B/E Aerospace CEO honored
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
Amin Khoury has been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for 2008 in the Distribution and Manufacturing category, according to an announcement.
Khoury is the founder, chairman and CEO of B/E Aerospace, which is based in Florida and has a large airplane seat manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem.
Khoury founded B/E Aerospace in 1987 and has since grown it to $1.7 billion in annual revenues, with customers including almost all the world’s airlines and airplane manufacturers.
Another E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award winner with Triad ties is Dr. Steven Nichtberger, CEO of Tengion Inc., who was honored in the Emerging category.
Tengion is working to commercialize the research of Wake Forest University’s Dr. Anthony Atala into tissue and organ regeneration. Tengion is based in Pennsylvania and has a development lab and pilot manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem.
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