Carolinas Program - 2010 Lifetime Achievement Honoree and Finalists
27 business leaders with companies located in the Carolinas have been selected by an independent judging panel for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Carolinas awards. These 26 finalists, along with The Lifetime Achievement Honoree, Stephen Zelnak, Jr., will be honored at a black-tie awards gala on Thursday, June 17 at the Westin Charlotte in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.
Lifetime Achievement Honoree
Stephen Zelnak, Jr.
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (retired)
Martin Marietta Materials
Raleigh, North Carolina
FinalistsLeah Brown
President and Chief Executive Officer
A10 Clinical Solutions
Cary, North Carolina
Jason Benhan
President
and David Benham
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Benham REO Group
Concord, North Carolina
Randy Kibler
Chief Executive Officer
Bojangles' Restaurants, Inc.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Joseph Alala, III
President and Chief Executive Officer
CapitalSouth Partners Funds
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tom Coble
President and Chief Executive Officer
Coble Trench Safety, Inc.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Craig Collard
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc.
Cary, North Carolina
Chuck Swoboda
Chief Executive Officer
CREE
Durham, North Carolina
Matthew Berry
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
and Ben Weinberger
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Digitalsmiths
Morrisville, North Carolina
Ryan Dienst
Chief Executive Officer
and Scott Ray
Founder
GMI
Charlotte, North Carolina
Keith Luedeman
Chief Executive Officer
goodmortgage.com
Charlotte, North Carolina
Eric Kozlowski
President and Chief Executive Officer
and Brian Pfeifer
Vice President
Industrial Motion, Inc.
Mooresville, North Carolina
Jane Zhang
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
JH Global Services, Inc.
Greenville, South Carolina
Steve Malik
Chief Executive Officer
Medfusion
Cary, North Carolina
Mark Yusko
Chief Executive Officer and CIO
Morgan Creek Capital Management
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jud Bowman
President and Chief Executive Officer
PocketGear
Durham, North Carolina
Sidney Hinton
Chief Executive Officer
PowerSecure International, Inc.
Wake Forest, North Carolina
Stephen Wiehe
President and Chief Executive Officer
SciQuest, Inc.
Cary, North Carolina
Doug Witcher
CEO and Founder
Smart Choice
Greensboro, North Carolina
Thomas Baliker
President
Spartan Foods of America, Inc.
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Lawrence Stern
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Talecris Biotherapeutics
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Todd Pope
President and Chief Executive Officer
TransEnterix
Durham, North Carolina
Carlos Gutierrez
President and Chief Executive Officer
United Resource Recovery Corporation
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Steve Puckett, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
US HIFU, LLC
Charlotte, North Carolina
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