Small Business Leader Award Nominees

Nancy Zurbuchen is president of Motional Multimedia. She co-founded and has led the Kansas City Council of Women Business Owners for the last eleven years. In her words, “We put women business owners…   Read More

Bob Parsons is the CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com. After joining the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and receiving the Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and a Purple Heart Medal,…   Read More

Brian Halligan is CEO of HubSpot, a marketing software company he co-founded five years ago with Dharmesh Shah to help small businesses transform the way they market their products by "getting found" on…   Read More

Entrepreneur and author Cynthia K. McCahon founded Enloop to provide an easy way for anyone to plan and forecast a business. After years of providing business planning and development services for private…   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

Prasad Thammineni is the CEO and Co-Founder of OfficeDrop and a serial entrepreneur. He has founded four companies and holds 15 years of technology, operations, sales and marketing experience. Prasad earned…   Read More

Marilyn D. Johnson, Vice President, Market Development at IBM, is one of a handful of African-American women with sales and marketing experience at the executive level within the global elite of information…   Read More

Bijan Sabet has been a General Partner at Spark Capital since its inception in 2005. Bijan led Spark's investments and is on the board of directors at Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee, Foursquare, Stack Exchange,…   Read More

After a cross country drive from New York to Seattle, where Jeff Bezos came up with the idea for Amazon.com, he founded the site from his garage. As Amazon succeeded, Bezos became a well-known dot-com…   Read More