Nina Vaca Named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year
6/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
Dallas TX - Ernst & Young has announced the 2005 winners of its prestigious Entrepreneur Of The Year Award and NIna Vaca, Founder and CEO of Dallas-based PInnacle Technical Resources has been named the Technology and Communications Entrepreneur Of The Year for the Southwest Region.
Commenting on the honor, Ms Vaca said, "I founded Pinnacle on the simple belief that IT services could be delivered more effectively to the end customer. Our twenty-fold growth over the past four years is a testament to every Pinnacle associate's commitment to make that belief a reality. I am horored to accept Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year Award on their behalf."
The Entrepreneur Of The Year (EOY) awards program was created in the United States in a single Midwestern city by Ernst & Young in 1986 to honor entrepreneurs whose ingenuity and perseverence have created and sustained successful, growing business ventures. Today Ernst & Young presents its annual Entrepreneur Of the Year award to the most successful and innovative entrepreneurial business leaders around the globe in more than 135 cities in 50 countries worldwide.
Ms. Vaca joins some celebrated company; previous Entrepreneur Of The Year winners include individuals who have built some of businesses's most recognizable names:
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com, US
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Tony Tan Caktiong, Jollibee Foods Corporation, Philippines
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Andrea Illy, Illy caffè S.p.A., Italy
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Ingvar Kamrad, IKEA, Sweden
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Pierre Omidyar, eBay, Inc., US
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Narayana Murthy, Infosys Technologie, India
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Barry Lam, Quanta Computer, Taiwan
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google, Inc., US
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John Mackey, Whole Foods Market, US
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Mario Moretti Polegato, Geox International, Italy
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Robert Braithwaite, Sunseeker International, Great Britain
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Howard Schultz, Starbucks Corp., US,
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Eddie Jordan, Jordan Grand Prix, Ireland
Ms. Vaca founded Pinnacle in 1996 as an information technology solutions provider to the Fortune 500. Today Pinnacle's core competencies include data warehousing, custom application development, systems and network integration, and vendor management solutions. Pinnalce's rise to the top has occurred in less than three years, growing nearly twenty-fold since 2002.