It’s official: over half of this year’s Louisville Business First’s Forty Under 40 are graduates of the University of Louisville.

We’ll cheers to that!

While each of these successful young professionals have gone on to different career paths and have left their mark on the community in unique ways, they have one thing in common: they are all proud UofL alumni. 

Congratulations to the following 21 alumni honored in this year’s class:

Marea Ingwersen Aspillaga ’05, 08
Whitney Austin ’03, ’09
Lonita Baker ’03, ’06, ’17
Georgia Connally ’15, ’18
Dani Fowles ’09, ’14
Luke Haire ’09
Dr. Jeffrey Howard ’14
Dr. Steven Kniffley, Jr, ’08
Elizabeth McCall ’07, ’09
Mo McKnight Howe ’08
Curtis Nelson III ’03, ’06
OJ Oleka ’10
Nimish Patel ’06
Mike Slaton ’06
Dr. Monalisa Tailor ’10
Matt Ward ’12
Cassandra Webb ’12
Lindsay Wehr ’03, ’09
Janna Woodfork ’07
Matthew Yates ’08
Darryl Young, Jr. ’12

You can check out the complete list of honorees here.