LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EY is pleased to announce the winners of the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 Greater Los Angeles Region Awards. The program recognizes business leaders in more than 145 cities in 60 countries throughout the world who have disrupted industries, created new product categories, and successfully brought new innovation and technology to traditional industries. The Greater Los Angeles Region award recipients were unveiled at a black-tie awards gala on June 15, 2017, at The Beverly Hilton. Hosted by FOX 11 news anchor Christine Devine, the gala was attended by more than 600 of the Greater Los Angeles area’s elite business leaders and entrepreneurs. This group of leading entrepreneurs was selected by an independent judging panel made up of previous award winners, leading CEOs, investors and other regional business leaders.
“EY has been recognizing leading entrepreneurs for over three decades, and it’s really impressive to think about how their businesses and ideas have changed our lives since the inception of the program,” said Scott Porter, Entrepreneur Of The Year Greater Los Angeles Region Program Co-Director. “This year’s class of winners are no different. They’re creating jobs, disrupting industries, and providing services and solutions that are improving our economy and our world and making people take note of the innovative companies in the Greater Los Angeles area.”
The Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 Greater Los Angeles Region Award recipients are:
24Hr HomeCare | David Allerby, Co‐Founder and Chief Executive
Officer; Ryan Iwamoto, Co‐Founder and Chief Marketing Officer; and Tyner
Brenneman‐Slay, Co‐Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Direct
Relief | Thomas Tighe, President and Chief Executive Officer
HATCHBEAUTY
Products | Tracy Holland, Co‐Founder and Chief Executive Officer
KabaFusion
| Dr. Sohail Masood, President and Chief Executive Officer
TaskUs
| Bryce Maddock, Co‐Founder and Chief Executive Officer; Jaspar
Weir, Co‐Founder and President
TrackR | Chris Herbert,
Co‐Founder and Chief Executive Officer; Christian Johan Smith,
Co‐Founder and President
Xencor | Bassil Dahiyat, Founder,
Chief Executive Officer and President
Yamibuy | Alex Zhou,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
These entrepreneurs now join the ranks of 31 years of winners. As a group, the 2017 Greater Los Angeles Region award winners have made a significant mark on innovation and the economy. Collectively, this year’s award recipients employ more than 14,000 people and earned annual revenues of $1.3 billion.
Also honored at the Greater Los Angeles Region event were Ashley Marin and Aryadna Ricardez, founders of Click ‘N’ Brush. Marin and Ricardez received the 2017 EY Youth Scholarship for their business idea: a toothbrush made of silicon and stainless steel that contains an ultraviolet light in the cap to disinfect the brush head. In recognition of their entrepreneurial venture, Marin and Ricardez were awarded a $5,000 scholarship at the gala.
Regional award winners are eligible for consideration in the Entrepreneur Of The Year National program. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced at the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 18, 2017. The awards are the culminating event of the Strategic Growth Forum™, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies. The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner then moves on to compete for the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Award in Monaco in June 2018. Since its founding in 1986, the program has expanded to recognize business leaders in more than 145 cities in more than 60 countries throughout the world.
To learn more about the Greater Los Angeles Region program, please visit www.ey.com/us/eoy/greaterla. Join the conversation on social media by following us @EY_EOYUS and using #EOYGLA.
Sponsors
Founded and produced by EY, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored in the US by SAP America, Merrill Corporation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In the Greater Los Angeles Region, the gold sponsor is Tangram; the silver sponsors are Avison Young, Ballard Spahr, Big Picture, Cresa, HighTower | Acacia Wealth Advisors, Vaco and Woodruff Sawyer & Company; the media sponsor is C-Suite Media; and the public relations sponsor is Olmstead Williams Communications.
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