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EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Class of 2026

The Class of 2026 finalists represent 46 countries and regions in the ultimate global competition for entrepreneurs: EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ in Monaco, 26–29 May 2026.

Argentina flag

Argentina
Gala date
24/04/2026

Photographic portrait of Laurent Boillon

Australia
Laurent Boillon
Laurent Bakery

Austria
Klaus Lässer
ILF Consulting Engineers

Azerbaijan
Mehri Ahmadova and Ilyas Ahmadov
Berry Blues by We Grow

Belgium
Prof. Dr. Frank Ohle
Van Genechten Packaging Group

Brazil
Ari de Sá Neto
Arco Educação

Canada
Isaac Langleben and Jacqueline Prehogan
Open Farm

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Chile
Gala date
14/05/2026

Hong Kong/Macau
Li Pui Leung
TK Group (Holdings) Limited

Chinese mainland
Dr. Lu Xianping
Shenzhen Chipscreen Biosciences Co., Ltd.

Rafael Teodoro Zubillaga

Colombia
Liliana Estrada de Londoño and Elsa Marina Gómez
Eficacia

Croatia
Zvonimir Viduka
ALTPRO

Czech Republic flag

Czech Republic
Dušan Šenkypl
Pale Fire Capital and Groupon

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Denmark
Prof. Andreas Kjær and Carsten Haagen Nielsen
Minerva Imaging

Estonia flag

Estonia
Martin Sokk and Mihkel Aamer
Lightyear

Flags of Finland & Poland

Finland and Poland
Pekka Laurila and Rafal Modrzewski
ICEYE

France
Raphaël Gorgé
Gorgé Group

Germany
David Reger
NEURA Robotics

Greece flag

Greece
Harry Vafias
VAFIAS GROUP

Hungary flag

Hungary
Tibor Veres
Wallis Group 

India flag

India
Deepinder Goyal
Eternal Ltd

Indonesia
Charles Richard Oentomo
PT Centrepark Citra Corpora

Ireland
Edward McCloskey
WaterWipes and Boyne Valley Group

Italy
Francesco Nalini and Carlotta Rossi Luciani
CAREL

Japan
Kunihiko Tanaka
Kura Sushi, Inc.

Luxembourg
René Beltjens
Alter Domus

Malaysia
Dato' Kamarul Redzuan Muhamed
Uzma Berhad

Mexico flag

Mexico
Alejandro Ramírez Magaña
Cinépolis

Netherlands flag

The Netherlands
Matthijs Welle
Mews

New Zealand
Alliv Samson and Hengjie Wang
Kami

Norway
Børge Gjeldvik
Axess Group

Peru flag

Peru
Jose Antonio Mejia
Amazonas Trading Peru

Portugal
Virgílio Bento
Sword Health

Romania flag

Romania
Laurențiu Bălașa and Marius Iordache
The Bible Chat App

Singapore
Chin Wei Jia
HMI Medical

Slovak Republic

Slovak Republic
Jaroslav Maslen
MASLEN

South Korea
Mongwon Chung
HL Group

Spain flag

Spain
Jorge Costa
Grupo Costa

Sweden flag

Sweden
Stefan Krook
Kivra

Switzerland flag

Switzerland
Luc Burnier
nu glass

Taiwan
Frank Liang
C SUN

Ukraine flag

Ukraine
Gala date
17/04/2026

United Kingdom
Mia Drennan
GLAS

United States
Casey Morrison, Jitendra Mohan and Sanjay Gajendra
Astera Labs

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Venezuela
Zonia Bezara de Atencio
ZOOM


Meet previous EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ program winners: Class of 2025Class of 2024Class of 2023Class of 2022Class of 2021 and Class of 2020.