These 20-Under-40 Up-and-Coming Printing Industry Executives Share Their Success Stories

Her efforts have not gone unnoticed. In 2012, the Label Printing Industries of America (LPIA) honored Kowa-Morelli with its LPIA Emerging Leader Award. The Business Journal of Mid-Central Illinois also chose her for its list of "20 people under 40 who make a difference in Central Illinois."

Family ties run deep at Huston Patterson. In addition to working with her father and brother, Kowa-Morelli's husband, Joseph, is the firm's vice president of sales. The couple has two daughters, Josephine (5) and Gabriella (3), and a newborn son, Gianluca.