Melina Kennedy Archives - The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership

PODCAST: Christy Wright on food as the next frontier of health, innovating for the farmer + AgriNovus as a critical ecosystem convener

Courtney Kerr2025-12-16T15:01:56-05:00December 16, 2025|

PODCAST: Melina Kennedy, CEO of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP), recently hosted Christy Wright, the newly named President and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana on the Agbioscience podcast. They talk service, food as the next frontier of health and Christy's vision for what lies ahead for Indiana’s agbioscience economy. They get into: Christy’s journey from Director of Global Food Systems at Corteva to taking the reins at AgriNovus this year The “why” behind her desire to lead and serve, now in a leadership role at CICP Her takeaways and high-level overview as she’s been on a road tour 90 days into the job AgriNovus’ Accelerate 2050 report and how it serves as a launching point for the organization’s strategy moving forward How Christy wants to leverage the power of Indiana’s agbioscience ecosystem to drive a new era of industry [...]

IIB: Grads: Stay Open to Possibilities; Stay in Indiana for Opportunities

Raquel Bahamonde2023-07-11T16:02:41-04:00July 11, 2023|

Graduations of all shapes and sizes – kindergarten, middle school, high school, certificate programs, and universities have just happened, leading students to their next chapter in life. Regardless of your age, I wonder if you knew exactly what you wanted to do when you graduated from high school or even what you want to do right now. Or, if you have the exact job tied to exactly what you studied. Too many people think that once they earn their degree, they need to know precisely what job they will be in now, in the near future and even down the road. But for most people, so much can change and keeping an open mind and thinking broadly about what the future holds can make all the difference in the world. CICP CEO Melina Kennedy offers more in this Inside INdiana Business Perspectives piece. [READ [...]

PODCAST: Seeing what’s ahead before it comes, a conversation with CICP CEO Melina Kennedy

Raquel Bahamonde2023-03-24T10:39:30-04:00March 24, 2023|

PODCAST: Melina Kennedy, CEO of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP), joins our agbiosciences’ initiative AgriNovus Indiana and President and CEO Mitch Frazier to talk about how progress in our economy requires working across all industry sectors to find common themes and confront challenges. She talks about the uniqueness of CICP as an organization, serving the community in an impactful way and being a proponent for innovation. How does Indiana continue to grow and what is the role of agbioscience in that story? Kennedy also talks about refusing to sit still, looking up and out and seeing what’s ahead before it comes. [LISTEN]

Corporate and Community Leader Melina Kennedy named Central Indiana Corporate Partnership CEO

Raquel Bahamonde2022-12-08T16:02:56-05:00December 8, 2022|

INDIANAPOLIS (December 8, 2022) – The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) today announced that Melina Kennedy, vice president of product compliance and regulatory affairs, Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) has been named the organization’s chief executive officer. In July, David Johnson, current CEO, announced his retirement effective at the end of 2022. Kennedy has more than 25 years of experience in law, government and business, including the past decade at Cummins, first directing executive communications and then held leadership roles in the Engine and Power Systems businesses before becoming a vice president leading the Product Compliance and Regulatory Affairs organization. In addition, she had a successful law career at the former Baker and Daniels LLP; and was deputy mayor, director of economic development for the City of Indianapolis from 2000 to 2005. In 2011, she was a candidate for mayor of [...]

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