Advanced Materials : Featured Stories

Tony Giordano has been around the block. He's started successful companies in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He has a good job as assistant dean of research and business development at Louisiana State University's Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. So why is he moving his new cardiovascular company from Louisiana to Cleveland? Quite simply, he says, there's no place like Ohio.

Hooked on automotives since high school, Chris Hocker had established himself as a go-to guy in a job building engine fuel deck assemblies for GM trucks and vans. Then, his dream evaporated like the exhaust from a Chevy Blazer.