Women Of Influence

Kristy Campbell, the Chief Operating Officer of Rev1 Ventures has no problem with being direct. Speaking up and being honest were what helped Campbell climb her way up the venture capital ladder to her C-Suite position she holds now within Rev1, the local venture capital firm. At times, however, she said that she had to learn how to reign it in. "Sometimes I can be direct and cut to the case," she said. "That's the thing I've had to adjust to the most .....

Let's be honest here: Every single person struggles with caring about what people think of us, inside and outside of the office. And Columbus City Councilwoman Liz Brown said she know what that feels like, particularly because she works a very public-facing job. But she said she had to get to a place in her career where she had to just stop worrying about it – no excuses. "It's hard. I choose to ignore it a lot," she said...

This week’s News & Brews raises a glass to Columbus Craft Beer Week. The annual event kicks off Friday and runs through May 25 offering a wide array of beer dinners, tap takeovers and other happenings to sate the local beer imbibing public. It felt appropriate then to split a sixer of the this year’s collaboration beer, Six One Pour. The Central Ohio contingent of the Ohio Craft Brewers Association gather every spring to brainstorm and brew a beer to mark the occasion...

Columbus Business First dipped into its archive for this 2018 interview with Adam Benner, co-owner of Land-Grant Brewing. Benner talks about Land-Grant's origins — did you know its original name and where it initially was going to open? What inspired its owners? Land-Grant has been a bit of a "good luck charm" for local sports teams, but how did it get into the area stadiums? Benner also opens up about the challenges craft brewers face from can shortages to an overcrowded marketplace.

Kelley Griesmer, the CEO of the Women's Fund of Central Ohio, has always been a dreamer. Griesmer went from wanting to be a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, to being a trial lawyer for 15 years, to helping kickstart the $200 million nonprofit Peletonia to becoming the face of the largest foundation for women and girls in Columbus...

News & Brews is never afraid to tackle the major issues, such as what the heck is on the can of Catawba Island’s Hot Blonde? Dead fish? Steak? Mango? Tulip glass? Something else? The Lake Erie brewery’s habanero blonde is this week’s beer, prompting not just inaccurate interpretations of can art but also talk of Ohio geography — where exactly is the brewery? — and spelling...

Seventh Son Brewing took a lager and hopped it up. Float is a modern twist on an old classic and it got a short-handed News & Brews squad all hopped up on a variety of beer topics including the business case for ales versus lagers, why brewers choose cans over bottles, what defines a craft brewer and how the proliferation of new beer is hurting some in the beer industry...

What's the key to success, according to Linda Shetina Logan? Take the road less traveled. Wait tables. Seek out new adventures, even if it seems risky. The executive director of the Greater Columbus Sports Commission knows a thing or two about it from personal experience. She moved to Columbus and waited tables for a few years at the Funny Bone comedy club before she really started to become a name in the travel and sports scene. Now, she's up at the top...

A treat (at least for some of us) this week as News & Brews took on the Dark Lord. This opulent creation from 3 Floyd’s Brewing Co. draws fans from around the U.S. to its Munster, Indiana brewery every May for Dark Lord day, a $180 a ticket annual festival of big beer and heavy metal music. Managing Editor Mark Somerson generously shared a bomber of the 2018 Dark Lord with the team. Who among us now hail the Dark Lord? Not as many as one might think...

Pulp or no pulp is a question for orange juice, not beer. Or is it? Urban Artifact’s Gaslight was on the table for this week’s News & Brews podcast and proved to be one of the more divisive selections to date as the hazy sour IPA might have been a bit too heavy on the haze for some of the team. Columbus Business First’s latest News & Brews happy hour — a sell out event at Seventh Son Brewing Co. last Thursday — merited a mention...