The finalists for Ernst & Young's (E&Y) 20th Pacific Entrepreneur of The Year Award have been announced.
Winners of the Pacific region awards will be announced October 4. The overall winner from the Pacific region will travel to Toronto to attend the E&Y's national Entrepreneur of the Year gala on November 27.
"We've been celebrating the achievements of local entrepreneurs for 20 years now and their stories continue to amaze and impress us," said Ron Voyer, director of E&Y's pacific awards, in a press release.
"These entrepreneurs have put Pacific Canada on the map – growing local industry and creating jobs and opportunities that continue to attract the attention of global players."
Categories in this year's awards are: business to business products and services, business to consumer products and services, cleantech, emerging entrepreneur, IT, manufacturing and mining and metals.
Among the 25 Pacific region finalists are previous Business in Vancouver award winners Shannon Rogers of Global Relay and Shahrzad Rafati of BroadbandTV.
For a complete list of finalists, click here.
