Startup Canada Atlantic Region Awards Presented
FREDERICTON–The startup community gathered at the Fredericton Convention Centre Tuesday night to celebrate the recipients of this year’s Startup Canada Atlantic Region Awards.
The winners of the 2016 awards were announced earlier this month, four of which were New Brunswick-based.
The New Brunswick winners include:
- John McLaughlin, former UNB president and TME scholar in residence, was awarded the Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement Award
- Fredericton’s Laura O’Blenis, founder & chief strategist at Stiletto, picked up the Startup Canada Woman Entrepreneur Award
- Natasha Dhayagude, CEO of Fredericton-based Chinova Bioworks, is the winner of the Startup Canada Young Entrepreneur Award
- Fast-growing Fredericton-based startup Resson picked up the Startup Canada Global Entrepreneurship Award
Other Atlantic Canadian award winners include:
- Zita Cobb, founder & CEO of the Shorefast Foundation, earned the Startup Canada Entrepreneur of the Year Award
- Hope Milner, co-owner of PEI-based Bohemian Findings, received the Startup Canada Senior Entrepreneur Award
- Halifax-based QRA Corp earned the Startup Canada Innovation Award
- Charlottetown’s Upstreet Craft Brewing picked up the Startup Canada Social Enterprise Award
- Popular clothing brand East Coast Lifestyle received the nod for the Startup Canada High-Growth Entrepreneurship Award
- Bob Williamson, founder and CEO of the Jameson Group, was the winner of the Startup Canada Entrepreneur Promotion Award
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency received the Startup Canada Entrepreneur Support Award.
The awards ceremony followed to days of events including a “Go Global Boot Camp” and “Ecosystem Tour & Twitter Scavenger Hunt.”
“It is an honour and a privilege to be recognized among so many others that I respect and admire who are fellow recipients in these regional awards and who I work alongside every day to change the conversation,” Laura O’Blenis said in her acceptance speech. “Together we can build regional and national policy with entrepreneurship and innovation as the fundamental foundation for economic development and and growth … Let’s be focused and let’s have the guts to believe we can compete because we can.”