Julie Smolyansky
<p><strong>JULIE SMOLYANSKY</strong> is CEO and president of Lifeway Foods Inc., the company her parents founded to introduce kefir to the US. Named the nation’s youngest female CEO of a publicly held firm in 2002, she was recently named to <em>Fortune</em>’s “40 under 40” and <em>Fast Company</em>’s “Most Creative People in Business 1000.” Julie lives in Chicago.</p>