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YBI Entrepreneur of the Year Award
The YBI Entrepreneur of the Year 2010
will celebrate the achievements of successful young entrepreneurs
around the world and inspire action to support youth
enterprise.
This
competition, now in its fourth year, is about promoting successful
young entrepreneurs and demonstrating the impact small businesses
can have on local communities, mainly through creating jobs and
encouraging innovation.
Previous winners have included an Argentinean radio station
owner (Juan Ramón Nuñez - pictured, left), a plastic recycler in
India and a waste disposal expert in Kenya.
A shortlist of 12 entrepreneurs was decided in
June. Member of the YBI Network then voted on their favourite
entrepreneur, creating a list of four finalists. Our finalists will
then be interviewed by an expert judging
panel before the winner is revealed at an awards dinner in
Mexico City on 23 September 2010.
Shortlist for the 2010 competition
Environmental Entrepreneur of the Year
Finalist
Alex Tam and Felix Chung from Hong Kong, who are helping to
tackle the waste crisis in Hong Kong with their recycling business
EcoSage Limited. They recycle everything from newspapers to
discarded bronze taps and have grown to sell environmentally
friendly products.
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Gennady and
Alexey Shigapov from Russia, whose
ProfEngineering consultancy business is helping construction and
engineering companies reduce harmful emissions into the
environment.
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Besai Arizmendi Rogel, an organic
tomato producer from Mexico whose company Frutos con sabor a México
is exporting to the USA.
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Innovator of the Year
Finalist
Colin Davison from Canada,
whose Stealth Acoustical & Emission Control company has evolved
from a company which specialised in noise and pollution to a
manufacturing business that now employs 60 people. It designs and
fabricates systems for equipment such as power generators and gas
compressors, keeping noise within legal limits for the oil and gas,
power generation and other industrial markets.
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Hitender Punyane
from India, who makes customised air-conditioning panels for
industrial machines with his business SHN Enterprises.
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David Thomas and Rachel Renie from Trinidad & Tobago,
who have created the island’s first online food distribution
company, Market Movers Ltd.
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Woman Entrepreneur of the Year
Finalist
Salih Hajiyar Fathuma Nisreen from Sri Lanka, whose company
Ramsi Fashion designs and manufactures traditional outfits and bags
aimed at Muslim women. She has become a role model for her
successes in overcoming the restrictions facing Muslim women and
setting up her business and has been able to show that Muslim women
too can engage in busiiness activities and contribute to the
economy as well as their family.
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Denise Spencer
Huffton from India, whose Dream Weaver business produces
products for beauty parlours and spas, such as aprons, masks, bed
sheets and shower caps.
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Wenhui Ma from China, whose local handicrafts business Yi
Xin Yuan Folk Culture Company is employing nearly 100 people, the
majority of whom are women.
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Journey to Enterprise
Finalist
Shriram Kaluke from India, who
overcame redundancy and losing his savings to form Shri Ganesh
Enterprises, providing cleaning services for water tanks in
residential and commercial complexes. The business uses a high
water pressure machine, chemicals and an ultraviolet radiator to
make the water tank clean and bacteria free.
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Axel Arvizu and
Juan Roman, originally from Mexico
but who emigrated to Canada and are now running a successful
Mexican food business, La Tortilleria.
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Chetan Khaladkar from India, a migrant labourer who has been
able to create Sai Sound Systems & Decorators, providing sound
and lights services for public events and festivals.
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The Entrepreneur of the Year will receive:
A day of one-to-one
mentoring from a renowned business personality
US$5,000 cash
prize
An invitation to the annual YBI dinner,
which last year was hosted by The Prince of
Wales
Last year’s judging panel included Deborah
Meaden, entrepreneur and star of successful UK BBC show, Dragon’s
Den and Rachel Bridge, enterprise editor at UK newspaper The Sunday
Times.
Juan Ramón Nuñez, last year’s Entrepreneur of the Year, became a
national media sensation, profiled and covered by almost every
media outlet in his native Argentina after winning the award.
What will the 2010 winner achieve?