ENCORE Award Dinner
About the ENCORE Award
In the late 1970s, the Peninsula Chapter of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association saw an opportunity to recognize the entrepreneurial spirit of the companies springing up in Silicon Valley. The Chapter created the Entrepreneur of the Year (ENCORE) Award and the first honor was given to the CEO of ROLM Corporation in 1977.
After five years of honoring CEOs of innovative companies, it became clear that a company's success was based on the contributions of many people rather than one individual, so the award was changed to the Entrepreneurial Company of the Year.
This event is now sponsored by the Stanford Business School Alumni Association.
Encore Award Winners
2000's
| 2012 | |
| 2011 | |
| 2010 | Amazon.com |
| 2009 | No ENCORE Award |
| 2008 | Gilead Sciences |
| 2007 | SunPower Corporation |
| 2006 | Network Appliance, Inc. |
| 2005 | Apple |
| 2004 | Google Inc. |
| 2003 | NVIDIA Corporation |
| 2002 | VERITAS Software Corporation |
| 2001 | Siebel Systems, Inc. |
| 2000 | eBay, Inc. |
1990's
| 1999 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc |
| 1998 | Yahoo! |
| 1997 | Ascend Communications |
| 1996 | Netscape Communications |
| 1995 | Intuit, Inc. |
| 1994 | Cisco Systems, Inc. |
| 1993 | Electronic Arts |
| 1992 | Borland International, Inc. |
| 1991 | Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
| 1990 | Octel Communications Corp. |
1980's
| 1989 | Acuson Corporation |
| 1988 | Cypress Semiconductor |
| 1987 | Sun Microsystems |
| 1986 | LSI Logic |
| 1985 | Quantum Corporation |
| 1984 | Seagate Technology |
| 1983 | Genentech, Inc. |
| 1982 | Dysan Corporation, Inc. |
| 1981 | Apple Computer, Inc. |
| 1980 | Tandem Computers, Inc. |
1970's
| 1979 | Qume Corporation |
| 1978 | California Microwave, Inc. |
| 1977 | ROLM Corporation |
2012 ENCORE Award Selection Committee
Chairman
Geoff Yang, MBA '85
Redpoint Ventures
Members
Peter Fenton, AB '94, MBA '00, Benchmark Capital
J. Stuart Francis, MBA '77, Barclays Capital
Charles A. Holloway, Stanford GSB Faculty
Stephen T. Jurvetson, BS '89, MS '89, MBA '95, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Joseph S. Lacob, MBA '83, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Frank Quattrone, MBA '81, Qatalyst Partners
David L. Sze, MBA '93, Greylock Management
Peter Wendell, Sierra Ventures
contact us
- Questions?
Contact Sarah Roach in the GSB Alumni Relations Office at 1-650-724-5612.