Congratulations to the outstanding honorees of the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly's 40 Under 40 Class of 2011. About 300 people attended the Class of 2011 recognition, at an evening event held at the YOLO Event Center in Fort Wayne in April. We thank our sponsors for making the event possible: O'Daniel Automotive Group (gold sponsor); Lincoln Financial Group (silver sponsor); the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commmerce; ProFed; Sweetwater; Verizon; Westaff; and WANE-TV (bronze sponsors).

Below ar profiles of the winners - whom we consider to be among the top young business and civic leaders in our region, all under the age of 40.