The co-founder and CEO of a health care technology company focused on specialty drugs, whose revenue is growing 25% this year, snagged top honors at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's Next Awards on Monday night.
Brenda Motheral of Archimedes was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the event, which drew hundreds to downtown's Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Motheral employs 30 people at her tech and analytics company, whose clients include employers, health insurance plans and pharmacy benefit managers. The Brentwood-based company expects annual revenue to grow 25% this year, to $275 million.
The Entrepreneur Center also inducted four people into its Hall of Fame:
- Jim Ayers, founder and former CEO of FirstBank and its parent, FB Financial Corp. (NYSE: FBK).
- Saurabh Sinha, founder and former CEO of Emids Technologies Inc.
- Shirley Zeitlin, who more than 40 years ago founded what is today Zeitlin Sotheby's International Realty.
- Eddie George, former star running back for the Tennessee Titans.
Award winners included multiple Inc. 5000 honorees and other notable names, all listed below.
Within each category, three winners were selected: "Startup" (annual revenue less than $1 million); "Market Mover" (annual revenue of $1 million to $8 million); "Market Leader" (annual revenue beyond $8 million).
Category winners are listed below in that order (startup, market mover, market leader). Names listed are a mix of company CEOs, founders and other executive-level positions.
Financial Services
- Workloop (Katy Schmitt)
- Wealth Access (David Benskin)
- Core10 (Lee Farabaugh, Jeff Hanson)
Health care
- Thrive Therapies Group (Kristin McGraner, Liz Malugen)
- RxGenomix (Brad Tice)
- ObjectiveHealth (Colleen Hoke, Don Lazas)
Technology
- Azra AI (Chris Cashwell)
- Possip (Shani Dowell)
- FreightWise (Chris Cochran)
Music, Sports and Entertainment
- TuneHatch Inc. (Christal Hector, Nathan Youssef, Reece Franklin)
- Genni & Co. (Johnny Cloherty, Louis O’Reilly)
- Moo TV (Scott Scovill)
Products, Services and Retail
- Trace Femcare Inc. (Claire Crunk, Olaf Isele, Megan Galaske)
- Daily Crunch (Laurel Orley, Dan Stephenson)
- Turnip Truck (John Dyke)
Real Estate, Construction and Hospitality
- AGB Real Estate (Adam Rosenberg)
- Holladay Ventures (Evan Holladay, Jined Lamata-Holladay)
- Strategic Hospitality (Benjamin Goldberg, Max Goldberg)
