HQ Raleigh and Red Hat each captured two awards in WRAL TechWire’s fourth “Full Steam Ahead Awards” on Tuesday night at the Motorco in Durham.
Dave Rizzo, founder of NC IDEA and IDEA Fund Partners, and Research Triangle Regional Partnership CEO Charles Hayes are among five lifetime service award recipients.
Liz Tracy, director of HQ Raleigh, and the four co-founders (Brooks Bell, Jesse Lipson, Christopher Gergen and Jason Widen) of the Raleigh-based company that offers a variety of shared offices and related services to startups were cited in the startup company categories.
DeLisa Alexander, chief people officer at Red Hat, received one of three individual awards for enterprise company executives. Red Hat also won one of three enterprise awards.
The lifetime service, or Editor’s Choice Award, also included the late Betsy Justus, Randall Gregg and Dave Murray.
This was not a Triangle-alone event, either. Wilmington-based NextGlass – one of several nominees from that city – took home an award.
And there was even a tie: ChannelAdvisor co-founder and investor Scot Wingo shared the honor for Enterprise Tycoon with Cindy Whitehead, the former CEO of Sprout Pharmaceuticals.
In all, 17 awards were presented – along with engineer caps. The awards play off the express train theme.
We’ll have complete coverage and photos later this morning.
Winners were based on nominations and voting by WRAL TechWire readers and management.
What follows is the complete list of finalists and winners in each category.
LIFETIME SERVICE AWARDS
- Dave Rizzo, MCNC, NC IDEA, IDEA Fund Partners, former chair of NCTA
- Charles Hayes, Research Triangle Regional Partnership
- Betsy Justus, former President NCTA
- Dave Murray, ClearImage PR
- Randall Gregg, co-founder Triangle Tech Journal
ENTERPRISE CORPORATE AWARDS
FREIGHT
Finalists
- Red Hat
- SAS
- LexisNexis
THE WINNER: SAS
SUBWAY
Finalists
- Next Glass
- eTix
- Reward Stock
THE WINNER: ETIX
EXPRESS
Finalists
- Red Hat
- RTI
- Live Oak Bank
THE WINNER: RED HAT
Startup company awards
EXPRESS
Finalists
- Next Glass
- Reward Stock
- Youth Digital
THE WINNER: NEXT GLASS
FREIGHT
Finalists
- Syncfusion
- Next Glass
- Reward Stock
THE WINNER; SYNCFUSION
SUBWAY
Finalists
- WedPics
- Reward Stock
- Smashing Boxes
THE WINNER: SMASHING BOXES
ENTERPRISE INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
ENGINEER
Finalists
- DeLisa Alexander, Red Hat
- Chip Mahan, Live Oak Bank
- Chaz Felix, Bronto
- Venessa Harrison, North Carolina AT&T
THE WINNER: DELISA ALEXANDER
CONDUCTOR
The finalists
- Wayne Holden, RTI Internationa;
- Scot Wingo, ChannelAdvisor
- Joe Colopy, Bronto
THE WINNER: WAYNE HOLDEN
TYCOON
The finalists
- Scot Wingo, ChannelAdvisor
- Cindy Whitehead, Sprout Pharmaceuticals
- Chaze Felix and Joe Colopy, Bronto
- David Morkin, Bandwidth.com
- Christy Shaffer, Hatteras Venture Partners
THE WINNER: (Tie) CINDY WHITEHEAD and SCOT WINGO
STARTUP INDIVIDUAL WINNERS
- ENGINEER
Finalists
- Kurt Taylor, Next Glass
- Liz Tracy, HQ Raleigh
- Jonathon Hayes, Reward Stock
THE WINNER: LIZ TRACY, HQ RALEIGH
- CONDUCTOR
Finalists
- George Taylor, Next Glass
- Jonathan Hayes, Reward Stock
- Todd Olson, Pendo
THE WINNER: JONATHAN HAYES
TYCOON
Finalists
- Pierre Naude, nCino
- The HQ Raleigh founders: Brooks Bell, Jesse Lipson, Christopher Gergen and Jason Widen
- Brian Fischer, Smashing Boxers
- Michelle Haynes, Savii
THE WINNER: HQ RALEIGH FOUNDERS
