AT&T North Carolina President Venessa Harrison thanks WRAL TechWire Editor Rick Smith after being named to TechWire's Hall of Fame.
Startups, entrepreneurs, executives, investors and several of the Triangle's top tech and life science companies share the spotlight, taking home 12 awards at the fifth WRAL TechWire Awards. Plus, the first five members of TechWire's Hall of Fame are honored as are several Editor's Choice Award recipients.
A capacity crowd packed Google Fiber's new Triangle headquarters for the event on Tuesday evening, April 25, 2017, which also featured a keynote address about entrepreneurship and the many strengths of the Triangle from Cindy Whitehead, who sold Sprout Pharmaceuticals for a whopping $1 billion.
In fact, demand for tickets was so high that the event was streamed live at WRAL.com:
VIDEO: Watch a replay of the 2017 WRAL TechWire Awards
We've also included a slideshow of photos from the event:
WRAL TechWire SLIDESHOW: WRAL TechWire celebrates top achievers in the Triangle
Republic's Chris Chuang is a happy winner, smiling after accepting his award from ExitEvent Editor Laura Baverman.
More than 100 individuals and companies were nominated by WRAL TechWire readers. The finalists were selected after a review by a WTW awards committee based on nominations received.
Here are the finalists and the winners:
STARTUP AWARDS
Fastest Growing Startup (most potential)
Eco-Site
Republic Wireless
Textivia
And the winner is:
Eco-Site
Most Steady Startup (delivering success consistently)
Adwerx
Republic Wireless
ArchiveSocial
And the winner is:
Republic Wireless
Best Emerging Startup (fast-growing startup emerging from stealth mode)
Eco-Site
RewardStock
Roundtable Analytics
And the winner is:
Roundtable Analytics
Top Startup Director (CEO/Chairman)
Scott Moody, Co-Founder and CEO, K4Connect
Todd Olson, CEO, Pendo.io
Chris Chuang, Co-Founder and CEO, Republic Wireless
And the winner is:
Chris Chuang
Startup Executive Leader (top leader/executive, not necessarily CEO but a COO, CFO, CIO)
Kevin Barry, Founder and COO, FilterEasy
Tatiana Birgisson, Founder and CEO, MATI Energy
Nate Frechette, Co-Founder and CTO, Dropsource
And the winner is:
Tatiana Birgisson
Most Noteworthy Startup Founder or Investor
Chris Heivly, The Startup Factory
David Gardner, Cofounders Capital
Mark Easley, Goldhat Advisors
And the winner is:
Mark Easley
ENTERPRISE
Highest Achieving Enterprise (established companies)
Bandwidth
IBM Watson
Sageworks
And the winner is:
Sageworks
Most Steady Enterprise (delivering success consistently)
MetLife Global Technology Operations
Red Hat
Bandwidth
And the winner is:
Red Hat
Best Emerging Enterprise (perhaps with IPO or exit potential)
Pendo.io
Validic
Bandwidth
And the winner is:
Bandwidth
Top Enterprise Director (CEO/Chairman)
Allen West, President and CEO, Railinic
David Morken, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of Bandwidth
Jean Davis, President and CEO, MCNC
And the winner is:
Jean Davis, MCNC
Enterprise Executive Leader (top leader/executive, not necessarily CEO but a COO, CFO, CIO)
Jesse Lipson, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services BU at Citrix
Tara Fitzgerald, President, Clinical Development Services at INC Research
Will Aycock, General Manager at Greenlight Community Broadband
And the winner is:
Tara Fitzgerald
Most Noteworthy Enterprise Founders or Investors
Art Pappas, Pappas Ventures
David Jones, Bull City Venture Partners
Mark Easley, Goldhat Advisors
And the winner is:
David Jones
HoF HONOREES
Five leaders in the evolution of the Triangle and North Carolina as a hub for high tech, life science, and startups were recognized as the first members of TechWire's Hall of Fame.
They are:
Monica Doss, who helped create the nation's largest organization focused on startups and entrepreneurs: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development.
Dr. Charles Hamner, who was a driving force behind the growth of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and one of the nation's largest life science industries.
Dr. Jim Goodnight, co-founder and CEO of Cary-based SAS, a growing global software and services firm that's never had a year losing money since its founding on July 1, 1976.
Venessa Harrison, who started her career as a telephone operator and steadily rose through the ranks of Bell South/AT&T to become president of AT&T for North Carolina and who spearheaded a drive to make sure the state was among the very first to deploy AT&T's growing fiber network.
Dennis Dougherty, often considered the founding father of the venture capital industry with the creation of Intersouth Partners in Durham.
Editor's Choice recipients are acknowledged in a related post.
Thanks to WRAL TechWire's Rick Smith for this capcom story & for these capcom photos.
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AT&T North Carolina President Venessa Harrison thanks WRAL TechWire Editor Rick Smith after being named to TechWire's Hall of Fame.
