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Gary Fish is the CEO of FishNet Security Inc.

Robotic arms weld Chevy Malibu and Buick LaCrosse bodies at the GM Fairfax plant.

Jane Chu views the construction at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts.

A section of red-hot pipe is lowered onto a cradle for the next step of an “extrusion” process where an opening will be forced through the molten metal  at the Taylor Forge in Paola, Kansas.

Sly James is the mayor of KCMO. 

A.L. Huber project superintendent Zach Stokes looks over a hand-sculpted artificial cave at the Sea Life Aquarium under construction.

Nathaniel Hagedorn is the president of Briarcliff Realty Company.

A Buick LaCrosse makes a turn on the assembly line conveyor system at the General Motors Fairfax plant.

Jonathan Arnold, the owner of Arnold Imaging, looks over computer-generated loft designs with business development director Debbie Aron-Williamson.  Arnold's dog, Moira, walks the floor of the loft-studio.

Mike Armstrong is the general manager of Water District No. 1., which supplies water for more than 130,000 homes and business in Johnson County.

Reed and Anne Hickock love the Yigal Ozeri painting, "Untitled (Priscilla with Vines, French) 2008, but their daughters are a little unnerved by the eyes that seem to follow them around the room.

Kevin Honomichl (left) is the president of the BHC Rhodes engineering firm and brothers Bill and Matt Brungardt (right) are vice presidents with the company.

Mike Heirmann, the CEO of 51-year old Garney Construction, is supported by his team (background, from left) Matt Foster, Scott Parnish, Jeff Lacy and Tom Dahl.

 Dave Lockton, the chairman of Lockton, Inc. is flanked by Ron Lockton, the president of Lockton Kansas City Property Casualty (left) and Rick Kahle, the president of Lockton Kansas City Benefits.

Stephen Hopkins is the director of innovation (left) and Tucker Trotter is the president of Dimensional Innovations

Dennis Haag, a biologist with Burns & McDonnell, installs a diffused aeration system into the Berlin Reservoir at KCI.

Refractive surgeon John Doane, M.D., performs a Lasik procedure at the Discovery Vision Centers Independence location.

Vin Reilly and Nancy Musso make themselves comfortable on the Ultra Classic Limited on display at the Harley Davidson "tour room" at their Kansas City plant.

Emily Voth, the owner of Indigo Wild, holds her rescued Shelty "Myrrhy" in her company's showroom.

Dan Jensen, a principal at Kessinger/Hunter & Co. LC, walks along the site of the more than 600,000-square-foot warehouse being built south of Olathe.

Dr. Dennis Gillings, the founder and CEO of Quintiles Transnational Corporation, has opened his newest facility in Overland Park.

Alejandra Beardman, M.D., checks the lungs of three-year old Jett York, who was brought into the clinic with possibly strep throat.

Amy Bodkin, the director of associate development for Lockton Inc., leads an class for at the company's "Lockton University" for college graduates and recently promoted individuals.

Chuck Scammell (left), the president of Hoffman Cortes Restoration and Tim Eastwood, the general superintendent, look over features inside the rotunda of the former Empire Theater undergoing renovation.

Shawnee Mission Medical Center CEO Sam Turner talks about the hospitals new expansion under construction and how their new glass face will be a "beacon" to the community

Ed Kates, the president of Midland Wrecking, surveys the exterior of the Professional Building at 1103 Grand which his company will gut to make way for future lofts.

John McClure, the chef and owner of Starker's Restauraunt in the Plaza, flambours some vegetables.

Six-foot tall Burke Mobility Products president DuWayne Kramer is dwarfed by his company's 1,000-pound capacity bariatric hospital bed.

Glenn Goldstein, M.D., the medical director and founder of the Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center, stitches up a patient after a procedure with the help of Sandy Freeborn, R.N.

Courtney Lorenz, the wellness coordinator at Stinson Morrison Hecker, helps Jan Lane with her situps as the two are double-up in the mirror at the law firm's in-house gymnasium.

Aaron "TechN9ne" Yates and Travis O'Guin own the largest independent hip-hop label in the world after forming Strange Music Inc. in 2000.

John McDonald is the owner of Boulevard Brewing Company, whose beer has become the toast of the town.

Amber Arnett-Bequeaith, the vice president of Full Moon Productions, Inc., is surrounded by her various demons as she projects her beauty at the Beast Haunted House.