Publishers’ Notebook: Bravo! Entrepreneur highlights success

This special section also includes write-ups on finalists for these awards, as well as on the dozens of nominees.

What’s the process for Bravo! Entrepreneur? First, Bravo! Entrepreneur is a program of The Northern Colorado Business Report, along with our event partners, the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce, the Greeley/Weld Chamber of Commerce, the Greeley/Weld Economic Development Action Partnership, the Loveland Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Colorado Economic Development Corp.

The president or CEO of each of those organizations serves on the Bravo! Entrepreneur Steering Committee, which is responsible for the overall success of Bravo! Entrepreneur. We also serve on that committee.

These representatives each appoint business leaders to an awards committee, which considers nominations from the public and from the awards committee itself.

This year’s Awards Committee included Dave Clarkson, Clarkson Land and Lifestyle Homes, Greeley; Ted Warner, Connecting Point, Greeley; Rene Clements, The Clements Co., Fort Collins; Kelly Peters, Loveland Center for Business Development, Loveland; Ron Schneider, Bank One, Loveland; Tim Dow, Dow Law Firm, Fort Collins; and Lucille Mantelli, Kodak Colorado Division, Windsor.

As always, these awards-committee members pored over dozens of write-ups on nominees, giving each careful consideration. We thank them for all their hard work.

Thanks also to the talented folks at Burns Marketing/Communications for their work on the Bravo! Entrepreneur theme concept, Advanced Media of Fort Collins for the video, Caldera Creative Services for the décor, and MediaTech Productions for audio-visual coordination.

Of course, extra thanks go to the staff of the Business Report, which works so hard on Bravo! Entrepreneur throughout the year, especially to Events Manager Jim Rath.

Lastly, special thanks to our many sponsors, including Platinum Sponsors First National Bank/Union Colony Bank; Qwest and Connecting Point of Greeley. Our reception sponsor was Flood and Peterson Insurance Inc. Our program sponsor was First Class Direct Inc., and our media sponsor was KUNC 91.5 FM. Our dinner sponsor was Centerra/McWhinney Enterprises. Gold Sponsors included Eastman Kodak Co., Everitt Commercial Partners, Front Range Real Estate Consultants Inc., Palmer Flowers, Phelps-Tointon Inc., Pratt and Vision Graphics Inc. Thanks as well to our many Silver Sponsors. Each sponsor played a critical role in the success of Bravo! Entrepreneur.

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