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The 2015 class of 30 in Their Thirties offers products and services from Michigan that span the world, from the latest fashions to data enterprises to wholesale mortgage lending to luxury shopping malls.
Daniel Zwolak started Seeds Marketing+Design in 2008, around the time the world’s economy was plunging into its worst downturn since the Great Depression. His timing was perfect.
Born in Shanghai, Bob Zhang arrived in the United States when he was 7 years old. “Our family was in search of opportunity,” says Zhang, director of IT and customer service at Strategic Staffing Solutions in downtown Detroit.
Heather Zara’s friends thought she was crazy to quit her 10-year sports broadcasting career to open a video company that specializes in TV commercials, branding videos, philanthropic films, and weddings.
When Melanie Williams couldn’t find a job after graduating from Wayne State University, she created her own position and became a public relations practitioner. Her first client was someone who had noticed how hard Williams worked on a project during a college internship.
The 2015 class of 30 in Their Thirties offers products and services from Michigan that span the world, from the latest fashions to data enterprises to wholesale mortgage lending to luxury shopping malls.
Following 40 years at Compuware Corp., Peter Karmanos Jr. — with a group of 25 technologists — is out to revolutionize the $700-billion commercial automations systems industry.
During the last two years of Peter Karmanos Jr.’s tenure as chairman of Compuware Corp.,
a Shakespearian-type drama unfolded that led the board to fire him and cancel more than $4.1 million in vested stock options.
