CHUCK BUNDRANT

Bundrant is chairman and cofounder of Trident Seafoods, the largest vertically integrated seafood company in North America, with $2.6 billion in estimated revenues and operations in China, Japan and Germany. Trident sells Alaskan wild-caught salmon, cod and pollock to retailers like Costco and Safeway, and to fast food chains like Long John Silver’s and McDonald’s. In 1961, 19-year-old Bundrant drove from Tennessee to Seattle with $80 in his pocket to start fishing. He eventually made his way to Alaska, slept on the docks and worked on any fishing boat that would hire him.