In Her Blood: Cedar Native Helms $1.5 Billion Company
By Art Bukowski | Nov. 13, 2026
Antoinette Gawin oversees a $1.5 billion operation with 9,000 employees. She’s established herself as a well-respected business leader and was recently honored as such among a group of high-powered peers in New York City. She was known for not mincing words with her former boss, legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch.
And it all began in Cedar, Michigan. In some ways, it’s still there.
“I’ve found that the more experience I got and the more I worked around the world, the more I came back to my roots,” she tells The Ticker.
Gawin is CEO of Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, a Colorado-based subsidiary of the much larger Japanese …
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