EY Announces Sierra Space’s Tom Vice as an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Mountain West Award Winner
June 18 2024 - 8:00AM
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Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced
that Tom Vice was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Mountain
West Award winner, representing Colorado-based Sierra Space, a
leading commercial space-tech company that is Building a Platform
in Space to Benefit Life on Earth®. Vice will advance to compete
for national recognition at the Strategic Growth Forum® in November
where National finalists and award winners are announced.
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Tom Vice, Chief Executive Officer of
Sierra Space, was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The
Year® 2024 Mountain West Award winner on June 15. (Photo: Sierra
Space)
Vice, who serves as Chief Executive Officer of Sierra Space, was
selected by an independent judging panel made up of previous award
winners, leading CEOs and other business leaders. Candidates were
evaluated based on their ability to create long-term value through
entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to their purpose and the
demonstration of growth and substantial impact, among other key
indicators.
Vice thanked EY organizers and the judges during his acceptance
speech at a live celebration event at The Broadmoor in Colorado
Springs on Saturday and focused his remarks on the incredible work
of the men and women of Sierra Space.
“I want to express my gratitude to our remarkable Sierra Space
team. We are dreamers, bold thinkers and bold doers. We talk a lot
about the fact that we’re building a platform in space to benefit
the lives of eight billion people here on Earth. It’s really
challenging and takes a dedicated team,” Vice added. “Thank you to
our entire team for your unwavering commitment to our mission, your
dedication to building a great company and your passion for
changing the course of humanity for generations to come.”
EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year is the preeminent competitive
awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth
companies. As a Mountain West award winner, Vice is now eligible
for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 National
Awards. The National Award winners, including the Entrepreneur Of
The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced in
November at the Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation’s most
prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will
then move on to compete for the World Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Award in June 2025.
Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes 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.
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 U.S. 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
U.S. at the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® competition. Visit
ey.com/us/eoy.
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About Sierra Space
Sierra Space is a leading, pureplay commercial space company at
the forefront of innovation and the commercialization of space in
the Orbital Age™, building an end-to-end business and technology
platform in space to benefit life on Earth. With more than 30 years
and 500 missions of space flight heritage, the company is enabling
the future of space transportation with Dream Chaser®, the world’s
only commercial spaceplane, and is bringing LIFE™ (Large Integrated
Flexible Environment) to low-Earth orbit with its modular,
three-story commercial habitation and science platform. Both Dream
Chaser and LIFE are central components to Orbital Reef, a mixed-use
business park in LEO being developed by principal partners Sierra
Space and Blue Origin, which is expected to be operational by the
end of the decade. Sierra Space also builds and delivers a host of
systems and subsystems across solar power, mechanics and motion
control, environmental control, life support, propulsion and
thermal control, offering myriad space-as-a-service solutions for
the new space economy.
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Alex Walker, Sierra Space (303) 803-2297 |
alex.walker@sierraspace.com