Grit, goals and going for it: The 2025 Top Entrepreneurs

A middle school principal with a heart for interior design. A construction worker and financially-struggling young father searching for a better opportunity and life’s purpose. And a hotel events saleswoman with a knack for recognizing, and seizing trends. 

That’s not a casting call for the next hit Netflix or Hulu drama. 

Instead, those are snapshots — of Kristy Craig Anderson, Henry Detwiler and Kim Githler — of three of the six 2025 Business Observer Top Entrepreneurs. Three other winners, Beck Besecker, Anthony Solomon and Elizabeth Dosoretz, also come armed with compelling backstories.