Award Winners
2025 Forty Under 40: Elyse Garlock
Elyse Garlock Architect | Solum Lang Architects | AGE: 38 Family: Husband, Andrew; daughter, Isla Residence: Cedar Rapids Hometown: Cedar Rapids Education: Bachelor’s degree in architecture, Drury University Who do you consider your local mentors? Dale Solum, founding partner, Solum…
Christopher Hummer
Age: 38 Occupation: President, Don Hummer Trucking Corp. What’s the best advice you ever received?…
Akwi Nji
Age: 37 Occupation: Founder and Executive Director, The Hook; Licensed Realtor, Coldwell Banker Hedges Realty What’s the…
Aaron Horn
Age: 36 Occupation: Director – Information Technology, Iowa Interstate Railroad; President – Beat Cancer Today…
Tracey Myers
Age: 29 Occupation: Executive Director, Zach Johnson Foundation What’s the best advice you ever received? You’re…
Emily Mulbach
Age: 32 Occupation: Communications Coordinator – City of Cedar Rapids What’s the best advice you ever…
Christina Kimerle
Age: 32 Occupation: Executive Director, Friends of the Animal Center Foundation What’s the best advice…
Kyle Faille
Age: 27 Occupation: Mechanical/ Electrical Group Leader, Electrical Engineering at Shive-Hattery Architecture & Engineering What’s the best…
Wesley Beary
Age: 33 Occupation: Hacker Laureate, Heroku What’s the best advice you ever received? My inheritance, not through…
Bill Daly
Age: 33 Occupation: Attorney and Vice President, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll PLC What do you consider your greatest…
Joe Horaney
Age: 38 Occupation: Communications Director, Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency What’s the best advice you ever…
Justin Grobe
Age: 36 Occupation: Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine What do you consider your…
Jason Grimm
Age: 31 Occupation: Food System Planner, Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development What’s the best advice you…
Stephanie Gray
Age: 33 Occupation: Founder and Owner, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Nurse Practitioner at Integrative Health and Hormone…
Dustin Embree
Age: 36 Occupation: Executive Director, Jones County Economic Development What’s the best advice you ever received? Do…
Brittney Clarke
Age: 31 Occupation: AVP, Retail Banking Manager, Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust What do you consider your…
