Annelie Niebuhr, 25

Annelie Niebuhr could star in a chamber of commerce production about people who grew up here, left for big cities, then came back. 

Her story is ripe for that tale: Born in Germany, she moved to the States with her family when she was 14 and graduated from the Pine View School. Then she was on to Pittsburgh, where she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in chemical engineering and a minor in Chinese. Up next: Three years with Citibank, first in Hong Kong and then in Chicago, where she worked as an analyst in the investment bank unit.