Ronald Unger
President & CEO
WorkSmart
Durham, NC
Interview:
Ron Unger
President & CEO
Durham, NC
Company Website
Interviewed by:
Laird Hepburn
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Any company owner knows that no matter what your business plan; no matter how great your product is, at the end of the day, it’s the consumer who makes your business a success. Knowing your clientèle is the core to ensuring you’re selling your services to the right market.
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Leah Brown, founder of A10 Clinical Solutions, explains that she started the business as part of the grieving process when she lost a very close relative to HIV. She is neither a medical doctor nor a clinician; in fact she is an attorney by training.
A10 Clinical Solutions was incorporated in 2004 Read more [...] 
Sam Vaughan Jr.’s experience in the electrical business goes all the way back to his teen years, well before he became the Founder and President of Vaughan Electric Company in 1981.
Vaughan started in the industry right out of high school, working with Thomerson Electrical Company. He completed Read more [...] 
Never let it be said that the love of ice cream can’t lead to good things. It led Jeff Buck and Dave Gall to ownership of a Cold Stone Creamery franchise and a new life in North Carolina.
Before their venture into the world of ice cream, Buck and Gall worked in the information technology sector Read more [...] 
Kevin Thorne, President of Best Diamond Packaging, caught the entrepreneurial bug when he was working as a corporate buyer for McDonalds. He says he was inspired from the people he met there.
“I met some tremendously energetic, bright, and just very cool people,” Thorne recalls. “It’s like the Read more [...] 
Never let it be said that Sheldon Winston, the Founder and Owner of Phoenixx Systems, is afraid of change. Prior to 1997, he had no experience in technical staffing solutions. Up until then, he was the manager of a restaurant in Greensboro. When a chance encounter with an IT professional at his restaurant Read more [...] 
For Karen Albright, improving people’s lives through beauty and skincare has become a calling. She is the Owner and Co-Founder of BodyLase Skin Spa, the first free-standing medical spa in the Triangle.
BodyLase Skin Spa offers the traditional day spa services such as massage therapy, facials, and Read more [...] 
Making amazing events happen is Sally Webb’s job. She is the CEO of The Special Event Company, a strategic event and meeting management company founded in London in 1986. The company has been operating in the U.S. since 1999 and in recent years has moved its headquarters to the Research Triangle Park Read more [...] 
Sam Kumar is the President and CEO of MYCO Medical, a company that supplies high-quality medical tools for the healthcare industry.
Kumar’s training is in electrical engineering. He graduated from N.C. State in 1986 and worked several years for various IT companies. After experiencing multiple layoffs Read more [...] 
