Game On

The 2020 class of 40-under-40 winners shares a key trait: they never give up.

  • Class of 2020
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Noemi Perez learned grit at a young age, when she worked in the produce fields of east Collier County, picking tomatoes and other vegetables and then selling the goods at farmers’ markets.

 

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