Prestigious awards program celebrates bold leaders who disrupt markets, revolutionize industries and transform lives

Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Tom Vice was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Mountain West Award winner, representing Colorado-based Sierra Space, a leading commercial space-tech company that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth®. Vice will advance to compete for national recognition at the Strategic Growth Forum® in November where National finalists and award winners are announced.

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Tom Vice, Chief Executive Officer of Sierra Space, was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Mountain West Award winner on June 15. (Photo: Sierra Space)

Vice, who serves as Chief Executive Officer of Sierra Space, was selected by an independent judging panel made up of previous award winners, leading CEOs and other business leaders. Candidates were evaluated based on their ability to create long-term value through entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to their purpose and the demonstration of growth and substantial impact, among other key indicators.

Vice thanked EY organizers and the judges during his acceptance speech at a live celebration event at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs on Saturday and focused his remarks on the incredible work of the men and women of Sierra Space.

“I want to express my gratitude to our remarkable Sierra Space team. We are dreamers, bold thinkers and bold doers. We talk a lot about the fact that we’re building a platform in space to benefit the lives of eight billion people here on Earth. It’s really challenging and takes a dedicated team,” Vice added. “Thank you to our entire team for your unwavering commitment to our mission, your dedication to building a great company and your passion for changing the course of humanity for generations to come.”

EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year is the preeminent competitive awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies. As a Mountain West award winner, Vice is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 National Awards. The National Award winners, including the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced in November at the Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation’s most prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies. The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will then move on to compete for the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in June 2025.

Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes many different types of business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit. The program celebrates 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.

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 80 countries and territories globally.

The U.S. program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of independent judges select the regional award winners every June. Those 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 U.S. at the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® competition. Visit ey.com/us/eoy.

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About Sierra Space

Sierra Space is a leading, pureplay commercial space company at the forefront of innovation and the commercialization of space in the Orbital Age™, building an end-to-end business and technology platform in space to benefit life on Earth. With more than 30 years and 500 missions of space flight heritage, the company is enabling the future of space transportation with Dream Chaser®, the world’s only commercial spaceplane, and is bringing LIFE™ (Large Integrated Flexible Environment) to low-Earth orbit with its modular, three-story commercial habitation and science platform. Both Dream Chaser and LIFE are central components to Orbital Reef, a mixed-use business park in LEO being developed by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin, which is expected to be operational by the end of the decade. Sierra Space also builds and delivers a host of systems and subsystems across solar power, mechanics and motion control, environmental control, life support, propulsion and thermal control, offering myriad space-as-a-service solutions for the new space economy.

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