Calling all entrepreneurs! The Fortune Most Powerful Women team is looking for 10 innovative and groundbreaking entrepreneurs to invite to the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit.
For the sixth year, we’re searching for founders of thriving companies with revenue in the $1 million-to-$25 million range. Fortune will recognize the winners at the 2014 Most Powerful Women Summit, October 6-8 in Laguna Niguel, CA.
The 10 Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs (MPWE) will join 400 other extraordinary leaders including CEOs Mary Barra of General Motors (GM), Ursula Burns of Xerox (XRX), Lynn Good of Duke Energy (DUK), Sheila Marcelo of Care.com (CRCM), Gracia Martore of Gannett (GCI), Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup (CPB), Michelle Peluso of Gilt Groupe, Anne Wojcicki of 23andme and Susan Wojcicki of YouTube (GOOG), plus Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Teach for All founder-CEO Wendy Kopp, Facebook (FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg, Disney (DIS) Media Networks Co-Chair Anne Sweeney and NBC News (CMCSA) President Deborah Turness—plus Warren Buffett (BRKA), who attends the Summit every year.
The list of past MPWE winners includes outstanding founder/builders such as Eventbrite’s Julia Hartz, Wildfire’s Victoria Ransom, DwellStudio’s Christiane Lemieux, The Honest Company’s Jessica Alba, Vosges Haut-Chocolat’s Katrina Markoff, Hearsay Social’s Clara Shih, Minted’s Miriam Naficy—and Care.com’s Sheila Marcelo, who, along with United Therapeutics (UTHR) sponsors this year’s Fortune MPWE program. (View our past winners here.)
Please send your MPWE nomination to Elizabeth Busch before July 18. Include the entrepreneur’s name, contact info, company website and a brief note about why we should consider her. We’ll contact her and ask her to apply to be a 2014 Fortune MPWE. Thank you for helping us at Fortune find and empower the next generation of entrepreneurial talent!
