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The 30 Under 30

Excellence Squad
DECEMBER 31, 2019 | VOLUME 202 NUMBER 10
CHAIRMAN AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: STEVE FORBES; CEO AND PRESIDENT: MICHAEL FEDERLE
EDITORIAL When the Forbes 30 Under 30 list hits, the world no-
16 16 RANDALL LANE, Chief Content Officer tices—this year’s launch proved Twitter’s number one
Director, Editorial Operations: Caroline Howard; Executive Editors: Luisa Kroll, Kerry Lauerman, Michael Noer
trending topic. And we notice all the notice. We spend
Assistant Managing Editors: Frederick E. Allen, Jessica Bohrer (Editorial Counsel), Kerry A. Dolan, Rob
La Franco, Laura Mandaro, Janet Novack, Michael Ozanian, Matt Schifrin, Michael Solomon, Alex Wood
the entire year working to ensure, as much as is possible
S Senior Editors: Susan Adams, Dan Alexander, Kurt Badenhausen, Steven Bertoni, Abram Brown, Dawn
E Chmielewski, John Dobosz, Amy Feldman, Martin Giles, Christopher Helman, Alan Ohnsman, Zack O’Malley when you unearth 600 largely fresh stories, that the qual-
B Greenburg, Susan Radlauer (Research), Jennifer Rooney, Tina Russo McCarthy, Nathan Vardi, Merrill Vaughn
R Deputy Editors: Rob Berger, Jeremy Bogaisky, Anne Glusker, Brett Knight, Iain Martin, Andrea Murphy, Chase ity of honorees matches the outsize attention. It’s a four-
O Peterson-Withorn, Helen A.S. Popkin, Chuck Tannert, Halah Touryalai, Jennifer Wang, Taesik Yoon; Associate
F Editors: Thomas Brewster, Amy Danise, Ashlea Ebeling, Daphne Foreman, Antoine Gara, Julius Juenemann, step process, involving almost 200 people.
Alex Knapp, Alexander Konrad, Maggie McGrath, Ezequiel Minaya, Michael Nuñez, Vicky Valet
First, a team of two to three
Staff Writers: Angel Au-Yeung, Madeline Berg, Michael del Castillo, Lauren Debter, Jillian D’Onfro, Jeffrey
Kauflin, Carly Schaffner, Samantha Sharf, Chris Smith, KellyAnne Smith, Chloe Sorvino, Michela Tindera, Ruth
Umoh, Andrew Wendler, William Yakowicz reporters for each of the 20 cat-
Reporters: Noah Kirsch (Chief); Deniz Cam, Carter Coudriet, Hayley Cuccinello, Elizabeth Daffin, David egories spends the year collect-
Dawkins, Tanya Klich, Matthew Perez, Jonathan Ponciano, Rachel Sandler, Christina Settimi, Kristin Stoller,
Marty Swant, Glenda Toma, Lisette Voytko, Alexandra Wilson ing names from the top sources
Assistant Editors: Justin Conklin, Katherine Love (Associate Managers, Editorial Operations); Kellen Becoats,
Elisabeth Brier, Kenrick Cai, Marley Coyne, Brianne Garrett, Sarah Hansen, Christian Kreznar, Monica Melton, Sofia and leaders in their respective
Lotto Persio, Leah Rosenbaum, Ariel Shapiro, Alexandra Sternlicht, Kristin Tablang, Samantha Todd, Hank Tucker
fields and sifting through their
Art and Production: Bob Mansfield (Art and Design Director), Mark Decker (Production Chief), Clay Thurmond
(Copy Chief); Merrilee Barton, Charles Brucaliere, Sarkis Delimelkon, Richard Hyfler, Anton Klusener, Suzanne cut of the more than 15,000
O’Neill, Robin Regensburg, Robyn Selman, Jasmine Smith, Gail Toivanen, Elena Torres
Social Media: Shauna Gleason (Director); Caroline Dilone, Dario Foroutan, Natasha Lekwa, Baylee Mozjesik, nominations we receive over
Evan Spadaccini
the transom as well as those
Video: Tim Pierson (Director); Greg Andersson, Leah Bottone, Meghan Christensen, Ivan Clow, Julia Ferrier,
Marc Gomes, Nick Graham, Riley Hallaway, Matthew Kang, Kieran Krug-Meadows, Chad McClymonds, Juliet
Muir, Bernard Osei, Jonathan Palmer, Brian Petchers, Morgan Sun, Kirsten Taggart; Forbes Entertainment: recommended by CEOs, sena-
Travis Collins, Kyle Kramer tors and others trying valiantly The Forbes Under 30 team,
SALES AND MARKETING from left: Alexandra Wilson,
MARK HOWARD, Chief Revenue Officer but largely fruitlessly to put Marley Coyne, Steven Bertoni,
AD SALES: Jessica Sibley (Chief Sales Officer); Maria Aiza Contro, Aaron Andrews, Julia Aziz, Jake Bell, Jessica Alexandra Sternlicht.
Blitzer, Leann Bonanno, Marissa Brown, Shae Carroll, Andrea Celis, Samantha Charlino, Seema Chaudhari, their finger on the scale.
Julie Chisar, Ruth Chute-Manning, Alexandra Cohn, Jennifer Cooke, Jennifer Crowe, Sarah Curry, Hannah
Davidson, Leigh Day, Sean Downey, GEmilie Errante, Taylor Felgenhauer, Olivia Gelade, Louisa Goujon, Taylor Second, those reporting teams winnow their lists to 60
Green, Janett Haas, Shauna Haras, Megan Hennessey, Daniel Hennessy, Matthew Herrmann, William Hosinski,
Victoria Kreher, Martina Landeka, Jordan Loredo, Brian McLeod, Tara Michaels, Leah Monroe, Dana Moretti, to 100 semifinalists per category, each with numbers and
Matt Muszala, Ryan Queler, Paul Reiss, Melanie Ruderman, Jesse Silberfein, Abbey Smith, William Thompson,
Laura Villaraut, Kyle Vinansky, Adam Wallitt, Charles Yardley, Casey Zonfrilli narratives attached. The third step: outside judging. We
BRAND STRATEGY/MARKETING/PARTNERSHIPS: Rachel Aquino, Mary Baru, Kate Bishop, Erika Burho,
Brandon Bycer, Nicholas Clunn, James Colistra, Danielle Collins, Connor Davis, Krystle Davis, Tom Davis (Chief bring in legends and experts in each category as well as
Growth Officer), William Delehanty, Samantha Evans, Erica Ferraro, Moira Forbes (EVP, ForbesWomen), Kristine
Francisco, Ross Gagnon, Cara Gilmartin, Sahara Gipson, Ashley Grado, Matthew Haensly, Julie Hildenbrand, 30 Under 30 alumni. This year, for instance, featured Tory
Adelaide Hill, Olivia Hine, Merryl Holland, David Johnson, Kari Jones, Nicolette Jones, Evelyn Kanu, Juliana
Longo, Brian Lee, Douglas Lopenzina, Erika Maguire, Scott McGrath, James Mentzinger, Sophia Minassian, Burch (Art & Style) and Jean Case (Social Entrepreneurs)
Sade Muhammad, Alexis Murillo, Romy Oltuski, Jahcelyne Patton, Zehava Pasternak, Alexi Potter, Jennifer
Ramos, Allison Rickert, Claire Robinson, Joshua Robinson, Danielle Rubino, Claire Ryan, Robert Salgado, Peter and Katrina Lake (Retail & E-commerce). All category
Sarnoff, Lynn Schlesinger, Andrey Slivka, Allyson Souza, Gregory Spitz, Kara Stiles, Neha Tandon, Rashaad
Denzel Toney, Meenal Vamburkar, Liz Walsh, Jason Webster, Janet Yin judges review and debate each semifinalist, putting them
DIGITAL REVENUE OPERATIONS: Achir Kalra (SVP, Revenue Operations and Strategic Partnerships); Kazuki
Akiba, Gaston Alegre, Sergiu Bucur, Sal Cangeloso, Lisa Chiobi, Andrew Dizon, Danielle Gilman, Rachel all through the Forbes prism: entrepreneurship (founders
Goroff, Lauren Gurnee, Victor Lee, Emily Lewis, Nicole Lewitinn, Kelly Mui, Ryan Pearce, Casey Riordan,
Rebeca Solorzano, Steven Song, Jacqueline Subramaniam, Alyson Williams over ladder-climbers), innovation, growth and diversity.
FORBESLIVE: Sherry Phillips (SVP); Andrea Cantor, Jessica Charles, Chardia Christophe, Alex Engel, Lindsay
Ezykowich, Julieanna Gray, Nicole Kerno, Susan Kessler, Jessica Lantz, Michael Martin, Sydney Melin, Finally, after the lists of 30 have been chosen, we add in
Menaka Menon, Nicole Mittman, Jimmy Okuszka, Mary Margaret Soderquist, Elizabeth Strozier, Shelby
Tompkins, Blair Walther, Jessica Wolf an extra layer of due diligence—we catch age-fudgers and
DIGITAL revenue-exaggerators every year.
SALAH ZALATIMO, Chief Digital Officer
PRODUCT: Nina Gould; Terrence Agbi, Youssef Drihmi, Nina Foroutan, Kelly Hanshaw, Erica Ho, Mike Medric, “Each list brings a new crop of stars,” says Steven Ber-
Martin Navarrete, Dayne Richards, Ebony Shears, Nick Shippers, Rachel Thomas, Grant Tunkel, Katie Ward, Mila
Wentrys toni, who heads his full-time team of four that coordi-
CORPORATE TECH: Peter Hahm; Jiten Bhojwani, Christopher Frank, Justin Harris, Joshua Hartzog, Adaze
Idehen-Amadasun nates this massive editorial undertaking. “We’re able to
DESIGN: Dan Revitte; Sara Amato, Nick DeSantis, Andres Jauregui, Joy Hwang, Adrienne Michalski surface people who might not be nationally famous for
E-COMMERCE: Madeline Kaufman
ENGINEERING: Vadim Supitskiy (SVP); Adrian Ali, William Anderson, Ken Barney, Don Cao, Igor Carrasco, another year or two.”
Brian Chamberlain, Chris DeLeon, Mudit Dhawan, Philip Diaz, Stephen Dotz, Jaekyung Ha, Benjamin Harrigan,
Isabelle Ingato, Daryl Kang, Yanella Lopez, Johnny McCampbell, Marissa Orea, Drew Overcash, Sungmin Park, The final result reinforces the continuing primacy of
Sameer Patwardhan, Mads Pedersen, Joseph Pietruch, Ronak Ray, Charles Rea, Rodney Rodriguez, Kyle Rog-
ers, Aaron Romel, Kelly Sample, Alexander Shnayderman, Zachery Shuffield, Dmitri Slavinsky, Scott Warner, JD the American Dream: The vast majority of honorees have
Weiner, Forrest Whiting, Heath Woodson, Boris Yakubchik
CORPORATE blazed their own path (this year 20% are immigrants and
FINANCE/OPERATIONS: Michael York (Chief Financial Officer); Cristina Baluyut, Noemi Baraket, Oneil Brodie,
Adele Cassano, Rosa Colon, Chelsea Deluca, Mike Deochand, Cindy Eng, Jessica Feintisch, Nancy Garcia, Iris nearly 40% identify as first-generation residents). Once
Garcia, Christie Hansen, Giedre Kristahn, Christopher Labianca, Nina LaFrance (SVP, Consumer Marketing),
Jeffery Lamperti, Stephanie Lewis, Penina Littman, Jaclyn Liu, Christopher Lopiano, Andrea Maniscalco, the U.S. spotlight shifts, our global team repeats the pro-
Natalie Maquiling, Christine Martinez, Paul Motta, Nelson Osegueda, Willie Osegueda, Amanda Pasquarello,
Barbara Passarella, Jeanine Pecoraro, Gary Prasto, Ivette Reyes, Angel Sauri, Diane Schmid, Lisa Serapiglia, Wil- cess in Europe, in Asia, in Africa and in a few dozen other ANTON KLUSENER
liam Simmons, Vera Sit, Courtney Stanton, Parag Tolia, Buddy Trocchia, Donald Walsh
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COMMUNICATIONS: Matthew Hutchison (SVP); Laura Brusca, Susan Masula, Jocelyn Swift, Christina Vega
HUMAN RESOURCES: Margy Loftus (SVP); Ashley Abendschoen, Brooke Dunmore, Emanuel Joseph-Bain,
Amanda Sedlak, Rachel Shapiro, Mary Urum-Eke
LEGAL: MariaRosa Cartolano (General Counsel); Paul Anderson, Lindsey Datte, Susy Garcia, Nikki Koval,
Josephine Love-Loftin
FORBES ASIA: William Adamopoulos (CEO), Justin Doebele (Editor); FORBES CHINA: Sherman Lee (CEO),
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