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80 Finalists Announced for 2026 Innovation Awards; Ross Perot Jr. Named First ‘Legacy of Innovation’ Honoree
by Quincy Preston | Oct 23, 2025
Now in its seventh year, the annual D CEO and Dallas Innovates awards honor innovators shaping the future of North Texas.
by David Seeley |
Jul 10, 2025
BFS Advisory Group President Debra Brennan Tagg is just one of several high-achieving female financial advisers quoted in D CEO's recent story "The Future of Wealth Management is Female." The article notes that by 2030, women in the U.S. will control nearly five times more wealth than they did 10 years ago. And increasingly, women are among the wealth managers who advise them on how to grow and protect their money.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Jan 21, 2025
D CEO and Dallas Innovates' Innovation Award winners are working to resurrect extinct species, launching autonomous trucks, reinventing military aircraft, and bringing AI into the physical world—and that's just the beginning. The 2025 awards showcase game-changing achievements—including Texas' first newly minted decacorn—across 17 categories of innovation. Here’s a look at the innovators leading the way.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 7, 2025
From tech and finance to fashion and food, "Dallas is becoming a melting pot of industries—and that diversity is a recipe for innovation," Healy says in D CEO. "Dallas is where dreams become reality, period."
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Keyan Zandy, CEO of Skiles Group and co-author of The Lean Builder, was named the 2023 LCI Pioneer Award winner by the Lean Construction Institute in October. [Sources: Business Wire photo; DI]
The Last Word: Skiles Group CEO Keyan Zandy On Quality Over Quantity
by David Seeley | Dec 12, 2023
Zandy, who won a "Pioneer" award for lean construction in October, developed a crisis management tool for construction that's earned him two patents as well as awards from Constructech Vision and AGC. He shares his thoughts on redefining success for 2024 in an option piece on D CEO.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 13, 2023
Dallas Innovates and D CEO are proud to announce the finalists for its fifth annual Innovation Awards. The program honors companies, CEOs, CIOS, CTOs, entrepreneurs, and other leaders who are helping to make Dallas-Fort Worth an innovation hub....
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 7, 2023
The Loop Dallas—a 50-mile, $120 million urban bike trail with a goal of uniting neighborhoods around much of the city’s core—is turning what Ellerman calls "a spaghetti map of trails" into one big soaring loop he says will one day be known by all.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 18, 2023
The daughter of Filipino immigrants took a long, winding road to get to her office at Old Parkland, from a coveted spot at New York City's public Stuyvesant High School to a $5-an-hour job at JPMorgan Chase tugging bond trades out of pneumatic tubes to a finance and accounting degree at New York University.
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The Last Word: Outside CLO Founder Amy Osteen on How She Chooses Projects
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Sep 8, 2022
Osteen is featured in D CEO's September issue in its "Off Duty" section, which looks at the personal lives of local business leaders. Writing on LinkedIn, she says one reason she's working is for her "off duty"—and shares how that informs which projects she takes on.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 12, 2022
Tatum told D CEO he got the idea for his modular construction firm after he stopped playing pro basketball in Latin America and started investing in residential construction.
“I became frustrated with the change orders, inspection process, and delayed times. I distinctly remember telling myself, ‘There has to be another way.’" Tatum told D CEO. Today his company can build a home in eight to 16 weeks, and do it more sustainably, he says, with a forecast of over $50 million in revenue this year.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Feb 11, 2021
The virtual multi-platform event, which hosts panelists from Capital One, Samsung, Imprimis Group, and CASPR Group, has been rescheduled for Feb. 24.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Oct 13, 2020
Now in its second year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for North Texas.
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Knock currently operates in five markets, with plans to expand and grow moving forward. [Photo: Courtesy Knock]
Knock-Knock: Real Estate Startup With a Trade-In Platform Expands To Dallas-Fort Worth
by Alex Edwards | Nov 1, 2018
Co-founder Sean Black says Knock has found its niche in residential real estate because it's the only company doing a trade-in—and, it'll do everything for you.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 4, 2018
Browse our curated selection of events to plan your next week — and beyond.
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by Amanda Hayes |
Jun 13, 2016
Dallas entrepreneur Alexander Muse has launched Sumo Ventures, a new early stage investment fund starting at $10 million.
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