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COLLIN THOMPSON COUNTRY CLUB BANK

SUMMER TREAS PULSE DESIGN GROUP

CHRISTIAN WEAD BLOCK REAL ESTATE SERVICES

You’ve heard of entre preneurship being in someone’s DNA? Yep, it’s a thing: In Collin Thompson’s case, it’s a family thing. The 29-year-old is part of the Generation

In her role as mar keting manager at Pulse Design Group, Summer Treas, 26, says she has the opportunity to make an impact each day. That includes her

With a fresh college diploma in hand in 2020, Christian Wead saw his dream of becoming a commercial realty broker dashed—for the moment—by the

pandemic. So he read 37 books on that field. Then he applied what he learned by hitting the phones at Block Real Estate Services and making more than 3,750 cold calls over the next 12 months. Thus, the $10 million goal he’d set for his first full year of brokerage transactions fell quickly on his march to an impressive $51 million in volume. It was a validation of the career path he’d charted as a col lege freshman. “The idea of a commis sion-based career and being my own boss was exciting, as there was no limit to what I could achieve,” he says. Today, he’s the leasing agent for more than 3 million square feet of space, mostly industrial, in the region, and gross transaction volume of more than $125 million.

Three for the Thompson family of Country Club Bank, where he’s vice president for corporate banking. In that capacity, he says, he brings to the table an embrace of calculated risks, a drive for innovative change, and a goal of crafting solutions that enrich stakeholder experiences. These aspects fuel my drive to make a meaningful impact on my community. A CPA by training, he came to the family enterprise after a stint with FORVIS, formerly BKD, where his work generated nearly $2 million in revenue and helped clients harvest more than $4 million in tax credits. That, he says, led to a growth of 104 percent in financial institution-related revenue over four years. “In an environment where entrepreneurship thrives, and diverse individuals have the resources to pursue their dreams,” he says, “the community prospers.”

work in content creation and consistent posting, which have elevated the firm’s digital media engagement metrics, with a 200 percent increase in followers over the past two years—evidence, she says, of “my ability to identify trends, experiment with new approaches, and drive tangible results to elevate the health-care design industry locally and nationwide.” Working with the firm’s leadership to identify new marketing objectives, strategic initiatives and partnerships that will diversify the firm’s client base, she’s proud of the new processes, procedures, elevated brand stan dards, and marketing materials she’s helped create, drawing in nine new clients this year to improve revenues and elevate the hit rate by 10 percentage points since com ing on board.

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