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Category All categories Creative Influencers Award Learning & Mentorship Champion Award Equity, Inclusion & Empowerment Award Small Business Excellence Award Community Engagement & Leadership Award Business Excellence Award Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Company All companies Affluentia Realty Ann Arbour Consultants Inc. Anthony Lue Foundation Blue Pen Consulting BMO Community’s First Revival Design TWG Divercity Consultants Doane Grant Thornton Elevate TM Express Employment Professionals Feed Halton FIN Mortgage Food Bank 4 all Heart of Networking Infinite Outsourcing Solutions Landed for Success Mohawk Medbuy Corporation Multicultural Marketing Solutions Niagara Industrial Association NR Legal Services Pucci Real Estate Starz TCCA TEDX Oshawa

Location All locations Ajax Brampton Burlington Misissauga Mississauga Niagara Falls Oakville Oshawa Pickering Scarborough toronto Whitby Whtiby

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  Entrepreneur of the Year Award

  Marlene Marco

  Owner, Heart of Networking

  Ajax, Ontario

  Marlene Marco has been an entrepreneur throughout her career. She has worked in business networking since 2005. In 2012 she turned that experience into Heart of Networking, a women...

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  Entrepreneur of the Year Award

  Sharmila Perera

  CEO, Ann Arbour Consultants Inc.

  Whitby, Ontario

  Sharmila has more than 23 years of dedication to helping businesses, supporting workers, and creating opportunities that positively impact lives across Canada. Throughout her caree...

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  Entrepreneur of the Year Award

  Angelo Pucci

  Principal, Pucci Real Estate

  Pickering, Ontario

  I have known Angelo Pucci for a few years, and I met him through Connecting GTA. He is the kind of entrepreneur who builds something that lasts. Over 40 years he has built Pucci Re...

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