2023 Small Business & Tourism Week Celebration

Thank you to those that were able to celebrate with us...and congratulations to our 2023 award recipients!

• Business Person of the Year - Ameet Shah, Shah Corporation, Clarity, and Cleaner Business Systems
• Legacy Award - Jim Oricchio, Coordinated Business Systems
• Entrepreneur of the Year - Eric Childs, Mind's Eye Comics
• Hospitality Hero - Andrew Johnson, Chick-fil-A Burnsville
• Ambassador of the Year - Heidi Olson, Edward Jones
• Volunteer of the Year - Brian Wisdorf, Dougherty, Molenda, Solfest, Hills & Bauer P.A.

Read more about our recipients.

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Help us celebrate Small Business & Tourism Week! We will recognize the businesses and Chamber Members that make a difference in our community and hear from Pete Bercich and Lester Bagley from the MN Vikings.

Awards presentations will include:

• Burnsville Chamber Volunteer of the Year
• Burnsville Chamber Ambassador of the Year
• Experience Burnsville Hospitality Hero
• Burnsville Chamber Entrepreneur of the Year
• Burnsville Chamber Legacy Award
• Burnsville Chamber Business Person of the Year.

About Our Speakers
Pete is a former NFL linebacker having played five seaons for the Vikings. Now, he provides in game analysis along with Paul Allen (the voice of the Vikings) and Greg Coleman (sidelines) on the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network.

Lester brings more than three decades of public affairs and communications experience to his role with the Vikings. Currently in his 17th season with the Vikings, Bagley oversees the team's communications, public affairs and community relations programs.