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PHOTOS: A look inside 2014’s (massive) Entrepreneur of the Year gala

Chris Gailus, Global BC News Hour anchor and gala emcee; Samantha Legge, Canada Wide Media president; and Matt O'Grady, BCBusiness editor-in-chief.The 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year award winners. Finalist Carlos Villavicencio, Natural Trade CEO; Bob Turner, TEC Canada CEO; and Ken MacLeod, TEC Canada president.The 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the...

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The 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year award winners.



Chris Gailus, Global BC News Hour anchor and gala emcee; Samantha Legge, Canada Wide Media president; and Matt O’Grady, BCBusiness editor-in-chief.



Finalists Dan Eisenhardt, Recon Instruments CEO; and Hamid Abdollahi, Recon Instruments CTO.



Finalist Jack Newton, Clio CEO; and his wife, Tonia Newton.



Finalist Carlos Villavicencio, Natural Trade CEO; Bob Turner, TEC Canada CEO; and Ken MacLeod, TEC Canada president.



Skot Apparel Partyskirts co-founders Mariel Armstrong and Lauren Armstrong.



Victoria O’Dea; and her husband, mining award winner Mark O’Dea, Oxygen Capital Corp. founder & chair.



Information technology award winner Ho Kim, CAMACC Systems Inc. president & CEO; and his wife, Shelley Clarke.



Devinder Randhawa, Fission Uranium Corp. chair & CEO; Ana Calin, Fission investor relations; and Ross McElroy, Fission president & COO.



Linda Point; and her husband, finalist Franck Point, Faubourg Paris owner.



Liam Kelly, EY accountant; and finalist Brad Cooke, Endeavour Silver Corp. CEO.



Stephanie Tsoulacos; and Stephane Bourque, Incognito Software president & CEO.



Cindy Beedie; and her husband, Ryan Beedie, Beedie Development Group president and EY Hall of Fame member.



Nicola Lambrechts, National Public Relations VP; Sacha McLean, The McLean Group vice-chair; Richard Jaffray, Cactus Restaurants founder & president; and Jason MacLean, The McLean Group CEO.



Karla McCarthy, BMO managing director; Tom Leavitt, Leavitt Machinery president & CEO and Pacific Entrepreneur of the Year award winner; and his wife, Cheryl Leavitt.



Jenna Bayuk, ZAG Global executive assistant; Steve Curtis, ZAG Global CEO; and Joe Lee, ZAG Global CFO.



Alex Beim, Tangible Interaction CEO; and finalist Natacha Beim, CEFA Educational Systems, founder and CEO.



Tricia Edmonds; and her husband Scott Edmonds, Webtech Wireless president & CEO.



Finalists Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia, Absolute Spa Group founder, and her husband, Sergio Cocchia, Absolute Spa Group director.