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Article: SMALL BUSINESS; Switch at the top gives lift to AbleNet and to disabled; Founder Cheryl Volkman is mighty pleased to have handed the reins to Jennifer Thalhuber.(BUSINESS)(DICK YOUNGBLOOD)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 10, 2009
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Byline: DICK YOUNGBLOOD; STAFF WRITER
Despite a lack of business training, Cheryl Volkman made a passel of smart decisions in building AbleNet Inc. into a $9 million business that developed switches and other devices to allow children with profound disabilities to engage TVs, computers and other equipment with the touch of a finger or twitch of a muscle.
But her shrewdest move, an acquaintance suggested the other day, might have been her decision to step aside as CEO in 2007 and turn the job over to Jennifer Thalhuber, a 39-year-old business whiz armed with a chemical engineering degree, an M.B.A. and a history as co-founder and CEO of a successful ...