People & Culture articles focus on a specific person that is doing something remarkable or noteworthy in Utah's tech and startup ecosystem. Often, these individuals are not generally well-known or famous except for in their own circles where they exert a profound and important influence on those around them and the organizations they serve; as a result, they positively impact the local culture and community.
People & Culture
People & Culture articles focus on a specific person that is doing something remarkable or noteworthy in Utah's tech and startup ecosystem. Often, these individuals are not generally well-known or famous except for in their own circles where they exert a profound and important influence on those around them and the organizations they serve; as a result, they positively impact the local culture and community.
By Elainna Ciaramella
Chad Bennett is a former teenage hacker of the non-malicious kind, who in the early 1990s, got his kicks downloading viruses. Today, Chad is the founder of HEROIC Cybersecurity, based in Lehi, Utah, a company fighting the endless battle to protect the data, devices, and cloud services
By Karin Anderson
Jeanette Padilla demonstrates how a childhood on the edges of poverty can inform astute humanitarian leadership. Padilla’s nonprofit organization, Food Justice Coalition, operates in answer to lived experience. The coalition works to provide blankets, kitchen implements, money, and bureaucratic assistance to people living without shelter, but
Sam Shillingford, Co-Founder and CEO of KnowMe, noticed a need for a safe space for capturing memories when his good friend battled stage 4 cancer.
“He was having miserable experiences with chemo that he was sharing with our group chat,” remembers Shillingford. “Every few days we would get a new
Sam Shillingford, Co-Founder and CEO of KnowMe, noticed a need for a safe space for capturing memories when his good friend battled stage 4 cancer.
“He was having miserable experiences with chemo that he was sharing with our group chat,” remembers Shillingford. “Every few days we would get a new
By Elainna Ciaramella
Chad Bennett is a former teenage hacker of the non-malicious kind, who in the early 1990s, got his kicks downloading viruses. Today, Chad is the founder of HEROIC Cybersecurity, based in Lehi, Utah, a company fighting the endless battle to protect the data, devices, and cloud services
By Karin Anderson
Jeanette Padilla demonstrates how a childhood on the edges of poverty can inform astute humanitarian leadership. Padilla’s nonprofit organization, Food Justice Coalition, operates in answer to lived experience. The coalition works to provide blankets, kitchen implements, money, and bureaucratic assistance to people living without shelter, but
In the publishing industry there are five large publishing houses often called the “big five:” Penguin Random House (PRH), Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan. In 2020, PRH announced that it would buy Simon & Schuster for more than $2 billion, causing unease among the book and
Those in film production know it’s a sprint industry. Assignments are ramped up from conception to release, then dissipate and disperse just as rapidly. Work is distributed among an array of on-set, remote, creative, and technical teams; roles assigned and reassigned in a swirl of freelance, revision, and collaboration.
By Jenny Rollins
A Provo-based language learning platform, Hallo, is instantly connecting hundreds of thousands of people who want to learn English to native-speaking teachers who help them practice the language.
Similar to Uber, Hallo allows users to instantly match with teachers and other students to practice English within seconds
PlanRadar, a Vienna, Austria-based digital construction, real estate and facilities management platform, has named veteran Salt Lake City-based sales leader, Jeff Jensen, as its new General Manager, Americas. With almost two decades of experience leading sales teams in the construction, telecommunications, and IT industries, Jensen has a demonstrated ability to
By Elainna Ciaramella
In just three and a half years since the YouTube channel started in 2019, Matt’s Off-Road Recovery has become a national sensation with nearly 1.5 million subscribers and growing. What makes this YouTube success story intriguing is the channel’s atypical creator, Matt Wetzel, a
