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CLASS of 2023

PATRICK COURTNEY Career success can be measured in a lot of ways. For Patrick Courtney, gen eral counsel for one of the region’s new

center represents at JACOR Contracting. “The number that I'm most proud of is our total payroll topped $3.4 million,” says the specialty contractor’s president. “We are a lean office with most of our employees being union craftsmen. Those union craftsmen make up 80 percent of our overall payroll. Providing a steady, reliable job for those blue-collar workers is what I was most proud of.” He took the ownership leap in the fall of 2021, partner ing to secure the SBA loan used to buy the company founded in 1993. “Our projects vary from new schools, apartments, logis tics parks to restoration of buildings and parking structures,” says Goss, 38. Among the more notable projects completed are the restoration of the Valencia Grand Staircase on the Country Club Plaza, the est additions to the billion-dollar-reve nue club, one big metric contributes to Terracon’s top-line performance but doesn’t show up there. “The accom plishment I am most proud of is the success we have had on our Corporate Survey,” says the engineering firm’s general counsel. “This survey asks our offices to rate all corporate depart ments on qualities such as respon siveness, expertise, and reliability. My team received a 98 percent net positive score on the most recent Corporate Survey, leading all corpo rate departments.” For his team, “Be a resource, not a roadblock” is more than just a motto. “We try to live that out every day,” Courtney says. He’s also been a resource for local non

Boley Building, and the deck at Liberty Memorial. The year following the acquisi tion, he says, broke company records for both sales and overall volume. At home, he and Lindsey have two children, ages 6 and 7, “who always keep our family on the run,” Goss says. “I'm actively involved in their youth sports, coaching basketball, football, soccer, and baseball.” Instilling a faith-centered giving heart in them, Goss says, “is the highest of our priorities. Our family is actively involved in volunteer ing with our church and several great organizations, Newhouse being one of them. Our last family volunteer event was Newhouse's Holiday Gift Shop. My wife and I helped wrap presents while our children helped kids pick out their gifts for Christmas.” profits through his work with the ACC Mid-America Pro Bono Legal Clinic. In partnership with Stinson, LLP and UMKC’s School of Law, it provides pro bono opportunities specifically for in-house counsel and has served more than 50 non-profits since its launch in 2019. He and Rachel have four children, ages 4 to 13, and Courtney has also stepped in as basketball coach and swim official. “As busy as we are,” he says, “my hope is that the example my wife and I try to set regarding the importance of community involve ment is instilled in them and that when they’re older, they will remember the adults in their lives who made a posi tive impact on them and be inspired to do the same for others.”

JONATHON GOSS Meeting a payroll isn’t just a biweekly matter of checking a box for Jonathon Goss. It matters to him what that cost

Ingram’s 20 in Their Twenties awards program has thus far identified 300 entrepreneurially minded business owners and young executives who dare to dream big—and act on those dreams. We welcome you to nominate accomplished leaders to be considered for our 2023 class.

In a recent ranking of America’s best cities for young entrepreneurs , Under30CEO placed Kansas City second among U.S. metropolitan areas for their start-up environments. Yes, assets like the Kauffman Foundation contri- bute to this distinction, but something else is at work here. We see it in those who have hurled themselves into their own business ventures, and in others who bring entrepreneurial skills to their jobs. And in Ingram’s upcoming annual installment of 20 in Their Twenties, we bring you a score of those high achievers.

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