2010 Hall of Fame: Ed Garvey - All the Right Moves

But, for those who follow technology closely, stay in-tune with their customers' needs and correctly gauge the market(s) course, there's the opportunity to live to see another quarterly report.

Ed Garvey hasn't squeaked through with Forrest Gump-ish fortune floating on the whims of a wind-blown feather. The president and CEO of Niles, IL-based The Garvey Group—fresh out of college in 1978—took the helm of his family-owned business following the sudden death of his father, and has transformed it from a $1.2 million business forms provider with about a dozen employees to a $40 million performer employing 175 people in four locations.