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Company: Devon Health Services
Company Description: Devon Health Services, Inc. is a National Health Care Cost Management Company and Preferred Provider Organization that offers complete healthcare benefit programs customized to meet each client’s specific needs.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Marketer

Nomination Title: Jessica Parker-Smith, Director of Marketing and Public Relations

Company: Lee Memorial Health System
Company Description: Lee Memorial Health System is the leading provider of health care in Southwest Florida and has served the citizens of Lee County and surrounding communities since 1916. LMHS is the largest community-owned health care system between Tampa and Miami.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Human Resources Executive

Nomination Title: Jon C. Cecil, Chief Human Resources Officer

Company: Farbman Group, Inc., Southfield, Michigan
Company Description: We are a full service commercial real estate company that has been in business for twenty-eight years. We specialize in Property Management, Brokerage, Construction, Financial Services, Development, Maintenance, etc.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Finance Executive

Nomination Title: Andrew L. Gutman, CFO

Company: Nextel Communications, Inc., Reston, Virginia
Company Description: Nextel Communications Inc., a FORTUNE 200 company, is a leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications services and has the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the country. 95 percent of FORTUNE 500 companies are Nextel customers. Nextel and Nextel Partners, Inc. currently serve 297 of the top 300 U.S. markets where approximately 260 million people live or work.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories

Company: Joseph's Lite Cookies, Deming NM
Company Description: Joseph's Lite Cookies was founded in 1986 by the Semprevivos. The Company produces great tasting, award winning sugar-free cookies, sugar-free maple syrup, sugar-free peanut butter,and fat-free cookies. Joseph's Lite Cookie brand, carried by more than 125,000 retailers in 35 countries, is the only cookie in the world to be endorsed and recommended by the National Diabetes Outreach.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories

Company: Advertising.com, Baltimore, Maryland
Company Description: Advertising.com conducts strategic direct-response and brand marketing campaigns that guarantee bottom-line results for our clients. From web ads to search listings, we offer diverse tactical tools, innovative thinking and the most expansive reach in the industry.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Executive

Nomination Title: Scott Ferber, CEO

Company: CDW Government, Inc. Vernon Hills, IL
Company Description: A wholly owned subsidiary of CDW Corp. (NASDAQ: CDWC), a FORTUNE 500 company, CDW Government (CDW-G) is a trusted technology advisor to federal, state and local government agencies, as well as to educational institutions at all levels. CDW·G offers best-in-class technology products and services from top-name brands such as APC, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Symantec, Toshiba and ViewSonic.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories

Company: 1-800-GeeksOnTime, Lynden, Washington
Company Description: 1-800-GeeksOnTime is THE fastest Nationwide Computer and Network Services Company. Providing onsite and remote services 24/7 anywhere! Founder, Venus McNabb, 28, was awarded the 2004 Stevie Award for Best Young Entrepreneur. A finalist in Inc. Mag’s Best Entrepreneur, and is one of the 40 Under 40 to Watch in BIV mag. She will appear in Business 2.0 and Entrepreneur.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories

Company: Under Armour Performance Apparel, Baltimore, Maryland
Company Description: Founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank, Baltimore-based Under Armour is the originator of performance apparel. Under Armour offers its consumers technically advanced, innovative product lines that keep them light, dry and ready to perform under any conditions or climates.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Creative Person

Company: American Red Cross, Washington, DC
Company Description: The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors—across the street, the country and the world—in emergencies. Each year, victims of some 70,000 disasters turn to the nearly 1 million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross for help. Some 4 million people give blood—the gift of life—through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories