Features January 2022

The rolls of adhesive-backed paper can stand as high as 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide before becoming the little labels consumers see on appliances, deli packages, health and beauty aids and prescription medications. Those rolls of labels are the bread-and-butter product offered by Mactac North America, and for more than 20 years, it’s […]

Ask any toddler what they want to do when they grow up and there’s a good chance their answer involves driving a truck, whether as a fire fighter, garbage collector or member of the military. For Matthew Holt, those dreams came true in a way. As director of information technology for Herring Gas Company, he’s […]

Barry Porozni admits he began his IT career working on machines that should now be in a museum. “Who even knows what a punch card is now?” he says with a laugh. Most recently the CIO for The Reinvestment Fund, which he left in December 2021, Porozni chatted about his career with Toggle a month […]

Don’t only talk infotech with Geneviève Bertrand. She’ll be the first to acknowledge the people she oversees are better versed in its nuts and bolts, but that’s only half the business. Just as important is recognizing where IT is needed and applying it to enhance operations. That’s what she does as senior vice president of […]

What can drive a huge jump in stock price, fuel construction of more than 34,000 communication towers and yield more than $2 billion in annual earnings in 18 years? The answer, says Jorge Grau, is the skyrocketing mobile data consumption combined with “significant investment” in the construction and acquisition of infrastructure to support that phenomenon. […]

Many children follow in their mom or dad’s footsteps, and BJ Beier is no exception—having joined his father, Bill, at Union Savings Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio. A sister institution to Guardian Savings Bank (where the younger Beier now works), Union was a natural fit for the Beiers with its focus on family and community values. […]

While the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people’s physical health, it’s also taken a toll in other ways. “People with a history of mental illness were among the first people we reached out to because we can’t let them fall through the cracks,” says Thurston Smith, the CIO with Swope Health Services. “Just because COVID is […]

Once a word most frequently used by performing musicians about their shows, “gig” is going mainstream in workplaces throughout the world. In the U.S., the gig economy grew by 33 percent in the U.S. in 2020, a rate 8.5 times as high as the economy. If it continues to grow at this pace, perhaps 50 […]

While agriculture is one of the biggest industries in Latin America, Edgard Jaramillo doesn’t think there’s been enough investment in digital infrastructure for it. “We see that as a huge opportunity,” the general manager of Microlink says. “And it’s not just about financial gain. It’s about the ability to have greater social impact.” Microlink, based […]

Like so many other schools, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College hadn’t focused much on remote education prior to COVID-19, but it’s been making strides since. “The world changed, and we had to adapt,” Allen C. Saylor Jr. tells Toggle this past fall from the Tifton, Georgia, campus. “COVID hit us hard but we’re making sure instructors […]