Irwin Jacobs considers Carl Pohlad the epitome of an ethical businessperson. John Rollwagen remains in awe of the late Seymour Cray’s brilliance. Not even a legal battle could damage Tom Petters’s friendship with flinty commercial builder Nisson Mandel, one of his early investors.
We asked several prominent Twin Cities businesspeople this question: Who, outside of your own family, is the most unforgettable person you have ever worked with? This person may have been a boss, a subordinate, a peer, or a business partner. He or she may have been a mentor or a tyrant. But each had a singular, lasting, and positive effect on another’s career and life.
Rick Aguilar
CEO, Aguilar Productions, a St. Paul-based organizer of multicultural marketing conferences
Marti Morfitt
President and CEO, CNS, Inc., an Eden-Prairie company recently acquired by London-based GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare
Archie Givens, Jr.
CEO, Legacy Management and Development Corporation, Edina
Lawrence Perlman
Retired chairman and CEO, Control Data/Ceridian Corporation, Bloomington, and former chairman, Seagate Technologies
