The event honors the region’s best and brightest entrepreneurial technology companies. Mark Andersen of “Smoking Hot Sponsor” BDO and Carl Grant of “Smoking Hot Sponsor” Cooley served as the night’s emcees. The judges for the 2013 Hot Ticket Awards included Mike Daniels of GlobalLogic, Ron Kaiser of RELM2, Nick Lantuh, Jim Russo of Potomac Consultants, and April Young of Hercules Technologies.
Nominations were collected for nine categories: Hottest Bootstrap, Hottest Buzz, Hottest Company Culture, Hottest Emerging Government Contractor, Hottest Exit, Hottest Friend of the Entrepreneur, Hottest Management Team, Hottest Startup and Hottest Venture Capital Deal. The winners in each category are as follows:
Hottest Bootstrap (sponsored by Chase and JP Morgan)
Hottest Buzz (sponsored by Welz & Weisel Communications)
Hottest Company Culture (sponsored by Altamira Technologies Corporation)
Hottest Emerging Government Contractor (sponsored by Transformation Systems Inc.)
Hottest Exit (sponsored by BB&T Capital Markets | Windsor Group)
Hottest Friend of the Entrepreneur (sponsored by Consumer Electronics Association (CEA))
- Carl Grant
Hottest Management Team (sponsored by AH&T Insurance)
Hottest Startup (sponsored by Wells Fargo)
Hottest Venture Capital Deal (sponsored by First Virginia Community Bank)
