Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award

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EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award
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Awarded forEntrepreneurship
Sponsored by Ernst & Young
Date1986;38 years ago (1986)
Presented by Ernst & Young
Website ey.com/entrepreneur-of-the-year

EY Entrepreneur Of The Year, previously known as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards is an annual award program sponsored by Ernst & Young in recognition of entrepreneurship. Founded in 1986 in Milwaukee as a single award, the program now runs in all 50 U.S. states and in more than 60 countries. [1]

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At the country and territory levels, programs begin with nomination [2] of entrepreneurs who demonstrate specific criteria. The award may be given to multiple individuals per year. For example, in the U.S. and other countries, there are multiple regional and category winners, spanning fields such as for retail and consumer products, technology, family business, energy, chemical and mining, food products and services, real estate, hospitality, and construction, financial services, digital media, and transformational ventures. [3] However, in each country, only one company and its leader(s) are recognized as the overall award recipient. [4]

Since 1986, over 10,000 founders, CEOs, and business leaders have received awards, [5] with an average of 400 recipients annually.

EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year

Since 2001, the overall country winners from EY Entrepreneur Of The Year programs around the world have gathered in Monte Carlo, Monaco the first week of every June for EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year.

Dubbed "the ultimate global competition and event for entrepreneurs," each year's class of country winners are reviewed by an independent judging panel of business leaders and previous award recipients. [6]

The judges for EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 were Chair of Judges Hernan Kazah, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Kaszek Ventures (Argentina); George Hongchoy, Executive Director and CEO, Link Asset Management Limited (Hong Kong and China); Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Xtreme Solutions, Inc. (USA); Susan Chong, Founder and President, Greenpac Pte Ltd. (Singapore); Noëlla Coursaris Musunka, Founder and CEO, Malaika (Democratic Republic of the Congo); Michèle Sioen, CEO, Sioen Industries (Belgium); Rafał Brzoska, CEO, InPost Group (Poland); and JungJin SEO, Honorary Chairman, Celltrion Group (South Korea). [7]

21st century recipients

Year [8] Winner(s)CompanyCountry
2001Paolo della Porta SAES Getters Italy
2002 Stefan Vilsmeier BrainLab Germany
2003 Narayana Murthy Infosys Technologies India
2004 Tony Tan Caktiong Jollibee Foods Corporation Philippines
2005 Wayne Huizenga Huizenga Holdings United States
2006Bill LynchImperial Holdings South Africa
2007 Guy Laliberté Cirque du Soleil Canada
2008Jean-Paul Clozel Actelion Switzerland
2009 Cho Tak Wong Fuyao Glass Industry Group China
2010 Michael Spencer ICAP United Kingdom
2011 Olivia Lum Hyflux Limited Singapore
2012 James Mwangi Equity Bank Kenya
2013 Hamdi Ulukaya Chobani United States
2014 Uday Kotak Kotak Mahindra Bank India
2015 Mohed Altrad Altrad France
2016 Manny Stul Moose Enterprise Australia
2017 Murad Al-Katib AGT Food and Ingredients Canada
2018 Rubens Menin MRV Engenharia Brazil
2018Aaron Begley [9] Matrix Composites & Engineering Australia
2019 Brad Keywell [10] Uptake Technologies United States
2020 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Biocon India
2021Jung Jin Seo [11] Celltrion South Korea
2022 Gaston Taratuta [12] Aleph Inc Argentina
2023Doris Hsu [13] GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.Taiwan
2024Vellayan Subbiah Tube Investments of India & Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co. India

Other awards

Periodically, global leaders are bestowed awards during the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year award gala in Monaco.

EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Social Entrepreneurship Award

The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Social Impact and Social Entrepreneurship awards recognize the achievements of leaders whose legacies have had global impact in areas such as sustainability. This award is peer-selected by EOY alumni that form the Global Alumni Council. Recipients of this award are considered EOY alumni. [14]

YearWinner(s)CompanyCountryAnnouncement
2016Selim BassoulBassoul Dignity Foundation Lebanon
2018 Andrew Forrest Fortescue Metals Group Australia [14]
2019 Liu Jiren Neusoft China [15]
2021 Charles III British MonarchyUnited Kingdom [16]
2022Stella McCartney CBEStella McCartney CaresUnited Kingdom [17]

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