June 15, 2000

Ernst & Young and its national and local sponsors presented the annual Austin Entrepreneur of the Year Awards for 2000. The following Austin entrepreneurs were honored with awards in four categories.

Communications
Brian R. Smith – Crossroads Systems, Inc.

eBusiness
Philip R. Berber – CyBerCorp.com

Emerging
Ford Tamer & Eric Rothfus – Agere

eProducts
Navdeep S. Sooch – Silicon Labs

The finalists included:

Communications
Kip McClanahan – Broadjump

Ron, Carolyn and Jonah Yokubaitis – DataFoundry (formering Texas.net)

eBusiness

Bryan Menell – Perficient

Hank Seale – Q Up Systems, an S1 Company

Cliff & Lisa Sharples, and Jamie O’Neill – Garden.com

Emerging

Brian K. Magierski – FreeMarkets (formerly iMark.com)

Jim Hammock, Hank Stringer & Bucky Couch – Hire.com

Richard ‘Casey’ Hoffman – Supportkids.com