Founders : Diversity

Bill Wagner and Dianne Marsh are the co-founders of SRT Solutions, a software firm based in downtown Ann Arbor.

Questions with Bill Wagner Dianne Marsh

Lander Coronado-Garcia is the co-founder of Rippld, an Internet start-up based in Detroit.

Questions with Lander Coronado-Garcia

Veronika Scott is the founder of The Empowerment Plan, a clothing start-up based in Detroit.

Questions with Veronika Scott

Bradley Foltyn is co-owner with his father, Paul, of The Fabric Warehouse, and is the third generation to work in the family’s wholesale textile business selling yards of gingham, damask and other fabrics to designers and retailers.

Questions with Bradley Foltyn

Marcy Forta, owner of The Room Downstairs, caters to a relatively small market of Orthodox Jewish women.

Questions with Marcy Forta

Yoshihisa Kobayash is owner of Koby ACT Academy, a two campus center offering various courses in test preparation, ESL programs, and K-12 subject training.

Questions with Yoshihisa Kobayash

Phil Jones is the general manager of Colors Restaurant, a workforce training eatery in downtown Detroit.

Questions with Phil Jones

Ann Arbor natives Jeremy and Aubrey Lopatin own the Ann Arbor Tea Room.

Questions with Jeremy and Aubrey Lopatin

Companies seeking techies call on IT recruiters. Top brass-seekers look to executive headhunters. And now, firms casting their nets for disabled candidates call Big Tent Jobs, LLC, a Southfield-based placement firm for what founder Adam Kaplan dubs “specially abled” employees.

Questions with Adam Kaplan

David Leider is the CEO of Gas Station TV, a venture-backed start-up based in downtown Birmingham.

Questions with David Leider

James Norman is the founder of Ubi Video, an Internet start-up based in Detroit.

Questions with James Norman

Moose Scheib is the founder of LoanMod.com, a mortgage modification firm based in Dearborn.

Questions with Moose Scheib

Kwang Lim owns E Mart, one of the largest supermarkets owned by an Asian-American in Michigan.

Questions with Kwang Lim

Dale Royal is the CEO of Unitask Software, a software firm based in Bloomfield Hills.

Questions with Dale Royal

Mark Shalinsky is the founder of Kick Start Sales, a start-up sales firm based in Ann Arbor's Tech Brewery.

Questions with Mark Shalinsky