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The 2018 Best Places to Work
Brown & Brown Insurance is a repeat Best Places to Work winner in the large company category. (Photo by Collin Richie)
The 50 companies on...
2018 Best Places to Work: Brown & Brown of Baton Rouge is repeat winner...
PURSUING EXCELLENCE: Brown & Brown continues in its quest to be “all to some and not some to all” as it again tops the...
2018 Best Places to Work: Assurance Financial rocks the house as the small and...
WE ARE FAMILY: Assurance Financial is all about the home, whether its putting clients in a new house or letting employees prioritize family over work....
Meet the 2018 Influential Women in Business
Photography by Collin Richie
Somehow, they make it all look so easy. The high-pressure careers. The growing families. The service on local boards and volunteer...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Beverly Brooks Thompson
Photo by Collin Richie
Hometown: Houston
Age: 48
Family: Married to Corky Thompson, with three sons—Brennan, William and Dalton—and niece Logan.
Profession: President and executive counsel, Brooks Thompson Consulting
Years with...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Marie Constantin
Photo by Collin Ritchie
Hometown: Hartford, Connecticut, but moved around a lot
Age: 68
Family: Single
Profession: Owner, Marie Constantin Photography
Years with company: 29
It could be that Marie Constantin’s...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Fran Gladden
Photo by Collin Richie
Hometown: Lake Charles
Age: 62
Family: Married for 32 years to husband, Sterling “Buck” Gladden III, with three children: Kirby, Maggie and Sterling
Profession: Vice...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Sheri H. LeBas
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Hometown: Baton Rouge
Age: 55
Family: Married to Bill Firnberg; three sons, Andrew, Patrick and Michael LeBas; daughter-in-law Melissa; and stepson Cameron Firnberg
Profession: President,...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Gaylynne Mack
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Hometown: New Orleans
Age: 50
Family: Married to Harold Mack since 1999; three children, Carson, 16, Christian, 15 and Olivia, 14
Profession: Executive director, Big...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Laura S. O’Brien
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Hometown: Zachary
Age: 48
Family: Married to husband, Lance, with four children: Jake, Kylie, William and Ben
Profession: Clinical exercise physiologist, Fitness Design for Women...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Cynthia Peterson
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Hometown: Shreveport
Age: 60
Family: Married to Edward Peterson for 37 years; daughter and son-in-law Caroline, 29, and Isaac Oahare, 28; daughter Betsy,...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Laura Simpson
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Hometown: Baton Rouge
Age: 61
Family: Married to husband, Floyd, with three sons: Jeremy Clark, James Clark and Alex Day
Profession: President, Dugas Pest Control
Years with company: 39
Laura...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Sarah B. Taylor
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Hometown: Prairieville
Age: 49
Family: Mother to three daughters: Kayla, 31, Jamie, 29, and Whitney, 20
Profession: CEO/administrator, Gulf Coast Occupational Medicine Inc.
Years with company:...
2018 Influential Women in Business: Kathy Victorian
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Hometown: Ferriday, by way of Frogmore
Age: 49
Family: Married to husband, Michael W., with three stepchildren: Maria, 43, Mieshia, 37, and Michael...
Forty Under 40: Lorin Crenshaw
LORIN CRENSHAW, 39
Vice president/Treasurer/Investor relations, Albemarle Corp.
Lorin Crenshaw heads up 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge’s financial literacy program called Dollars and Sense,...
Forty Under 40: Craig Gehring
CRAIG GEHRING, 28
Founder and president, MasteryPrep
Who better to write the book on mastering standardized tests than the guy who made perfect scores on the...
Forty Under 40: Jeff Carney
JEFF CARNEY, 38
Associate professor, LSU School of Architecture; Director, Coastal Sustainability Studio
There’s no question that Louisiana’s coastline faces some serious challenges as the world...
Forty Under 40: Haley Blakeman
HALEY BLAKEMAN, 38
Director of implementation,
Center for Planning Excellence
Haley Blakeman is passionate about making Louisiana’s communities better places to live. She does so by assisting them...
Forty Under 40: April Hill
APRIL HILL, 36
Owner, Yoglates II South
Growing up in a small community, April Hill always had a dream to open her own business. That dream...
