EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ireland

What EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ireland does

The EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ireland is a regional iteration of EY's global program recognizing outstanding entrepreneurs, run within EY (Ernst & Young Global Limited), one of the world's largest professional services organizations operating in more than 120 countries. The Ireland program feeds into a broader awards architecture that in 2026 staged five US regional tracks (East Central, Southwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Heartland) and a global ceremony in Monaco won by Astera Labs' founders. The program itself is structured as a brand-building and relationship-development vehicle rather than a direct revenue stream, situated inside EY's entrepreneurship portfolio alongside the Entrepreneurs Access Network and the Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America program.

The parent EY organization delivers services across four practice pillars: Assurance (audit, sustainability assurance, technology risk, forensic & integrity), Consulting (analytics, customer experience, cybersecurity, finance, risk, supply chain, technology transformation), Strategy and Transactions (M&A advisory, corporate finance, valuation, due diligence, restructuring via EY-Parthenon), and Tax (planning, compliance, controversy, technology transformation). Underpinning these services is a proprietary technology stack: EY.ai and EYQ (a GenAI assistant deployed to 400,000+ employees, 2025 Gold Stevie winner), EY Nexus (industry cloud platform), EY Smart Factory (predictive analytics, VR, AI for shopfloor operations), EY DEEP (energy-sector platform built on Microsoft Azure), and next-generation Digital Audit technology.

EY monetizes services primarily through custom-quoted enterprise engagements, increasingly shifting toward recurring managed services (cybersecurity, financial crime operations, legal managed services, payroll operate, tax and finance operate, technology managed services). Distribution is relationship-based enterprise field sales delivered through EY's member-firm network under Ernst & Young Global Limited (a UK private company limited by guarantee). The client base spans large enterprises across Financial Services, Energy & Resources, Health, TMT, Consumer Products & Retail, Government & Public Sector, and Private Equity, with named logos including Xcel Energy, Bristol Myers Squibb, Medtronic, St James's Hospital, Daikin, Microsoft, City of Antwerp, Hastings Direct, and Wawa.

Name

EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ireland

Legal name

Ernst & Young Global Limited

Website

https://ey.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ireland is a regional program of EY's global entrepreneur-recognition initiative, operating within EY (Ernst & Young), which delivers assurance, consulting, strategy/transactions, tax, and managed services to large enterprises across 120+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Awards and Recognition Programs

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

akta.pro primary industry

Awarding Organizations & Credentialing Bodies (Certificates/Diplomas) (EDADAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Assessment, Certification & Qualifications Frameworks (BPADAKAL)

Keywords

• Entrepreneur recognition awards
• Business leadership awards
• EY entrepreneurship program
• Entrepreneur of the year
• Business awards program

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices20 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Assurance Services: Audit services including financial statement audits, climate change and sustainability assurance, technology risk, and forensic integrity services. Delivered through professional staff engagement with large enterprise clients.
2. Consulting Services: Analytics consulting, customer experience, cybersecurity, finance consulting, risk consulting, supply chain and operations, technology transformation. Delivered through project-based engagements.
3. Strategy and Transactions: M&A advisory, corporate finance, valuation, modeling, economics, due diligence, restructuring and turnaround consulting. Delivered through advisory engagements on strategic transactions.
4. Tax Services: Tax planning, compliance, controversy, technology transformation, and sustainability tax services. Billed through professional service engagements.
5. Managed Services: Cybersecurity managed services, financial crime operations, legal managed services, payroll operate, tax and finance operate, technology managed services. Ongoing operational support engagements.
6. Entrepreneurship Programs: Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program recognizing outstanding entrepreneurs. Serves as both brand-building and relationship development for professional services referrals.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ireland is an annual recognition program run by EY Ireland that identifies, evaluates, and honors outstanding Irish entrepreneurs and business founders. The program involves nominations, a judging panel (the firmographic data references a judge since 2007), regional and country-level awards ceremonies, and integration with EY's global Entrepreneur Of The Year recognition framework. It is delivered as part of EY's broader Entrepreneurship services portfolio and functions as both a brand-building initiative and a relationship-development channel for EY's wider professional services practice.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ireland Annual Ireland-specific recognition program operated by EY that identifies, judges, and honors outstanding Irish entrepreneurs and business founders through nominations, a judging panel, regional and country-level ceremonies, and integration with EY's global Entrepreneur Of The Year framework. For Irish entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs of growth-stage companies, and the broader Irish business ecosystem.
• EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year Global culminating recognition program within EY's Entrepreneur Of The Year framework, where country-level winners (including Ireland's representative) compete for the global title; the 2026 winners were Jitendra Mohan, Sanjay Gajendra and Casey Morrison from Astera Labs. For country-level winners and the global EY entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Quantifiable outcome

• Medtronic supply chain optimization enabled personalized care for over 78 million patients
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationPaul Clark serves as EY Global Microsoft Alliance Leader, helping clients solve unique business challenges by leveraging Microsoft solutions and emerging technologies. EY has deployed Microsoft cloud technologies including Azure for blockchain in various client implementations.
• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationEnergy sector emissions tracking platform utilizes Microsoft Azure for blockchain technology. EY DEEP platform combines Microsoft scalable enterprise cloud platform with EY industry and technology experience.
• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationEY and NVIDIA form strategic alliance for AI deployment in transport and infrastructure sectors. EY Americas AI and Data Leader works with NVIDIA technologies for AI solutions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Deloitte: Deloitte is one of the Big Four global professional services networks that operates its own Technology Fast 500 / Fast 50 entrepreneur-recognition programs. It is a broad incumbent peer because it offers an overlapping suite of audit, consulting, tax, and entrepreneur-recognition services worldwide.
• KPMG: KPMG is the third Big Four firm and runs entrepreneur recognition such as the KPMG Private Enterprise Global Tech Innovator competition. It is a broad incumbent peer with overlapping services and a parallel global entrepreneur-awards program.
• PwC: PwC is another Big Four firm and runs entrepreneur and growth-company programs (e.g., PwC's Private Companies Practice). It is comparable as a global professional services incumbent that monetizes entrepreneurship brand-building programs to feed advisory pipeline.
• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey is a leading global management consultancy. It is a broad incumbent peer competing with EY-Parthenon and EY Consulting for the same C-suite advisory relationships that the EOY program is designed to seed.
• Accenture: Accenture is a large global professional services firm (strategy, consulting, digital, technology). It is a broad incumbent peer that competes with EY for the same large-enterprise transformation engagements that EOY alumni often purchase as they scale.

Direct peers

• Inc. 5000: Inc. 5000 is the flagship Inc. ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. It is directly comparable as an entrepreneurial-recognition and credentialing program that drives brand and pipeline value for its parent media brand.
• EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year: The global capstone of EY's own Entrepreneur Of The Year program. It is the immediate upstream peer of the Ireland program: Ireland winners advance to this global competition, making it the closest direct comparator and the program the Ireland brand ladders into.
• Forbes 30 Under 30: Forbes 30 Under 30 is one of the most prominent global entrepreneur and business-leader recognition programs. It competes for the same pool of high-profile, high-growth founders that EY Entrepreneur Of The Year targets, particularly in the US and Europe.

Others

• Ernst & Young: EY is the parent organization / network that operates the Entrepreneur Of The Year Ireland program. It is included as an ecosystem peer because the Ireland awards derive their entire value proposition, brand, and infrastructure from this parent.

Emerging players

• TechCrunch Awards / Startup Battlefield: TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield and annual Awards are a leading global tech-entrepreneur recognition platform. It is an emerging-style peer focused on a specific (tech) segment of the same entrepreneur-recognition market that EOY targets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@EY_US
• Facebookfacebook.com/EYUSLLP
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ernstandyoung
• Instagraminstagram.com/ey_us

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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