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In Business PHX: 19 Top Leaders of 2023: Our list of Valley leaders who are making a real difference!

By Mike Hunter

Each year, we select top leaders who have had great success over the preceding year. This year, we selected 19 leaders in varied established sectors within our business community. We asked hard-hitting questions of these leaders to get a sense of what they see for 2024. Each of them is truly entrenched in growing their companies and our economy, in developing policy, managing people and growing business through innovations that have a positive effect on our business community.

Each leader has been asked the same questions on the subjects of their effective management style, the impact of COVID-19 disruptions, what we can do to empower economic growth, and how their organization’s future will impact our economy.

Their answers are intriguing, thoughtful and certainly inspiring as we move into this new world of business in which we find ourselves.

Ryan Abbott
Executive VP, Southeast Region
Clayco
Susan Anable
Phoenix Market VP
Cox Communications
Josh Bartelstein
CEO
Phoenix Suns & Phoenix Mercury
Latasha Causey
President
Phoenix Raceway
Will Fischbach
Shareholder
Tiffany & Bosco
John Graham
Chairman & CEO
Sunbelt Holdings
Molly Greene
Senior Director
Salt River Project
 

Xavier Gutierrez
President, CEO & Alternate Governor
Arizona Coyotes

Peter Kjome
President & CEO
The Phoenix Symphony
Paul Komadina
Managing Director
CBRE
Tammy McLeod
President & CEO
Flinn Foundation
Eric Miller
Co-Owner and Principal
PADT, Inc.
Martijn Pierik
Founder and Chairman
Kiterocket
Michael Pollack
CEO
Michael A. Pollack Real Estate Investments
Matt Ritchie
President & Managing Director
DSV Inventory Management Solutions
Kim Ryder
President
Thrive Real Estate Group
Scott Vanderpool
President, Bank of America Phoenix
Bank of America
Corey Woods
Mayor
City of Tempe
Mark Young
President and CEO
National Bank of Arizona

 

 

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