Breaking news: We’ve just received word from the Center for Innovative Technology‘s GAP 50 awards luncheon that 16 Charlottesville entrepreneurs made the list! These Charlottesville-based innovators and business leaders were selected by their peers as being among the top 50 “most likely to build Virginia’s next generation life science, technology, and energy companies”:
- Brett Blackman, HemoShear LLC
- Martin Chapman, Indoor Biotechnologies
- Tobias Dengel, WillowTree Apps
- John Feminella, Cardagin Networks
- Uday Gupta, Global Cell Solutions
- Adam Healey, Borrowed & Blue
- John Herr, SpermCheck
- Crystal Icenhour, Phthisis Diagnostics
- Andy Krouse, Tau Therapeutics
- Andrew Montalenti, Parse.ly
- Jim Powers, HemoShear LLC
- Michael Prichard, WillowTree Apps
- Sandy Reisky, Apex Wind Energy
- Bill Walker, HemoSonics LLC
- Brian Wamhoff, HemoShear LLC
- Jim Zuffoletti, OpenQ
Congratulations to all the winners and finalists throughout Charlottesville and the commonwealth!
For more about CIT’s GAP 50 awards, visit www.cit.org/gap-50-awards. For a list of all Charlottesville-area nominees, visit www.cit.org/GAP50VirginiaPiedmont.




