August 12, 2026

Most influential men named

The weekly newspaper In Business Las Vegas has unveiled its 2002 list of the most influential men in Southern Nevada business. In Business is a sister newspaper to the Las Vegas Sun.

Eighteen men were named to the list Friday, joining 64 others named in 2000 and 2001.

Those honored this year: Glenn Christenson, chief financial officer of Station Casinos Inc.; Cornelius Eason, president of Priority Staffing USA; Richard Fraim, general manager of KLAS-TV; Brad Friedmutter, president of the Friedmutter Group; Ed Guthrie, executive director of Opportunity Village; Robert Hamrick, chief executive of Coldwell Banker Premier Realty; Walter Higgins III, chief executive of Sierra Pacific Resources; Steve Hill, president of Silver State Materials Corp.; Frank Martin, chief executive of Martin-Harris Construction; James Murren, chief financial officer of MGM MIRAGE; Steve Petruska, area president for Pulte Homes and Del Webb Communities; Felix Rappaport, president of New York-New York hotel-casino; Clark County Manager Thomas Reilly; John Restrepo, principal of Restrepo Consulting Group; Robert "Tim" Snow, president of Thomas & Mack Development Group; A. Allan Stipe, chief executive of Sunrise Healthcare System; Thomas Warden, vice president of commun! ity and government relations at the Howard Hughes Corp and Harvey Whittemore, shareholder in the law firm Lionel Sawyer & Collins.

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