Albion Financial Group

(Interview with Jason Ware)

(Interview with Jason Ware)

This week's program featured a local spotlight interview with Jamaica Trinnaman, founder and CEO of Hello! Bulk Markets. An early stage business, Hello! Bulk Markets offers bulk items including dried fruits and nuts, body care products, household cleaners, essential oils, and more.  Trinnaman shares how her vision for a low-waste, package-free store in Salt Lake City came to fruition.

Tom Stockham, CEO of ExpertVoice (formerly Experticity), describes how his company helps consumer brands—such as TOMS Shoes, Purina and Skull Candy—identify category-specific experts within their brand who can provide personalized product recommendations to consumers. Tom also talks about the legacy of his father, Thomas G. Stockham, Jr. who is remembered as the father of digital recording.

Jorge Fierro is the founder and CEO of RICO Brand, a company that makes a line of gourmet ready-to-eat Mexican products sold in grocery stores in the Mountain West region. Getting his start at the Downtown Salt Lake Farmer's Market in 1997, Jorge has grown RICO Brand into a multimillion-dollar business and his products are now available at local grocery stores such as Smith's, Harmons, Dan's Market, Whole Foods and many others. On today's program, Fierro shares his story of leaving law school in Mexico and coming to the United States to pursue his initial goal of becoming fluent in English. He also talks about his efforts to feed the homeless population in Salt Lake through his work with the Burrito Project SLC.

Denver Lough, MD, PhD is the Founder, CEO and President of PolarityTE. On the program, Dr. Lough talks to Doug about what led to his decision to leave medical school at Johns Hopkins University to form a regenerative medicine company that would later be known as PolarityTE.  PolarityTE is a biotech startup that aims to be the first company to regenerate fully functioning tissue, eliminating the need for, among other things, skin grafts in burn therapy.

Interview with Doug Wells

(Quotes Doug Wells)

(Quotes Doug Wells)

(Quotes Doug Wells)