Congratulations to the 2025 qualified nominees!
If you were nominated for the 2025 event, an email was sent out on May 30th stating you qualified as a nominee. Nominees and a guest are invited to attend the in-person event on September 18th from 4:30 to 7:30 pm at Snapdragon Stadium. If you have not received your invitation via email, please contact us at info@toptechawards.com. 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 18 from the stage. For questions please email: info@toptechawards.com.
Rensis Abundo, Navy Region Southwest
Clay Aiena, Orthofix
Mark Albright, Tri-City Medical Center
Steve Aliamus, TSIA
Shirin Alipanah, Premier Property Partners by eXp Realty
James Almon, Home of Guiding Hands
Jason Anderson, Cleantech San Diego
Bryan Andrus, US Specialty Labs
Omid Arjomand, Rancho Valencia Resort
Asokan Ashok, UnfoldLabs Inc.
Jun Ataka, Nitto
Ferdi Balagtas, Mission Federal Credit Union
Brandon Barlow, Lexitas
Brittany Bateman, The Nativity School
David Beach Beach, Computer Consulting
Dan Beaulieu, ICW Group Inc.
Brian Beisigl, Lakeside Union School District
Arthur Belenzo, MG Properties
Brook Benson, Sapient Bio Analytics
Emily Bernardo, City of Del Mar
Jessica Bishop, San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (SDCRAA)
Don Blake, McAlister Institute
Akemi Bonner, The San Diego LGBT Community Center
Matthew Bradford, The Argen Corporation
Louise Brandy, Halozyme
Joshua Britton, Debut
Kyle Bruin, ElectraDx Molecular
Joe Buerhrle, SAY (Social Advocate for Youth) San Diego
Peter Burt, Teradata
Tony Cabral, San Marcos Unified School District
Joseph Calkins, Hyspan Precision Products
Cameron Cameron, Digital Pro Inc.
Jonathan Canales, Brokerage and Logistics Solution
Robert Cantrell, San Ysidro Health
Casey Castillo, San Diego Food Bank
Dave Catchpole, Acushnet
Jackie Cauamx, Cloud Security Alliance – San Diego Chapter
Jerry Cerpa, City of Santee
Stuart Chew, Physical Rehab Network
Cy Chittaphong, Dynalectric San Diego
Jose Cisneros, City of Chula Vista
Jon Colby, LyteWi
Jaye Connolly, RippleNami Inc.
Tristan Cooper, VendiBean
Scott Cooper, Tower23 IT
Juliet Correnti, Radeus Labs
Danny Covell, Sun Digital Consulting
Fred Covely, Chrome Roads Inc.
Ryan Cowen, West Coast IT
Carrie Craig, Bose Corporation
Colin Craig, Rick Engineering
James Crandall, City of San Marcos
Grey Culver, Satechi
Jennifer Decembre, Xceptional
Adam Deich, Helix Environmental
Ren Del Rosario, Metis Practice Solutions
Chad Difuntorum, Phunware
Rowell Dionicio, Packet6
Cory Ducker, Field Level
Frankie Duenas, Cabrillo Credit Union
Brian Eastman, CH-Projects
Khaled El-Maleh, Lucid Techinsights LLC
Jane Elliott-Hughes, San Diego Humane Society
Justin Emory, Codex DNA
Joe Erle, C3 Risk & Insurance Services
Xiangming Fang, Denovo Biopharma
Travis Fawcett, American Specialty Health
Mark Field, ITJ
Shannon Fitzpatrick, Microsoft
Victoria Foster, Hotel Investment Group
Jeremy Franzen, InterVenn Biosciences
Roberta French, WD-40
Rajesh George, CTC Global
Jeromy Giancosa, Exaggen
Jamey Gilmour, San Diego Sports Medicine
Alfredo Gonzal, Lorian Health
Benjamin Gonzalez, Casa Familiar
Ann Grausam Lam, Sharp Healthcare
Michael Greco, Data Device Corporation
Jonathon Guertin, Cajon Valley Union School District
Abraham Guillen, Carbon by Design
Abhijeet Gulati, Mitchell International Inc.
Shane Hansen, Thomson Instrument Company
Jim Harden, Tyson & Mendes
Ryan Hardesty, Technet Partners
Michael Harper, Mainstay Medical
Travis Hausler, Council of Community Clinics
Benjamin Hayhurst, US Department of Homeland Security
Marcus Hedenskog, Vitrolife Inc.
Michael Herrera, Helix Water District
Peyri Herrera, San Diego County Office of Education
Mary Himmelberger, Crash Inc.
Rick Hoot, Ken Blanchard Companies
David Hua, High Tech High
Joseph Huitzil, SD Opera
Jason Huling, Blooma.ai
Mannie Humphreys, ODME Solutions, LLC
Dharmesh Jagwani, Mitek Systems
Patrick Johnson, Ventyx Biosciences
Amanda Jones, BitCot
Andrew Ka, Integrated Specialty Coverages
Sean Kennedy, San Diego Symphony
James Kiyohara, Palomar Health Medical Group
Brian Lajoie, Samahan Medical Centers
Jenny Lambert, SAY (Social Advocate for Youth) San Diego
Daniel Larson, Bumble Bee Foods
Sangmoon Lee, Inocras Inc.
LeeAnne Leon, Nova Biologics
Todd Lewis, San Ysidro School District
Jim Linton, Iridia
Jaime Lira, Lawgistics Inc.
Daniel Lorrain, Contineum Therapeutics
Tyler Luna, Aero IT Inc.
Tony Lussier, San Diego Imaging
Jim Lyon, Integrits
Bowie Ma, ProSciento
Seth Mader, San Diego Regional Center
Jennifer Maglio, Better Buzz Coffee
Nicolae Manlutac, Rady Children’s Physician’s Management Services
Michael Manriquez, City of Solana Beach
Mark Markoudakis, San Diego Blood Bank
Julianne Markow, Voice of San Diego
Brennan Martin, JuniorJobHunt Inc.
Carlos Martinez, Clinicomp
Michelle Martinez, PenChecks
Leo Mata, Rady Children’s Hospital
Jacob Mathai, Veritext Legal Solutions
Mia Mcadams, Aptitude Medical
Matt McColm, Cibus
Corrie McCoy, Community Resource Center
Rick McElroy, Nexasure
Cranstin McFay, Acukeen Corporation
Chris McKewon, Xceptional
John Merritt, YMCA
David Meyers, Network Quotes
Derek Moran, Kyocera
Eric Morrow, CentrexIT
Ben Mortensen, SAY (Social Advocate for Youth) San Diego
Heather Moyer, HNM Systems Inc.
David Muller, Tealium
Joseph Murad, Ciprus Consulting
Yash Murali, Therabody
Lisel Newton, Gossamer Bio
Steve Nguyen, Town and Country San Diego Resorts
Victor Nguyen, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Huey Nguyen, Eagle Paving
Dan Odonnell, Grand Pacific Resorts
Topher Ohlin, Planning Center Online
Jennifer Oliveira, South Bay Union School District
Cassaundra Olson, Rehab United
Irving Ordaz, Qualitas
Rachael Orose, Words Alive
Stephanie Ortega, Promises2Kids
Eric Otenburg, GOVX
Roger Otterson, Service Desk West
Dogukan Ozdemir, Watchlight
Renato Paiva, Access Youth Academy
Jay Pakingan, Rady Children Health
John Palmer, City of San Marcos
Aldino Parchment, San Diego Tourism Authority
Sneha Patel, Generations Heathcare
Darshan Patel, Hotel Investment Group
David Paulus, Hughes Circuits
Samir Pelinkovic, Solatube International
Kris Peralta, San Diego Padres
Daniel Perrigo, The Rock Church
Skip Philip, JIF-PAK Manufacturing, LLC
Laura Philyaw, Escondido Union School District
Cheri Pierre, Computers 2 Kids
Trey Pray, AKA Head Start
Cheri Price, Computers to Kids
Adrian Quinonez, Sunbum
Joe Racciato, Special Care
Jared Radtkey, Cymbiotika
Pavel Raifeld, Innoviva
Balaji Ramachandran, SoftClouds LLC
Liz Ramirez, Chicano Federation of San Diego County
Greg Rawson, Family Health Centers of San Diego’s (FHCSD)
Chantal Reed, Actio Biosciences
Kelly Rickard, San Diego Country Estates
Michael Riga, We Treat
David Riha, City of Oceanside
Rorie Ring, RCK Controls
Mark Roach, Pearl Technologies
Joseph Robbins, MyCRE Cloud
Christine Roberts, MANA de San Diego
Mike Roberts, Creating Coding Careers
Brad Rosen, City of Poway
Shaun Rosenstein, Ambillient AI
Kevin Ross, Sodexo
Simon Ross, Westair Gases and Equipment
Jennifer Russell, International Lottery & Totalizer Systems Inc.
Garrick Russell, GLDS
Lou Sacco, Daisy Health
Marques Salazar, Kiefer Automotive G
Jeff Salazar, Cibus
David Salinard, Padre Dam Municipal Water District
Michael Sanchez, Nalu Medical
Tracey Sandberg, Port of San Diego
Tony Sanfilippo, Crypto IT Solutions
JoeJay Santos, City of Imperial Beach
Roman Schwab, Remsis Inc.
Stephanie Segal, Ortega Promises2Kids
Bruce Seligmann, BioSpyder Technologies
John Selvaraj, Wellgreens
Laura Shanahan, St Madeleine Sophie’s Center
Stephen Sherrill, Parker Hannifin
Tanniel Simonian, JetHead Development
Frederic Skrzypek, Francis Parker School
Steve Slack, La Fayette Hotel
Kevin Smallen, PenChecks
Gregory Smith, Ciprus Consulting
Alan Sombillo, Community Health Group
Sean Soriano, City of San Diego Police Crime Labratory
Matthew Sosa, Pacifica Enterprises Management Group
Tara Sparks, Jamul Casino
Jeff Spate, Endsight
Joe Stephenson, City of Carlsbad
Jon Stern, RingPin
Hamza Suria, Trotana Inc.
Teri Sutton, VTS Industries Inc.
Adam Sweet, Phoenix Forge AI
Myles Syverud, Performant Manufacturing
EJ Szymczak, Cubic Corporation
Jared Tangney, Biolinq
Matt Teeter, Digital Pro Inc.
Mike Tiffany, Albireo Energy
William Trottier, J. Craig Venter Institute
Dave Tuckman, FRS Secure
Justine Ulmer, UpTime OnTime
Saulius Vabalas, GLDS
Maria Vaillancourt, Watkins Wellness
Robert Van De Hay, City of Escondido
Corey VanWormer, San Diego Blood Bank
Paul Vasquez, Senior Aerospace
Archana Verma, Arch Design Studio LLC
JV Villarama, Catholic Charities
Julio Villegas Uvina, San Diego Rescue Mission
Brian Vinciguerra, Lumos Diagnostics
Johnny Vo, San Diego American Indian Healthcare Center
Diem Vo, Boundless Bio
Brian Waller, Highspring
Charles Wiedmeyer, Charles River Labs
Jake Wiener, Lundbeck
Ron Williams, City of National City
Brad Williams, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Doug Winter, Seismic
Scott Wolstencroft, Hazard Construction
Nicolas Worlund, MeBe
Dean Yager, The Old Globe
Tiffany Yandell, Altus Schools
Husam Yaqoob, Public Consulting Group
Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp
Michael Zadeik, MyCre Cloud
Carol Zeenkov, Community Resource Center
Huang Zhu, Shoreline Biosciences
Jason Zimmerman, Intrepid Studios
Monica Zylstra, Mitchell International Inc.
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