The Entrepreneurs of the Year were celebrated in late June at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where longtime Junior Achievement member Karolyn Johnson received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Scholarship.
This year’s Entrepreneurs of the Year for Minnesota and the Dakotas now become candidates for the national Entrepreneur of the Year awards, to be announced in November in Palm Springs, California.
For more information about the conference or the Entrepreneur of the Year program, contact Wendy Fox in Ernst & Young’s Minneapolis office at 612-371-6703.
Regional Sponsors:
Faegre & Benson
Twin Cities Business
Presenting Sponsor:
Bank of America
National Sponsor:
SAP Americas
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Regional judges:
Theodore Christianson
Managing Director, Piper Jaffray & Company
Jim Leslie
Chairman and CEO, Midwave Corporation
Bill McLaughlin
President and CEO, Select Comfort
Jay Miller
President and CEO, Vital Images, Inc.
Cary Musech
Principal, Tonka Bay Equity Partners
Mikkel Pates
Reporter, Agweek and The Grand Forks Herald
Dr. Chris Puto
Dean, Opus School of Business, University of St. Thomas
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