Entrepreneur of the Year: 2006

BCBusiness

 |  October 1, 2006

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines an entrepreneur as “a person who starts or organizes a commercial enterprise, esp. one involving financial risk.” That doesn’t even begin to describe the combination of brains, passion and moxie it takes to spot an opportunity, claim it and build on it year after year.

in Ernst & Young’s ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR PACIFIC REGION program not only put the dictionary to shame, they also submitted themselves to intense scrutiny by a top accounting firm and hard-nosed panel of judges. To find out what truly defines an entrepreneur, scroll down and meet B.C.’s top performers in 2006.

Art Aylesworth, Winner, Technology/Health Sciences
John DeHart and Ken Sim, Winners, Emerging
Jeffrey Fuller, Winner, Hospitality/Tourism
Earl Hirtz, Winner, Manufacturing
Jim Moore, Winner, Turnaround
Jim Case, Winner, Business-to-Business Products and Services
Roger Hardy, Winner, Business-to-Consumer Products and Services
Full List of Runners-Up
Entrepreneur of the year 2005

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