Entrepreneur Of The Year® Mountain West

Honoring the ambitious entrepreneurs who are shaping the future.

Applications for the 2025 program are now open.


About Entrepreneur Of The Year

Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year has celebrated more than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful, dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly 60 countries globally.

This program honors many different types of business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit. We celebrate original founders who bootstrapped their business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow their company; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy business model to fortify it for the future.

The Mountain West program includes Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Alaska. Each year, a panel of independent judges selects regional finalists and winners who are recognized during an awards celebration in June 15: Regional award celebration. The regional winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic Growth Forum® in November, where National finalists and award winners are announced. The overall National winner represents the US at the World Entrepreneur Of The Year competition.

Visit the Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame to search our directory of past award winners.

Mountain West 2024 winners


Program information


2024 regional finalists are building the economy of tomorrow

They generated nearly $9.2b in 2023
They experienced 55% average revenue growth
They employed more than 15k people in 2023
They experienced 37% average employee growth
*Over the most recent three-year period


Entrepreneur Of The Year Mountain West team

Shawn Goff
Program Director

Jennifer Civitts
Program Director

Jim Wilson
Program Director

Cameron Jackson
Program Director

Grace Schultz
Program Manager

Teresa Michel 
Program Coordinator


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Presented by

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Regionally sponsored by

Gold sponsors – Utah market

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Gold sponsor – Washington market

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Silver sponsor – Utah market

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