Ingram's April 2023

40 Under Forty Turns 25

pages, and you’ll see it in the organizations they choose to support. Truly, they are making a real difference in this region. Within their ranks, you’ll find people who design things, build things and finance things, who grease the wheels of commerce with their acumen in the fields of law and accounting, who boldly charge into business as entrepreneurs or who commit to instructing future generations in our schools. If you go back to that very first class in 1998, you’ll find honorees who were still on the way up in their careers. This year, the oldest from that cohort turn 64, and more than a few are already retired—their race is run. The torch has passed, as John F. Kennedy once proclaimed, to a new generation. It’s going to be fun to see what they do with it. For now, there is reason to be optimistic about Kansas City’s future.

For a quarter of a century, Ingram’s has recog nized young executives for their exceptional lead ership abilities and accomplishments through its annual 40 Under Forty program. They are, in every sense, superior achievers. As distinguished from overachievers, who are pro- perly understood as people who have exceeded expectations. Our 1,000 program honorees, inclu- ding the 2023 class, are people of whom great things have always been expected. And they have delivered. That’s precisely the point of Ingram’s 40 Under Forty recognition program—to identify the young people in our midst most likely to continue that success into the prime years of their careers. And, potentially, to lead within their organizations, and outside of them, to build a better community in which to live and work. Collectively, members of this year’s class, like the 960 who have come before them since 1998, are fulfilling their vast potential. You’ll see evidence of that in the success metrics on the following

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