Page to be updated as additional news stories are received following the 2021 winners announcement.
Alorica Wins Silver in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“Who we are as a company is all because of our people,” said Susan Dumond, Chief Employee Experience Officer. “It is so important that we create a workplace where our employees feel valued for their contributions, empowered to succeed and enabled to achieve their career goals. This award motivates us to advance our mission to enhance the employee experience, which not only benefits our team members, but also the clients and customers we proudly serve every day.” |
Aptive Environmental wins Best in Biz Awards |
“Aptive views our customers as neighbors and we are proud to help make their homes more enjoyable through our pest control services. The prestigious Best in Biz Awards Business to Consumer recognition reflects how our focus on elevating experiences for our customers are at the forefront of everything we do,” said Vess Pearson, CEO and co-founder of Aptive Environmental. |
Beyond Key Wins Bronze in 11th annual Best in Biz Awards |
Even with the pandemic, Beyond Key achieved a 25% growth rate last year. The growth was thanks to our work with clients such as JDRF, CGIAR, and other clients around the globe. We help our clients with SharePoint Migrations, Power Platform Services (Microsoft PowerApps, Power BI, and Power Automate), Dynamics 365, Cloud, AI/ML, and other software development services. |
BillingPlatform Recipient of Best in Biz Awards for Second Consecutive Year |
“We’re honored to be the recipient of the silver award for financial software in this year’s Best in Biz Awards program,” said Dennis Wall, BillingPlatform CEO. “Being a winner in 2020 and again in 2021 is further proof that our best-in-class, cloud-based revenue management solution helps customers across all industries address their unique business needs. We look forward to continued growth in 2022 along with furthering our technology innovation to provide additional monetization capabilities our customers need to help them increase revenue and customer satisfaction.” |
Bitcoin of America Celebrates 2021 Success |
Bitcoin of America has been recognized with several awards in 2021. Bitcoin of America was named a silver winner in the Company of the Year – Midwest category in Best in Biz Awards. |
Bugcrowd CEO Ashish Gupta Wins Silver for Executive of the Year from Best in Biz Awards |
“I feel honored to receive this recognition from Best in Biz for all the hard work our team at Bugcrowd has done to build up the organization and deliver high-value, crowdsourced security services from around the globe,” said Ashish Gupta, CEO, Bugcrowd. “We will continue to focus on our top priorities to further integrate our platform with our customers’ security workflows; provide security expertise on-demand; and personalize the user experience.” |
Calix Caps incredible year of growth with awards for best Company culture, best Company for Women, for diversity and Best CEO |
“Our teams have spent over a decade investing more than a billion dollars to build the world’s most advanced platforms to help even the smallest broadband service provider compete and win against the consumer giants,” said Michael Weening, president and chief operating officer of Calix. “We believe our success is the direct result of our team members and their embracing a better, better, never best mindset which sees our culture changing and evolving every day. Our entire leadership team is committed to our ever-improving culture, and the entire team is proud of these awards as it represents the culture that we have all built – together. We look forward to welcoming many new team members in 2022 who will help us improve and grow.” |
Cvent Wins Gold in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards for Most Customer Friendly Company of the Year |
“We’re extremely proud to receive this prestigious award from Best in Biz Awards, and for our 1,100+ client services team members around the world to be recognized for their exceptional dedication to our customers,” said Scott Castleman, Cvent vice president of client services. “Cvent’s deep commitment to customer service, and our rapid pivot in the face of a global pandemic, meant we accepted the ultimate responsibility to resolve customer issues quickly and ensure they had the support they needed to keep their businesses running.” |
Donuts Inc. Wins Best in Biz Awards Reaffirming Increasing Impact of Descriptive Domains |
“We are delighted with these prestigious honors from Best in Biz Awards,” said Akram J. Atallah, CEO, Donuts Inc. “This kind of accomplishment comes with hard work in collaboration with the entire ecosystem of employees, customers and suppliers.”
“Businesses of all sizes and types are embracing new descriptive domain names recognizing the power in promoting their brands online with optimum SEO impact,” Atallah continued. “We provide options they have never had before with the world’s largest portfolio of new memorable domain names ranging from dxc.technology, to amazon.care, to ikea.today, to dealcasters.university. We expect that Donuts’ Best in Biz Awards achievement will demonstrate the worldwide success of descriptive domains and accelerate their adoption and use.” |
Everyware® Wins Silver in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“The Everyware team is honored to be recognized alongside distinguished fellow category winners showing that contactless payments and customer engagement is such an important innovation,” said Everyware Founder and CEO Larry Talley. “It’s rewarding to know that top industry executives agreed that our product is forever changing the way people pay and communicate.” |
Experian Named Most Innovative Company of the Year for Best in Biz Awards |
“We are truly honored to be recognized as Most Innovative Company of the Year by the Best in Biz Awards,” said Craig Boundy, Chief Executive Officer of Experian North America. “This award is reflective of the strength of our culture of continuous innovation. During such an uncertain time, our amazing employees rallied together to actively seek out unresolved problems and create new products and services that helped businesses and consumers thrive.” |
Five9 Wins Best in Biz Awards for Enterprise Product of the Year, Support Department of the Year and Executive of the Year |
“Five9 has built an industry-leading and differentiated cloud contact center platform that has transformed the way businesses engage with their customers,” said Genefa Murphy, CMO, Five9. “We are honored to be recognized by the Best in Biz Awards for helping organizations evolve their CX during this era of profound change.” |
ixlayer Wins Silver in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“The past couple of years have shown the world the need for better diagnostic testing capabilities, and ixlayer will continue to innovate to meet those demands and challenges,” said Pouria Sanae, CEO of ixlayer. “We’re thrilled to be honored by Best in Biz Awards alongside the other companies that are breaking through the limits of their respective industries.” |
iXsystems Recognized in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards for Most Innovative Product Line of the Year |
“Receiving this honor not once, not twice, but three times is a testament to the innovative, customer-centric products and software engineered by iXsystems over the past several years. We are honored to be recognized once again by the Best in Biz Awards judging panel in the Most Innovative Product Line of the Year category,” said Morgan Littlewood, Senior Vice President of Product Development. |
Kaspersky North America Wins Bronze in 11th annual Best in Biz Awards |
“We always put the customers’ needs first,” says Anthony Bellia, vice president, support and services, Kaspersky Americas. “Each year, we set goals for how we can continue providing the best services possible and challenge ourselves to build upon the strong foundation of our outstanding program over the years. This award is a testament to the team’s hard work, dedication and professionalism throughout the customer journey experience.” |
Kaspien Wins Silver in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“It’s an honor to be included in this year’s Best in Biz awards line-up, and I’m proud of the efforts our team at Kaspien has made this year,” said Kaspien CEO Kunal Chopra. “While the last 20 months have brought unprecedented challenges and continued reverberations, our company rose to the occasion in every way, finding ways to grow and improve. I’m looking forward to building upon this upward trajectory into 2022 and beyond.” |
Koddi Wins Silver in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“Koddi takes great pride in providing first-in-class engineering, product, and support for its clients – and also for its employees,” said Nicholas Ward, President and Co-Founder of Koddi. “Our success is built on innovation and agility, skills which served our team well during the challenges of the pandemic. We are proud to be recognized for our efforts, and look forward to all that’s to come.” |
Lilt Named One of The Most Innovative Services of the Year in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“Lilt’s mission is to make the world’s information accessible to everyone regardless of where they were born or which language they speak. We enable organizations to provide personalized global customer experiences in everyone’s preferred language,” said Spence Green, CEO and co-founder of Lilt. “We thank the Best in Biz Awards and the 2021 judging panel for recognizing the hard work and dedication our team has to this mission and our customers.” |
MedBridge Recognized in Most Innovative Product of the Year Category at Best in Biz Awards |
“The COVID-19 pandemic and changing regulations have expedited the need for high-quality virtual care solutions, and we’re committed to developing new innovations that will help our partners adapt to the continuing evolution of the healthcare industry and further improve the lives of their patients,” said Justin Kowalchuk, CEO and Founder of MedBridge. “We’re both humbled and grateful to receive this award, and our team is hard at work on our next innovative solution that will help healthcare organizations enhance patient care.” |
Mode Wins Trifecta of Awards for Outstanding Customer Service |
“I am so incredibly proud of what our support team has achieved in the past year, scaling our capacity to provide quality support to thousands of active users, while maintaining industry-leading response times and top CSAT scores,” said Asha Hill, Customer Success Operations and Enablement Director, Mode Analytics. “Because customer support is an always-on job, we completely redesigned our tech stack, implementing a best-in-class cross-functional workflow system built around our core values of transparency, visibility and automation.” |
M-Files Named Gold Winner in 2021 Best in Biz Awards |
“In today’s hybrid workforce, we’ve seen an increase in the amount of data organizations generate – much of which is scattered across multiple systems with no single source of truth,” said Antti Nivala, founder and CEO, M-Files. “Being recognized as a gold winner in the Company of the Year – B-to-B category validates that our modern approach to information management helps organizations overcome the growing challenges of siloed information, ensuring employees are connected with the content that they need, when they need it, regardless of where it is stored.” |
Next Pathway named Most Innovative Company of the Year in Best in Biz Awards |
“We are truly honoured to receive this prestigious award from the most prominent reporters and editors from top-tier publications across North America and around the world,” said Chetan Mathur, Chief Executive Officer at Next Pathway. “Receiving the Most Innovative Company of the Year – Small is a testament to the dedication of our incredible engineers and affirmation that Next Pathway is solving the biggest challenges that customers face when migrating workloads to the cloud. We are extremely proud to be recognized as the best in our field.” |
Onbe Wins Bronze in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“Our recognition by the Best in Biz Awards program as a top company of the year further underscores our commitment to providing innovative digital payment solutions to our clients,” said Bala Janakiraman, CEO of Onbe. “In today’s fast-paced world, consumers are looking to easily and instantly receive disbursements, and Onbe will continue to build on our expertise to evolve our payment options to deliver corporate disbursements in a way that best meets their needs.” |
POWERHOME SOLAR Most Awarded Company at 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“We are excited to see our team honored for all of the efforts they provide every day for our customers,” said POWERHOME SOLAR CEO Jayson Waller. “Every one of the 2,200-plus employees that we have should take pride in these accomplishments.” |
PrestigePEO Named Winner in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“We are honored to earn a Best in Biz Company award. This reflects the collective efforts and dedication of our employees. Every PrestigePEO employee goes above and beyond to continue serving our clients during these unprecedented times. It is a great indicator of our devotion to our SMB clients and for that, I am extremely proud,” said Andrew Lubash, PrestigePEO founder and chief executive officer. |
Rentec Direct Celebrates Significant Milestones and 13 Years of Advancing the Property Management Industry |
“Rentec Direct started as a passion project to solve the inefficiencies I was personally facing as a real estate investor and landlord,” said Nathan Miller, President of Rentec Direct. “Today we empower more than 25,000 landlords and property managers to efficiently run their businesses while saving time and money.” |
Roadie Wins “Company of the Year – Medium” in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“A company is so much more than its numbers. It’s the people who are the beating heart of this business, and Roadie’s are just the best of the best,” said Roadie Founder and CEO Marc Gorlin. “They’re the engine behind the innovation, and the reason we’ve been able to achieve everything we have in the last year.” |
Simplr Named One of the Most Innovative Companies of the Year in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“We live in the era of the NOW Customer, who lives online, shops at all hours, and expects exceptional experiences from every brand. The old ways of conducting customer support and service simply no longer holds up,” said Daniel Rodriguez, CMO at Simplr. “The Best in Biz Award judges saw the need for a new way of thinking about customer experience–one based on agility, intelligence, and customer empathy. This is NOW CX, and we are excited to be recognized in helping our customers succeed in this new, groundbreaking CX movement.” |
SolarWinds Garners Awards for IT Operations Management Products in Second Half of 2021 |
“It’s very rewarding to have these organizations and award programs recognize and validate our products over the last six months,” said Rohini Kasturi, chief product officer, SolarWinds. “We’re constantly finding ways to enhance and improve the security and performance of our products, and the collective votes of confidence by our customers, users, the media, and industry professionals affirms our ongoing work to diligently deliver the solutions our customers need to solve their toughest IT management problems.” |
SUDEN PR Wins Gold in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“It’s an honor to be recognized by the industry experts and thought leaders at Best in Biz as one of this year’s gold winners,” said SUDEN PR President and Founder, Breanna Suden. “When Guy approached us to help him in his efforts, we were inspired by his kindness. It’s truly amazing to see how one man’s compassion could be so well received and how his story continues to touch the lives of many across the globe.” |
Sunwest Bank Wins Best in Biz Awards for Marketing Department of the Year |
“I am so proud of the Sunwest Bank marketing team and the hard work they have put in over the past year,” said Dwight Flenniken III, Chief Marketing Officer at Sunwest Bank. “The 2021 Marketing Department Best in Biz Award is a great honor, and we are thrilled to receive it.”
“The Sunwest Bank marketing team is truly amazing and so deserving of the 2021 Marketing Department Best in Biz Award,” said Matthew March, Chief Information Officer at Sunwest Bank. “This recognition is a testament to the innovation and results delivered by Dwight and the Sunwest Bank marketing team.” |
Swiss Post Solutions honored with silver award for innovation |
Dan Moscatiello, Chief Executive Officer of SPS North America, stated, “’Innovative Thinking’ is one of our core values, and we strive to incorporate innovation into in all aspects of our business, from client operations to the employee experience. Our focus on innovation helped ensure that SPS remained a strong and adaptive partner to our clients during the challenges of the past year, and it will guide us as we support our clients in building operational resilience and new business models. We are honored to be recognized for our work by the Best in Biz Awards.” |
Trux Wins Silver in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“We are so honored to be awarded Silver for the Most Innovative App of the Year,” says Trux CEO, Bart Ronan. “This is a recognition of all the hard work our team has undertaken over the last year to transform our offering to meet the needs of our customers, who are transforming our nation’s infrastructure and we are proud to serve them with the technology they need to operate more efficiently.” |
UniFirst Wins Silver in Best in Biz Awards for Corporate Social Responsibility Program |
“We’re proud and honored to receive this honor from Best in Biz Awards and for our more than 14,000 team partners to be recognized for their dedication to both our customers and the communities in which we live and serve,” said Steven Sintros, UniFirst President and CEO. “We’re deeply committed to providing excellence in customer service and doing our part to ensure that our communities have what they need to help keep their businesses up and running, especially during these challenging times.” |
VizyPay’s Cash Discount App for Clover POS Systems Wins Gold in 11th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
“As true industry innovators that have always looked to put small businesses first, we are honored to have our Cash Discount app for Clover POS recognized,” said Austin Mac Nab, CEO and Co-Founder of VizyPay. “This is just one way that VizyPay is challenging the status quo of the payments industry by empowering merchants with transparent, simple, money-saving payments solutions.” |
Western Alliance CHRO Barbara Kennedy Wins 2021 Best in Biz Award |
Barbara Kennedy has earned the Gold Award in the HR Executive of the Year category for the 11th annual Best in Biz Awards 2021 during a year in which she and her team dealt with significant challenges brought on by COVID-19. |
Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions Wins Best in Biz Award for Most Innovative Product Feature |
“We are honored that the Best in Biz Awards have recognized Predictive Insights’ transformative impact on the legal and insurance claims markets,” said Barry Ader, VP, Product Management and Marketing, at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions. “This award is a reminder of the ongoing commitment we’ve made to serve as our clients’ trusted partner, standing by their side while they harness the power of data and AI to yield more informed decision-making.” |
Wolters Kluwer Triumphs with Five 2021 Best in Biz Awards |
“These awards highlight the tremendous commitment displayed by our team to product innovation and leadership, from the creative application of artificial intelligence for managing complex regulatory changes, to technologies that enhance lender workflows, vehicle lien and titling management, and digital lending proficiencies,” said Steve Meirink, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions. “I’m pleased by the sustained, independent market recognition from prestigious, peer-reviewed award programs for solutions that are focused on making an impact of significance for the professionals we serve each day.” |
WorkForce Software Named Gold Winner in the Most Innovative Company of the Year Best in Biz Awards 2021 |
“The team at WorkForce Software is thrilled to be recognized by the Best in Biz Awards as a Most Innovative Company of the Year… especially in a year where there have been such dramatic changes to the way people work. It’s great to see our customers’ businesses thriving as they leverage the innovations we’ve delivered through our modern workforce management solution to engage and communicate with their employees – building quality connections and moments that matter,” said Mike Morini CEO of WorkForce Software. “Frontline workers haven’t stopped during the past twenty months of the pandemic, and they deserve technology that makes it easy for them to connect with their peers and managers who may be remote and without some of the systems provided to corporate team members. People want to be heard and valued at work, it’s that simple, and our solutions make that happen.” |
Zonar Wins Two 2020 Best in Biz Awards: Most Innovative App of the Year and Marketing Campaign of the Year |
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Yottaa Accelerates Into 2021 Following Tremendous Growth In 2020 |
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Winners Now Announced in 10th Annual Best in Biz Awards |
Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America, today announced the winners in its 10th annual competition. Despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, this year saw a particularly strong field of entries from public and private companies of all sizes and spanning all geographic regions and industries in the U.S. and Canada, ranging from the most recognizable and admired global brands to the most innovative start-ups and nimble local companies – proving North American business’ resilience and continuing innovation and growth. |
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