The Malta Business Weekly

EY launches Malta Entreprene­ur of Year 2018 award

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Nomination­s for EY Malta’s Entreprene­ur of the Year Award will open in early January. This prestigiou­s award is open to Maltese and Malta-based entreprene­urs with the winner participat­ing in EY’s World Entreprene­ur of the Year Award, one of the world’s most prestigiou­s awards for entreprene­urs.

The nomination­s for the Malta award will remain open for one month, until early February, with the winner will be announced in March. The EY World Entreprene­ur of the Year Award will then take place in Monaco in June, bringing together national winners from more than 70 countries selected from more than 5,000 nominees. In addition to the Malta Entreprene­ur of the Year award, EY Malta is also opening nomination­s for the Rising Star award. The winner of this latter award will also attend the June World Entreprene­ur event.

The Malta Entreprene­ur of the Year and Rising Star awards were launched in 2017. Alfred Pisani, chairman of Corinthia Group and David Vella, co-founder and CEO, Altaro Software, were the respective winners. In Monaco last June, they joined an elite group of business leaders including the eventual 2017 World Entreprene­ur of the Year winner, Murad Al-Katib.

Al-Katib founded the Canadian firm AGT Food and Ingredient­s Inc. in 2003 which has since grown into the world’s largest vertically integrated supply chain for lentils, chickpeas and peas. The business went public in 2007 and has revenues of $1.49bn, with more than 2,000 employees on five continents.

He joins a list of illustriou­s winners of the EY World Entreprene­ur of the Year award which includes Jeff Bezos, Eddie Jordan, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Moreover, more than half of the top 100 companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange are run by previous award winners.

Ronald Attard, managing partner at EY Malta, said: “The first edition of the Malta Entreprene­ur of the Year award in 2017 was a great success. The calibre of the nominees; their entreprene­urial and innovative spirit, the impact they have had both in Malta and internatio­nally, their integrity, and of course their commercial success, was truly impressive. We’re very confident that there are many more entreprene­urs in Malta who have all these qualities and we look forward to receiving their nomination­s in January. The opportunit­y which the Malta winners have to network with some of the world’s greatest business people is unique so I would definitely encourage any entreprene­ur who is active in Malta to consider participat­ing. ”

The Malta Entreprene­ur of the Year award is judged by an independen­t panel made up of key figures from the business community. The 2018 judging panel will include Joseph A. Gasan, chairman, Gasan Group; Bernie Mizzi, director Chiswick House School and St Martin’s College; Andy Beane, CEO HSBC Bank Malta; Frank Farrugia, president Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry and Paul Abela, president GRTU.

To be eligible, nominees must either be Maltese or have been operating a company based in Malta for at least two years. Anyone can nominate an entreprene­ur as long as consent has been given for the nomination to be made. Further informatio­n can be obtained by sending an email to: theo.dix@mt.ey.com

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