Idaho Business Review IBR

Cathy Light has a passion, and she describes it in bold and with an exclamation point: “I’m a leadership crusader!” She started watching leaders around her in high school. At 15, she worked after school at Fireside Savings and Loan ...

Danae Klimes is a Magic Valley girl, through and through. When she talks to her agricultural clients about their concerns, she knows what she’s talking about. She grew up on a farm in Wendell, watching her veterinarian father and helping ...

On top-rated television shows, attorneys for the Special Victims Unit see new clients every episode and can hardly wait to chase the next sensational case to splash across the media. In reality, however, at least for Erica M. Kallin of ...

When Casey Holcomb arrived in northern Idaho in October 2011, winter was a heartbeat away, and it was dark and cold. The rest of life didn’t look to be so cheery, either. Holcomb stepped off the plane from California recently ...

  Thirty-nine year old Erin Retelle’s resume reads something like a game of “one of these things is not like the other.” She’s a geologist. She’s a seamstress. And … a ballroom dancer? “I just have a lot of ideas ...

  Four years ago, Natalie Lemas Hernandez, now 28, was living in the Bay Area, having just completed an executive training program for Macy’s. Her first assignment as a sales manager was a dismal one: she was to head up ...

  As she herself says, Mandi Herbert, 36, likes to set lofty goals. For instance, Herbert, an Eagle native, is a lifelong dancer, but not just when a good song comes on the radio. Trained in “every style you can ...

Ben Chaney likes to be busy. Growing up in Boise, he watched his mother, a foreign-language teacher at his private high school, work from dawn to the early hours of the morning, taking care of the family and her students ...

Jason Coronado’s personal philosophy is pretty straightforward: work hard. Be active in the community. Make time for family. A named partner at Deloitte Tax LLP in Boise since the tender age of 33, Coronado brings his best to the profession. ...

Idaho Independent Bank is a community bank and Cassie Fontaine takes that charge very seriously. “As a community bank, we do it all,” Fontaine says. “I try to focus on the welfare and success of my clients. I like understanding ...