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Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025

Meet the 17 business leaders and industry trendsetters from the 2025 Pacific Region Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

By BCBusiness /

A marine solutions provider that has set new standards for sustainable worker housing on water. A food-tech company that has redefined meal planning for Canadian households. A mining industry innovator turning industrial wastewater into opportunity. This year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year – Pacific Region winners and finalists highlight a wide spectrum of innovation and the entrepreneurial drive behind it.

What unites these businesses is not just excellent products and services but also the remarkable journeys of their leaders: individuals who overcame steep odds, drew on diverse backgrounds and strengths and left their industries and communities stronger than they found them. For more than 30 years, BCBusiness has been proud to celebrate these stories of resilience and vision through our ongoing partnership with the EY program. This year, we’re honoured to bring you yet another lineup of 17 trailblazing ventures that continue to raise the bar—for business, for communities and for the future.

Winners

Brian Grange, Bridgemans Services Group – Pacific Region Overall Winner

 

Benjamin Sparrow – Saltworks

Kirk Homenick – Naturally Homegrown Foods

Aaron Joe – Salish Soils

Husein Rahemtulla, Becky Brauer, Dhruv Sood – Fresh Prep

James Dean – Oxygen8

Sim Desai, Sarah Huggins, Prab Rattan, Stuart Eccles – Hiive

 

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Finalists

Soroush Karimzadeh – Novarc Technologies

Cory Wright- William Wright Commercial

Phil Sham – Aquanow

Matt Lewis- Braidy Corporation

Shane Madden, Vahid Shababi – Hydreight Technologies Inc.

Andrew Hansen – Site

Michael Hugerford, Andrew Hungerford – Seven Generations Capital

David Luba, Stephen Emsley, Derrick Emsley, Vik Kambil – Veritree

Joey St-Aubin – Canlan Sports

Sushant Trivedi – Fresh Tracks Canada

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BCBusiness celebrates the bold ideas, fearless founders, innovative leaders and game-changing companies driving British Columbia’s economy forward. We deliver insightful and impactful storytelling about the power players in B.C.’s business community to a connected audience, all with a deep love of the place we call home.