Company/Title: atLarge, Inc., president; S2, co-founder; Le Cafe du Jardin, founder.

By the time he was 19, Pallegar was working in the world of Internet-based marketing with the likes of Ford Motor Co., Chrysler, General Motors and other Fortune 500 companies. That changed with a car crash in 2003 that forced him into recovery for nearly a year. For Pallegar, that year gave him perspective.