Entrepreneur of the year 2005

It’s one thing to conjure up a cool business concept. It’s another to convince investors, customers, employees and suppliers to back your plan, and then to execute it year after year with increasingly impressive results. The people you’ll read about on the following pages have not only done that, they’ve subjected their efforts to the scrutiny of a top accounting firm and a panel stocked with academic, legal and entrepreneurial all-stars. The winners and finalists in Ernst & Young’s program represent the best performers across the most critical sectors of our economy. Here are their stories … more...