NEW
YORK, June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst &
Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Michael Kopko, CEO and co-Founder of Pearl
Health, was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 New
York Award winner. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the preeminent
competitive awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders of
high-growth companies.
Michael Kopko 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.
"I'm deeply honored by the EY Entrepreneur of the
Year® recognition and humbled to be included among such
inspiring entrepreneurs who have solved massive problems at scale,
revolutionized industries, and changed so many lives," said
Michael Kopko, CEO and co-Founder of
Pearl Health. "I want to offer gratitude to the whole Pearl Health
team and to everyone who has been with us on the journey to tackle
some of the most challenging problems in healthcare."
As a New York award winner,
Michael Kopko 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.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year program has recognized the
leadership of entrepreneurs such as:
- Saeju Jeong of Noom
- Hamdi Ulukaya of Chobani,
Inc.
- Holly Thaggard and Amanda Baldwin of Supergoop!
- Howard Schultz of Starbucks
Coffee Company
- James Park of Fitbit
- Jodi Berg of Vitamix
- Kendra Scott of Kendra Scott
LLC
- Michael Happe of Winnebago
Industries
- Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn Corporation
- Sheila Mikhail of AskBio
Entrepreneur Of The Year Award winners become lifetime members
of a global, multi-industry community of entrepreneurs. They
receive exclusive, ongoing access to the experience, insight and
wisdom of program alumni and other ecosystem members in more than
60 countries — all supported by vast EY resources.
In addition to Entrepreneur Of The Year, EY US supports other
entrepreneurs through the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™
(Winning Women) program and the EY Entrepreneurs Access Network
(EAN) 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, Marsh USA, SAP and the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation. In New York, sponsors
also include regional Platinum sponsors Donnelley Financial
Solutions (DFIN), and regional Gold sponsors, ADP, DLA Piper and
Empire Valuation Consultants.
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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About Michael
Kopko
Michael is CEO and co-Founder of Pearl Health.
He served as an early employee and Vice President at Oscar Health,
having built their pre-revenue Insurance Plan Sales and Network
Contracting systems. He most recently managed the company's largest
P&L at +$2.5B. Prior to Oscar, Michael worked for Bridgewater
Associates in the company's Research, Client Service, and
Recruiting departments. While at Bridgewater, he was the Head of Research
Analytics where he reported to the CEO and Head of Research. In
2009 he successfully sold DormAid, a college service company, which
he launched and ran while he was a student at Harvard. He is the recipient of Columbia's Feldberg Fellowship, where he
received his M.B.A. He received his A.B. from Harvard University.
About Pearl Health
Pearl Health is powering the
future of healthcare. Led by provider
enablement, risk-bearing, and technology
experts, Pearl offers software and services that help
providers reimagine how they
visualize, understand, and care for their patients. Pearl supports
primary care organizations and providers in their transition to
value-based care and surfaces data and insights that help them
deliver better, more proactive care, decrease total cost of care
across patient panels, and optimize performance in risk-bearing
models like Medicare's ACO REACH. Since
its founding in 2020, Pearl has raised approximately $100M in funding from investors such as
Andreessen Horowitz, Viking Global
Investors, AlleyCorp and
SV Angel, and has grown to serve providers
across the United States. Learn
more at www.pearlhealth.com.
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