From nuts to beer: Company builds revenue as craft brews grow

Tom Henderson - Brian Polowniak sliced and diced business plans and spreadsheets from 2011-13 for the $100 million investment arm of 5-Hour Energy entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava, deciding which early-stage companies were worthy of investments. Today, Polowniak is still slicing and dicing, but it's chestnuts he's working with, not spreadsheets, as president and CEO of Jackson-based Treeborn Inc., a spinoff from Michigan State University that has started to provide chestnut chips to the fast-growing craft beer