Ernst & Young has named the regional finalists across several categories for its EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 awards program.
The awards program celebrates and recognizes entrepreneurs who are building and leading successful, dynamic businesses across Canada. The finalists are split into the regions of Québec, Ontario, Prairies, Pacific, and Atlantic, and further split into categories according to company vertical (such as FinTech and consumer tech).
An independent panel of judges will name winners in each category, and one of the category winners will take the title of overall winners for each region. That winner will then compete with winners from each region for the Canadian Entrepreneur Of The Year title.
The Canadian winner will go on to compete with winners from more than 50 countries for the title of EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year, in June 2018.
The non-exhaustive list (full list can be found here) of finalists includes:
Ontario
B2B Products and Services
Adam Belsher, Jad Saliba, Magnet Forensics (Waterloo)
Digital Media and Marketing
Wehuns Tan, Flipp (Toronto)
Christopher Reid, Sortable (Kitchener)
Emerging Entrepreneur
Michael Serbinis, League (Toronto)
Ray Reddy, Ritual (Toronto)
Justin Thouin, LowestRates.ca (Toronto)
Enterprise Technology
John Sicard, Kinaxis (Ottawa)
Jahan Ali, MobileLIVE (Richmond Hill)
Financial Services
Michael Garrity, Financeit (Toronto)
Corey Gross, Sensibill (Toronto)
Kirk Simpson, Wave (Toronto)
Quebec
B2B Products and Services
Mathieu Beauchesne, Olivier Marcotte, Nucleom (Quebec)
Emerging Entrepreneur
JF Côté, District M (Montreal)
Fabio Zeppilli, Joseph Zeppilli, Bad Monkey Popcorn (Montreal)
Life Sciences
Clarissa Desjardins, Clementia Pharmaceuticals (Montreal)
Prairies
B2B Products and Services
Amin Poonja, EcoPest (Edmonton)
B2C Products and Services
David Baker, ThinkShift (Winnipeg)
Emerging Technology
Eric Boisjoli, Yvan Boisjoli, Stefan Maynard, Jason Myers, Bold Commerce (Winnipeg)
Brock Murray, Katipult (Calgary)
Mark Malekoff, Brian Tiedemann, Nakoda Energy Services and Thermal Intelligence (Grand Prairie)
Technology
Dale Beard, Intelliwave Technologies (Leduc County)
Atlantic
Emerging Entrepreneur
Stephanie Holmes-Winton, The Money Finder (Halifax)
Information Technology
Mitch Manuel, Vimsoft (Dieppe)
Technology and Communications
Saar Fabrikant, B4Checkin (Halifax)
Kevin Rodgers, Nautel (Hacketts Cove)
Mario Thériault, ShiftCentral (Moncton)
Kris McNeil, Solace Power (Mount Pearl)
Pacific
Emerging Technology
Brian Paes-Braga, Lithium X (VancouveR)
Financial Services
Dave Feller, Mogo (Vancouver)
Michael Wendland, Refresh Financial (Kelowna)
Hamed Shahbazi, TIO Networks (Vancouver)
Software-as-a-Service
Jack Newton, Clio (Burnaby)
Morgan Carey, Real Estate Webmasters (Nanaimo)
Rick Perreault, Unbounce (Vancouver)
Technology
Ryan Peterson, Trent Shumay, Finger Food Studios (Port Coquitlam)
Michael Plotnikoff, Michael Priest, Lite Access Technologies (Langley)
Scott Phillips, StarFish Medical (Victoria)
