As executive director of Civic Progress, Tom Irwin said that he and Michael Neidorff, the late chairman and CEO of Clayton-based Centene Corp., shared the same belief about the role big businesses play in the places they call home.
“If you are located in a community and you have a large number of employees, de facto you have an obligation to that community,” said Irwin, who retired in 2018 as head of the now-defunct organization comprised of CEOs and other leading executives in the St. Louis…
