Over the past month, we asked Denver Post readers and our staff to help us come up with a list of people in Colorado who should be recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments or ideas that either occurred or came to fruition in 2013.
Click for the complete list of this year’s winners.
Business
WINNER:
Jerre Stead, executive chairman of Douglas County-based information purveyor IHS Inc. Stead is a “renowned corporate turnaround artist whose résumé is a list of one business success after another,” when announcing Stead’s selection as the paper’s Business Person of the Year. But for us, Stead stood out from the rest in 2013 for his role as Gov. John Hickenlooper’s after the devastating floods in Colorado, coordinating local, state and federal efforts.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Dish Network founder Charlie Ergen, creator of commercial skipping app , which turned the Colorado billionaire into a villain in the eyes of Hollywood and advertisers, but a hero to consumers. Ergen is currently embroiled in lawsuits over bankrupt telecommunications upstart LightSquared. “Dish is perhaps the most intriguing company in the telecommunications industry,” , “and it doesn’t even offer cellphone service.”
