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AdventHealth Selects Dr. Bela Nand as Regional Chief Medical Officer for Mid-America Region

Posted July 16, 2025 AdventHealth announced the appointment of Dr. Bela Nand as the new regional chief medical officer for the Mid-America region. Nand will take on her new role effective July 29, according to a release. She will serve… more

Cingulate Names Nilay Patel Chief Legal Officer, Prepares ADHD Drug Filing

Posted July 16, 2025 Cingulate has named Nilay Patel as its chief legal officer weeks ahead of when the company plans to submit its new drug application to the FDA. Patel brings over two decades of experience in legal and… more

Frank White Proposes New Plan to Keep Chiefs in Arrowhead

Posted July 15, 2025 Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. has proposed a new way to retain the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium by modifying the three-eighths-cent sales tax that failed to pass in 2024. In a written letter from White… more

Construction Platform Company Wall Works Holdings Names CEO

Posted July 10, 2025 Wall Works Holdings, a construction platform company created from Kansas City-based VantEdge and Boston-based AVALT, has announced its new chief executive officer. Wall Works appointed Darren Gould to the role of CEO, according to a Thursday… more

MMGY Global Names New Chief Human Resources Officer

Posted July 15, 2025 Overland Park-based MMGY Global has hired Oksana Kovalenko as the advertising firm’s chief human resources officer. Kovalenko will assume the role of CHRO effective July 16, according to a Monday release. As CHRO, Kovalenko will lead… more

NKC Health Names New Medical Staff President

Posted July 9, 2025 NKC Health has announced its first new leadership appointment following the health system’s rebrand, with Dr. Ian Rosbrugh named as the medical staff president. Rosbrugh began his new one-year term for the new role on July… more

Chad & Jeannie Williams Announce Launch of Quality Growth Companies, QFoundation

Posted July 7, 2025 The former CEO of QTS Data Centers, Chad Williams, and his wife, Jeannie Williams, announced the official launch of Quality Growth Companies (QGC). The pair will help lead the newly rebranded arm of QTS, according to… more

Kansas City Legend Tom Grant Dies at 74

Posted July 7, 2025 Updated July 8, 2025 at 11:14 a.m.  William Thomas (Tom) Grant II, the former president of Overland Park-based SelectQuote, passed away on July 1, due to cancer. He was 74. Grant was best known for his… more

Children’s Mercy Names Dr. Clark Andrew Bonham Director of Transplant Center

Posted July 3, 2025 Children’s Mercy announced that Dr. Clark Andrew Bonham will become the new director of the hospital’s transplant center. Bonham will now serve Children’s Mercy as the Director of the Division of Transplant Surgery and Director of… more

Take One For The Team

I’m waking up on day three at North Kansas City Hospital with several broken ribs and a fractured right transverse process of my first lumber vertebra. In a rush Friday morning during the rain, I slipped and fell down a… more