From Stemcell Technologies: Vivian Lee, senior scientist; Allen Eaves, president & CEO; Helen Sheridan, VP HR; Joan Sheehan, VP sales; Michael Riedel, director of quality control; and Kim Lucas, director of sales
Lui Petrollini, EY partner and Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Pacific Director; and Daniel Frankel, Tap & Barrel founder & CEO
John DeHart, Nurse Next Door co-founder; and Ian Walker, Left Coast Naturals co-founder
From Fluxwerx Illumination: Julie Trant; Lance Howitt, co-founder; Joanne Berman; and Tim Berman, co-founder and president
Saje Natural Wellness co-founders Kate Ross LeBlanc and Jean-Pierre LeBlanc
HME Mobility & Accessibility co-founders Robert Boscacci and Cameron Fleming
Chris McClymont, MAC Holdings Ltd. financial analyst; Marion Lowe, WesternOne Inc. assistant financial reporting manager; and Rick McClymont, MAC Holdings Ltd. president
John Neate Jr., JJ Bean founder & president; and his son Jesse Neate, JJ Bean VP operations
Alistair Vigier, Hart Legal investor relations; and Emma Zhang, Hart Legal business development
Cindy Beedie, Powell Place private capital chair; and her husband Ryan Beedie, The Beedie Development Group president
Colleen McMorrow, EY alumni; and Francois Tellier, EY partner and Entrepreneur of the Year Award national director
Makiko Shioyu-Deniz, TIO Networks executive assistant; Hamed Shahbazi, TIO Networks chair & CEO; and his father Moshen Shahbazi
Natalie Doman, Heart & Stroke Foundation past honourary chair; Kyle Washington, Seaspan Corp.executive chairman; Amar Doman, CanWel Building Materials Group Ltd. CEO; Jonathan Whitworth, Seaspan Corp. CEO; and Janelle Washington
Peter Armstrong, Rocky Mountaineer founder and the Armstrong Group principal; and David Beck, Wilson M Beck Insurance Services Inc. president
Marc Bourne, TRAKfleet principal; Kelly Bourne, Mercer Human Resource Consulting principal; Mike Bishop, Low Tide Properties Ltd. director of asset management; and Wendy Bishop, Sauder School of Business program manager executive education
Vancouver Convention Centre
September 30, 2016
More than 1,300 business leaders and VIPs attended the 23rd annual EY (Ernst & Young) Entrepreneur of the Year Awards at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Thirty finalists were feted at the annual gala beginning with a networking reception prior to the awards ceremony with emcee Chris Gailus, Global BC anchor. The Pacific Region overall winner was Dr. Allen Eaves, Stemcell Technologies Inc. president & CEO.
The EY Entrepreneur of the Year is an annual global awards program administered by Ernst & Young (EY). Canada’s Pacific Region competition is overseen by the Ernst & Young LLP Vancouver office, which selects judges from among business leaders and past EOY winners. Judges look for a number of factors, including vision, leadership, financial performance and social responsibility. The Pacific Region winner is among five regional winners for Canada’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year; the Canadian winner advances to an annual competition for World Entrepreneur of the Year from among 60 country winners, each year held in Monte Carlo.