This year’s Forty Under 40 class received their awards and the applause of friends, family and peers at a dinner April 4 at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla.
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Members of the Forty Under 40 Class of 2013 posed for their group portrait at the ceremony honoring them April 4 in Naples, Fla.
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Holly Sonders, co-host of Golf Channel’s “Morning Drive,” handled MC duties …
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… along with her fellow “Morning Drive” co-host Ahmad Rashad.
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Past winners get together: AmEx’s Rich Lehrfeld, Scott O’Neil, and MSG Sports’ Ron Skotarczak
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This year’s entrants into the Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame: three-time winners Merritt Paulson, Mike McCarley, Greg Luckman and Sam Kennedy
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CAA’s Mike Levine, Jay Adya of Evolution Media Capital, and Greg Luckman and Paul Danforth of CAA
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Carl Mittleman of Aramark shares the stage with one of the program’s co-hosts, Holly Sonders.
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Nearly 400 people gathered to salute this year’s class of honorees.
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Matt Lederer of Comcast, Dave Rosenberg of GMR Marketing, Andrew Cohen of Visa and Mike Boykin of GMR Marketing
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Alec Scheiner of the Cleveland Browns, Bill Rhoda of Legends Sales & Marketing and Sashi Brown of the Browns
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From the Aramark contingent: Andy Shipe, Marc Bruno, Kira and Gary Jacobus, and Brent Franks
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Issa Sawabini of Fuse, Adam Harter of Pepsi and wife Rachel Harter, Robbie Tran of Pepsi, and Megan Hughes of Genesco Sports Enterprises
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Craig Karmazin (second from left) with (from left) father Mel Karmazin, wife Kelli Gabel, sister Dina Elkins and stepmother Terry Karmazin
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Brothers Joe and Michael Ondrejko — Joe from the Philadelphia 76ers and Michael from Legends —and Brent Stehlik of the Cleveland Browns
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Tom Garfinkel of the San Diego Padres and Merritt Paulson of the Portland Timbers
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Publisher Richard Weiss applauds with the crowd as the honorees come across the stage to begin the evening.
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Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, Mike Boykin and Greg Busch of GMR Marketing, and W Partners’ Wally Hayward
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Heat owner Micky Arison, wife Kelly Arison, Jocelyn Woolworth, husband Eric Woolworth of the Heat and AmericanAirlines Arena
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