Maryland Rising Star Awards
Meet the Recipients of the Rising Star Award
Presented annually, the Rising Star Award honors a motivated future leader or leaders, age 40 or under, inspiring today’s business community. These Rising Stars are doing amazing work to propel their business, employees or colleagues, and community to even greater success.
2024: Jonathan Arons
External Communications & Community Relations Manager at Giant Food
2024: Wayne Dorsey
Founder & President of The Safe Ride Foundation
2024: Arion Long
CEO of Femly
2024: Emily Tunis
President and COO of Hardwire, LLC
2024: Emily Uhlman
Founder of ButterWorks Bakery USA
2023: Robert “RJ” Batts
Inventor & CEO at Picklehead LLC
2023: Courtney DeLatorre
Analyst of Defense Affairs at Emergent BioSolutions
2023: Ali von Paris
CEO & Founder of Route One Apparel
2023: David White
Founder & CEO of Tomorrow’s Bio Today
2022: Sriram Manivannan
Vice President of Product Development at Vorbeck Materials