TiE Boston to Recognize Top Entrepreneurs, and Honor Dr. Amar Sawhney with Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Annual Gala

BOSTON, Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TiE Boston today announced the recipients of its 2018 Entrepreneurship Awards, to be presented at this year's annual gala. The black-tie gala will take place on Thursday, December 13th at the Four Seasons Boston and the awards highlight the achievements of innovators and entrepreneurs across categories such as venture capital, digital health, B2B & B2C technology and robotics & automation.

The nominating committee selected individuals who have created or shaped a category through a significant contribution in their field of work, deemed "mission-critical" to the innovation economy, and have contributed to the well-being of the community through time, money, mentoring, guidance, etc. TiE Boston is recognizing its charter members, as well as individuals across numerous categories who exemplify TiE's values by supporting entrepreneurship with an eye towards giving back to the community.

Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, Dr. Amar Sawhney, has founded six companies, including Confluent Surgical (acquired by Covidien), Ocular Therapeutix, Incept LLC and Augmenix, which was recently acquired by Boston Scientific. He has been honored with numerous business and technology awards, including being named one of the "White House's Champions of Change" by President Obama, the MIT Global Indus Technovator award and the E&Y Regional Entrepreneur of the Year award.

2018 Awardees include:

Digital Health --
Yvonne Hao, COO & CFO, PillPack
Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, Co-founder & CEO, Iora Health            

B2B Solutions --             
Kris Canekeratne, Chairman & CEO, Virtusa
Stefania Mallett, Co-Founder & CEO, ezCater

B2C Solutions --     
Niraj Shah, Co-Founder & CEO, Wayfair
Aman Narang, Co-Founder & President, Toast

Venture Capital --
Darshana Zaveri, Managing Partner, Catalyst Health Ventures
Katie Rae, CEO & Managing Partner, The Engine

Robotics and Automation --
Karl Iagnemma, Co-Founder & President, NuTonomy
Raghav Gupta, COO, Humatics

TiE CM Achievement Award --             
Venkat Maroju, CEO, SourceTrace        
Malay Kundu, CEO, StopLift
Ravi Ika, President & CEO, RxAdvance
Ram Krishnan, Co-Founder, VP Strategy & Business Development, VidScale (Edge Gravity by Ericsson)

"We are pleased to honor Dr. Sawhney and the other awardees at this year's Gala," said Nilanjana Bhowmik, President of TiE Boston. "Each of these awardees embodies our organization's values ? they have built, innovated and given back to their communities. Each has also assumed a responsibility to create something important ? not just companies, but relationships and communities to support innovation and entrepreneurialism on an ongoing basis."

About TiE Boston:
TiE Boston connects tomorrow's founders with today's entrepreneurs, executives and venture capitalists. Founded in 1997 by entrepreneurs who immigrated from the Indus region, TiE Boston champions inclusion in innovation by blending the fundamentals of entrepreneurship with traditional Indian values that place importance on community, mentorship and long-term relationships.

TiE Boston is one of the region's largest and oldest organizations supporting the Massachusetts entrepreneurial ecosystem, focused on supporting entrepreneurs throughout their lifecycle ? from ideation to creation, through growth, wealth creation and ultimately, support of future founders.

The TiE Boston community encompasses students, founders, experienced entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists. Its programs foster trusted, long-term relationships between its participants ? span education, mentoring, networking and funding.

For more information about TiE Boston, visit boston.tie.org

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