Fresh from eight years working in international real estate for the state department Tom Grubb is a native son who has had an amazing career and has the stories to prove it.

The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas building program for the Department of State and the U.S. Government community serving abroad under the authority of the chiefs of mission. In concert with other State Department bureaus, foreign affairs agencies, and Congress, OBO sets worldwide priorities for the design, construction, acquisition, maintenance, use, and sale of real properties and the use of sales proceeds.

OBO’s mission is to provide more secure, safer, more functional and well maintained facilities for the conduct of U.S. diplomacy and the promotion of U.S. interests worldwide.

Tom is as charming on the air as he is distinguesed in person.  I think you will enjoy hearing his tales of world travel helping our country protect existing embasies after 911 and locate land to build newer more secure facilities for the future.  I am proud to know Tom and we should be as a community as well.

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A decade ago, Lisle’s Alex Bratton wanted to launch a company that would make a difference in the business world and address customers’ needs — a tall order.

Not for Bratton.

The result was Lextech Global Services, a Lisle-based company that provides software to phone applications. Some of their products already have received local and national awards for excellence.

“There were plenty of developers in our market creating games, and more than enough companies making software customers asked for, but didn’t really need, because they wanted to make a quick buck,” 40-year-old Bratton said. “I wanted to play a more meaningful role in our customers’ businesses.”

Like the commercials hawking applications for the iPhone, Bratton believes that for virtually any business application, “there should be a business for that.” Based on customer needs and his own personal think tank, Bratton continues to develop applications that few in his field have even considered.

“We have created software in our sister company Lextech Labs that allows surveillance video used by police to be downloaded to a mobile device,” he said. “We also have an app that is sort of an interactive sales brochure — it allows users to keep track of inventory as well as display video of the products. We work with weapon systems, and even have remote control for industrial equipment that lets farmers work with their grain silos.”

Hope you can join us!

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