2023 winners: Executive categories

01 a. Executive of the Year – Large Companies (1000 and more employees)	Gold	Scientific Games Pat McHugh, CEO

	Silver	Ernst & Young Angie Christie, Americas Vice Chair and US-Central Region Managing Principal

	Silver	Microsoft Alysa Taylor, Corporate Vice President of Azure + Industry Marketing

	Bronze	Jade Global Karan Yaramada, CEO and Founder

01 b. Executive of the Year – Medium Companies (100-999 employees)	Gold	e.l.f. Beauty Tarang Amin, Chairman and CEO

	Silver	a4 Advertising Michael Bartoli, Senior Vice President

	Silver	Ministry Brands Pat O’Donnell, Chief Executive Officer

	Bronze	Best Version Media Kevin O’Brien, Chief Executive Officer

01 c. Executive of the Year – Small Companies (1-99 employees)	Gold	Beekeeper’s Naturals Carly Stein Kremer, Founder and CEO

	Silver	Biz Foundry Ray Mays, Co-Founder of Biz Foundry

03 Business Development Executive of the Year	Silver	SnapHouss Kris King, Founder and CEO

05 Crisis Management Executive of the Year	Silver	Big Bass Lake Community Association, Inc. Neil Bresnahan, General Manager & Chief Operating Officer

06 Customer Service Executive of the Year	Silver	REV Capital Angelica Ly-Duarte, Director of Client Relations

08 HR Executive of the Year	Gold	Verizon Christina Schelling, SVP Chief Talent & Diversity Officer

	Silver	Addepar Sally Buchanan, Chief Human Resources Officer

09 Legal Executive of the Year	Silver	TELUS International Michel Belec, Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary

10 Marketing Executive of the Year	Gold	Sotheby’s International Realty A. Bradley Nelson, Chief Marketing Officer

	Silver	Workhouse Adam Nelson, Founder and CEO

	Bronze	Jennings Social Media & MarTech Valerie Jennings, CEO

	Bronze	REV Capital Trishaala Ninan, Marketing Director

11 Operations Executive of the Year	Bronze	Infinite Electronics David Collier, COO

13 Product Management and Development Executive of the Year	Gold	Merchants Fleet Brad Jacobs, Vice President of Strategic Solutions

	Silver	Amazon Tanay Shah, Product Management lead, smart shopping cart

	Bronze	Nativo Eugene Cherny, SVP of Product

14 Sales Executive of the Year	Silver	Nativo Mike Riley, SVP of Partnerships and Innovation

15 Support Executive of the Year	Gold	Deloitte Consulting Christina Bieniek, principal and deputy CEO

17 Technology Executive of the Year	Silver	Informatica Amreth Chandrasehar, Director, ML Engineering, Observability and SRE teams

19 Innovator of the Year	Gold	Innovation Refunds Howard Makler, co-founder and CEO

	Silver	RLM Underground Richard Lee Mudd, Founder and CEO

20 Philanthropist of the Year	Bronze	TAWANI Enterprises Col. Jennifer Pritzker, Founder and CEO