January 30, 2007 Podcast

Larry interviews various executives of Otterbase for this week's Innovations with Eiler and Pasick" podcast. Otterbase is a staffing company that is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Bill Bennett, CEO of Otterbase, starts the discussion explaining how the company started, and why they chose Michigan. Bill talks about how the business grew and overcame various market trends and changes.

Joe Sod, the Vice President of Otterbase, comes on next and discusses his segment of the business that is located in Livonia, Michigan. Joe also discusses the different facets of the company, and how they have branched out from their IT niche and into other area of staffing.

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January 16th, 2007 Podcast

This "Innovations with Eiler and Pasick" podcast has Larry Eiler and Robert Pasick focusing on manufacturing in China and its emergence as a world force in manufacturing.

They begin the discussion with speaking with Jimmy Hsaio, founder and Chief Executive of Logic Solutions, a computer-based solutions and technology company that operates in the United States, China, and India. They are focused on doing sourcing, which is doing computer based analysis and programming for customers at one of its locations.

The second guest is Bill Milliken, a commercial real-estate expert and has been head of the Ann Arbor chamber of commerce, the Washtenaw Development Agency (processor to SPARK), and has been widely active in the local business scene. He is currently the director of SPARK.

They discuss on how there are good things for Michigan that can come out of China.

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