2025 Kentuckiana Business Hall of Fame

The Kentuckiana Business Hall of Fame honors outstanding business individuals whose leadership, vision and innovation have accomplished much for Greater Louisville’s economic development and social welfare. The Kentuckiana Business Hall of Fame is a business dinner culminating in the Induction Ceremony during which the Laureates are inducted into the Kentuckiana Business Hall of Fame.

Since 1982, Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana has proudly inducted 135 Laureates into the Kentuckiana Business Hall of Fame and we hope you will join us as we celebrate the next class of Laureates.

For more information please contact Jillian Cantu at jcantu@jaky.org.

Dress Code: Business Professional

Laureates

Gill Holland, The Green Building

Dr. Dawn Wade, Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer & Stacey Wade, CEO/ECD of Nimbus 

Ann Wells, Former Chair & CEO of Commonwealth Bank and Trust

Honorary Chair

Mary Nixon, Retired Vice President, Global Tax & Internal Audit of Yum! Brands, Inc. 

Thank You to Our Sponsors

Presenting Media Sponsor: 

Presenting Dinner Sponsor: 

Student Sponsor: 

Laureate Reception Sponsors: 

General Reception Sponsor:

Design Sponsor:

Table Sponsors:

Algood

Baptist Healthcare

BigID

Blue & Co.

Caesars Southern Indiana

Dentons

Doe Anderson

EY

Fifth Third Bank

First Savings Bank

Frost Brown & Todd

GE

Louisville Marriott Downtown

Marriott Downtown Louisville

Norton Healthcare

Ogle Foundation, Inc.

Stock Yards Bank

Texas Roadhouse

Waystar

Wyatt

Gift In Kind Donations: