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Among the winners: Corporate Innovator of the Year: David C.
Williams, AT&T.
The AT&T CEO " solved a huge problem for his company in 2020, enabling 40,000 employees to process payment and verify identifying information while working from home, without exposing sensitive consumer details," per the Morning News.
Innovative Leader of the Year: Tricia D'Cruz, Catalyze Dallas.
D'Cruz "has built a career out of founding and scaling startups," per the Morning News.
"She currently leads a holding company that acquires intellectual property from large corporations to bring new technologies to market faster and with lower risk."
Health Innovation Advocate or Accelerator Leader of the Year: Hubert Zajicek, Health Wildcatters.
Zajicek's group is "one of the top accelerators of its kind in the country," per the Morning News.
Cybersecurity Leader of the Year: Cyber Defense Labs.
The latter works with "midsize companies all the up to 60-billion-dollar corporations and Fortune 100 companies," per the Morning News.
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