EY US announces John Prince and Tim Hentschel the Founders and CEOs of Hotelplanner as Entrepreneurs Of The Year® 2025 Florida Award winner

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Tim Hentschel and John Prince, the Founders and CEOs of Hotelplanner were named an Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Florida Award winner. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the preeminent competitive awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies. For 40 years, EY US has celebrated ambitious entrepreneurs who are transforming industries, impacting communities and creating long-term value.

John and Tim were chosen by an independent panel of past winners, top CEOs and business leaders. Judges assessed candidates on long-term value creation, entrepreneurial spirit, purpose-driven commitment and significant growth and impact.

“It is an honor to have our work and our team recognized,” said John Prince. “We were running alongside some great entrepreneurs but I believe that the exceptional growth we have achieved over the last few years alongside creating the world’s first end to end AI hotel booking agent all whilst having one of the world's highest earnings per employee helped us through.”

As a Florida award winner, John and Tim are now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 National Awards. The National Award winners, including the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced in November at the Strategic Growth Forum^®, one of the nation’s most prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies. The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will then move on to compete for the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Award in June 2026.

Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes many different types of business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit. The program celebrates original founders who bootstrapped their business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow their company; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy business model to strengthen it for the future.

The Entrepreneur Of The Year program has recognized the leadership of entrepreneurs such as:

Sheila Mikhail of AskBio
Caryn Seidman Becker and Ken Cornick of CLEAR
James Park of Fitbit
Arthur Blank of The Home Depot
Kendra Scott of Kendra Scott LLC
Reed Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn
Saiju Jeong of Noom
Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee Company
Jodi Berg of Vitamix
Michael Happe of Winnebago Industries
Eric Yuan of Zoom

Sponsors

Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards include presenting sponsors PNC Bank, Cresa, LLC, Marsh USA, and SAP.

About Entrepreneur Of The Year

Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year has celebrated more than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful, dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly 60 countries globally.

The US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of independent judges select the regional award winners every June. Those winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic Growth Forum^® in November where National finalists and award winners are announced. The overall National winner represents the US at the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ competition. Visit ey.com/us/eoy.

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About Hotelplanner

HotelPlanner is a leading travel technology company and hotel booking platform that combines proprietary artificial intelligence, and a 24/7 global gig-based reservations and customer service network. HotelPlanner is one of the world’s leading providers of individual, group and corporate travel bookings. Founded in 2003, HotelPlanner has enduring partnerships with the world’s largest online travel agencies, well-known global hotel chains, individual hotels, online wedding providers, ancillary lodging providers, corporations, sporting organizations from youth to professional, universities, and government agencies. HotelPlanner’s family of brands includes its flagship site HotelPlanner.com, its meetings & events-focused sites Meetings.com; EventConnect.com; and Venuexplorer.com; Lucid Travel, which focuses on sports team travel; and its most recent acquisition Eventsquid, which focuses on corporate and association event registration. Learn more at https://hotelplanner.com/.

Tim Gunstone
Hotelplanner
Tel: +44 7815814314
Email:tim.gunstone@hotelplanner.com

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