Features Executive Profiles

When fans pile into Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis to see a Pacer’s game, they think nothing of taking out their smartphones while waiting for the action to start. Thanks to the Wi-Fi antennae under their seats, all of them have high speed internet. Once the game’s started, they stare at massive screens broadcasting statistics, […]

Years before Roosevelt Butler became interim chief information officer for Jefferson County, Alabama, the county filed one of the largest municipal bankruptcies in U.S. history. As a result of that $4.23 billion black hole—exacerbated by a repealed occupational tax that brought in $70 million annually—the county slashed its IT department and laid off half of […]

What if a parking garage could tell you which floor had available spaces? What if the construction of a city project could be monitored by drones? What if robotics and augmented reality were used to help maintain public facilities and support public safety operations? These were among the questions buzzing around the IT department of […]

One of the most talked about women in America these days resides in Manhattan’s Financial District. She’s notable for sparking discourse on the lack of women on corporate boards, though critics say her ulterior motive is promoting an initiative of her company. Her name is “Fearless Girl.” In Toggle, we want to promote women who […]

When Naperville launched Pulse Point Response in July 2016, it was the first city in Illinois to implement the life-saving mobile app. Pulse Point Response allows people who are CPR-certified to be notified when there is an emergency in their immediate area, and has created a city-wide safety net of first responders. So far, over […]

Growing up with a historian for a father and later working for a futurist think tank in Washington, D.C., Stacey Aldrich has spent a lot of time considering where people have been and where they’re headed. Her conclusion? We don’t change as quickly as we think. Her interest in the past and present has fostered […]

In 2016, Salesforce.com Inc., one of the largest cloud computing companies in the United States, leased Indiana’s tallest building as part of the company’s expansion. The newly named Salesforce Tower, located in downtown Indianapolis, will bring hundreds of high-paying technology jobs to the state in areas like engineering, finance and IT. That development surprised many […]

“It’s been crazy today,” says Laurie Panella, answering her phone for a Toggle interview. She’s just gotten out of a meeting on a new ERP system and needs to return a string of phone calls from the week before. “Oh, what am I saying? It’s been crazy the past two years because the IT department’s […]

When something is done well, it looks easy. Such is the case when logistics company, Distribution Management, receives, packs and delivers an order in one or two days, shipping to anywhere in the U.S. The company reaches coast to coast and border to border, all from only five centers in Texas, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri and […]

Since 1953, Gibsons has been one of those essential but somewhat low-key companies. As a midstream energy company, it stores and ships crude oil and other petroleum products from production exploration companies in the North American basin to consumer markets downstream. Without Gibsons, countless industrial operations would be out of oil and out of luck. […]