Kyle Los, 28
Michael Marsiglia, 34
Title: Program Manager Company: Rockford Construction
Title: Managing Partner, Grand Rapids; Vice President Company: Atomic Object
All the Grand Rapids business world’s a stage for a talent like Kyle Los. Los, program manager at Grand Rapids-based Rockford Construction, is not only a young professional who’s had a major impact in developing the innovation and design hub that is GRid70, he’s also an awardwinning performer who serves on the board of Actors’ Theatre Grand Rapids. Whether in acting or in business, he enjoys most the moment when he sees a light bulb come on in someone’s eyes, he said. “At GRid70, I see people get excited about a work project because of new perspectives. … With Actors Theatre, a theater that exists with the purpose of doing thoughtprovoking theater, I see individuals being challenged to think differently,” he said. “High-impact, communityimproving work makes me the most proud.” Hannah Schierbeek, coordinator for alumni and parent relations at Kuyper College, said she has known Los professionally for seven years. “He has taken GRid70 from where it began and helped build it into one of the most influential creativity hubs in Grand Rapids. From marketing, to project management, to personnel scheduling, to making coffee, there is not a task too big or too small for Kyle to handle. “The impact Kyle has had on the Grand Rapids community as a whole, and specifically the business community, has not gone unnoticed by his friends or his coworkers and employees. Kyle has a beautiful soul and incomparable sense for business.”
Michael Marsiglia credits the three-year hiatus he took from Atomic Object as his biggest break because it renewed his appreciation and commitment to the company and the Grand Rapids community. Marsiglia left Atomic Object in 2005 to pursue a job in Boston. Though he enjoyed the area, he and his wife decided to return to West Michigan because they didn’t feel they could make a difference there like they could in Grand Rapids. “We moved home to West Michigan with the utmost confidence that Grand Rapids is where we wanted to live, work and play,” he said. Marsiglia is now a leader and owner in Atomic Object, a sign of his renewed dedication. He said he is proud of the role he’s helped to play in the company’s growth. “Our business has grown from $3 million in revenue in 2008 to a projected $8.6 million in 2014,” he said. Marsiglia is the chair for the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, a member of Client 7, which is a national board of software consultancies, and a member and Develop Committee member of the West Michigan Technology Talent Council. Other recent volunteer activities include serving as a technical advisor to Momentum and Start Garden, as a 2014 judge for Startup Weekend and as a judge for MWest Challenge at Grand Valley State University. Carl Erickson, Atomic Object CEO and cofounder, called Marsiglia “a vital member of the next generation of leaders.”
18 Grand Rapids Business Journal | 40 UNDER FORTY 2014