- Awards Gala co-located with Frost & Sullivan's Growth, Innovation & Leadership (GIL): Silicon Valley Event

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Sept. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan honored recipients of its 2014 Growth, Innovation & Leadership Awards at a dinner gala held Tuesday, September 16, in San Jose, Calif., at The Fairmont San Jose. The Awards gala was preceded by a 60-minute CEO Leadership Roundtable. During the session, chief executives from selected companies discussed the most pressing issues facing their companies and industries today.

The Growth, Innovation & Leadership Awards are presented each year to companies that are predicted to encourage significant growth in their industries, have identified emerging trends before they became the standard in the marketplace, and have created advanced technologies that will catalyze and transform industries in the near future.

Awarded companies included:

Accedian Networks Inc. - 2014 Global Small Cells Deployment Acceleration and Assurance Customer Value Leadership Award

Advantech Wireless - 2014 North American Gallium Nitride-Based Devices New Product Innovation Leadership Award

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) - 2014 Asia-Pacific Policy and Program Implementation Excellence Economic Development Innovation Award

Asurion - 2014 North American Retail Product Protection Product Leadership Award

Bit Stew Systems - 2014 North American Service Solution for Utilities Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award

Blakell Europlacer - 2014 Global Flexible SMT Placement Equipment Company of the Year Award

Connectloud - 2014 North American Cloud Management Platforms New Product Innovation Leadership Award

Cummins Inc. - 2014 United States Overall Best Heavy-Duty Truck Engines Product Leadership Award

Eltek - 2014 Global DC Power Systems Growth Excellence Leadership Award

          2014 Global Hybrid Power Systems Customer Value Leadership Award

Enterprise Ireland - 2014 European and Central Asia Policy and Program Implementation Excellence Economic Development Innovation Award

Entex Technologies - 2014 North American Water and Wastewater Treatment Product Line Strategy Leadership Award

Frankly Chat - 2014 North American Mobile Applications Early Stage Investment Opportunity Award

FreeWave Technologies - 2014 North American Unified Industrial Wireless Platform New Product Innovation Leadership Award

Gamma Medica - 2014 Global Breast Imaging Systems Product Leadership Award

HERE, a Nokia Company - 2014 North American Automotive Connected Services Technology Innovation Leadership Award

Intel Corporation - 2014 Global Smart-City Infrastructure Emerging Market Innovation Award

Interstate Batteries, Inc. - 2014 U.S. Automotive Technicians' Choice Award: Overall Best Brand of Batteries

Invest Lithuania - 2014 European and Central Asia Visionary Leadership Economic Development Innovation Award

Ministry of ICT, Colombia - 2014 Global Visionary Innovation Leadership Award

Moxa Inc. - 2014 Global Industrial Communication Solutions Customer Value Leadership Award

NIKSUN, Inc. - 2014 Global Network Performance Monitoring and Cyber Security Customer Value Leadership Award

Novian Health Inc. - 2014 North American Early Stage Breast Tumor Treatment Device Technology Innovation Leadership Award

Oracle Managed Cloud Services - 2014 North American Managed Cloud Customer Value Leadership Award

Plantronics - 2014 Global Contact Center and Office Headset Market Share Leadership Award

Proexport Colombia - 2014 North American and Latin American Visionary Leadership Economic Development Innovation Award

Project Loon - 2014 Global Digital Transformation Emerging Market Innovation Award

ProMéxico - 2014 North American and Latin American Visionary Leadership Economic Development Innovation Award

RingCentral - 2014 North American Hosted IP Telephony and UCC Services Market Leadership Award

Siemens Healthcare - 2014 North American Magnetic Resonance Imaging Product Leadership Award

Spindle, Inc. - 2014 United States Mobile Payments Customer Value Leadership Award

Sprinklr, Inc. - 2014 North American Big Data & Analytics New Product Innovation Leadership Award

The Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Investment Support and Promotion Agency (ISPAT) - 2014 European and Central Asia Visionary Leadership Economic Development Innovation Award

Validic - 2014 Global Healthcare Information Interoperability Customer Value Leadership Award

Veryx Technologies - 2014 Global Carrier Ethernet Testing Customer Value Leadership Award

Vitro Biopharma - 2014 North American Stem Cell Tools and Technologies Industry Technology Innovation Leadership Award

ViZn Energy Systems - 2014 North American Energy Storage Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award

Zebra Technologies Corporation - 2014 Global Enterprise Asset Tracking Competitive Strategy Innovation & Leadership Award

Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices.

For further information about the Awards gala, please contact a member of the Best Practices Team.

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