Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2008 Honorees
Adam Blake 4 Ryan Matthews 28
Ethan Boothe 5 Hunter McLean 29
Brandon K. Brewer 6 Niraj Mehta 30
Anthony Burks 7 Mike Micallef 31
Benton Cantey 9 Colin L. Murchison 33
Kelly Campbell 10 Jim Morse 34
Melissa Cawyer 11 Stephanie Pratt 35
Richard Dorough 12
Clare Pritchett 36
Sunny L. Drenik 13
Susan Roberts 37
Mark Dungan 15
Cathy Reagan Sheffield 38
Joseph Fackel 16
Colby Siratt 39
Alyson Farmer 17
Donnie Siratt 40
Neil Foster 18
Marc Sloter 41
Caroline E. Gary 19
Caroline C. Harrison 20 Yi-Jiun Su 42
Dak Hatfield 21 Grace Taylor 43
Jennifer Henderson 22 Greg Trevino 44
Ben King 23 Rick Wegman 45
Gary Lewis 24 Mindia Whittier 47
Quang T. Le 25 Chris Wilkie 49
Jim Luttrell 27 Randy Woods 50
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Editor
Best of the Best
Robert Francis Who would have ness his freshman year of college, a social
Associate Editor thought that pastel worker at the Federal Bureau of Prisons
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Managing Editor would shape a genera- family heritage.
Crystal Forester tion? But that’s exactly Like many classes before them the
Contributors what we found out Class of 2008 not only has an impressive
Aleshia Howe, Betty Dillard, Elizabeth Bassett, reading the profiles of resume but they also have a volunteer list
John-Laurent Tronche, Leslie Wimmer, Sarah Mason,
Celestina Phillips, Tonie Auer, Darwin Campbell, the 40 Under 40 recipi- just as long. In addition to the long hours
Laurie Barker James, Stephanie Patrick CRYSTAL FORESTER ents. Growing up many at the office, our honorees spend count-
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Glen E. Ellman, Glenn Killman Whatever it was that the 40 Under 40 For some recipients, community
Advertising Executives Class of 2008 was watching, it has paid involvement overlaps and becomes their
Andrea Benford, Elizabeth Northern off. This is a group of individuals who business. One of the honorees founded
Mary Schlegel, Robert Southerland, Annie Warren
shine with the qualities of true leaders in the Children’s Neuroblastoma Cancer
Sales Director the workplace and the community. All of Foundation after their child was diagnosed
Anjanette Hamilton
the men and women in this group set high with the disease.
Vice President of Operations expectations for themselves and have met Who’s who? You’ll have to turn off
Shevoyd Hamilton
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Members of this class include someone through the pages of the Fort Worth
Mary Lou Jacobs
worked at the White House with President Business Press’ 40 Under 40 Class of 2008
Reception
George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, and find out.
Maggie Franklin
someone who started a real estate busi-
age 22
Hometown Leawood, Kan.
ooking back, maybe it was his father’s layoff that first ignited
L Adam Blake’s entrepreneurial passion. But whatever it was, it
has served Blake, 22, well. Just one year after graduating with a
triple major from Texas Christian University, Blake has taken his
Fort Worth-based real estate company to the next level – the mul-
timillion dollar level.
“I’m having fun; it’s an exciting time in real estate because
there’s a lot going on and I’m glad to be in on it,” Blake says.
Blake founded Venture Corp. during his freshman year of col-
lege when he got his real estate license and $100,000 in startup
money from a fraternity brother. His first foray into the real estate
business was renting properties to college students. His success in
rentals led him to start flipping houses, and by the next year he Who was your biggest influence?
was managing properties for several investors. Donald Trump. I like all his books and his confident attitude.
Venture Corp. has since grown into a multimillion-dollar-a-year Where is your dream vacation spot?
company with more than 10 employees. The full-service real Right now, probably somewhere in China.
estate company specializes in investment properties but offers
services in residential and commercial development, property Where did your first paycheck come from?
management, investment syndication, and buyer and seller repre- I can’t remember.
sentation. Another profession you would like to try?
Today, Blake says the company has moved more into commer- Something with alternative energy
cial development and – thanks to the current housing market –
into residential foreclosures. What was your favorite high school subject?
“I have put together a large fund to buy foreclosures and Economics
because there are so many out there right now, unfortunately, What was your favorite TV show growing up?
they’re a great investment,” Blake says. “The company will be I have never watched a lot of TV, but probably
going in that direction for the foreseeable future.” Sports Center or something on the Discovery Channel
Since the start of his business, it has become a family affair.
Both Blake’s father and brother have moved to Fort Worth to What book would you recommend?
work for the company. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill or The World is Flat by
“I am really enjoying what I am doing right now, and I think Thomas Friedman
it’s just going to get better,” Blake says. What is your musical guilty pleasure?
– Aleshia Howe Classic rock
age 34
Hometown Fort Worth
n the late 1800s, a family from Georgia made their way to the
ITexas Panhandle. They were one of the first families in the area,
and among the first to try growing cotton in the previously
untilled land.
Several generations later, Ethan Boothe has tangible evidence
of his family’s legacy. A fifth-generation Texan and third-genera-
tion Fort Worth native, Boothe has the Stetson his great-grandfa-
ther, who was just a boy when his family trekked halfway across
the country, wore on weekends and for special occasions.
Boothe and his family still hold on to that adventurous spirit.
As a senior manager for Deloitte, he provides financial guidance
to companies and their employees with multinational offices. Who has been your biggest influence?
Personally, he grew up in a family that spent a lot of time out- I would have to say that my late grandfather,
doors and he is doing the same with his young family, he says. Melvin E. Boothe, who passed away in March 1997,
“We are definitely an outdoor activity-oriented family,” has probably had the greatest impact on my life.
Boothe says.
In the office, Boothe works with companies to help manage Where is your dream vacation spot?
the finances of their employees. He researches the companies to I’d have to split my time between Vail, Colo.
understand their background and where they are trying to move and the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.
in the future, and then provides a customized way to manage the
company’s global talent. Where did your first paycheck come from?
Part of the intrigue of working in his position is being able to My fist paycheck was probably around 1982 from
see the inner workings of successful companies in different sec- delivering circular advertisements in West Fort Worth
tors around the world, he says. for my grandfather’s Benjamin Franklin 5 & 10 Store.
“You really get an appreciation of things that are happening
across industries,” Boothe says. What was your favorite TV show growing up?
The job also allows for occasional travel. Boothe says at one As a youngster you could find me and my brother glued to
point he was going to Rome on the business trip, and he asked the TV for The Dukes of Hazard. The A-Team definitely took
his then-girlfriend to accompany him. He took a few days off and me through my middle school years and of course Saturday
they traveled to Tuscany, where he proposed. Kristen Boothe, now Night Live kept me and my friends entertained in high school.
his wife, and Ethan Boothe are expecting their second child in
What book would you recommend?
June.
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
While you can read about a country or a company, the only
way to really know it is to go and see it, he says.
What is your musical guilty pleasure?
“I don’t think there’s any substitute for the actual experi-
Justin Timberlake, specifically “SexyBack.”
ence,” he says.
I know I’m not alone out there.
—Elizabeth Bassett
age 37
Hometown Lubbock
age 33
Hometown Fort Worth
age 32
Hometown Fort Worth
age 34
Hometown Jenks, Okla.
age 38
Hometown Port Arthur
Albert, Neely & Kuhlmann’s Melissa Cawyer has her hands full.
She is a mother to three young children, actively involved in her
church and an oil and gas attorney working in one of the country’s
most active natural gas plays, the Barnett Shale.
“What we do is we write title opinions for most of the oil and
gas companies here in town,” says Cawyer, including Devon
Energy Corp., XTO Energy Inc. and Denbury Resources Inc. “What
that entails is that we go to various counties within Texas and we
examine titles, kind of like a title attorney for a real estate compa-
ny would do.”
Cawyer and her company’s work helps the energy producers
“know who to pay and what proportion to pay,” she says.
The Port Arthur-native started off in the litigation field, previ- Who has been your biggest influence?
ously having worked for the Texas Department of Public Safety. She My father
switched to insurance defense before finally moving from Corpus
Christi to Fort Worth in 1999. Where is your dream vacation spot?
After welcoming her first son in 2001, Cawyer said managing Italy
litigation and a newborn child proved to be a difficult task, so at
her firm’s request, she switched to oil and gas law. It was a move Where did your first paycheck come from?
made to give Cawyer more free time. Few could have predicted the I delivered the Port Arthur News
boom to come.
“We could work 24 hours a day and still not get everything Another profession you would like to try?
done,” says Cawyer, adding at times she could spend half her time Kindergarten teacher, if money were no object
on the road, or a month without leaving her downtown office.
What was your favorite high school subject?
Cawyer and husband, Russell D. Cawyer, an attorney at Kelly
Computer Science
Hart & Hallman and previous 40 Under 40 designate, will soon
visit Italy for the couple’s 10th anniversary of marriage. What was your favorite TV show growing up?
Kelly Hart & Hallman’s Leslie Darby, who nominated Melissa The Incredible Hulk
Cawyer, said she is role model for all
“In a day and age where women are commonly choosing to What book would you recommend?
forego the workplace in favor of being caretakers,” Darby says, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
“Melissa is living proof that it can be done: Women can have a
career and a family.” What is your musical guilty pleasure?
– John-Laurent Tronche The soundtrack to Evita, the 1996 movie
age 38
Hometown Fort Worth
age 38
Hometown Pittsburg, Kan.
age 37
Hometown Fort Worth
age 39
Hometown Rock Island, Ill.
orn and raised in Rock Island, Ill., Joe Fackel heard Fort Worth
Bcalling his name when he learned about a man named Tom
Buxton.
“My father-in-law was telling me about this guy who had started
this company that was just going crazy,” Fackel says. “He had been
reading about some new interesting products they had coming out
and he said, ‘You should call Tom.’ So I called Tom.”
Buxton obviously liked what Fackel had to say. In June 2002
Fackel, along with his wife and young son, left his home in Atlanta to
move to Fort Worth and to a new job at Buxton, a highly-regarded
customer analytics company.
Fackel’s initial task at Buxton was to confirm whether communities
would really be interested in utilizing Buxton’s tools for recruiting
retail. After traveling Texas, hosting meetings and presentations about Who has been your biggest influence?
Buxton’s services, Fackel quickly learned the demand would be great. My parents, as well as Bob Bolen
“I could tell by the second meeting that we were really on to
something,” Fackel says. “Retail was a mystery to most people. We Where is your dream vacation spot?
were able to bring our expertise to these communities so they could Kauai, Hawaii
understand retail opportunities, and learn how to not waste time and
resources choosing the wrong kinds of retail.” Where did your first paycheck come from?
Six years later after conducting that initial research for Tom Buxton, Delivering carpeting and floor covering
Fackel is now Buxton’s northern division senior vice president, having
been a part of more than 400 projects across the country in 40 states. Another profession you would like to try?
“We had a tool, cities had a need, and we were just able to meet Teacher
that need,” Fackel says. “It’s just been a phenomenal ride.”
Fackel carries his same enthusiasm from the office over to his com- What was your favorite high school subject?
munity involvement, as well. He supports many local charities, includ- Biology
ing the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, The Warm Place and
the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. What was your favorite TV show growing up?
“I come from a family where giving back to others was important,” Moonlighting
Fackel says. “I think any time you can lend a hand, you have an obli-
What book would you recommend?
gation to do that, and that comes from my parents. That was the
It’s Not About the Bike...My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
example that was set for me and I am trying to do the same for my
two sons.” What is your musical guilty pleasure?
– Celestina Phillips Disney’s High School Musical
age 31
Hometown Muskogee, Okla.
age 37
Hometown Fort Worth
age 37
Hometown Oklahoma City
age 33
Hometown Lancaster, Calif.
age 33
Hometown Norman, Okla.
age 34
Hometown Fort Worth
age 36
Hometown Everman, Texas
or Ben King, work is more about doing a good job than earn-
Fing a paycheck. Working as the general manager and vice
president of his family’s business, Metro Golf Cars Inc., King has
been around the company since his dad started it in the 1970s.
“My dad started the company in 1974 and moved to this
location on South Freeway in 1977 and we’ve been here five
miles south of Downtown ever since,” King says. “As a family Who has been your biggest influence?
business, I grew up working here earning my first paycheck as a My Mother. She has been a living example
kid sweeping floors.” of integrity, honesty, and true grace
The company – despite its name – has only about 25 percent
of its business associated with golf, King says. Where is your dream vacation spot?
“We’ve evolved into a broad array of off-road vehicles that is I hope to go on a Scotland-Ireland golf trip in 2009
the main business, but we grew out of the golf side and still have with family and friends then I would like to take
a tie there, but it is not the majority of our business,” King says. a trip to Australia and New Zealand in 2010
King joined the company in 1998. Since then, he started
another division of Metro Golf Cars called King Brothers UTV Where did your first paycheck come from?
Ranch of Fort Worth. This company sells power sports utility type I received my first pay check from right here
products, which are growing and gaining momentum. at Metro Golf Cars. I started here with small tasks
This year, Metro Golf Cars launched another company, Martex such as sweeping floors and taking out trash.
Global Enterprise, as the parent company for the firm’s manufac-
turing of the HuntVe 4x4 electric utility vehicle designed and Another profession you would like to try?
focused for the hunting industry and hunters. The company is Teaching. It is a noble profession and
entering into a dealer network for that, too. I enjoy learning and passing it on
Last year, King launched a trade publication — Inside UTV —
as the publisher and owner through Boot Jack King Publications. What was your favorite high school subject?
The publication goes to 12,000 UTV dealers, he said. Texas History. I am a proud Texan and still enjoy its history
“My motivation is less about money and more about wanting
to do a good job,” King says. “That self satisfaction is what moti- What was your favorite TV show growing up?
vates me at the end of the day.” Dukes of Hazard
King is secretary/treasurer for the Mansfield Economic
What book would you recommend?
Development Board and serves on the Walnut Creek Country Club
If reading for fun – any book by Vince Flynn.
membership council, among other civic groups.
King and his wife of seven years, Barbara, have a 4-year-old
What is your musical guilty pleasure?
boy, Jack, and an 8-month-old girl, Mary Grace.
None. I take pleasure in all music that I listen to.
—Tonie Auer
If I don’t like it I turn it off
age 37
Hometown Fort Worth
age 36
Hometown Saigon, Vietnam
age 37
Hometown Arlington
age 30
Hometown Austin
age 39
Hometown Fort Worth
age 33
Hometown Austin
hile growing up, Dr. Niraj Mehta learned family values from
Whis immigrant parents, he says. It was in those lessons that
he developed a desire to dream and that helped shape his personal
work ethic, Mehta says.
Today, Mehta is a physician and community leader who uses his
leadership, experiences, background, passions and strengths to help
teach medical students and residents to improve our community.
Part of his personal objectives includes providing internal medi-
cine care as a primary care physician and to educate medical stu-
dents and Internal Medicine residents in a hospital and ambulatory
setting. Currently, Mehta is the program director of Internal Who has been your biggest influence?
Medicine at Plaza Medical Center. My parents. Immigrant parents who sacrifice all they know to come
“He gives so much time and energy to the professional develop- over for the Dream — it helps instill a certain ethic.
ment of students, interns, residents and the internal medicine resi-
dency program at Plaza,” says Monica Mehta, who works at Texas Where is your dream vacation spot?
Health Resources. “He will do what it takes to make his students Australia.
and program successful – whether it is on the clock or not.” Where did your first paycheck come from?
He is also proficient in the languages of Gujarati, Hindi and Garnett Lewis Cleaners — my parents’ dry cleaners in Austin
recently started a Spanish learning program.
Another profession you would like to try?
For a man whose life is dedicated to developing future doctors,
Teaching ninth grade Biology or a boxing trainer
his desires include nurturing and reaching more youth as a future
ninth grade Biology teacher. What was your favorite high school subject?
“Their minds are still impressionable and their dreams haven’t Math
been put on the back burner yet,” he said. What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A personal goal would be for him to explore becoming a boxing MacGyver — The man could do anything with a paperclip and some
trainer, he says. dynamite.
“Only recently have I come to appreciate the stories, politics and
culture of boxing,” Mehta says. “I’m hooked.” What book would you recommend?
Someday, he hopes to find the time and energy to take a trip A New Earth by Ekhart Tolle. As its subtitle professes, if you allow it,
away from the day-to-day medical duties in Fort Worth and find a it will help awaken your life’s purpose.
quiet spot down under in Australia. What is your musical guilty pleasure?
– Darwin Campbell Part Snoop Dogg; Part Garth Brooks
age 32
Hometown Fort Worth
For Mike Micallef, life has been more than a dream or destination.
The Fort Worth native grew up on steady diet of history and
parental values that helped him see the value of hard work at an early
age, he says.
His greatest influence came from his father, Al Micallef, who not only
taught him a great deal about life but also encouraged him to mow
lawns during the summer months, he says. Micallef later earned his
first paycheck working for Texas Outdoors at the ripe age of 14.
After graduating from Texas Christian University in 1999, Micallef
spent two years at Tsunami Partners, a hedge fund where he managed Who has been your biggest influence?
various equity investments. He also spent two years in Chicago work- My father – Al Micallef
ing in a turnaround situation at K&M Plastics, a plastics blow molding
company mainly serving the water treatment and industrial equipment Where is your dream vacation spot?
industries. Fishing for Sailfish off of Guatemala or Panama
Since June 2005, Mike has been president of JMK Holdings Where did your first paycheck come from?
Management Co.’s four nonmanufacturing businesses, Reata Aside from mowing lawns, it was from Texas Outdoors during the
Restaurant Group, Flight Services, Sierra La Rana and C F Ranch. summer when I was 14 and 15.
“I nominated Mike because I have worked with and around the
Another profession you would like to try?
Micallef family for almost eight years and I’m very impressed with
Fishing Guide
what he has been able to accomplish,” says Julie Hatch, who works at
Creative Communications. “Mike looks for solutions whenever there What was your favorite high school subject?
are challenges, and when you run a four story restaurant that takes up History
a city block there are challenges.”
What was your favorite TV show growing up?
As well as finding solutions, Hatch says Micallef is willing to take Seinfeld
risks. For example, Reata taking over the Backstage Club at the Fort
Worth Stock Show and Rodeo this year, she says. What book would you recommend?
“The Backstage Club has been run by the same family for decades Charlie Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman by J. Evetts Haley
and that really took courage to take that on, but he is willing to do it,” What is your musical guilty pleasure?
Hatch says. I don’t really have one. I spend a lot of time driving
However, despite his success, Micallef has not forgotten home. It is and end up listening to XM, mainly ESPN Radio.
truly where his heart is.
“Fort Worth is special,” he said. “The reason why Fort Worth is
special is because it still feels like a small town where relationships
are important.”
– Darwin Campbell
age 31
Hometown Fort Worth
age 39
Hometown Brownfield, Texas
age 33
Hometown Eldon, Mo.
age 37
Hometown Fort Worth
lare Pritchett has had many remarkable experiences in her life from
Ctaking foreign trips and speaking to ambassadors to organizing trips
and events for 800 people.
Pritchett worked for President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura
Bush for almost 10 years before moving back to her native Fort Worth.
During her time at the White House, Pritchett was director of White House
Visitors Office and director of First Lady Operations among other duties.
“It was amazing, such an honor,” she says. “I started while he was gov-
ernor, never knowing what kind of train I was getting on. It was probably
people believing in me more than I believed in myself.”
Currently, Pritchett is director of the capital campaign at the Fort Worth
Museum of Science and History, which Pritchett says is similar to working Who has been your biggest influence?
for the Bush family. My parents and six siblings
“I’m accustomed to working with high-profile people,” she says. “Now,
instead of asking for peoples vote I’m asking for people’s funding.” Where is your dream vacation spot?
She is also active with the Junior League and served on the Trinity 82 degrees under a shady tree on a lounge chair
Valley Alumni Board and is involved with the Kappa Alpha Theta
Foundation of Fort Worth Executive Committee to raise money for Court Where did your first paycheck come from?
Appointed Special Advocates of Tarrant County. Pritchett has also been a Kimbell Museum selling tickets for the Courtauld impressionist show
volunteer with the I Have A Dream Foundation to bring a national author
to its Reading Rocks event. Another profession you would like to try?
It all boils down to believing in the job or cause you are doing, Pritchett Something related to homes or gardens
says. Being organized, setting goals and making things move forward it
what she says makes her a successful person. What was your favorite high school subject?
“What I would hope people would say about me is that I’m a hard French
worker, a quiet leader and fairly humble,” she says. “I’m usually in the
background and prefer it that way, but it is nice to be recognized some- What was your favorite TV show growing up?
times.” Bewitched
Pritchett says growing up in a home with six siblings taught her to
“quietly get things done, work well with people and always have a coop- What book would you recommend?
erative spirit.” Same Kind of Different as Me by Denver Moore and Ron Hall — my
“We certainly learned to work together and share,” Pritchett says. “The copy is with a friend right now
first time I was ever by myself with my parents was when they were driv-
ing me to college.” What is your musical guilty pleasure?
– Crystal Forester Bee Gees
age 38
Hometown Abilene
age 38
Hometown Mandan, N.D.
age 32
Hometown Bedford/Colleyville
age 38
Hometown Fort Worth
age 37
Hometown San Antonio
age 39
Hometown Kaohsiung, Taiwan
age 25
Hometown Fort Worth
age 34
Hometown Corpus Christi
age 36
Hometown Stuart, Fla.
age 33
Hometown Amarillo
india Whittier not only loves life but believes in living it and mak-
Ming a positive impact on all she comes in contact with, she says.
Those who know Whittier praised her as a great ambassador for
Concussion, where she is a senior account executive, because of her
outstanding character and strong work ethic. Amy Yanez, who also
works at Concussion and nominated Whittier, describes her as a
“Superwoman.”
“Mindia has proven herself over and over again since she was 19
years old and worked at the Fort Worth Zoo,” Yanez says. “Even at the
Who has been your biggest influence?
age of 19, her work ethic was impeccable. Not only is she one of the
smartest women I know, but she is easy to work with and an excellent My grandmother. She was a strong person, independent and very
manager of people.” active – especially outdoors. Her actions inspired me to become
Whittier has worked as a marketing professional for 14 years with engaged in organizations where I can advocate on behalf of children.
senior-level experience in corporate and nonprofit environments. At the Where is your dream vacation spot?
Fort Worth Zoo she spearheaded multiple award-winning advertising Crested Butte, Colo. – Trail 401 is the ultimate single-track.
campaigns and met annual fund-raising goals of $1.5 million, she says.
Where did your first paycheck come from?
She holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising and public relations from My first real paycheck was from the Fort Worth Zoo.
Texas Christian University, and a master’s degree in strategic communi-
cation and leadership from Seton Hall. Another profession you would like to try?
Whittier’s avocation is raising her 3-year-old son and supporting There’s so many. Professional mountain biker. Chef. Columnist.
child-centered issues. She is currently the board president of Alliance Organic gardener. Motivational speaker. Billionaire philanthropist.
for Children, an agency that provides hope and healing to Tarrant
What was your favorite high school subject?
County’s child abuse victims. She also serves on the board of the Back
My favorite subject was English. I was also on the debate team and
to School Roundup, which equips low-income children with essential
copy editor of my high school paper.
supplies to succeed in the classroom.
In her off time, she is a competitive cyclist and trail runner for What was your favorite TV show growing up?
Broken Films Racing. She was ranked fourth overall for category in the I can’t believe I’m admitting this, but it was Facts of Life.
2007 Texas Mountain Bike State Championship Series, and she has I related to the character Natalie. She had a healthy self-image
completed four half-marathons. and wanted to be a writer.
“It helps me recharge mentally so I have more to give as an employ-
What book would you recommend?
ee, a wife and a mom,” Whittier says. “I race with my best friends, so I Same Kind of Different as Me by Denver Moore and Ron Hall
get exercise and girlfriend therapy in one. Best of all, it’s a form of
training I can do without sacrificing time with my son.” What is your musical guilty pleasure?
– Darwin Campbell Electronic dance music
age 29
Hometown Fort Worth
age 37
Hometown Burleson
Jefferson Bank
congratulates
40 under 40 honoree
Randy Woods,
Fort Worth Bank President
MEMBER
Jefferson Bank 100 East 15th St, Suite 120
817-338-7309 Fort Worth, TX 76102
www.jeffersonbanktexas.com
Congratulations
to all the 2008
40 Under 40 honorees
from your friends
at Coors
Pre-Party
1 Cathy R. Sheffield
and Scott Sheffield
2 Sunny Drenik
and Greg Jaryga
3 Lauren Matthews
and Ryan Matthews
4 Jocelyn Foster, Grace
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Props
Adam Blake p4 gives me the most comfort, peace and rejuvenation, which watching my brother and father race motorcycles, and now
A banner from the TCU Entrepreneurship Program. “I I need often to uplift me following my most difficult day in my eldest son is beginning to race,” she says.
learned a lot through the Entrepreneurship Program that my line of work,” she says. Clare Pritchett p36
has helped build my business.” Caroline Harrison p20 She brought Legorreta + Legorreta, a book about the
Ethan Boothe p5 Although Caroline Harrison’s home is now in Tarrant architects for the new Fort Worth Museum of Science and
His great-grandfather would wear this Stetson hat on nice County, her football loyalties still lie in the San Francisco History building. “My job is raising money for the new
occasions, and Boothe said it reminded him of his heritage Bay area that she grew up in. Therefore, she brought a San building so that is my life right now,” she says.
and their way of life. “Character was always such a big Franscisco 49ers football helmet. Susan Roberts p37
deal to them, and I think it’s because everything was so Dak Hatfield p21 “I chose an antique adding machine, sea shells and
hard up there, you had to rely on other people.” He chose a globe because he says he loves to travel and ‘laughter in a can,’ which represent my professional self,
Brandon Brewer p6 believes every corner of the earth has much to offer in life, my leisurely self and my personality,” says Susan Roberts.
“A picture of my three perfect and miraculous boys, all and all should seek knowledge outside of their immediate Cathy Reagan Sheffield p38
born within 15 months of one another. Yes, my wife an influences. She chose to use her luggage and passport. “I love to
exhausted saint. A bike because not only is cycling fun, but Jennifer Henderson p22 travel,” she says.
riding has meant freedom to me since I was a kid. And a She says she has a love-hate relationship with tennis, and Donnie Siratt p39
Texas Tech shirt. I’m a long suffering fan who wears my although she seems to always get hurt, she gets right He brought a photo of his children. “The most important
Red Raider heart on my sleeve, or in this case, my chest.” back out there and keeps playing. thing in my life is my family, and particularly my kids now
Anthony Burks p7 Ben King p23 – that’s what we do everything for,” he says.
He chose to bring a hard-hat and blueprints because it He chose his golf bag and golf clubs for the history associ- Colby Siratt p40
represents his company as well as his desire to develop ated with his company’s origins — with the golf industry, He chose to use three stuffed animals named Boo (the
and construct people’s lives in a positive way. he says. bear), Ducky and Blankie. “They’re the animals that my
S. Benton Cantey V p9 Gary Lewis p24 kids sleep with every night,” Siratt says. “It represents our
He brought a needlepoint Auburn University pillow that his He chose his soccer jersey and gear because he loves to
kids and our time together as a family – night is our spe-
mother made for him because “I am an avid fan of Auburn play soccer as a keeper and he loves the US team.
cial time together.”
University football.” Jim Luttrell p27
Marc Sloter p41
Kelly Campbell p10 He chose to use building plans, a hammer and tape meas-
He chose to use a camera for his photo shoot. “Cameras
“My prop revolved around art, which I am an avid collec- ure because he says, “you need the right plan and the
have been a big part of my life since I was a child,” he
tor. It included my first piece of original art that I pur- right tools to be successful.”
says.
chased at Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival several Ryan Matthews p28
Yi-Juin Su p42
years ago. I also had a book about one of my favorite “I picked a TCU Football hat as my photo prop because I
She chose to bring auroral posters as her prop. “The auro-
artists Ellsworth Kelly.” bleed Purple.”
ral posters represent my research work,” she says
Melissa Cawyer p11 Niraj Mehta p30
Grace Taylor p43
She chose her props to depict the balance of family, work Dr. Mehta chose a tennis racquet because he says he has
She brought a pineapple as her prop. “The Pineapple is
and extra curricular activities. played since middle school, it's a great stress reliever and
the international symbol for home, hearth and hospitality
Sunny Drenik p13 he enjoys the game.
– and it’s also our company logo,” she says.
She brought a driver from her golf club collection. “I live, Hunter T. McLean p29
Greg Trevino p44
breath and die by golf. Golf's really the only sport in my “Duck hunting has been a passion of mine for a long
“The props I brought were a golf club with my TCU Horned
mind.” time,” says Hunter McLean. “I never grow tired of it. It is
Frog head cover and my iPod,” Greg Trevino says. “I’m an
Mark Dungan p15 a challenging sport and one that you can enjoy with
introvert so after going through a day full of meetings,
The photo of a child with cancer represents the work Mark friends. Each time you learn something new, something
Dugan does to advance cancer research at the Children’s you could have done better. You also get to do it in some events or other things that have me running around it’s
Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation as well as his family’s of the most beautiful settings. There is nothing like watch- nice to look forward to a relaxing time on the golf course
personal encounter with neuroblastoma. “About five years ing the sun rise over water with whistling wings over- or listening to my music to recharge my batteries. Plus
ago my daughter was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, and head.” music helps motivate or inspire me with my work and
that changes your life pretty drastically. . . . I’ve got the Mike Micallef p31 personal life so I always seem to carry my iPod with me.”
best job in the world now.” Mike Micallef used a rope as a prop. “Its significance for Rick Wegman p45
Joe Fackel p16 me is that the English translation for Reata is a rope or He brought his 8-month-old son, Jack, because he is the
The University of Missouri is Joe Fackel’s alma mater and lariat,” he says. “I also compete in some team roping but most important thing in the world to Wegman, he says.
he is excited the school’s emergence as a legitimate con- not actively.” Mindia Whittier p47
tender for the Big 12 football championship. Plus he met Colin L. Murchison p33 She chose to use running shoes and a jogging stroller in
his wife there, he adds. “I enjoy all hunting seasons but there is nothing that her photo. “Running literally supports every area of my
Alyson Farmer p17 beats those first few weekends of dove season in Texas,” life,” she says. “Pushing the jogging stroller is a great
The album was a family favorite growing up, and the song Colin Murchison says. “It is never really the hunting that I example of how to balance work and home with multi-
“Christmas Carol” taught the importance of giving with- look forward to but it is the cooking, college football, card tasking because the extra resistance even counts as an
out expecting recognition, says Alyson Farmer. playing and camaraderie that goes on when the dove endurance workout.”
Neil Foster p18 aren’t flying that makes it one of the best weekends of the Chris Wilkie p49
He chose to bring a large pencil because it represents year.” “Mayson’s favorite toy (the Fisher-Price Baby Grand Piano)
writing, which is "what I enjoy most about my job." Jim Morse p34 meets my work life; it’s all about creating balance and
Caroline Gary p19 He used a trumpet, second degree black belt and a sanity,” says Chris Wilkie.
She is a soprano in the Mount Olive Baptist Church Senior Spanish dictionary for his prop. Randy Woods p50
Choir therefore chose to use her choir robe and hymnal. “I Stephanie Pratt p35 He chose to bring a golf club “because I really enjoy play-
am a lover of music, all music, however, gospel music She brought a motorcycle helmet “because I grew up ing golf,” he says.