Harvey L. Massey, chairman and CEO, Massey Services Inc.
AWARD RECIPIENT – Services Harvey L. Massey chairman and CEO Massey Services Inc. After more than two successful decades in the pest control industry — including serving as the youngest vice president in the history of industry leader Orkin — Harvey L. Massey decided to take on a new challenge. He leveraged everything he had […]
John Duffy, founder and CEO, 3Cinteractive
AWARD RECIPIENT – TECHNOLOGY John Duffy founder and CEO 3Cinteractive As the founder and CEO of 3Cinteractive, John Duffy looks for new technologies that create shifts in behavior, on the side of businesses as well as consumers. With 25 years of experience in communications and payment processing, he’s channeled this core entrepreneurial philosophy to grow […]
How David Hoffman seeks to make price irrelevant for his customers
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Andres Reiner, President and CEO, PROS Holdings Inc.
FINALIST / TECHNOLOGY Andres Reiner joined PROS Holdings Inc. in 1999. After six years he proposed a directional shift for the company away from its roots as a developer of revenue management software for airlines because he felt the airline market wouldn’t sustain PROS as a publicly traded company. Reiner envisioned a vertical platform with […]
How Richard Carrano has steered Purchasing Power through tricky transitions
Richard Carrano knows all about stages — not the prosceniums on which actors ply their trade, but the phases through which companies evolve as they grow. He also knows how hard it can be for a business to advance from one stage in its development to the next. The transitions seldom come easy. Carrano has […]
Richard L. Sanchez, president and CEO, Advantica
FINALIST – Health Care Richard L. Sanchez president and CEO Advantica Richard L. Sanchez takes a “people first” approach when it comes to how he runs his business. As president and CEO of Advantica, Sanchez recognizes that the company would never be one of the largest vision health care providers if it wasn’t letting its […]
John Sell, President, Wayne W. Sell Corp.
FINALIST / SERVICES John Sell took over as president of the regional trucking company Wayne W. Sell Corp., after his father, the company’s founder and namesake, died in 2008. During the economic downturn that followed, Sell had the vision to invest heavily in equipment to service the natural gas industry. He also made the decision […]
Mark Peters, CEO, Butterball Farms Inc.
Semifinalist, Consumer Products As the second-generation CEO of Butterball Farms Inc., Mark Peters has successfully managed to build upon the success of his father and grow the company into an industry leader. According to business experts, family businesses survive through a second generation only 30 percent of the time. Through hard work, the influence of […]
Sandy Scott, CEO, Sprint Industrial Holdings LLC
FINALIST / LOGISTICS & INDUSTRIAL SERVICES Sandy Scott always challenges herself to be better than she was the day before. As CEO of Sprint Industrial Holdings LLC, a provider of industrial equipment rentals used in the oil and gas industry, she expects the same from her company. Over the past two years, Scott has worked […]
Shari Dingle Sandifer, founder and CEO, Avant Healthcare Professionals
FINALIST – Health Care Shari Dingle Sandifer founder and CEO Avant Healthcare Professionals Shari Dingle Sandifer didn’t always plan to start her own business, much less as a staffing agency. It was her experience as a nurse that drove her to fill a key industry need — the need for quality foreign health care professionals. […]