Janna Ronert, founder and CEO & Dr. Marc Ronert, president and medical director, Image Skincare
DISTRIBUTION AND MANUFACTURING, AWARD RECIPIENT Janna Ronert is a Nebraska-raised farm girl who started her business before she had a passport in a one-bedroom apartment in Houston in 2003. Now, Image Skincare sells cosmoceuticals (cosmetic products with pharmaceutical-grade ingredients) in the United States and more than 30 countries. It has 150 employees and representatives. Ronert’s […]
Hannes Hunschofsky, president, HOERBIGER Corp. of America Inc.
CORPORATE INNOVATOR, FINALIST The HOERBIGER Group is active throughout the world as a leading player in the fields of compression technology, automation technology and drive technology. Hannes Hunschofsky first came to Florida in 1999 to develop the U.S. subsidiary, HOERBIGER Corp. of America Inc. Through his tenure as president, he has led by example, demonstrating […]
Lee Chen, founder and CEO, A10 Networks
TECHNOLOGY, FINALIST Lee Chen is a born leader and entrepreneur, which he has demonstrated throughout his career. He has had a hand in forming three very successful companies — Foundry Networks, Centillion Networks and, most recently, A10 Networks. As the founder and CEO of A10 Networks, Chen is a hard worker who values his team […]
Tarkan Maner, president and CEO, Wyse Technology
TECHNOLOGY, AWARD RECIPIENT At age 15, Tarkan Maner created one of Istanbul’s first commercial maps to advertise local businesses. As founder of one of Istanbul’s “first Yelps,” Maner proved early that he had the entrepreneurial vision to recognize a need and find a winning strategy to solve it. And as president and CEO of Wyse […]
Jordan Zimmerman, founder and chairman, Zimmerman Advertising
CORPORATE INNOVATOR, AWARD RECIPIENT Jordan Zimmerman has been an entrepreneur from an early age. He started a door-to-door greeting card business at 8 years old, and later a successful newspaper route where he managed his first employees, his friends. These ventures taught him leadership and to overcome fear of failure and rejection. He’s continued to […]
Timothy L. Main, CEO, Jabil
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT, AWARD RECIPIENT Timothy L. Main left a comfortable, secure job as a lending officer with an established bank to join the ranks of a small, untested electronic manufacturing services company in 1987 — much to the concern of his family. However 25 years later, he’s climbed his way to the top as CEO […]
John Boncher, president and CEO, Cupertino Electric Inc.
SERVICES, FINALIST Not many understand the competitive nature of the construction industry. Technological innovation is sometimes more important on job sites than innovation for some of the technology industry’s mega-giants like Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Yahoo, all of whom are clientele of Cupertino Electric Inc. Cupertino Electric is a provider of engineering and construction […]
Lisa Im, CEO, Performant Financial Corp.
SERVICES, AWARD RECIPIENT Lisa Im is a born leader who can’t help but put her passion into everything she does, whether it’s being there for her family or taking another step toward making Performant the company she knows it can be. At the time she led a buyout of the company from its founder, Performant […]
Richard Zuschlag, Acadian Ambulance Service, chairman and CEO
Health care & Health care Services — Award Recipient Richard Zuschlag operates Acadian Ambulance Service with a focus on two core responsibilities that everyone in the company must carry out. The first responsibility is to serve patients with excellent care. The second is to provide a rewarding, challenging work environment for the company’s employees. Zuschlag, chairman […]
William D. Morean, Chairman, Jabil
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT, AWARD RECIPIENT William D. Morean has always demonstrated a strong work ethic and sense of adventure. These qualities would serve him well as he set about turning his family’s small-town, garage-based start-up into one of the largest electronics manufacturing companies in the world. The ensuing growth of Jabil stems from Morean’s initial foresight […]