2014 Forty Under 40: Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas, 39, a U.S. Army veteran, earned a degree from the Robert H. McKinney School of Law at IUPUI by taking night classes and working during the day. He’s now an associate at Lewis Wagner LLP.
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Edward Thomas, 39, a U.S. Army veteran, earned a degree from the Robert H. McKinney School of Law at IUPUI by taking night classes and working during the day. He’s now an associate at Lewis Wagner LLP.
George Srour, 30, has raised more than $2 million to open community-built, stakeholder-sustained academies in Uganda via Building Tomorrow Inc. In 2014, ground will be broken on the 30th school with a goal of 60 by 2016.
Bob Shaver, 31, is a board member of Slow Food USA, an organization with over 200 chapters around the country. He was pleasantly surprised by the local culinary scene when he moved here.
Todd Sermersheim, a 38-year-old vice president at Relativity Sports, counts as clients Arizona Cardinal Larry Fitzgerald, Chicago Bears Devin Hester and Alshon Jeffery, and Indianapolis Colt Pat McAfee.
K. Alicia Schulhof, 34, a senior vice president for IU Health, initially thought she wanted to be a physician. But while studying at Purdue University, she became involved in student organizations and found she enjoyed the administrative and leadership side.
Megan Robertson, 31, the campaign manager for Freedom Indiana, was originally a pre-vet major, but she didn’t enjoy spending time in the lab.
While at Indiana University, Ilya Rekhter, now 25, was intrigued by transportation—specifically why fuel efficiency and safety have improved but there still wasn’t a way to know when your already-20-minutes-late bus would arrive. His solution: DoubleMap, a bus-tracking application.
Luke Phenicie, 37, a partner at Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Co., joined the firm in 2004 as an associate, was promoted to vice president, then principal, then to partner at age 32—the youngest in the firm’s history.
Emily Pelino, now 32, took over the troubled KIPP Indianapolis charter school in 2009 after a disappointing four-year charter review (and after four previous leaders since 2004).
Monica Peck, 39, runs Hare Chevrolet with her sister Courtney. The two are sixth-generation owners of the auto dealership, which was founded in 1847 as a wagon and buggy manufacturer.
Many Indianapolis Colts fans are sweating that if Peyton Manning wins a Super Bowl, or two, with Denver that he could choose to be enshrined into the Hall of Fame as a Bronco instead of a Colt.
Six years ago, at age 30, Scott Moorehead took over cell phone service The Cellular Connection from his parents. By 2012, the company’s revenue grew from $191.2 million to $606.5 million.
A Teach for America graduate, Emily Masengale was named St. Louis teacher of the year while working at an alternative school she helped launch. Now age 30, she runs a recovery school for high school dropouts, which she also helped launch.
House Ways and Means Chairman Tim Brown said lawmakers will consider a plan by the IndyEleven soccer team to finance an $87 million stadium. The proposal is likely to be attached to an existing Senate bill.
Unlike some other high-profile athletes, 24-year-old Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck hasn’t overload his first NFL years with endorsement deals.
At age 31, Christy Langley might very well be the youngest person ever to head a city of Noblesville department. She and her staff just finished a year-long effort to update the city’s master plan.
After selling his startup MyJibe, Mike Langellier, 32, was named to the top spot at TechPoint, which focuses on community building and event marketing for technology companies.
Competition has always come naturally to Jarrod Krisiloff, marketing director of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. At age 31, he is the eldest of the next generation of the Hulman family to operate IMS.
Deron Kintner, 38, doesn’t come from a political background. But a call from Mayor Ballard lured him from public finance work at a law firm to the city’s bond bank. Now he spearheads Indianapolis’ economic-development efforts.
Sean Keefer, 36, Gov. Mike Pence’s legislative director, says he’s not planning his career too far into the future. He’s busy enjoying the present.