Twenty-nine Greater Washington area entrepreneurs made the finalist cut for this year’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards set for June 19 at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner.
An independent judging panel comprised of regional business leaders and previous award recipients compiled the list, and winners will be revealed at the black-tie Awards gala in June.
Among the nominees were Roy Kapani, the chairman and former chief executive of ECS Federal, Inc., Carahsoft President Craig Abod, and the three former Georgetown University student co-founders of sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet, Jonathan Neman and Nathaniel Ru.
The EY Entrepreneur of the Year award honors those who demonstrate entrepreneurial excellence in business as well as leadership in building and successfully growing business that influence the way we live and the economic vibrancy of our global markets and local communities, according to the professional services firm’s website.
Find the 2014 Greater Washington nominees below:
Brian Ballard
APX Labs
Brandon Bloodworth
Barbaricum
Craig Abod
Carahsoft
Ike Grigoropoulos, Dimitri Moshovitis and Ted Xenohristos
Cava Mezze
Sid Chowdhary
Credence Management Solutions, LLC
Katherine Novikov
Diamond Mind, Inc.
Amy Nichols
Dogtopia
Roy Kapani
ECS Federal, Inc.
Randy Brouckman
EdgeConneX, Inc.
Rachel King
GlycoMimetics
Nicole Geller
Government Contract Solutions, Inc.
Eric McKay and Patrick Murtaugh
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
Stephen Canton
iCore Networks
Christopher Weiler
LDiscovery
Paul Trible and Paul Watson
Ledbury
Drew Kim, Mark Neal and Ty Neal
Matchbox Food Group
Angelo Falcone, MD, FACEP
MEP
Srikanth Ramachandran
Multivision, Inc.
Mehdi Tehranchi
Notable Solutions, Inc.
Tobin Moore
Optoro
Bryan Gernert
Resonate
Yuri Horwitz
Sol Systems
Nicolas Jammet, Jonathan Neman and Nathaniel Ru
sweetgreen
David Trone
Total Wine & More
Jim Bankoff
Vox Media
Mark Ein
Washington Kastles
Timothy Chi
WeddingWire, Inc.
Terry McCallister
WGL Holdings, Inc.
Shub Debgupta
WiserTogether, Inc.
