Aileron: A place to dream ; Q&A with Aileron founder Mathile

From: Dayton Daily News | Date: April 8, 2008| Author: -- Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer | Copyright information

When he sold Iams to Procter & Gamble for $2.3 billion in 1999, Clay Mathile promised to stay busy expanding his Center for Entrepreneurial Education.

A visit to the new $30 million Aileron Center is evidence of how busy Mathile has been.

The sprawling 114-acre campus is meant to offer chief executives and business owners a refuge from dayto-day pressures to think about where they're going and how to get there -- the kinds of questions Mathile himself wrestled with, particularl...

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