BC Business
Pinnacle Renewable Energy's Rob McCurdy wins the 2017 EY Pacific Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Vancouver Convention Centre
Global BC News Hour anchor and gala emcee Chris Gailus
Over 1,200 entrepreneurs and business leaders attended the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards at the Vancouver Convention Centre on September 29. Guests mingled in the grand foyer before entering the ballroom for the awards gala dinner. The 2017 Pacific Entrepreneur of the Year Award went to Rob McCurdy from Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. Global BC News Hour anchor Chris Gailus was gala emcee.
Every year an impressive group of Pacific entrepreneurs are recognized for their financial performance, vision, leadership, personal integrity and entrepreneurial spirit. The judges named 36 finalists across nine categories in this year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) Pacific awards program. In addition, two entrepreneurs were recognized for their outstanding achievements as social entrepreneurs.
Stephen Lawson, Tag Hardware Systems president and EOY manufacturing finalist; and his wife, Rachel
Salwa El-Ramly; and her husband, Dr. Zak El -Ramly, ZE PowerGroup president and CEO and EOY business to business finalist
Andy Creech, TSX Venture Exchange director; Nicole Yang, Leone Fashion president; and Brian Paes- Braga, Lithium X Energy Corp. CEO and EOY emerging technology finalist
Jamil Murji, Inter-Urban Delivery Service Ltd. president and CEO and EOY business to business finalist; and Faizah Mitha
Steve de Jong, Intergra Resources Corp. chairman and EOY mining and metals finalist; and Brady Fletcher, TSX Venture Exchange managing director
Fiona Manning; and Scott Phillips, StarFish Medical CEO and EOY technology winner
Joanne Friesen; Jonathan Friesen, Mission Group CEO and EOY real estate/construction finalist; and David MacLean, TEC Canada BC best practice chair
Chris Gailus, Global BC News Hour anchor; and Lui Petrollini, EY Entrepreneur of the Year director
Shannon Rogers, Global Relay president; Warren Roy, Global Relay CEO; and Aline Ayott, HSBC VP
Colleen Hardwick, PlaceSpeak founder; and Keith Spencer, Fasken Martineau partner
Nermin Karim; and her husband, Amin Karim, Inter-Urban Delivery Service Ltd. owner
Lauren Armstrong, Rubicon Organics marketing; Jesse McConnell, Rubicon Organics CEO; and Margaret Brodie, Rubicon Organics CFO
Kelly Greene, BC NDP candidate for Richmond/Steveston; and Trevor Greene, Clevest CFO