20th Anniversary 40 under Forty awards event draws crowd of 470

ONONDAGA, N.Y. — More than 470 people attended the 20th edition of the popular 40 under Forty awards event Thursday evening at the SRC Arena on the Onondaga Community College campus.

The gathering spotlighted 40 young professionals in the Central New York region for excelling in the workplace and giving back to their community.

Attendance was up from last year’s crowd of about 420, and 400 the year before, when the event was held as a luncheon.

The 40 under Forty winners were chosen by a panel of six judges, who evaluated about 100 entries.

BizEventz, a company in the Business Journal News Network, produced the event.

JoDee Kenney, morning news anchor at Spectrum News, was the event emcee. M&T Bank was the presenting sponsor.

This year’s 40 under Forty honorees were as follows:

• Jill Anderson – Syracuse Stage
• Abigail Baird – Onondaga Community College
• April Brissette – Bankers Healthcare Group
• Nathan Brown – HOLT Architects
• Iris Buczkowski – Strategic Financial Services
• Mark Ciaralli – Grossman St. Amour, CPAs
• Christopher Coville – Research & Marketing Strategies
• Mike Crowley – Crowley Insurance Agency
• Sally Curran – Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County
• Christine Durnin – Pinckney Hugo Group
• Mary Earl – M&T Bank
• Natalie Hempson-Elliott – Bousquet Holstein PLLC
• Brendan Farnach – All Seasonings Ingredients, Inc.
• DeAnna Germano – Chef4Rent
• Madelyn Halstead – Pinckney Hugo Group
• Keeley Ann Hines – The Bonadio Group
• Justin Hummel – Hummel’s Office Plus
• Rhonda Jasper – United Way of Seneca County
• Elizabeth Kapfer – Annese, a ConvergeOne Company
• Robinson Lingo – SRC, Inc.
• Edin Ljuca – Northwestern Mutual
• Melissa Marrone – Homeless & Housing Coalition of CNY
• Nick McLaughlin – C&S Companies
• Erica Vernold Miller – Professor Patty Cake Consulting, LLC/ Partners in Learning, Inc.
• Erica Muscatello – Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs
• Rebecca Newman – Housing Visions
• Robert O’Neal – New York State Office of Fire Prevention & Control
• Matthew Paulus – Paulus Development Company
• Carrie Pollak – Hancock Estabrook, LLP
• Madison Quinn – Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection
• Jon Rogers – The Salvation Army, Empire State Division
• Katrina Skeval – Alzheimer’s Association, CNY Chapter
• Pamela Smith – Syracuse Academy of Science
• Manika Suryadevara – SUNY Upstate Medical University
• Jacob Tanner – Digital Hyve
• Mark Trumbo – Syracuse University Athletics
• Brian Voss – NBT Bank
• Shawn Weiman – Nunn’s Home Medical Equipment
• Melody D. Westfall – Scalfone Law PLLC
• Stephanie Wright – Pyramid Management Group

For more information about the 40 under Forty awards and the honorees, check out the event commemorative publication that was published in the Nov. 13 weekly edition of The Central New York Business Journal.

Contact Rombel at arombel@cnybj.com