EY Names Regional Finalists in 2015 Entrepreneur of Year Award

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EY, the accounting and professional services firm formerly known as Ernst & Young, today named the founders and CEOs of 15 companies in San Diego and Imperial Counties for its 2015 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in this region.

The awards are intended to honor entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. The 15 finalists were selected from 65 nominations by a panel of independent judges. They are:

Rich Heyman, Aragon Pharmaceuticals / Seragon Pharmaceuticals CEO
Zeynep Ilgaz, Confirm Biosciences founder & president
Georgia Griffiths, G2 Software Systems CEO
Jeff Lunsford, Tealium CEO, and Mike Anderson, Tealium CTO
Bruce Hueners, Palomar Technologies CEO
Mary Ann McGarry, Guild Mortgage CEO
William Siegel, Kleinfelder CEO
Jeff Church, Suja Juice CEO
Robert Hayes, Herbert Mutter, and Peter Botz, Triton Management Services and Two Jinn co-founders
Christopher Lee, Access Destination Services CEO
Ben Hemminger, Fashionphile president
Lorne Polger and Mitch Siegler, Pathfinder Partners co-founders
Bill Keith, Perfect Bar CEO
Jeffery Sears and James Stuart, Pirch co-founders
JP McNeill and Nick Fergis, Renovate America co-founders

Award winners will be announced at a gala event on June 18, 2015, at The Grand Del Mar, San Diego.

Regional award winners will be eligible for consideration for the national EY Entrepreneur Of The Year program. The national award gala is set for Palm Springs, CA, on November 14.

Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.