t ’s g ood t o b e a ro ck s t a r.
But if you ask Vanessa Keitges, she’ll
I
say that it’s even better to be flanked
by a teamof them.
The president/CEO of Columbia Green
Technologies is in the midst of that
environment at the company’s Portland,
Ore. headquarters, where she oversees a
staff of 13 while aiming to maintain the
prodigious growth that’s yielded a 200- to
300-percent increase each year for a decade.
Sales offices are located in Philadelphia and
Washington,D.C.
“Great minds think alike. We have a rock
star team,” she said. “That’s what it takes. It’s
all about the people, and we’ve got just an
amazing group of people that believe in
what we’re doing, and in the products and
the technology and the service that we can
have. It’s reallywhat’s allowedus to grow.”
The momentum got started a decade
agowhen Columbia Green was created as a
“Great minds think alike.
We have a rock
star team,”
126 | BusinessWorld |
July-August 2014
