On Thursday night, Ernst & Young LLP announced the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2013 Award winners in Orange County – and our Founder & CEO, Jerry Paolone, won! The award recognizes outstanding high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities and we couldn’t think of a person more deserving than Jerry. Over 30 years ago he moved from Italy to the United States and built Car Sound Exhaust Systems Inc., now MagnaFlow, from the ground up. When asked at the ceremony who his first customers were, he simply replied “anyone who would buy it.”
The finalists and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and honored at a gala event at the St. Regis Resort in Laguna Niguel, CA on June 6, 2013. Now in its 27th year, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Program has honored the inspirational leadership of such entrepreneurs as Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee Company, Arthur M. Blank of AMB Group, LLC (The Home Depot, Atlanta Falcons), Pierre Omidyar of eBay Inc., Ruth Fertel of Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Maxine Clark of Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc., Tom Adams of Rosetta Stone, Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, and 2012 winner Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani Inc.
Jerry, and the other regional award winners now go on to compete at the national level. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the National Entrepreneur Of The Year Overall Award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 16, 2013. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
From all of us at MagnaFlow, we want to say thank you to Jerry Paolone for being an incredible businessman, leader, employer and friend to all of us. We are proud to continue his legacy of excellence, his passion for the automotive industry and to work with him on a daily basis.
For more information about the Entrepreneur Of The Year program in Orange County, go to http://www.ey.com/US/en/About-us/Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year/OrangeDesert_Article_Overview_Page_Main. |
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