Award Winners
2025 Forty Under 40: Whitney Schreder
Whitney Schreder VP Finance | Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa | AGE: 39 Family: Partner John and kids Kaylie, Sawyer, Harper and Ivy Residence: Lisbon Hometown: Mount Vernon Education: B.B.A. in accounting Best advice you ever received? Practice the pause…
Aaron Robertson
Age: 37 Occupation: Managing Partner, Hawkins Wealth Management What was your first job? I worked for my…
Gerald Seals
Age: 38 Occupation: CEO, Harold’s Chicken Iowa What was your first job? Working at KB Toys. What’s…
Quintin Shepherd
Age: 39 Occupation: Superintendent, Linn-Mar Community School District What was your first job? Working on the farm.…
Ben Snyder
Age: 34 Occupation: Founder, Copper Black Services What was your first job? Busboy at the Village Inn…
Paige Swartzendruber
Age: 39 Occupation: Vice President, Berthel Fisher Companies What’s the best advice you ever received? There will…
Travis Thompson
Age: 38 Occupation: President, Thompson Truck & Trailers What was your first job? I worked the cash…
Stephanie Van Hemert
Age: 30 Occupation: Prairie Edge Special Education Strategist, College Community School District What’s the best advice you…
Brock Worley
Age: 32 Occupation: General Manager, Kenwood Records Management What’s the best advice you ever received? Instead of…
Kyle Zimmerman
Age: 32 Occupation: President, Securian Advisors MidAmerica What was your first job? I was a summer janitor…
Sarah Zimmerman
Age: 37 Occupation: Partner, BerganKDV What’s the best advice you ever received? Tomorrow is not guaranteed; make…
Mindy Olson
Age: 38 Occupation: Vice president, Paulson Electric, PEC Communications What’s the best advice you ever received? Never…
Meet 2017’s Women of Influence
The 2017 class of Women of Influence, shown before the April 20 awards ceremony at…
LaSheila Yates
Executive Director, Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission Chief Diversity Officer, City of Cedar Rapids A…
Jennifer Welton
Jennifer Welton Vice President of Treasury Management, Bankers Trust The term “go-getter” hardly encompasses Jennifer…
Cathy Terukina
Executive Vice President Folience If there’s a theme that runs through Cathy Terukina’s life, it…
