2007 Beta Gamma Sigma Award Recipients

Honor, Wisdom and Earnestness. These ideals are the very foundation upon which Beta Gamma Sigma is built. Each year, BGS asks its collegiate chapters to nominate top business leaders, who not only excel in business but also personify the Society's core values, to be recognized with the Medallion for Entrepreneurship and the Business Achievement Award.

The award recipients, who are chosen on an international basis and awarded locally by the chapters, are examples of the very personal and professional business excellence that all BGS members should strive for.

Beta Gamma Sigma congratulates the 2007 Medallion for Entrepreneurship and Business Achievement Award recipients

Medallion for Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Medallion is awarded to outstanding individuals who combine innovative business achievement with service to humanity. The accomplishments of the individuals may be domestic or worldwide but must be consistent with the ideals of Beta Gamma Sigma. The BGS Medallion for Entrepreneurship was established to provide appropriate recognition to those individuals and firms who contribute significantly to the vitality and strength of the economy, combining innovative business achievement with service to humanity.

Beta Gamma Sigma chapters are eligible to nominate individuals for this award based on the following criteria:

• Combination of innovative business with service to humanity;
• Success in overcoming risk in new venture development;
• Degree of innovation in risk taking;
• Adaptation to new market and competitive environments;
• Successful accomplishment of the above during the past 5-10 years;
• Promise of additional achievements during years to come; and
• The nominee shall have been a model of ethical business leadership in his or her career and have exemplified the highest honor and integrity consistent with the ideals of Beta Gamma Sigma.

  2007 Recipients:

  	David Bussau Founder, Opportunity International Nominated by: Loyola Marymount University
  	Howard Hawks Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Tenaska, Inc. Nominated by: University of Nebraska Omaha
  	Randal J. Kirk Founder, Chairman, and CEO, New River Pharmaceuticals, Third Security, LLC Nominated by: Radford University
  	Edwin F. Hale, Sr. CEO and Chairman, First Mariner Bank Nominated by: Towson University

Business Achievement Award

The Business Achievement Award is presented to honor individuals for significant achievement in business through the traditional corporate route. The achievement may be demonstrated over a career or by a singular achievement that has advanced the field of business and contributed to a community and to humankind.

Individuals are nominated for the Business Achievement Award based on the following criteria:

• Significant accomplishment in business demonstrated through an individual’s position, career progress, leadership, financial/market share results and community impact;
• Evidence of significant generosity through enhancement of a community or an educational institution;
• The significant accomplishment in business and the evidence of generosity may be over a career or the past 5-10 years;
• Evidence of continued and/or further service to humanity beyond the acts of generosity; and
• The nominee shall have been a model of ethical business leadership in his or her career and have exemplified the highest honor and integrity consistent with the ideals of Beta Gamma Sigma.

  2007 Recipients:

	Dmitri Stockton President and CEO, GE Money, Central and Eastern Europe Nominated by: North Carolina A&T State University
	James J. Maguire Chairman and Founder, Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Company Nominated by: Saint Joseph’s University
	Gerald W. Schlief Senior Vice President, ATP Oil and Gas Corporation Nominated by: Stephen F. Austin State University