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Betting on Herself NAI NP DODGE’S NEW PRESIDENT HAS ALWAYS KNOWN WHEN TO BET BY DAISY HUTZELL-RODMAN
Kristi Andersen grew up in a South Dakota farming community of 600 people, a place with one paved road and no fast food. There was not an obvious path from those dirt roads to a top-30 broadcast market, but a high school debate and drama coach saw something in the teenager. That was the first time someone bet on Andersen. It would not be the last. She went to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and spent 15 years in television news. Kids, family and the pull toward something new sent her to communications, first for Sen. Mike Johanns, then for MECA, before jumping into commercial real estate. On April 20, Andersen was named president of NAI NP Dodge, the commercial brokerage division of NP Dodge Co., one of the oldest family-owned businesses in the United States. She brings to the role more than $100 million in career sales volume, 20 years of communications experience and a great reputation in the Omaha business community built long before she ever closed a deal. She sat down with Midlands Business Journal. ANDERSEN ON PAGE 06
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