EY Announces Ken Luce of LDWW as an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Southwest Award Finalist
April 18 2024 - 3:42PM
Business Wire
Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates ambitious
entrepreneurs who are shaping the future
Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) has announced that Ken Luce,
founder of LDWW, was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024
Southwest Award finalist. Now in its 38th year, Entrepreneur Of The
Year is the preeminent competitive business award for audacious
leaders who disrupt markets, revolutionize sectors and have a
transformational impact on lives. Over the past four decades, the
program has recognized the daring entrepreneurs with big ideas and
bold actions that reshape our world.
Luce was one of 47 regional entrepreneurs selected as finalists
by an independent panel of judges. The candidates were evaluated
based on their demonstration of building long-term value through
entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth and impact, among other
core contributions and attributes.
"I was profoundly honored to have even been nominated for EY's
Entrepreneur of the Year," said Luce. "I never would have imagined
being a 2024 Southwest Award finalist. I'm truly humbled by this
recognition but must give credit where it is due. Honors like this
aren't won by a single individual but by several stellar team
members and the exceptional clients who have put their trust in us
and believed in how the LDWW model can fundamentally change the way
marketing and communications agencies do business. To be recognized
among so many great leaders and organizations is an honor in and of
itself, but also a testament to the smart, talented people I have
endeavored to surround myself with every day to get to this
point."
Entrepreneur Of The Year honors many different types of business
leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit.
The program celebrates original founders who bootstrapped their
business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow their
company; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an
existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and
multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy
business model to fortify it for the future.
Regional award winners will be announced on June 15, 2024 during
a special celebration and will become lifetime members of an
esteemed community of Entrepreneur Of The Year alumni from around
the world. The winners will then be considered by the National
judges for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards, which will
be presented in November at the annual Strategic Growth Forum®, one
of the nation’s most prestigious gatherings of high-growth,
market-leading companies.
In addition to Entrepreneur Of The Year, EY US supports other
entrepreneurs through the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ program
and the EY Entrepreneurs Access Network to help connect women
founders and Black and Hispanic/Latino entrepreneurs, respectively,
with the resources, network and access needed to unlock their full
potential.
Sponsors
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur
Of The Year Awards include presenting sponsors PNC Bank, Cresa, SAP
and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In the Southwest program,
sponsors also include Platinum sponsors DFIN and Haynes and Boone
LLP, Gold sponsors BGSF, Marsh and Roach Howard Smith & Barton
and Silver sponsors Big Picture Inc., Pierpont Communications and
The Slate.
About Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year® has celebrated more
than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful,
dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly
80 countries and territories globally.
The US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of
independent judges select the regional award winners every June.
Those winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic
Growth Forum® in November where National finalists and award
winners are announced. The overall National winner represents the
US at the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® competition. Visit
ey.com/us/eoy.
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Victoria Jett Kuper, LDWW victoria@ldww.co