Finalist

Chris Clark

Chief Executive Officer
6310 Riverdale St.
San Diego, CA 92120

Despite not even being old enough to rent a car in California at the time he started his business a few years ago, Chris Clark has done something in late 2011 and early 2012 many California business owners would love to boast: He added enough employees to triple his staff.

At just 27, Clark is chief executive officer at Shaper Studios, a retail surfboard manufacturing company under the umbrella of the Surfing Is My Religion label, founded by Clark in 2007. 

Finalists

Senior Associate
Best Best & Krieger LLP
Co-Founder
SOLO Eyewear
San Diego Foundation
Addison at The Grand Del Mar
UC San Diego Health Sciences
Chief Executive Officer
Lumedyne Technologies
Chief Executive Officer
Shaper Studios
Gap Intelligence
Owner
Galente Ganci APC
Chief Executive Officer
6 Degrees San Diego
Co-Owner
Design Squared
Director
San Diego Women's Foundation
President
Malloy & Company
Co-Founder
SOLO Eyewear
President
FITzee Foods
 

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Chris Clark on creating a community out of shaping surfboards

May 7, 2012 -- Chris Clark, CEO of Shaper Studios and a Daily Transcript 2012 Young Influential, discusses how his business grew organically out of shaping surfboards for his family and friends.

William Bradley on being Addison at The Grand Del Mar exec chef

May 7, 2012 -- Daily Transcript 2012 Young Influential William Bradley talks about becoming the executive chef of a five-star restaurant -- Addison at The Grand Del Mar -- at a young age.

Sophie Akins on being green

May 7, 2012 -- Sophie Akins, a partner with Best Best & Krieger and a Daily Transcript 2012 Young Influential, discusses her work in leading the firm's renewable energy practice group.

Heather Back of the San Diego Foundation

May 7, 2012 -- Heather Back, associate VP of marketing for the San Diego Foundation and a Daily Transcript 2012 Young Influential, talks about the foundation's leadership and legacy efforts, as well as results from the "Our Greater San Diego Vision" report.

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