Small Business Leader Award Nominees

Shelly Sun is the founder and President of BrightStar, a full service healthcare staffing agency serving corporate and private duty clients since 2002. Shelly Sun founded BrightStar Franchising in January…   Read More

Melanie Wing is the Vice President of Marketing at Equifax. Graduating from the University of Arizona, Melanie turned her passion for marketing into successful career. Some of Melanie's past work positions…   Read More

Gabriel Shaoolian is the founder and CEO of Blue Fountain Media, a web design, development and online marketing team based in Manhattan. Shaoolian started Blue Fountain Media as a one-man operation and…   Read More

Brent Beshore is the CEO and founder of AdVentures, which invests in communications-based companies. These investments range from ad agencies and media properties to a software development firm and a film…   Read More

Tien Tzuo founded Zuora in 2008 and serves as Chief Executive Officer. Before joining Zuora, Tzuo had witnessed a shift to a new business model where both consumers and businesses favored a subscription…   Read More

Passionate about growing and marketing innovative companies, Victoria has been an entrepreneur since her early twenties and has developed three companies, all of which are successfully operating today.…   Read More

Sandy Carter is Vice President of Social Business Evangelism at IBM. She is the best selling author of two books: “The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0”, and “The New Language of Marketing…   Read More

Malko Ebers is founder and CEO of New York Business Consultants LLC. NYBC is represented in the US, Germany and China and provides consulting and business development services in the field of sustainable…   Read More

The inspiration for Optimizely came from Dan Siroker's experience as the Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential Campaign and Deputy New Media Director for the Presidential Transition. Before…   Read More

Nina Campbell is the founder of PRA Professional Real Estate Assistant Training, a company dedicated to providing foundational & ongoing training, support, job placement assistance, & networking opportunities…   Read More