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LAND, Texas, June 20,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young LLP (EY US)
announced today that CEO and co-founder Stuart Hinchen, and CDO and co-founder
Peter Jenkins of QuVa Pharma were
named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Gulf South Award
winners. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the preeminent competitive
awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth
companies.
Stuart Hinchen and Peter Jenkins were selected by an
independent judging panel made up of previous award winners,
leading CEOs and other business leaders. Candidates were evaluated
based on their ability to create long-term value through
entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to their purpose and the
demonstration of growth and substantial impact, among other key
indicators.
"Peter and I are very honored to receive this award," said
Stuart Hinchen, QuVa Pharma CEO and
co-founder. "This award is a credit to the business we built
together alongside Bain Capital and our over 1200 dedicated QuVa
colleagues, and we are thankful for their relentless pursuit of
quality and commitment to service of thousands of U.S. hospitals
that rely on our essential services". QuVa Pharma is a
national, industry-leading, FDA registered 503B outsourcing services company that provides
health systems and hospitals essential sterile injectables
medications critical to patient care. QuVa's mission is to enable
healthcare providers the ability to make informed decisions by
providing high quality and effective medications, services, and
solutions that facilitate efficient and accurate delivery of
patient care.
As a Gulf South award winner, Stuart and Peter are now eligible
for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 National Awards. The National
Award winners, including the Entrepreneur Of The Year National
Overall Award winner, will be announced in November at the
Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation's most
prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will
then move on to compete for the World Entrepreneur Of The
Year® Award in June
2025.
Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes many different types of
business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial
spirit. The program celebrates original founders who bootstrapped
their business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow
their company; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an
existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and
multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy
business model to fortify it for the future.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year program has recognized the
leadership of entrepreneurs such as:
- Daymond John of FUBU
- Hamdi Ulukaya of Chobani,
Inc.
- Holly Thaggard and Amanda
Baldwin of Supergoop!
- Howard Schultz of Starbucks
Coffee Company
- James Park of Fitbit
- Jodi Berg of Vitamix
- Kendra Scott of Kendra Scott
LLC
- Michael Happe of Winnebago Industries
- Reid Hoffman and
Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn Corporation
- Sheila Mikhail
of AskBio
Entrepreneur Of The Year Award winners become lifetime members
of a global, multi-industry community of entrepreneurs. They
receive exclusive, ongoing access to the experience, insight
and wisdom of program alumni and other ecosystem members in more
than 60 countries — all supported by vast EY resources.
In addition to Entrepreneur Of The Year, EY US supports other
entrepreneurs through the EY Entrepreneurial Winning
Women™ program and the EY Entrepreneurs Access Network to
help connect women founders and Black and Hispanic/Latino
entrepreneurs, respectively, with the resources, network and access
needed to unlock their full potential.
Sponsors
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young
LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards include presenting
sponsors PNC Bank, Cresa, Marsh USA, SAP and the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation. In the Gulf South, sponsors also include ADP, DLA
Piper, Marsh McLennan Agency, vcfo, Big Picture Inc., and Pierpont
Communications.
About Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Founded in
1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year® has celebrated more than
11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful, dynamic
businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly 80
countries and territories globally.
The US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of
independent judges select the regional award winners every June.
Those winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic
Growth Forum® in November where National finalists and
award winners are announced. The overall National winner
represents the US at the World Entrepreneur Of The
Year® competition. Visit ey.com/us/eoy.
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