards
Salute to Entrepreneurs
CFO Awards
40 Under 40
Best Lawyers
20 in their 20s
Women to Watch
M&A Awards
Most Connected
Finance
Capital campaigns
Accounting firms
Banks and thrifts
Money managers
Business insurance agencies
SBA Lenders
Real Estate/Services
Office furniture dealers
Nonprofits
Meeting facilities
General contractors
Architects
Property managers
Residential brokers
Staffing companies
Logistics firms
Law firms
Classifieds
Index of Companies

Crain's Detroit Business - 2011 Book of Lists