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Mira Mdivani is an attorney who specializes in immigration law with Klamann & Hubbard, P.A.

Gary Fish, is CEO of FishNet Security

Kevin Clark is CFO for Lansing Trade Group

Sarah and Brandon Vore are surrounded by some of their preschool charges at their Canterbury School in southern Johnson County.

Scott Coons is the president and CEO of Perceptive Software, Inc.

Lenora Payne is the president of Technology Group Solutions LLC.

Shaul Jolles is the president of the Crossroads Community Association.

Matthew Hufft, the president of Hufft Projects, always brings his pair of Weimaraner dogs to work.

Glass artist Kathy Barnard was one of the first artists in the Crossroads District, but moved her studio to 1605 Locust Street after the Crossroads area became trendy and pricey.

Matt Anthony is the CEO of marketing agency VML Inc.

Dan Jensen is a principal of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. LC.

Raqibul Huq is the vice president of corporate IT and a shareholder at JMA Information Technology Inc.

Rod Parks is the owner of Retro Inferno furniture in downtown Kansas City

Mike Chesser, the chairman and CEO of Great Plains Energy Inc., is photographed inside the company's control center.

 James R. Coster, M.D., a radiation therapists at the Kansas City Cancer Center, is photographed in front of a linear accelerator.

Steve Olson, the president and CEO of Leisure Hotels & Resorts, holds plaster rhino heads by their horns during construction of a theme room at the Chateau Avalon Hotel.

Steve Oliver, the CEO of SKO Automotive Group, fills hi office with stuffed animals he has shot over the years.

Maria Stecklein is the vice president of Orbis Biosciences Inc.

Bill Eastman, the director for environmental services at Westar Energy, works to ensure that power plants, such as the Lawrence Energy Center, control their carbon emissions.

David Porter, the owner of Garment Care in North Kansas City, has patented  a "smart box" for home delivery of dry cleaning and almost anything else that can be delivered.

CEO Steve Rodgers (right) and CTO Kris Drent of Security PS started their company to keep others digital information secure.

Bonnie Siegel is the president of ASE Group Inc.

George Weyrauch with Propaganda3/Eimerrock.

Black & Veatch CTO John Voeller keeps his office door posted with articles for the benefit of others.

Danny O'Neill, the CEO of The Roasterie, stands on the roof in the rain with his signature DC-3 that has become a Kansas City landmark.