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ViewSource Media Founder Harris Named
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist

(Cincinnati, OH -- May 16, 2000) -- ViewSource Media Founder and CEO John C. Harris has been named an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” contest finalist for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region.

“Selected from an impressive field of candidates, these finalists represent the most innovative and successful new companies in the area today,” said Tom O’Neil, an Ernst & Young partner and director of the Entrepreneur of the Year program.

The Entrepreneur of the Year awards program was founded and is produced by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP to honor outstanding entrepreneurs whose ingenuity and perseverance have created and sustained successful growing business ventures. 

Regional awards recipients will be named this summer from the list of finalists. Award recipients will then proceed to a national competition in the fall. Past national winners include eBay, Amazon.com, Southwest Airlines and Enterprise Rent-a-Car.

According to the nomination criteria, the entrepreneur must be an owner/manager primarily responsible for the recent performance of a company that is at least two years old. Harris founded ViewSource Media in late 1996. The company has experienced a 400 percent increase in revenue and staff each year since.

About Ernst & Young

With $5.5 billion in revenue, the firm has approximately 30,000 employees in 87 offices throughout the United States. In 1998 it audited 114 of the 1998 Fortune 500 largest U.S. corporations. There are also Ernst & Young offices in nearly 50 other countries. The firm audits 18.4 percent of Business Week’s Global 1,000 companies and is the world’s fourth largest consulting practice.

Ernst & Young traces its beginnings to Scotsman Arthur Young, who settled in Chicago and in 1894 opened an accounting firm with $500 in capital.