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Faces of Technology Stacking up Against the Competition StackFrame CEO Gene McCulley grew up ishing for mackerel to help his father’s commercial ishing business. He never planned to be an entrepreneur. “I often describe myself as not having a very entrepreneurial bent,” he said. “My goal was simply to build the organization I wanted to work in.” Although his parents were unfamiliar with the high tech industry, they encouraged McCulley’s interest in science and technology at an early age. As a high school student, he won three coding tourna Y[