The Stevie® Awards

🏆Brightpoint AI Inc. won a Silver #StevieAward in the 2023 Stevie® Awards for #WomeninBusiness for Women-Run Workplace of the Year - More Than 10 Employees. Brightpoint AI is a leading AI solutions provider on a mission to empower humans with AI-Driven Innovations. Brightpoint AI specialises in Machine Vision and Generative AI Solutions. 📷 Pictured and quoted is Dr. Dipika Mirpuri, CEO. ➡️ There's still time to enter the 2024 competition! The extended final entry deadline is September 4. Request the entry kit or log in to your entry account to complete your nominations: https://hubs.ly/Q02MpWMW0

🏆 Multiple Stevie Award-winner Gina Merritt is the Founder of Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures L.L.C. (NREUV), a community development organization that is engaged in a holistic approach to real estate development in low-income communities. Gina has over 27 years of hands-on real estate development, finance, construction, and asset management experience. She has participated in the development of over 8,200 units of housing and has underwritten approximately $4.5B in real estate development transactions. As a black female in real estate, she serves as a strong minority partner, helping lead developers with compliance, financing, and construction management. She is also the Founder of Project Community Capital, a social capital platform that connects people in low-income communities with jobs, ensuring that subcontractors who have socioeconomic goals from state and federal funding can meet their requirements by connecting them with individuals who are “Ready-To-Work.” In 2022, Gina was selected to be part of Wells Fargo’s Growing Diverse Housing Developers, a four-year program that will help 39 developers grow their businesses and overcome systemic barriers created by generations of racism and disinvestment; the Black Developer Capital Initiative led by the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) and National Affordable Housing Trust (NAHT); and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneurs Access Network, which helps Black- and Latino-owned companies address the disparity gap for greater growth. Gina won a Gold #StevieAward for Social Change Maker of the Year - Race; a Silver for Women Helping Women - Social Change; and another Silver for Most Innovative Woman of the Year - Industry in the Stevie® Awards for Women in Business! Learn more and submit nominations in the 2024 Stevie Awards for Women in Business ➡ https://hubs.ly/Q02KXrG60

📣Exciting news!📣The Final Entry Deadline in the 21st annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business has been extended. 🎉 You now have until September 4 to submit your nominations. Read the announcement to learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q02MbQHJ0 👩 This prestigious competition celebrates the achievements of #womeninbusiness across 100+ categories, including Best Female Entrepreneur, Female Executive of the Year, and Female Innovator of the Year. All organizations and individuals worldwide are eligible to submit entries. Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your work on a global stage, earn international recognition, and expand your reach! The 2024 competition will culminate with a glamorous awards ceremony in New York on November 8. Attendance is not required to win. #StevieAwards #thestevieawards #Stevies2024 #Business #BusinessAwards #femaleentrepreneur #womeninbiz #femaleleaders #womenatwork

🏆 Gold Stevie-winner Kathy Wagner is the Chief Strategy Officer of Kaseya, a leading provider of unified IT management and security software for small to medium-sized businesses. Kathy possesses a deep understanding of the role of finance in business, including the impacts and benefits of managing investments and effectively conveying strategies to the executive team, board, investors, and other stakeholders. Since starting the company in 2021, she now oversees Sales Strategy, Finance, Legal, and HR. She has led all legal, mergers & acquisitions, and financial activities across the full portfolio of Kaseya and its customers, defining strategy for group operations and ensuring Kaseya is poised for hyper-growth. Kaseya is headquartered in Miami and has offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Dublin, Krakow, London, Sydney, and Vancouver. Kathy oversees over 390 employees globally and is focused on honing her experience in building teams and scaling organizations to meet Kaseya’s aggressive expansion goals. Outside of her numerous financial achievements, Kathy is passionate about giving back to her community and growing its diverse talent through advocacy for education, focusing on women aspiring to have careers in finance and technology. Kathy Wagner won a Gold #StevieAward for Accounting & Finance Woman of the Year in the Stevie® Awards for Women in Business! Submit your nominations in the 2024 Stevie Awards for Women in Business before the final deadline ➡ https://hubs.ly/Q02Lzqr60

🏆 The Stevie® Awards for Women in Business are the world’s top honors for women in the workplace and the organizations they run. There are hundreds of achievement categories based on industry, job function, and company size including individual #womenawards categories that recognize the achievements of individual female entrepreneurs, executives, and employees. The "Best Female Business Influencer of the Year" Category is part of a broader set of categories for #SocialMedia Professionals, which recognize innovative social media content creation and moderation, management, and marketing, by and for women, since July 1, 2022. There's still time to enter the 2024 (21st annual) competition! August 21 is the final entry deadline. Learn how to submit nominations by requesting the entry kit: https://lnkd.in/gDUeVmr

🏆 Stevie-winner Linnea Windel serves as President and CEO of VNA Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providing high-quality, affordable care in the Chicago suburbs. In this role, Linnea oversees the organization’s operations across its 16 locations. Linnea won a Silver #StevieAward for Woman of the Year in Healthcare in the Stevie® Awards for Women in Business. Drawing on her background as a registered nurse, Linnea has taken VNA to new heights over the past 30 years, serving as Chief Operating Officer for nine years before stepping into her current role as President and CEO in 1999. She led the organization’s transformation from a home health-focused provider to a diversified community healthcare network that serves more patients in suburban Chicago than any other FQHC. Linnea currently serves on the DuPage Health Coalition Board, the Kane County Health Advisory Committee, the Home Health, Home Services and Home Nursing Advisory Board of the Illinois Department of Public Health, and the Aurora University (AU) Board of Trustees. An active thought leader, Linnea uses her voice in op-eds and media interviews to further amplify the work and mission of VNA. Her work has positioned VNA for continued growth in the coming years, establishing the organization as an integral part of the fabric of the healthcare system in suburban Chicago. Submit nominations in the 2024 Stevie® Awards for Women in Business before the final entry deadline ➡ https://hubs.ly/Q02KXqSj0

👨⚖️Many #StevieAwards judges find the process of reviewing and rating nominations to be an enriching experience. Judging for the Stevie Awards "provides a unique opportunity to learn about diverse organizations and their accomplishments from different parts of the globe," said 2023 Stevie Awards for #GreatEmployers Judge, Chitra Ranganathan, Associate Vice President, Mphasis Corp. Interested in judging? Apply to judge for one or more of our nine Stevie Awards competitions by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02LyHGZ0

🏆Melinda Emerson, President of SmallBizLady Enterprises of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania won a Silver #StevieAward for Woman of the Year- Business Services in the 2023 Stevie Awards for #WomeninBusiness. 📅 August 21 is the final entry deadline for the 2024 competition! Nominate a woman entrepreneur, executive, employee, and/or women-run organization by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02Lv5X30

🎉 Winners in The 21st annual International Business Awards®, the world’s leading business awards competition, have been announced! This year's winners were selected from more than 3,600 nominations submitted by organizations in 62 nations and territories. Read the announcement to view the complete lists of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners by category: https://hubs.ly/Q02Lgxhg0 🇹🇷 We are delighted that the Stevies will return to Istanbul, Türkiye for the IBAs for the first time since 2010. Honorees will be recognized during an awards banquet on October 11 at the InterContinental Istanbul. #Stevies2024 #businessawards #thestevieawards #stevieawards #InternationalStevies #InternationalBusinessAwards

🏆🏆Winners in the first Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence, “the Olympics for technology,” were announced last week. Today, we announced two Grand, "best of show" winners; Amazon and Owkin. Read the announcement: https://hubs.ly/Q02L5FQq0 The Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of individuals, teams, and organizations shaping the future of #tech across all industry sectors. Individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to enter - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. ➡️ Amazon/Amazon Web Services will receive the Grand Stevie trophy as the most honored organization in the 2024 competition on the strength of 21.5 award points earned through five Gold, one Silver, and three Bronze Stevie Award wins. ➡️ The Grand Stevie Award for the Highest-Rated Nomination of the Year goes to Owkin, a Paris-based artificial intelligence (AI) biotech that unlocks complex biology to find the right treatment for every patient. The firm’s nomination "Bringing AI Cancer Testing to Patients with MSIntuit CRC” won the Gold Stevie Award for Technology Breakthrough of the Year – Healthcare.