2021 winners: Executive categories

01 a. Executive of the Year – Large Companies (1000 and more employees)	Gold	Ernst & Young Marna Ricker, Vice Chair of Tax Services

	Silver	Epicor Steve Murphy, CEO

	Silver	Five9 Rowan Trollope, CEO

	Silver	PlushCare Ryan McQuaid, Executive Vice President and General Manager of PlushCare at Accolade and CEO of PlushCare

	Bronze	Carrier Global Corporation Jurgen Timperman, president, Fire & Security

	Bronze	Insight Global Bert Bean, CEO

	Bronze	SUSE Melissa Di Donato, CEO

01 b. Executive of the Year – Medium Companies (100-999 employees)	Gold	Outreach Manny Medina, co-founder and CEO

	Silver	Bugcrowd Ashish Gupta, CEO

	Silver	Dura Software Paul Salisbury, Founder and CEO

	Silver	Interos Jennifer Bisceglie, founder and CEO

	Silver	Primrose Schools Jo Kirchner, CEO

	Bronze	Acoustic Dennis Self, CEO

	Bronze	AtScale Chris Lynch, CEO and Executive Chairman

	Bronze	Ferring Pharmaceuticals Brent Ragans, U.S. President

	Bronze	Infrascale Russell P. Reeder, CEO

	Bronze	Quanterix Kevin Hrusovsky, Chairman and CEO

01 c. Executive of the Year – Small Companies (1-99 employees)	Gold	AnPac Bio Dr. Chris Yu, CEO

	Silver	BlazePod Yaniv Schneiderman, Founder and CEO

	Silver	Osso VR Justin Barad, MD, CEO and co-founder

	Bronze	Aperture Cellars Lauren Wong, Vice President of Sales and Marketing

	Bronze	Consumer Protection BC Rob Gialloreto, President and CEO

	Bronze	IPM Rich Adams, President and COO of Integrated Prescription Management (IPM) and its subsidiary PharmAvail

	Bronze	Top Score Writing Lisa Collum, CEO

02 Entrepreneur / Founder of the Year	Bronze	Precision Home Pros Christian Bolding, Founder

	Bronze	Simply Admissions Lindsay Fried, Founder

04 Creative Executive of the Year	Gold	Retina Michael Ruby, Chief Creative Officer

	Bronze	Precision Home Pros Christian Bolding, Founder

06 Customer Service Executive of the Year	Gold	FIS Brian O’Neill, EVP and Head of Client Engagement

	Silver	D2L April Oman, Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement

07 Finance Executive of the Year	Gold	Merchants Fleet Jerry Pavelich, Senior Vice President & CFO

	Silver	Crocs Anne Mehlman, EVP and Chief Financial Officer

	Silver	InnovAge Barb Gutierrez, Chief Financial Officer

	Bronze	NLB Services Jagriti Kumar, CFO

08 HR Executive of the Year	Gold	Western Alliance Bank Barbara Kennedy, Chief Human Resources Officer

	Silver	Crocs Shannon Sisler, SVP and Chief People Officer

	Silver	Kushner & Westminster Tanya Saffadi, Chief Human Resources Officer

	Bronze	Upwork Erin L. Thomas, Head of Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging & Access

09 Legal Executive of the Year	Silver	Goodwin Procter LLP Michael R. Caplan, Chief Operating Officer

10 Marketing Executive of the Year	Gold	Globalization Partners Jessica Dodge, VP of Revenue and Marketing

	Silver	Epicor Paul Stoddart, Chief Marketing Officer

	Silver	Walker & Dunlop Chris Zegal, SVP of Communications & Corporate Marketing

	Bronze	Vivial Laura Cole, Vice President of Marketing, Training and Channel Sales

11 Operations Executive of the Year	Gold	Dollar General Corporation Steve Sunderland, Executive Vice President, Store Operations

	Silver	CarParts.com David Meniane, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

	Silver	Merchants Fleet Adam Secore, Senior VP of Operations

	Bronze	Medable Jared Klingeisen, Senior Vice President

12 PR Executive of the Year	Gold	TELUS Jill Schnarr, Chief Communications Officer

	Bronze	Runway Group Krista Cupp, Communications Director

14 Sales Executive of the Year	Gold	Microsoft US Kate Johnson, President

	Silver	Epicor Lisa Pope, Executive Vice President, Americas

	Silver	Xactly Jamie Anderson, CRO

	Bronze	Brighton Health Plan Solutions Michelle Zettergren, President, Labor and Public Sector

16 Technology Executive of the Year	Gold	Wingstop Restaurants Inc. Stacy Peterson, Chief Technology Officer

	Silver	Platform Science Scott Kopchinsky, VP of Engineering

	Silver	Rockwell Automation Dave Vasko, Director of Advanced Technology

	Bronze	Broadvoice George Mitsopoulos, Chief Product Officer

18 Environmentalist of the Year	Silver	World Energy Gene Gebolys, Founder, President, and CEO

19 Innovator of the Year	Gold	Walmart Janey Whiteside, EVP and chief customer officer

	Silver	Tampa General Hospital John D. Couris, President and CEO

	Bronze	ReachOut Technology Rick Jordan, CEO