Canada’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year®

The Art of Entrepreneurship recognizes entrepreneurs who continuously repaint and reframe our economy from innovative angles through their unique visions and hard work. This theme pays homage to the artful balance of passion, determination, character and skill needed to create businesses that address the most complex challenges and build a better working world.

Through the Entrepreneur Of The Year get ready to: program, they celebrate the entrepreneurs whose unbounded ambitions deliver innovation, growth and prosperity that transform the world.

Benefits

The ecosystem offers you:

• Lifetime access to a community of like‑minded business leaders, including program alumni, judges and sponsors, business leaders and EY personnel.
• The opportunity to expand your network and build relationships through invitations to exclusive entrepreneurially focused and broader EY -run events.
• The chance to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest hot topics with peer -to -peer learning experiences, workshops, roundtable discussions and more.
• Connections with EY advisors through EY WavespaceTM to help your business broaden its focus to embrace value creation.
• An exclusive invitation to the EY Strategic Growth Forum®, one of North America’s largest gatherings of entrepreneurs, investors, executives and business leaders.

Eligibility

• The nominee must be the owner or CEO of a private or public company and responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business. Co-founders are eligible if they share leadership responsibilities at the company.
• Non-founding entrepreneurs are also eligible if the individual manages the business and assumes the associated risks.
• The nominee must have been in their current leadership role for at least two years by the application deadline.
• The nominee’s company must be at least three years old by the application deadline.
• The nominee’s headquarters must be in the region where the nomination is submitted.

For more information, visit Ernst & Young.