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CLASS of 2023

RACHEL ATTEBERY The baby of this 40 Under Forty cohort is 33-year-old Rachel Attebery, but she’s right up there at the top in

terms of business impact. As director of operations for Diode Ventures, she’s helping that Black & Veatch spinoff make a huge splash in the development of data centers and power systems. Attebery came on board in 2012 on the oil and gas engineering team, working on the world’s first converted floating liquid natural gas project, and signed on with Diode in 2018. There, she developed its first solar project (currently the second-largest of the kind in Texas); for Google, she drove the execution of the first corporate power-purchase agreement in Taiwan. She also designed and managed the build of Diode’s proprietary asset-development software and the operations team, now up to 11 age. Since then, he’s picked up the pace, cracking the Kansas City office's Top Five Brokers list four times and, in the previ ous two years, ranking in the top 20 per cent of brokers worldwide. The 35-year old senior vice president is part of a team that has racked up more than $1.1 billion in sales transaction volume the past two years and more than $600 million in lease volume. Over the past five years, overall volume for his team is up an impressive 260 percent. For Baier, success all starts with an entrepreneurial mindset. “To me, being entrepreneurial is starting or expanding a business to serve needs in the economy,” he says. “True entrepreneurs use their knowledge and skills to propel themselves past other professionals in their own field through innovation and

members. Armed with an MBA with a focus on finance, she is continually writing and refining Diode’s business processes. Away from her primary responsibilities, she has served as the Empowerment Chair for B&V’s Women’s Advancement, Vision, and Empowerment employee resource group and served as a guest speaker promoting her sector before TEDxKC Youth, Engineering Change Lab USA, ENR FutureTech, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, and KU’s STEM initiative, and as well as Vineyard Community Church’s CauseCon con- ference. “I am passionate,” Attebery says, “about my family, friends, church family, and advocating for those with talent and drive.” hard work.” Learning the basics of com mercial real estate early in his career, he says, “allowed me to have a very solid base as an industrial broker. From day one, I understood the dynamics of a lease and how a landlord is likely to enforce the lease. With that background, I am able to better serve my clients by negotiating points that may seem irrelevant at the time of lease execution, but in the middle of the lease term could be a very pivotal point in the company’s future.” Family— and being part of an active one—is impor tant, he says, so he and Beki are already introducing their two little ones, ages 1 and 4, to boating and hiking. His other interests include support for Next Step KC and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City.

AUSTIN BAIER Ten years ago, Austin Baier hit the ground running at CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real-estate broker

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