Congratulations to the 2023 qualified nominees!

If you were nominated for the 2023 event, an email was sent out on June 13th stating you qualified as a nominee. Nominees and a guest are invited to attend the in-person event on September 13th from 4 to 7 pm at The Sound at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. If you have not received your invitation via email, please contact us at [email protected]. All others who wish to attend the awards presentation can register on this same website. Please note: Nominees are not notified in advance if they have won an award. All winners are called “WINNERS” and are announced on September 13 from the stage. For questions please email: [email protected].

Albert Ahedo, North Island Credit Union

James  Almon, Home of Guiding Hands

Mario  Alvaras, San Diego Job Corps Center

Omid  Arjomand, Rancho Valencia Resort

Floyd  Auten, Technet Partners, Inc

Victoria Baker, Hotel Investment Group

Mark Baldus, Dudek

Monique Ball, Deaf Community Services of San Diego

Colton Barlow, Viejas Casino

Connor Barry, gap intelligence

Wayne Bartlett, StatRad

Darren Bennett, City of San Diego

Akemi Bonner , The San Diego Center for LGBT Community Center

Rebecca Booth, Center for Creative Leadership

Ashlee Bradshaw, SAY San Diego

Bobby Brannigan, Mercato

Chancellor Brown, Qualcomm

Tony Cabral, San Marcos Unified

Erik Caldwell, Government Executive Media Group

Maria Callander, City of Carlsbad

Steve Cates, Sharp Healthcare

Jerry Cerpa, City of Santee

Jeff Chambers, MTM

Yashwant Chaudhri, California Medical Behavioral Health

Jose Cisneros, City of Chula Vista

Jessica Contreras, City of Encinitas

Hulises Contreras, Swami’s Cafe

DeWayne Cossey, Vista Unified School District

Ryan Cowen, West Coast IT Group

Colin Craig, Huddl3

Mitch Cullins, Revance Therapeutics, Inc.

Jerry De La Cruz, Cardiff School District

Adam Deich, Helix Environmental

Nate Distel, Singular Genomics Systems Inc

Frankie Duenas, Cabrillo Credit Union

Dustin Dunbar, Meals on Wheels

Ephraim Ebstein, FIT Solutions

Larry Erb, Moebius Solutions, Inc.

Joseph Escobio, Klinedinst PC

Nelson Estrada, Good Farms

Travis Fox, Cohu Inc

Edwin Gastelum, Baja-Mex Insurance Services

Jeromy Giacosa, Exagen Diagnostics Inc

Jamey Gilmour, San Diego Sports Medicine and Family Health Center

Adrian Gonzalez, Encinitas Pediatric Dentistry

Shawn Granen, USS Midway

Frank Guthrie, InfinityCTI

Michelle Havner, Cannabis21

Brittany Heath, Veolcity Clinical Research

Hansol Hong, Robolink

Rob Honma, Santa Fe Christian Schools

Rick Hoot, Ken Blanchard Companies

Jason Huling, Blooma.ai

Rome Ignacio, Zentalis Pharmaceuticals

Eric Januszko, Aptose Biosciences

Randy Jasinski, 5P Consulting

Andre Johnson, Awaken Church

Mark Jones, LabX Ventures

Dominic Joseph, Greenman IT

Kristin Kahle, Navigate HCR

Ryan Kari, MagCanica

Rob Kaufman, Scientist.com

Sean Kennedy, San Diego Symphony

John Ketron, HM Electronics

Tim Lafazia, ServiTech

Kenneth Lapurga, Community Health Group

Eduard Leinov, Vista Hill

Leonard LeVine, Escondido Union School District

Cory Lesovsky, Solecta INC

Vinny Lingham, Waitroom

Brad Lipetzky, Anchor General Insurance

Eric Macwan, LendSure Mortgage Corp.

Julianne Markow, Voice of San Diego

Carlos Martinez, Clinicomp

Prerna Mayor, NuVasive

Matthew McColm, Cibus

Cranstin McFay, Acukeen

Chris Mitchell, City of Vista

Nishal Mohan, Mohuman

Ellory Monks, The Atlas

Ben Mortensen, SAY San Diego

Mike Murphy, Barona Resort & Casino

Darrell Nealy, Commander Navy Region Southwest (CNRSW)

Dan Odonnell, Grand Pacific Resorts, INC/AFC

Sergio Oliveros, Hempacco

Hebert Omar Romero, Columbia Exports

Lance Onken, Measurabl

Dogukan Ozdemir, Watchlight, Alarm Relay, and RESCU

JP Palacio, Kromeon

David Penalva, HelioVolta

Daniel Perrigo, The Rock Church

Chris Pham, CNT TEAM

Darrian Pierce, Measurabl

Desiree Pool, DAHLIN Architecture | Planning | Interior Design

Kevin Popovic, Market Ready Index®

Trey Pray, AKA Head Start

Harrison Prehn, Palisociety

David Priest, St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center

Greg Rawson, Family Health Centers of San Diego

Dave Riha, City of Oceanside

Chris Rivera, Erasca, Inc

Mike Roberts, Creating Coding Careers

Jovan Robles, Faulkner Media Group FMG Suite

George Robyn, Verve Cloud formerly NextLevel Internet

John Rolando, Spectral Labs Incorporated

Sam Roy, Cortica Inc

Mark Rudyk, Visit Carlsbad

Luis Saenz, Flock Freight

Nimer Saikaly, Ciprus Consulting

Brian Salanga, YMCA of San Diego County

Carlos Salazar, King-Chavez Neighborhood of Schools

Joejay Santos, City of Imperial Beach

Michael Scarpelli, La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Roman Schwab, Remsis

Souriya Sengphet, Biosero

Adham Shaaban, Forward Slope Inc.

Stephen Sherrill, Parker Hannifin

Ofer Shimrat, Soundoff Computing

Shankar Sitapati, SoftClouds

Tara Sparks, Jamul Casino

Carole Steele, Rick Engineering Company

Jon Stern, RingPin

Joe Talarek, Voytera Turtle Beach

Don Thorstenson, BPG Designs

Mike Tiffany, Albireo Energy

Terry Timchak, San Ysidro Health Centers

Patrick Tinklenberg, Sycuan Casino & Resort

Duy Tran, San Diego Center for Children

Jara Tripiano, Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific

Maria Vaillancourt, Watkins Wellness

David Van Gilluwe, City of Carlsbad

Paul Vasquez, Senior Aerospace

Josh Villanueva, Full Swing Golf

JV Villarama, Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

Gabriel Virissimo, Dudek

Scott Voigts, Rady Children Hospital

Matt Walter, MTM

Patrick Ward, Legend Smelting and Recycling

Jeremy Watkins, Brigantine Restaurants

Zack Watkins, Associated Builders & Contractors

Ben Whitehill, TrueCare

Nathan Wilder, Kyocera AVX Components

Ron Williams, City of National City

Tiffany Yandell, Altus Schools

Husam Yaqoob, Public Consulting Group

Nina Zatarain, World Wide Technology

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