Award Winners
2025 Forty Under 40: Alicia Faust
Alicia Faust Executive Director | Willis Dady Homeless Services | AGE: 35 Residence: Cedar Rapids Hometown: Guttenberg Education: Master of Arts in leadership What was your first job? First ever: Deli worker at Benders Foods in high school. First professional:…
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…
Devin Carney
Age: 32 Occupation: Automation Support Manager, Van Meter Inc. What’s the best advice you ever received? I…
Chad Brandmeyer
Age: 38 Occupation: Senior Manager, RSM US LLP What’s the best advice you ever received? Give people…
