Power guru is named top entrepreneur.Mike Gordon For other persons named Mike Gordon, see Mike Gordon (disambiguation). Mike Gordon (born June 3, 1965 in Sudbury, Massachusetts) is a bass player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. , founder and president of ConsumerPowerline, an energy asset management firm that helps energy users strategically reduce their consumption while generating millions in new-found revenue for its larger consumer clients, has won the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year[R] Award for the New York Metro For the region, see . Metro New York is a free daily newspaper in New York City started in 2004. Its main competition is AM New York, with which it practices many of the same distribution and marketing strategies. Region's emerging business category. The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year and continues to recognize the leaders and visionaries who are creating and building world-class businesses. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success. Previous winners have included Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 , Albuquerque ) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. of Amazon.com, Pierre Omidyar Pierre M. Omidyar (born June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman of the eBay auction site. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in order to expand their of eBay, Inc., Sergey Brin Sergey Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин and Larry Page of Google, Inc., Howard Schultz of Starbucks Corp., Catherine L. Hughes and Alfred Liggins of Radio One, and Jim McCann of 1-800-Flowers.com. Said Gordon, "Ernst & Young's recognition of ConsumerPowerline reinforces our vision that by transferring power from energy providers to large energy users--helping companies reduce and strategically manage their energy consumption--we not only generate millions in new revenue for our clients, but also create a paradigm shift A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a paradigm shift. See paradigm. in the local and regional energy markets. "By creating more equity and value for the consumer, we also hope to contribute toward a sound energy future." |
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