For Entrepreneurs :: El Dorado Ventures: Entrepreneur of the Year Award

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For Entrepreneurs :: El Dorado Ventures: Entrepreneur of the Year Award

EDV's Entrepreneur of the Year Award

El Dorado Ventures proudly partners with many outstanding, visionary entrepreneurs to help them build the next generation of great technology companies. Each year, the firm recognizes one or more of these entrepreneurs for their outstanding efforts by naming them an "El Dorado Ventures Entrepreneur of the Year."

For 2007, El Dorado Ventures presented its Entrepreneur of the Year Award to Phil Soran, Larry Aszmann and John Guider of Compellent Technologies (NYSE:CML), which held a successful IPO in October 2007.

Past winners of the award include 2006 winners John Rodkin and Leo Chang of ClickShift; 2004 winner Larry Abramson of USi/Appshop; 2002 winner Scott Potter, former CEO of Quiver, an enterprise search company acquired by Yahoo/Inktomi; 2001 winners Shekhar Mandal, Rafat Pirzada, Alnoor Shivji and Sunil Tomar of Cyras Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Ciena Corp. in 2001 for $2.6 billion; and 2000 winners Mark Cree and Clint Jurgens of NuSpeed Internet Systems, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000 for $463 million.

Here is the complete list of winners:

2007: Phil Soran, Larry Aszmann and John Guider, Compellent Technologies
2006: John Rodkin and Leo Chang, ClickShift
2004: Larry Abramson, Appshop/USi
2002: Scott Potter, Quiver
2001: Shekhar Mandal, Rafat Pirzada, Alnoor Shivji and Sunil Tomar, Cyras Systems
2000: Mark U. Cree and W. Clinton Jurgens, NuSpeed Internet Systems
1999: Mark A. Floyd, Efficient Networks
1998: Marketta Silvera, Pilot Network Services
1997: Sky D. Dayton, EarthLink
1996: Thomas Keffer, Rogue Wave Software
1995: John M. Cioffi, Amati Communications
1994: Kenneth C. Gardner, ReportSmith
1993: W. Arthur Huskey, Security Control Systems
1992: David R. Coelho, Vantage Analysis Systems
1991: Kenneth B. Plumlee, Access Health
1990: Miklos B. Korodi, Cellular Data
1989: Robert F. Graham, Novellus Systems

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