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F U L L C O N T E N T S O N PA G E 4 » M O R E I N S I D E T H E L I S T F O C U S H R & R E C R U I T M E N T mainebiz.biz / printsub S U B S C R I B E P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY S TA R T I N G O N P A G E 18 Craft coffee roasting heats up in Maine B y L o r i V a l i g r a W hen Will and Kathleen Pratt started a micro-roasting coffee business in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood in 2012, the local cof- fee and food culture impressed them, but the locals didn't offer them much encouragement. "People said 'Another coffee place? Good luck,'" says Kathleen Pratt, because roasters including Coffee By Design, Arabica Coffee House, Bard Coffee, Wicked Joe and others already were well established in Greater Portland. "You have to prove yourself," she adds. "You have to be part of a neighbor- hood to survive." C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 1 2 » 26 A concierge for yacht owners One of Maine's up-and-coming entrepreneurs saw an opportunity in the service industry and seized the moment. 25 Inside the Notebook Senior Writer Lori Valigra muses about generational communication styles. 22 Recruiting meets the ESOP Maine's largest advertising agency has added an employee-ownership plan to its list of incentives. S E E W H O ' S N E X T O N PA G E 3 0 » Michelle W. Gardner, clinical director of Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, is Maine's highest-paid state employee. HELP WANTED Tyler, Wayfair and SaviLinx searching for 1,700 workers B y J a m e s M c C a r t h y Christopher Hepburn, president of Tyler Technologies' Enterprise Resource Planning and School Division, left, with Robert Sansone, vice president of human resources, at the construction site for expansion of the public sector software company's Yarmouth office. $2.00 May 30, 2016 VO L . X X I I N O. X I I www.mainebiz.biz