JCK would be nowhere without the industry insiders who have helped the magazine along the way—either by making the news, reading it in our pages, or both. So we asked 150 of them to join the dialogue about how the jewelry business has changed over the decades and the role we have played in that evolution. Here are the first 25. ••• “For years, JCK had an amazing sales manager by the name of Bill Furman, who to many was an icon with his always smiling and energetic personality. We became friends and he would stop at our office on 46th Street to chat, and he always brought some artisanal chocolates as a gift. His passion and addiction to chocolate were in