Ronald Ahrens

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT DEVOPS DETROIT, DETROIT EMPLOYEES: 8 REVENUE: NA COLLEGE: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DEARBORNUmelo Onyejiaka’s career path was inspired by the film “Limitless.”The cloud solutions engineer says he drew great inspiration from Hollywood’s 2011 sci-fi thriller. In the...

PRESIDENTMUNRO & ASSOCIATES, AUBURN HILLSEMPLOYEES: 100REVENUE: NACOLLEGE: BAKER COLLEGE It isn’t every manufacturing consultancy that gets the opportunity to help out a street-sweeper company, but Jordan Arocha offers just such a case as a recent...

GENERAL MANAGERDOWNEY’S POTATO CHIPS INC., WATERFORD TOWNSHIPEMPLOYEES: 7REVENUE: NACOLLEGE: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Not long before Kali Bagley became general manager of Downey’s Potato Chips in Waterford Township, the small company faced a tricky challenge that...

CEOACI TRANSPORT, FERNDALE EMPLOYEES: 34REVENUE: $15M The fact that Gary Horton has been playing “Magic: The Gathering” since he was 6 years old suggests a natural connection to his current career in national transportation logistics. In the...

MANAGING DIRECTORSTRATEGIC ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS, COMMERCE TOWNSHIP EMPLOYEES: 5REVENUE: NACOLLEGE: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN–DEARBORN Armanda Hadribeaj was born in Albania and came to the United States with her family when she was 12 years old. Throughout her years...

The abundant presence of copper in the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula dominated a traveler’s dispatch to a Detroit newspaper in July 1865.Aboard the steamer Meteor, he found “large pieces of the mineral...

More than picking up just a hit, Golden World Records scored a secure foundation in spring 1964 when its release, “(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet,” peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. One...

When they desired a smoke in the spring of 1912, gentlemen passengers aboard the new City of Detroit III sought out the vessel’s Gothic Room. The sanctuary’s ornate woodwork was one of naval architect...

After three years in stealth mode, Troybased startup Slate Auto hosted a brand launch and revealed its compact EV pickup last April, amid officials’ bold claims of reinventing the auto industry when sales start...

For a hometown Plymouth act that launched in 1985 as a spoof, the Fred Hill Briefcase Drill Team ultimately marched far from its Main Street starting point in the Fourth of July parade. It...