Top 40 Under 40
One of Mississippi’s most prestigious awards programs is back and taking nominations for the 17th consecutive year. Top 40 Under 40 recognizes the state’s 40 up-and-coming business leaders under the age of 40.
In order to qualify for consideration, individuals must have been born after Dec. 1, 1969, and have lived and worked in Mississippi for at least two years. Nominations should be returned to the Mississippi Business Journal no later than Sept. 1st, 2009.
Individuals selected as recipients of the Top 40 Under 40 award will be profiled in a special publication in March 2010. A luncheon will be held in their honor April 7th, 2010, as a special event of the Mississippi Business and Technology EXPO.
The Top 40 Under 40 program seeks to identify and recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to Mississippi’s overall economic progress, often working at their own local levels.
Since its inception in 1993, the Top 40 Under 40 program has honored hundreds of Mississippi business leaders who are playing active day-to-day roles in moving the state’s economy well into the 21st century.
However, Top 40 Under 40 is anything but a single-business awards program. Recipients have come from virtually every walk of life.
The key to the program’s success is that individuals are nominated by friends or business associates who best know their professional and civic involvement. All of the Top 40 Under 40 recipients have involvement that go well beyond normal working hours. Their days are extended by a large number of civic and community activities.
After the Sept. 1st deadline, all nominations will be screened by an independent committee, first, to be sure they have not yet reached their 40th birthday, and, secondly, for their business and community involvement.
For additional information about this special event of the Mississippi Business Journal, contact our advertising department at (601) 364-1000.
