Tim Keenan
Tim Keenan is managing editor of DBusiness magazine, DBusiness Daily News, Tech and Mobility News, Detroit 500, and Michigan Makers. Prior to joining DBusiness, he was a senior account executive at Campbell Marketing & Communications in Dearborn, working with the Motorcraft-Quick Lane racing teams in NASCAR and the NHRA. In other positions, he executed public relations and marketing strategies for several Tier One automotive suppliers. His journalism credits include The Football News-Basketball Weekly in Detroit, The Hardwood News in Lansing, Monday Morning Newspapers in Warren, and Ward’s Communications in Southfield. While at Ward’s, Mr. Keenan was part of a team that won the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award in 1995. In late 2020, he published “Everybody Loves Mickey,” a biography of retired professional wrestler “Irish” Mickey Doyle. Mr. Keenan also is chairman of the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo and is a volunteer for the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Daytona Beach, Fla. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University.
Cleary University to Open Wellness Center with Chiropractic Clinic, Golf Training Academy in Howell
Cleary University in Howell is opening a full-service chiropractic and massage clinic on campus later this month to both provide enhanced support to Cleary student athletes and to offer chiropractic and massage services from...
Troy’s Meritor Introduces Simplified Ordering of New Driveshafts, Remanufactured Differentials
Troy-based commercial truck component supplier Meritor Inc. has launched a Drivetrain on Demand program that offers simplified ordering processes for U.S. and Canadian customers requiring fast replacement of driveshaft and differential assemblies.“By streamlining the...
Italy’s Dipharma Completes Construction of New Facility in Kalamazoo.
Italian pharmaceutical company Dipharma has completed construction of a new quality control laboratory and manufacturing, or kilolab, facility for its Kalexsyn Inc. subsidiary in Kalamazoo.The state-of-the-art manufacturing suite strengthens Dipharma’s contract development and manufacturing...
PlanetM Invests $300,000 in Four Mobility Startups Launching Pilots in Michigan
PlanetM, the mobility initiative of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., has awarded a fourth round of PlanetM Mobility Grants, worth more than $300,000, to four mobility and technology companies so that they can deploy...
Legislators, Auto Industry Leaders Discuss Supporting Electric Vehicle Growth in Michigan
Michigan needs to lead the nation in electric vehicle design and manufacture as well as in developing a charging infrastructure, according to state legislators Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak) and Rep. Joe Bellino (R-Monroe),...
Punch Group of Belgium Acquires GM Propulsion Engineering Center in Turin, Italy
Belgium’s Punch Group has agreed to acquire the General Motors Co. propulsion engineering center in Turin, Italy, for an undisclosed amount. The transaction includes an engineering services agreement to support GM’s global product programs...
American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti Breaks Ground on New Event Center
The American Center for Mobility (ACM) in Ypsilanti Township has started work on a new 8,000-square-foot event center at its Willow Run site with a targeted goal of June 2020 for completion.The center will...
State Launches Michigan Office of Future Mobility, Michigan Council on Future Mobility and Electrification
The state of Michigan has launched the Michigan Office of Future Mobility under the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO). In addition, the Michigan Council on Future Mobility and Electrification was created to...
Survey: Small Businesses Support Straits of Mackinac Line 5 Project
More than 70 percent of the members of the National Federation of Independent Business, Michigan’s largest organization of small businesses, support the planned upgrades to the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac...
Cleveland’s Everstream Acquires Detroit Internet Provider Startup Rocket Fiber
Six years after being founded as a Detroit-based internet provider startup, Rocket Fiber today announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Cleveland’s Everstream, an enterprise-grade network provider operating thousands of route fiber...
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