Sridhar Bogelli, founder of Apps Associates LLC in Acton, and Boppanda Ganapathy, founder of Boston Services, LLC in Burlington, were nominated for The 2018 ILC Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards.
Sridhar Bogelli received two degrees in computer science as well as completing the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School. He founded Apps Associates in 2002 to provide high value, quality IT services. To date, the company has enabled more than 200 organizations to implement, adopt and manage Oracle applications, cloud infrastructure, Salesforce, analytics and integration solutions. Apps Associates employs 210 people in the United States and another 640 in Germany and India.
Boppanda Ganapathy founded Boston Services, LLC in 2014 with three employees and has grown to employ ten (a 233 percent increase). The company provides temporary and permanent staffing and recruiting of specialty IT consultants to Hospitals and IT companies. At a time when competition for talent is fierce, Boston Services fills a critical need in Boston’s high-tech ecosystem.
Overall, forty Massachusetts residents from 24 countries who founded businesses in 18 Massachusetts communities, from Hyannis to Springfield, have been nominated for The 2018 ILC Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards. They are outstanding business leaders who are making their mark in four business categories: growth, neighborhood, high-tech and life science.
A committee of experts in each area will review the nominations and select a winner in each category, who will be announced at The ILC Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards Dinner on Thursday, May 3, 2018, at the Royal Sonesta Boston in Cambridge, Mass., with special guest speaker Jay Ash, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Master of Ceremonies Shannon Dooling, reporter at WBUR. Ticket and sponsorship information is available at www.ilctr.org.
The 2018 ILC Immigrant Entrepreneur Award Nominees
Business Growth
According to data from the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development, private employers increased their workforce by 5.2 percent from 2014 to 2017. The six nominees in the Business Growth category increased their number of full-time-equivalent employees by 68 to 3,400 percent during the same time frame. The nominees for The 2018 ILC Immigrant Entrepreneur Award in Business Growth are:
Boppanda Ganapathy, Boston Services, LLC in Burlington
from India
Fausto Garcia, Five Star Plating in Lawrence
from Dominican Republic
Jose Garcia, Ebi Sushi in Somerville, Sapporo Ramen in Cambridge and Sushi Kappo in Boston
from Guatemala
Elias and Juana Interiano, El Potro Mexican Bar & Grill in Lowell, Malden and Somerville
from El Salvador
Yan Liu, TVision Insights in Boston
from China
Neighborhood Business
Small businesses are the lifeblood of many neighborhoods. They provide needed goods and services, local jobs, and they give back to their communities. The 19 nominees for The 2018 ILC Immigrant Entrepreneur Award in Neighborhood Business are:
Adolfo Aguilar, Tu Y Yo Mexican Restaurant in Somerville
from Guatemala
Maria Alcantara, Lawrence Training School, Inc. in Lawrence
from Dominican Republic
Yovanny Arias, Sharps Barber Shop in Hyde Park
from Dominican Republic
Umesh Bhuju, Zumi's Espresso in Ipswich
from Nepal
Veronice Biscalquim, Outstanding Cleaning, Inc. in Somerville
from Brazil
Freddy Blanco, Don Quijote Market in Boston
from Dominican Republic
Jitka Borowick, Cleangreen, Inc. in Barnstable
from Czech Republic
Brad Brown, The Blue Frog Bakery in Jamaica Plain
from Canada
Margarita Druker, Persona Jewelry in Boston
from Moldova
Tania and Antonio Forte, Red Fez Bar and Grill in Chicopee
from Portugal
Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo, Artango Dance School in Brighton
from Argentina
Shelia Gibbs, Optical Expressions in Springfield
from Guyana
Fahri Karakaya, Pera Mediterranean Bistro in Williamstown
from Turkey
Inna Khitrik, Inna's Kitchen in Boston
from Russia
Sun Kim, Sun Kim Bop in Springfield
from South Korea
Ekaterina Morozova, Lash Boutique in Hyannis
from Russia
Rodrigo Souza, Comeketo Brazilian Steakhouse in Leominster
from Brazil
High-Tech
The 11 nominees in the high-tech category have each made remarkable contributions in their fields and to the American innovation economy. They are at the cutting edge of technologies as diverse as machine learning, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, energy storage, digital video and artificial intelligence.
The nominees for The 2018 ILC Immigrant Entrepreneur Award in High-Tech are:
Aki Balogh, MarketMuse, Inc. in Boston
from Hungary
Sridhar Bogelli, Apps Associates LLC in Acton
from India
Lior Div, Cybereason, Inc. in Boston
from Israel
Max Faingezicht, ThriveHive in Boston
from Costa Rica
Alexander Falk, Altova, Inc. in Beverly
from Austria
Bart Heilbron, BlueConic, Inc. in Boston
from Netherlands
Bettina Hein, Pixability, Inc. in Boston
from Germany
Qichao Hu, SolidEnergy Systems in Woburn
from China
Natan Linder, Tulip Interfaces, Inc. in Somerville
from Israel
Christina Qi, Domeyard LP in Boston
from China
Panos Bethanis, survey.com in Boston
from Greece
Life Science
Immigrant entrepreneurs are a critical component to Massachusetts’ reputation as a leading life science ecosystem. These founders are making significant breakthroughs that impact the health and well-being of us all. The four nominees for The 2018 ILC Immigrant Entrepreneur Award in Life Science are:
Guangping Gao, Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. in Cambridge
from China
Michael Koeris, Sample 6 Technologies in Boston
from Germany
Bernat Olle, Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. in Cambridge
from Spain
Jonathan Thon, Platelet BioGenesis in Cambridge
from Canada
About The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc.
The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc. (ILC) of Malden, MA, is a not-for-profit organization that gives immigrants a voice in three ways. The English Language Program provides free, year-round English classes to immigrant and refugee adults in Greater Boston to help them become successful workers, parents and community members. The Public Education Institute informs Americans about the economic and social contributions of immigrants in our society, and the Institute for Immigration Research, a joint venture with George Mason University, conducts research on the economic contributions of immigrants.
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