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"While I had a variety of interests growing up and a variety of different careers I wanted to pursue," she recalls, "by the time I was a teen-ager I knew that I wanted to run Informco one day."

Informco was co-founded by Horan's grandfather and a partner in 1947, and has remained in her family's control ever since. After graduating from the University of Western Ontario's School of Business in 1985, the 39-year-old Horan started as a marketing assistant to the vice president of sales. She later became a sales manager and eventually ascended to vice president of marketing and business development.