Our 2020 Awards for Chamber Excellence will be handed out individually to our winners using proper social distancing protocols.

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2020 Howard County Chamber of Commerce ACE Application

ACE Criteria- 2020

See all of the past ACE winners in the Hall of Fame .

Congratulations to the outstanding volunteers who received Awards for Chamber Excellence at our Annual Meeting, May 16, 2019:

• Young Professional of the Year: Courtney Banks , Level One Personnel, Inc.
• Ambassador of the Year: Flora Betro, Target Marketing
• GovConnects Advocate of the Year: Dickie George, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Chairman’s Award for Volunteer Services: Tom Burtzlaff, CMIT Solutions of Columbia & Dr. Kate Hetherington, Howard Community College

The following businesses and people received the 2019 Awards for Chamber Excellence at our 2019 Signature Event.

• Large Business of the Year: Sandy Spring Bank
• Small Business of the Year: Carney, Kelehan, Bresler, Bennett & Scherr, LLP
• Entrepreneur of the Year: Luke Chow, Prime Manufacturing Technologies
• Business Person of the Year: Jean Parker,  Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Exemplar of the Year: Earl Armiger, Orchard Development and Richard Talkin, Talkin & Oh, LLC.
• Community Impact Award: Joan Driessen, Association of Community Services