ACE Hall of Fame

The Howard County Chamber of Commerce Awards for Chamber Excellence (ACE) are presented on an annual basis to deserving Chamber members who have demonstrated a continuing commitment to the overall mission of the Chamber. Recipients must be Chamber members in good standing. There are seven award categories: Large Business of the Year (100 or more employees), Small Business of the Year (99 or less employees), Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Person of the Year, Young Professional of the Year, Chairman’s Award for Volunteer Service, and an Exemplar Award. Chamber Board members are not eligible for awards.

BRAC Advocate of the Year
2008 Jean Friedberg - Choptank Group, LLC
2009Patty Keeton
Sam Seymour

Young Professional of the Year
2007 David Lynch - Systems Integration and Support, LLC
2008 Thomas Cornellier - Wooden-Cornellier Group, LLC
2009 Kristi Simon

Small Business of the Year

1996 American Speedy Printing Center
1997 Rapid Sign Center
1998 The Airport Shuttle
1999 The Colosseum Gym & Fitness
2000 Synergy
2001 Computer Solutions GSD
2002 Rapaport & Skalny

2003 Eggspectation
2004 Filar Design, Ltd.
2005 Corridor Printing Inc
2006 Decanter Fine Wines
2007 The Melting Pot
2008 Questron
2009 CQI Associates,Inc.

Large Business of the Year

1981 Ecalono & Company
1982 Bendix Field Engineering Corp
1983 Howard Homes
1984 The Rouse Company
1985 Truckers Inn
1986 Eyre Bus & Travel
1987 The Ryland Group
1988 Commercial & Farmers Bank
1989 Wilhide's Flowers Inc.
1990 Levan, Schimel, Richman, Belman,
Abramson & Scanlan P.A.
1991 The Columbia Bank
1992 W.R. Grace & Company
1993 Howard County General Hospital
1994 Maryland National/Nations Bank

1995 Security Development Group
1996 Reese and Carney LLP
1997 E.V.I. Incorporated
1998 US Foodservice
1999 Comcast Cable
2000 Citizens National Bank
2001 Apple Ford
2002 PCA Group
2003 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory
2004 Turf Valley Resort
2005 Patuxent Publishing Company
2006 Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts
2007 Offit Kurman
2008 Howard County Public School System 2009 Northop Grumman

Non-Profit Business of the Year
1997 Developmental Services Group
1998 Howard County Family YMCA
1999 The Columbia Foundation
2000 Domestic Violence Center
2001 JREF
2002 The ARC of Howard County
2003 Howard County Library

Entrepreneur of the Year
2007 Mary Ann Scully - Howard Bank
2008 Bill King - The Crab Shanty Restaurant
2009Paul Swidersky

Chairman's Award for Volunteer Service
2001 Andrea Paskin - Humanim
2002 Jamie Costa - Gateway Capitol Financial
2003 Beverly Roberts – Roberts Organizational Services, Inc.
2004 Tony Rodriguez & Team – Classic Photography
Timothy Harwood - Stewart Technologies
2005 Eggspectation
2006 Nina Krzysko - Howard County Library
2007 Caroline Sherman - UHY Advisors
2008 Julia Mattis - Re/Max Professionals Garth Davis/Julia Mattis Sales Team
2009 Marly's East

Business Advocate of the Year
2008 Bill Erskine - Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
2009Rick Silber

Business Person of the Year

1973 John F. Miller
1974 Andy Adams
1975 Roger Carter
1976 Lillian Clark
1977 Howard Crist
1978 Bill Jefferson
1979 Vic Kunst
1980 Charlie Miller
1981 Gene W. Mullinix
1982 Al Parrott
1983 Stan Sladek
1984 Dick Talkin
1985 Doris Thompson
1986 Dr. Dwight Burrill
1987 Frederick W. Glassberg
1988 Joseph L. Wagner
1989 Nancy L. Smith
1990 Earl Saunders
1991 Gerald E. Brock
1992 Richard H. Pettingill

1993 Donald Manekin
1994 Jean F. Moon
1995 Robert Locke
1996 Donora Dingman
1997 James Moxley, Jr.
1998 Victor Broccolino
1999 Jack Whiteside
2000 Steve Adler
2001 Dr. David Tayman
2002 Gordon Mumpower, Jr.
2003 Ronald S. Schimel
2004 Maurice Simpkins
2005 Steve Sachs
2006 Mary Ellen Duncan
         Ron Eyre
         Bill Munn
         Ed Waddell
2007 Earl Armiger
2008 Rand Griffin
2009 J.P. Bolduc

Exemplar Award
2005 Donna Ange – Intuit
2006 Vic Broccolino – Howard County General Hospital
2007 Mary Ellen Duncan - Howard Community College
Barbara Lawson - Columbia Foundation
2008 Maggie Brown - Columbia Association
2009George P. Doetsch Jr.