Nashville’s Most Admired CEOs of 2014: Mark Cleveland, Swiftwick

Please describe three of your top accomplishments in your role as CEO. The successful sale of the Hobby Lobby brand name to Hobby Lobby Stores and the reinvention and rebranding of my 50-year-old business to become Hobby Express. At Swiftwick, it’s the invention of a new class of liner socks to help amputees maintain or gain on their goals for an active lifestyle. The invention and patenting of a new moisture management strategy and cut-resistant hockey sock technology, knowing they save youth and professional hockey players from injury.” Read full feature…