EY Announces Spark Biomedical CEO Daniel Powell as an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Southwest Award Finalist
April 19 2024 - 3:01PM
Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Daniel Powell,
CEO and Founder of Spark Biomedical 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.
Daniel Powell 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 am immensely honored to be nominated for EY
Entrepreneur of the Year,” Powell said. “This award is a testament
to the entire team at Spark Biomedical that works tirelessly to
bring our life-saving therapy to individuals struggling with opioid
use disorder. It is humbling to be a finalist among so many great
leaders and organizations, and inspiring to see how our innovations
are shaping a brighter future.”
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.SponsorsFounded 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.
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About Spark Biomedical Spark
Biomedical, Inc. is a leading U.S.-based wearable neurostimulation
solutions developer devoted to the life-saving work of helping 36.3
million people worldwide overcome withdrawal, heal from addiction,
and achieve the better quality of life they deserve. With
opioid-related misuse and overdose deaths on the rise, the
company’s mission is to eliminate opioid use disorder by working to
address the full lifecycle, including withdrawal management,
opioid-sparing, relapse prevention, and PTSD/trauma abatement.
Spark Biomedical is helping patients take the
first step of overcoming acute opioid withdrawal with its
FDA-cleared wearable technology, the Sparrow Ascent— Transcutaneous
Auricular Neurostimulation (tAN®) for Opioid Withdrawal Relief.
Sparrow Ascent provides an easy, safe, and effective drug-free
treatment option supported by clinical evidence. Next steps are
underway with the launch of two NIDA-funded clinical trials to
improve adult relapse rates and help infants suffering from
Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS).
For more information please contact Udim Obot at
udim.obot@sparkbiomedical.com.
Udim Obot
Spark Biomedical
682-336-0535
udim.obot@sparkbiomedical.com