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12. Ronald S. Saks

Title: President and CEO

Company: LMI Aerospace

FSB 100 Rank: 21

Value of stock owned: $51.4 million

Value of options: $0.0 million

Total ownership value: $51.4 million

When Ronald Saks and an investment group purchased LMI Aerospace (then named Leonard's Metals) in 1984, the company had 125 employees and $5 million in revenues. Today, after seven acquisitions, the company employs 1,300 and expects to sell $250 million worth of alloy and metal components to the aerospace markets in 2008.

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Notes: Data as of the companies' most recent fiscal year-ends. Options valued net of their strike price. Equity holdings data provided by Equilar. Due to a data collection error on the part of Equilar, the rankings have been revised since they were first posted.

LAST UPDATE: Jul 01 2008 | 12:04 PM ET