Chatham Financial’s CEO Wins Entrepreneur Of The Year Award

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Michael Bontrager accepting the Entreprenuer of the Year award from Ernst and Young. --via DLN

062315.Chantham.The leading entrepreneur behind Chatham Financial has been quietly innovating for more than 20 years, but now the global risk management enterprise is no longer one of Kennett Square’s best-kept secrets.

Chatham Financial Founder, Chairman and CEO Michael Bontrager has just been named a Philadelphia region Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner.

“It’s called the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, but it should be the team of the year award,” Bontrager said in a Daily Local News report. “No one builds these things by themselves.”

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That’s backed by a longstanding trend among EY honorees, the article noted. Successful entrepreneurs possess strong support from family, a pioneering vision and drive, key leadership abilities and unwavering perseverance.

“Entrepreneurs ‘are disrupters,’ said Corinne Good, partner and EY Entrepreneur of the Year Greater Philadelphia director. ‘They look at risk and turn it into opportunity.’”

Since 1991, Chatham has offered financial risk management technology and advice for clients in commercial real estate, private equity, financial institutions and Fortune 1,000 corporations, though it had preferred to stay under the radar for much of that time.

That has all changed now.

“Today, over 20 years since its inception, Michael’s trusted service and unbiased expertise has built Chatham into a global company,” Ernst & Young stated in the article.

Bontrager and Chatham Financial will now be considered for the national EY Entrepreneur of the Year honor.

“It’s an unbelievably great story,” he said.

Read more about the award winners and the national award gala in November in the Daily Local News here.

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