Buffalo Filter: Rising executive Samantha Bonano has business in her blood

Samantha Bonano got her start at Buffalo Filter as a 12-year-old in 1995, the same year her father purchased the company assets. The seedlings of a talented business executive were planted. The family sold the business in 2013 to Filtration Group, an affiliate of Chicago-based Madison Industries (the same company that recently acquired Multisorb Technologies in Buffalo). Bonano, who has done practically every job at Buffalo Filter, stayed on for the last five years as president and CEO. She has...