{"id":13236,"date":"2015-06-16T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=13236"},"modified":"2015-06-16T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:57:23","slug":"marco-ceo-jeff-gau-named-ey-entrepreneur-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2015\/06\/marco-ceo-jeff-gau-named-ey-entrepreneur-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco CEO Jeff Gau Named EY Entrepreneur of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 15, 2015 – <\/em>Marco, Inc.\u2019s CEO, Jeff Gau, has been named as an EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the Upper Midwest. The winners of the award were revealed at EY\u2019s black-tie gala on June 10 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Minneapolis. They were selected by an independent judging panel made up of previous award winners, leading CEOs, private capital investors and other regional business leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cEY has honored outstanding entrepreneurs for the past 29 years,\u201d said Todd Papa, EY Entrepreneur of the Year Program Director for the Upper Midwest. \u201cThese winners are accomplished leaders who have contributed a tremendous amount to their communities, and we\u2019re proud to recognize their successes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gau joined Marco as a sales representative in 1984 and held various management positions before he became president in 2003 and CEO in 2007. In 2004, Marco was a $34 million company with 198 employees and seven locations in Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota. Under Gau\u2019s leadership, Marco has grown to a $200 million company with 900 employees at 42 locations nationally. Marco donates up to five percent of its profits to the communities they serve and pays employees to lead key volunteer efforts in the community.<\/p>\n

The EY Upper Midwest program includes companies based in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Collectively, this year\u2019s finalists generated more than $2.1 billion in revenue and provided over 7,000 jobs by the end of 2014.<\/p>\n

For more information about the EY Entrepreneur of the Year winners, visit http:\/\/www.ey.com\/US\/en\/About-us\/Entrepreneurship\/Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year\/UM_article_winners_NoVideo<\/p>\n

\u00a0About Marco<\/em>
\nMarco was founded in 1973 and serves customers nationally with offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Marco specializes in business IT services, hosted\/cloud services, managed services, telecom carrier consulting services, copiers\/printers, phone systems, document management and audio\/video systems. Learn more at marconet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 15, 2015 – Marco, Inc.\u2019s CEO, Jeff Gau, has been named as an EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the Upper Midwest. The winners of the award were revealed at EY\u2019s black-tie gala on June 10 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Minneapolis. They were selected by an independent judging panel made up of previous award winners, leading CEOs, private capital investors and other regional business leaders. \u201cEY has honored outstanding entrepreneurs for the past 29 years,\u201d said Todd Papa, EY Entrepreneur of the Year Program Director for the Upper Midwest. \u201cThese winners are accomplished leaders who have contributed a tremendous amount to their communities, and we\u2019re proud to recognize their successes.\u201d Gau joined Marco as a sales representative in 1984 and held various management positions before he became president in 2003 and CEO in 2007. In 2004, Marco was a $34 million company with 198 employees and seven locations in Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota. Under Gau\u2019s leadership, Marco has grown to a $200 million company with 900 employees at 42 locations nationally. Marco donates up to five percent of its profits to the communities they serve and pays employees to lead key volunteer efforts in the community. The EY Upper Midwest program includes companies based in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Collectively, this year\u2019s finalists generated more than $2.1 billion in revenue and provided over 7,000 jobs by the end of 2014. For more information about the EY Entrepreneur of the Year winners, visit http:\/\/www.ey.com\/US\/en\/About-us\/Entrepreneurship\/Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year\/UM_article_winners_NoVideo \u00a0About Marco Marco was founded in 1973 and serves customers nationally with offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Marco specializes in business IT services, hosted\/cloud services, managed services, telecom carrier consulting services, copiers\/printers, phone systems, document management and audio\/video systems. Learn more at marconet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13237,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}