Ernst & Young Names 24 Finalists for Top Entrepreneur Honors

Finalists from 24 firms in North and South Carolina have been selected as finalists in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year event.

Winners will be announced June 26 in Charlotte.

The finalists are:

Ping Fu, Raindrop Geomagic, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
John Campbell, Campbell Alliance, Raleigh, North Carolina
John Hemingway, United Emergency Services Inc., Durham, North Carolina
Donald Holzworth, Constella Group, Inc., Durham, North
Carolina
William Hudson, LC Industries, Durham, North Carolina
Christy Shaffer and Ben Yerxa, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
Durham, North Carolina
Robin Smith, Biologics, Raleigh, North Carolina
Dani Bolognesi, Trimeris, Inc., Durham, North Carolina
Carl Luna, Narasimhan Muralidhar, Sanford, North Carolina, USC
Solutions, Inc.
Michael Malone, MJM Investigations, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
Keith Luedeman, goodmortgage.com, Charlotte, North Carolina
Matthew Michalewicz, NuTech Solutions, Inc., Charlotte, North
Carolina
Billy Prim, Blue Rhino Corporation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Jim Akerhielm, NewSouth Communications, Greenville, South Carolina
Billie Attaway Jr., Advanced Data Services, Inc. Mt. Pleasant,
South Carolina
Hal Campbell, ACS Technologies, Florence, South Carolina
Guerry Green, Screen Tight, Georgetown, South Carolina
Mike Cianciarulo, Roger Derrough, John Warner, Earth Fare,
Inc., Asheville, North Carolina
Floyd Chilton, Pilot Therapeutics, Charleston, South Carolina
John Charles Long Darby, The Beach Co., Charleston, South Carolina
Joe Erwin, Erwin-Penland, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina
Robert Hughes, Dennis Braasch, James Pustejovsky, J. Coleman
Shouse, Institutional Resources, LLC, Greenville, South Carolina
Keith Ravan, Power Equipment Maintenance Anderson, South Carolina
Robert Scott, Universal Solutions, Charleston, South Carolina