2014 winners: Executive categories

01 Executive of the Year, Large (1000 and more employees)	Gold	UniFirst Corporation Ron Croatti, chairman, president and CEO

	Silver	AirWatch John Marshall, SVP and general manager of AirWatch® by VMware®

	Silver	Quality Systems Steven T. Plochocki, President and CEO

	Bronze	Synaptics Rick Bergman, CEO

01 Executive of the Year, Medium (100-999 employees)	Gold	Avere Systems Ron Bianchini, co-founder, CEO and president

	Silver	Creative Lodging Solutions Michael Tetterton, founder and President/CEO

	Silver	Decipher Jayme Plunkett, co-CEO and co-founder

	Silver	Lithium Technologies Rob Tarkoff, president and CEO

	Bronze	Smartling

01 Executive of the Year, Small (1-99 employees)	Gold	Divurgent

	Silver	futurethink

	Silver	Platfora

	Bronze	Interaction Associates

	Bronze	MarketMaker4

02 Business Development Executive of the Year	Gold	SquareTwo Financial Brian W. Tuite, EVP and Chief Business Development Officer

	Silver	Wajam Amir Mansour, VP of Business Development & Corporate Partnerships

05 HR Executive of the Year	Gold	AT&T Cynthia Marshall, SVP of Human Resources

	Silver	Quality Systems Donna Greene, Head of Human Resources

06 Legal Executive of the Year	Silver	Quality Systems Jocelyn Leavitt, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

07 Marketing Executive of the Year	Gold	Guitar Center Dustin Hinz, Vice President of Brand Experience and Entertainment Marketing

	Silver	CYREN Joy Nemitz, Chief Marketing Officer

	Silver	Medtech College Richard Schechter, SVP of Marketing

	Silver	Nerium International Amber Olson Rourke, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer

	Bronze	Smartling

08 PR Executive of the Year	Silver	MWW Group Shannon Eis, Senior Vice President

09 Sales Executive of the Year	Gold	loanDepot Tomo Yebisu, President, Direct Lending Division

10 Support Executive of the Year	Silver	Quality Systems Desiree Vale, Office Manager

11 Technology Executive of the Year	Gold	PayPal James Barrese, CTO

	Silver	CloudLock Ron Zalkind, CTO and Co-Founder

	Silver	Riverbed David Wu, CTO

	Silver	Smartling

	Bronze	UnitedHealthcare

12 Entrepreneur / Founder of the Year	Gold	TouchBistro Alex Barrotti, CEO and Founder

14 Innovator of the Year	Gold	Narrative Science Kristian Hammond, Chief Scientist and Co-founder

	Silver	PayPal Hill Ferguson, Chief Product Officer