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AMBA Excellence Awards 2020 – MBA Entrepreneurial Venture Award (Private Sector)
This award highlights the success of Business Schools in fostering entrepreneurship among their MBA and executive MBA cohorts, and is a chance for individuals to impress a panel of high-profile judges who are already at the forefront of global entrepreneurship.
Winner
Sharon Cunningham, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin (Ireland) for Shorla Pharma
Sharon Cunningham is a PwC-trained chartered accountant with an MBA from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and a BSc in finance from University College Cork.
She is the Co-Founder of specialty pharmaceutical company, Shorla Pharma, which develops innovative oncology products for unmet needs, with a focus on women’s and paediatric cancers. Before this, she was Head of Finance at EirGen Pharma, a subsidiary of OPKO Health.
In 2019, Sharon was awarded the title of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur, won the Sodexo Women Mean Business Female Newcomer Award 2019 with her business partner, Orlaith Ryan, and led a team of five to win the final pitch competition on the MIT-Harvard Medical School Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp in Cambridge Massachusetts, US.
Highly Commended
Kris Lindahl and Hal Salvesen, Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University (UK) for Digital Future Capital
Finalists
Goke Lawrence Egunjobi, Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University (Nigeria) for
i-impact Products & Services
Hany Soliman, The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business (Egypt) for Engineering Group for Innovation
Shrenik Paras Parmar, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham (UK) for Proodle Solutions
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