Award Winners
Eastern Iowa Airport director Marty Lenss named Most Influential Leader for 2025
For Marty Lenss, the Corridor Business Journal’s Most Influential Leader for 2025, the passion for flight came at a relatively early age — in the eighth grade, to be exact. “My interest in aviation would have occurred with my first…
Devin van Holsteijn
Director of Development Hancher Auditorium AGE: 31 What was your first job? Lifeguard at the…
Ben Symonds
Assistant Director Johnson County Ambulance Service AGE: 37 What was your first job? Bagging groceries…
Cherrie Spurlin
Executive Director Iowa & Western Illinois, MRA AGE: 36 What was your first job? Bussing…
Lauren Shovein
Marketing Program Manager Van Meter AGE: 37 What was your first job? Grocery store bagger.…
Daniel Runde
Physician UIHC Department of Emergency Medicine AGE: 39 What was your first job? Bag boy,…
Raphael Robertson
President Robertson Marketing & Branding Corporation AGE: 39 What was your first job? McDonalds on…
Brooke Prouty
Director Uptown Marion Main Street Program AGE: 29 What was your first job? Working at…
Dan Perez
Commercial Product Manager Bankers Trust AGE: 34 What was your first job? Meat department employee,…
Jaimen Pangborn
Site Manager Zach Johnson Foundation AGE: 39 What was your first job? As a teenager,…
Catherine Norwood
Therapist, Cedar Rapids Site Coordinator Covenant Family Solutions AGE: 38 What was your first job?…
Nick Miller
Vice President Ohnward Bank & Trust, Monticello AGE: 36 What was your first job? Milking…
Matt Miller
Senior Project Manager University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics AGE: 39 What was your first…
Jared Kast
Executive Director Hall-Perrine Cancer Center AGE: 38 What was your first job? Radiation therapist. Best…
Drew Martel
Director of Crisis Services Foundation 2 Crisis Services AGE: 37 Best advice you ever received?…
Salina McCarty
Co-Founder and Managing Director Houses into Homes, Coralville AGE: 38 What was your first job?…