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The Idaho Business Review is delighted to announce our Accomplished Under 40 Honorees for 2019 — the program’s 20th year. These young professionals represent the next generation of leaders in business, health care, nonprofit work, government and academia. They contribute to ...

It wasn’t your typical Outlaw Field concert production, but there were food trucks, a stage, DJs and music aplenty – and there was even the requisite beach ball toss. The nearly 350 ticket holders who came to the Idaho Botanical ...

Hundreds of Idaho go-getters were nominated for Idaho Business Review‘s Accomplished Under 40 awards program, and more than 100 people applied for one of this year’s 40 spots. The task of selecting the top 40 went to 11 review committees. ...

Nobody ever has to ask “Do you want fries with that?” at the Boise Fry Company. The fries are why they’re there. In the case of Bradlee Walker, 34, he’s climbed the ladder from fry associate to CEO as co-owner ...

Most memorable airplane trip: On his way to Russia, “I ended up being stranded on the tarmac for six hours. I was sitting next to this person, a grad student at the university I was going to visit, and we ...

    Michael Trienen, 34, used to love playing StarCraft, studied computer science in college, and thought he was “going to write a piece of software that was going to change the world.” He changed his mind after a brief ...

  When Brigham Tomco, 36, was about 12, he embarked on his first entrepreneurial journey as a dog walker. He wanted to play football – his parents objected. In part, due to the $150 registration and uniform fee. So, “I ...

Nick Taylor, 36,  grew up roaming all over Oregon. “My dad works for Oregon State Parks,” he says. When Taylor was in the eighth grade and living in Newport, his dad got a promotion and had his pick between Tillamook ...

Mike Tankersley, 33, was born in Boise and raised on a ranch in Blackfoot. He remembers his grandfather looking out over the ranch and saying to him: “’Someday this will be yours.’ No, it won’t,” Tankersley told his grandfather. “I’m ...

Since Stuart Summers, 30, was in Kindergarten, he knew what he wanted to do. “I got that in my head. I always wanted to be a television reporter. I would mimic them,” he says. And so, after completing college – ...