Mold a Winner


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 7:03 p.m. January 28, 2010
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Businesses.
Octex Corp., Sarasota
Industry. Manufacturing
Key. Company has a new owner, who plans to expand into new markets and product lines.

Jim Westman set himself up for quite the challenge last year when he decided to forgo his 20-year investment banking career to run a manufacturing business.

The first part of his plan was simple. Westman, a Sarasota native who lived with his family in Atlanta for nearly two decades, was going to return home with his two young children and his wife, also a Sarasota native.

 

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