As our continuation of the Governor’s Entrepreneur Day celebration continues, the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum features a company each day from our Top 25 Under 5 2011 awards group.

Today’s feature company is BizVision.

Based in Salt Lake City, BizVision was our tenth awardee at this year’s Top 25 Under 5 awards.

BizVision provides a video-powered online learning and communication platform useful to organizations of all sizes. Their platform’s tools for creating, managing, and delivering online video webcasts have helped multinational corporations communicate with far-flung employees as well as local professional organizations to deliver continuing education courses to their members.

You can find BizVision on the Web at http://home.bizvision.com/

On Thursday, December 9, 2010, UVEF awarded the following outstanding entrepreneurs our prestigious year-end awards.

We send congratulations to all:

Most Innovative Product

This year’s Most Innovative Product is truly astounding.  It’s the ultimate in ultra-light and quite literally the most innovative sleeping pad ever made.  Designed by the best engineers in the outdoor sports industry, this company’s product is an extremely comfortable sleeping pad that uses body mapping to make it 40% lighter and 70% more compact than any other ultra-light pad in the world.  In fact, it packs down to about the size of a soda can and is the world’s lightest full length pad – weighing in at only 9.1 ounces!

—Please congratulate Klymit founder and CEO, Nate Alder for their award-winning product:  Inertia – X – Frame.

Ron King Social Entrepreneur of the Year

The 2010 winner of the Ron King Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award is Fraser Nelson, director of an organization dedicated to harnessing Utah’s entrepreneurial spirit in service to the common good through smart philanthropy.

As the state’s first truly public foundation, the assets of this organization are here to serve Utah for good and forever.  It offers a forum for Utah’s social and for-profit entrepreneurs to take calculated risks, gain new networks, and drive innovation – together.

—Please congratulate Fraser Nelson, founding Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Utah.

Greatest Contribution to Entrepreneurs

We would need much more than an hour to list all the incredible accomplishment s of this year’s next winner, which honors the Greatest Contribution to Entrepreneurs in 2010.

Here are just a few of the highlights of what this individual has done to help drive Utah’s vibrant entrepreneurial attitude this year:

• As one of the partners in Utah Angels and early investors in Omniture, he witnessed the results of his early mentoring and investing from startup to Adobe’s acquisition of Omniture for $1.8 billion – Utah’s largest acquisition of its kind.
• He also designs and teaches a number of practical, hands-on entrepreneurial courses for several different departments at BYU and helps run the renowned Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
• In additional to providing literally hundreds of hours of mentoring per year, this individual is also a board member and chairman of the Provo Business Development Corporation; he’s the co-founder of BoomStartup, a Utah mentorship-driven investment program; and he’s the founder of Utah Student 25, an Inc. 500-like program for student –founded businesses.
• He also actively participates on the board of directors, board of managers, and/or advisory boards of numerous local startup and emerging companies.

—Please congratulate our next award winner for having the Greatest Contribution to Entrepreneurs in Utah in 2010 – our very own John Richards.

Utah Valley’s Best Kept Entrepreneurial Secret

Our next award is titled “Utah’s Best Kept Entrepreneurial Secret” and it goes to a company based in Orem, Utah that helps organizations comply with credit card data security requirements.  They provide unlimited support, unlimited re-testing and telephoned-based questionnaire help to simplify and speed up the compliance process for anyone interested.

Their mission is to simplify PCI compliance for business owners and they are doing it quite well!

—Please congratulate Brad Caldwell, founder and CEO of Security Metrics, Inc.

Utah Valley’s Entrepreneur of the Year

With so many great companies launching in Utah every year, it was hard to choose just one to be our 2010 Utah Valley Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  With that said, our winning company today is truly incredible.

The company was organized in 2004 to “teach English to the children of the world” and has pursued that vision with outstanding success at all levels.  With more than 25 years of curriculum research experience, this company created an innovative software program focused on meeting the unique needs of elementary school English learners.

Now partnering with more than 2,000 schools in 41 states, they have literally served hundreds of thousands of students in the US and abroad.  The Provo-based company has also been recognized both locally and nationally, ranking 533 on the Inc. 5000 list for 2010 and winning Utah state awards for both growth and success.

—Please join us in congratulating our 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner – Susan W. Preator, CEO of Imagine Learning, Inc.