LAST YEAR'S 40 (A-L)

Matt Beale
Age 34 | Principal, Daedalus Designs; president and CEO, Projecteye

Jon Caulkins
Age 34 | Director, Rand Corp., Pittsburgh office

Sanjay Chopra
Age 32 | Founder and CEO, Onlinechoice.com

Gerard Damiani
Age 34 | Principal, studio d'arc architects

John Denny
Age 36 | Director of community projects for Elsie Hillman

Deb Elliott
Age 39 | Partner, Makato Architecture and Design

Marcellus Garner
Age 36 | Program coordinator, Mercy Hospital's Boys to Men Program

DaLilli Hall
Age 28 | Director of intervention, East End Cooperative Ministry

Allyson Halpern
Age 34 | Executive director, Pittsburgh Glass Center

Maggie Hardy Magerko
Age 35 | President, 84 Lumber and Nemacolin Woodlands Resort & Spa

Laura Hodge and Christopher Mattick
Ages 35 and 32 | Co-founders, Helios Arts and Ampersand Dance Theater

Evan Indianer
Age 30 | CEO, Indianer Computer Corp.; CTO, Wishbox.com

Traci Jackson
Age 27 | Director of business development, Bally Design

Lamont Jones
Age 34 | Fashion editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Chris Kassabach
Age 31 | Co-founder and head of product development, Body Media Inc.

Sam Kinney
Age 36 | Co-founder and executive vice president, FreeMarkets On Line Inc.

Gene Kirila III
Age 36 | Founder, Pyramid Fitness, VEC Technology, Efficient Machine Tool Sales Inc. and Innovated Capital Management

Ken Koedinger
Age 38 | Co-founder, board of directors, member and consultant, Carnegie Learning

David LaRose
Age 32 | Graduate student/researcher, Carnegie Mellon University

John Leavitt
Age 32 | Co-founder, Lycos Inc.; entrepreneur, Iolite Media

Robin Levy and Sebastian Covarrubias
Both age 25 | Co-publishers, Contrast magazine

The Third Annual List: 40 Under 40

Take one idea -- that Pittsburgh is still producing young leaders with the drive and ambition to effect positive change in the region -- and add two organizations -- PUMP (the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project) and Pittsburgh magazine. What you get is our third bunch of 40 up-and-coming leaders under 40 years old.

This year, we didn't even have to discuss it. We were doing "40 Under 40" again. No one doubted we would get enough nominations. (We ended up with more than 100.)

And, more important, no one doubted we would find 40 quality leaders among the nominations. (We were right.)

So in late spring, we sent out the call. The nominations rolled in. We put together a great committee of local leaders -- business people, tech wizards, artists, reporters, educators -- and locked them in a room.

When they came out, we had a list of young people that ranged across professions, from entrepreneurs to poets to lawyers to erotic-art-gallery owners, as well as genders, ages, races, religions and lifestyles.

More to the point, it was a list of people putting up a framework on which a better Pittsburgh can be built.

"I'm always amazed at the level of talent that young people in our region possess," says Kristen Szymkowiak, PUMP's executive director.

"These up-and-coming professionals are changing the face of our region. They're adding a dynamic component to our region's leadership mix that helps pave the way for other movers and shakers.

"They're also making decisions that improve Pittsburgh, making this a better region in which to live, play and work.

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LAST YEAR'S 40 (M-Z)

Lane Maggio
Age 29 | Former community affairs project coordinator for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rosa Copeland Miller
Age 33 | Senior litigation associate, Meyer Darragh Bucker Bebenek and Eck

Megan Misgalla
Age 28 | Partner and co-founder, Presenting Pittsburgh

James Nesbitt and Bernard Uy
Ages 31 and 33 | Co-founders, Wall-to-Wall Studios

Joe Nolan
Age 34 | Executive chef, Cafe Allegro, Club Cafe and Allegro Hearth

Beth Osborne Daponte
Age 37 | Demographer, research scientist and faculty member, Carnegie Mellon University

Trip Oliver
Age 35 | Legislative director of Allegheny County, Office of the Chief Executive

John Pippy
Age 29 | District 44 representative, state House of Representatives

The Pittsburgh Geeks
Age 36 and under
Vanessa Fine, principal engineer, Redleaf Innovations;
Chris Keslar and Christina Shulman, co-founders, Online Commerce Technology;
Sam Robb, senior development engineer, Co-Manage

Chris Potter
Age 29 | Managing editor, Pittsburgh City Paper

Sara Radelet
Age 30 | Assistant director, Mattress Factory Ltd.

Steven Radney
Age 27 | Founder, serket design group; co-founder, Xedium

David M. Richardson
Age 40 | Community organizer, Center for Family Excellence; program coordinator, Male Coalition Mentoring Group

Susan Rynerson
Age 30 | Team captain and former co-commissioner, Pittsburgh Summer League Ultimate Frisbee

Kathy Stadterman Knauer
Age 33 | Environmental scientist, Allegheny County Sanitary Authority; producer/host of "The Allegheny Front"

Manny Theiner
Age 31 | Co-founder, Millvale Industrial Theater

Tommy Wang and Henry Wang
Ages 23 and 26 | Co-founders, iventurelab

Brad Yoder
Age 33 | Co-coordinator, Tutoring Center of the East End Cooperative Ministry; assistant dean of German section, Concordia Language Villages