VITAL STATISTICS
Age: 50.Where born: Glendale, California.
Family: Husband Michael Ford, sons Adam and Jared, granddaughter Shonnie, 6, and grandson Wyatt Kade, 4 months.
Education: Some course work at University of Utah.
Primary products: On demand check printing software, speciality secure paper stock and magnetic toner.
Primary markets: National.
Number of employees: 22.
Annual sales: $2 million-3 million.
PERSONALITY PROFILE
First "real" job: Controller in the IBEX Division of Jelco, a truck manufacturer.
Management style: Hands off. Empower employees.
Strategy for success: Cultivate creative tenacity and never give up.
A memorable failure: Selling my accounting and data processing businesses to two different people and having to take them back a year later. They were severely in debt to people I had made promises to and had to repay. I lost in excess of $100,000. That's very memorable.
Heroes: Lee Iacocca, Winston Churchill, Golda Meir and my father.
Leisure time and hobbies: When? I used to like to fish, and my husband and I are going to start again.
Favorite book and movie: "Atlas Shrugged" and "Ryan's Daughter."