Ernst & Young LLP just announced the 32 semifinalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Award in the Pacific Northwest. Ernst & Young‘s awards program recognizes entrepreneurs and leaders who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
This year’s semifinalists are:
- Chris Ulum, Agilyx (Oregon)
- Kamyar Moinzadeh, Airbiquity (Washington)
- Sunny Gupta, Apptio (Washington)
- Brandon Dawson, Audigy Group, LLC (Washington)
- Amy Tykeson, BendBroadband (Oregon)
- Craig Bramscher, Brammo, Inc. (Oregon)
- Donald Howard, MD, PhD, CellNetix Pathology PLLC (Washington)
- Jacob Engelstein, Classic Accessories, Inc. (Washington)
- Geoff Gilmore, Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc. (Oregon)
- Jay Haladay, Coaxis, Inc. (Oregon)
- Marc Barros, Contour, Inc. (Washington)
- Dave Shaffer, DePaul Industries (Oregon)
- Greg Enell, Double Down Interactive (Washington)
- Christina Lethlean, Gesa Credit Union (Washington)
- Ocean Yuan, Grape Solar, Inc. (Oregon)
- Josh Neblett, GreenCupboards (Washington)
- Jeremy Ames and David Nilssen, Guidant Financial (Washington)
- William Colleran, Impinj, Inc. (Washington)
- Naveen Jain, Intelius (Washington)
- Greg Pierson, iovation, Inc. (Oregon)
- Sandra Green, n-Link Corporation (Oregon)
- Glen Bertini, Novinium, Inc. (Washington)
- Robert Harris, Jr., Pacific Market International, LLC (Washington)
- Clay Siegall, PhD, Seattle Genetics (Washington)
- Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz, (Washington)
- Diana Friedman, Sesame Communications (Washington)
- Stephen Marsh, Smarsh (Oregon)
- Paul Fichter, Taphandles, LLC (Washington)
- Darryl Rawlings, Trupanion (Washington)
- David Madore, US Digital (Washington)
- Vikram Chalana, Winshuttle, LLC (Washington)
These business leaders were selected from more than 60 nominations by a panel of independent judges and winners will be announced at a special gala at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue. Now in its 26th year, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Program has expanded to recognize business leaders in more than 140 cities in more than 50 countries throughout the world.
