Small Business Leader Award Nominees

Phil Van Horne serves as the President and CEO of BlueRock Energy, Inc. Phil is responsible for overall company management, operations and strategy. Under Phil’s leadership and guidance, BlueRock has…   Read More

Scott Cook co-founded Intuit Inc. in 1983 and now serves as the chairman of the Executive Committee. Before founding Intuit, Cook managed consulting assignments in banking and technology for Bain & Company,…   Read More

Richard Magid founded SoundBoard Consulting Group to support business leaders in building more productive and profitable companies through the ideals of collaborative leadership. In addition to strategic…   Read More

Sean Whiteley is the Senior Vice President of Salesforce.com, a global enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Prior to working at Salesforce.com, Sean founded Kieden, and…   Read More

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar is a well-known author, salesman, and motivational speaker born in Alabama as the tenth of 12 children. Before starting his career as a motivational speaker, Ziglar worked as…   Read More

Michael Wu is the Principal Scientist of Analytics at Lithium Technologies Inc. Michael received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley’s Biophysics graduate program. His graduate research focuses on modeling the…   Read More

Ridgely Evers has been CEO of companies in the software, real estate, investment, and consumer products industries. He has also been a supporter of America’s small business community. He currently leads…   Read More

Karen Gordon Mills was sworn in April 6, 2009, as the 23rd Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration after being appointed by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S.…   Read More

As co-founder and chief of inDinero, Jessica drives the development of inDinero’s product strategy, software development, and design efforts. She and her partners built the core product over the Summer…   Read More

Christian Taylor the CEO and founder of Payvment, the leading social commerce platform and the #1 eCommerce solution on Facebook. Before starting Payvment, Christian founded X Creative, a company focused…   Read More