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DETROIT, June 21,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young LLP (EY US)
today announced that Charles Zhang,
Founder and President and Lynn
Chen-Zhang, CEO of Zhang Financial, was named an
Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Michigan and Northwest Ohio Award winner. Entrepreneur Of
The Year is the preeminent competitive awards program for
entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies.
Charles and Lynn were 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.
As stated by Charles and Lynn during their acceptance speech,
"It is such an honor to be selected as an Entrepreneur Of The
Year® award winner for the Michigan and Northwest Ohio region. We are very humbled to
be standing here accepting this award. We would like to thank our
clients who have entrusted us with their financial well-being, some
of whom have been with us since we started in 1991. Our incredible
team demonstrates, on a daily basis, their commitment to building
strong client relationships. Finally, thank you to our community,
that we love so much, and to which we will continue to give back".
We will always stand by our vision of providing comprehensive,
fee-only solutions built upon an academic, evidence-based
investment philosophy aimed at providing the highest probability of
success for our clients. We look forward to continuing to innovate
and deliver exceptional wealth management solutions.
As a Michigan and Northwest Ohio regional award winner, Charles
and Lynn are 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.
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 Michigan and
Northwest Ohio, sponsors also
include regional Gold sponsors, Full View Productions, and regional
Silver sponsors, KLA Laboratories, Inc., P.I.E. Management L.L.C.,
and Tanner Friedman Strategic Communications.
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.
About EY
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world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and
society and build trust in the capital markets.
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Elizabeth Edgerton
Zhang Financial
269-385-5888
elizabeth.edgerton@zhangfinancial.com
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