Vanessa Blackburn Rud Browne has...

Vanessa Blackburn

Rud Browne has raise that a recession is a great time to do business.

As the institutor and CEO of Ryzex, a privately held Bellingham company that refurbishes bar-code scanning equipment and resell it around the world, he has had the opportunity to watch first hand by what mode a company with a recycle and reuse mentality can increase quickly when the stock market is down. The attestation of this is in the numbers: In 2002 the Puget hale Business Journal ranked Ryzex as Washington's 93rd-fastest-growing private company -- and the alone business in Whatcom, Skagit, Island and San Juan