Judging Innovation

Smart Business, Anthem and our 2009 Innovation in Business sponsors would like to thank and recognize this year’s panel of judges, who had the arduous task of reading through all of the worthy nomination forms and selecting this year’s Visionary and Rising Star honorees.

Peter Rea

Burton D. Morgan Chair for Entrepreneurial Studies, Baldwin-Wallace

Baiju R. Shah

president and CEO, BioEnterprise

Raj Aggarwal

Sullivan Professor of International Business and Finance, University of Akron, College of Business Administration

Laura Bennett

co-founder and CEO, Embrace Pet Insurance

John Nottingham

co-founder and co-CEO, Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates

Frank Bloomquist

regional vice president, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Dustin S. Klein

executive editor, Smart Business Network