EY Youth Scholarship
Karen Bonilla
John A. Ferguson Senior High School
Living in Ecuador, Switzerland and now Miami has not only allowed Karen Bonilla to learn five languages, but it has allowed her to observe how the economy and businesses function in different cultures. She has accumulated invaluable knowledge about economics and other business experiences that gradually deepened her curiosity about the business and entrepreneurship sphere, which drove her to create and foster her own business venture, Lepsy’s App.
The catalyst for the development of Lepsy’s App was her 5-year-old sister’s traumatic experience observing a classmate’s epileptic seizure. Karen created an app that explains epilepsy to young children ages 3 to 5, in a colorful and interactive manner.
Judging Panel
Miami
Susan Amat, Ph.D.
founder
Venture Hive
Tampa
Gregory Celestan
chairman and CEO
Celestar Corporation
Boca Raton
Michael M. Earley
manager
Pelican Advisory, LLC
immediate past chairman and EO
Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc.
Lake Mary
Jay Freeland
president and CEO
FARO Technologies, Inc.
St. Petersburg
Mindy Grossman
CEO
HSN, Inc.
Jacksonville
Steven Halverson
president and CEO
The Haskell Company
Wellington
Mark Llano
president and CEO
Source One Distributors, Inc.
Boca Raton
Naomi Whittel
founder and CEO
Reserveage Organics
