Innovation Excellence Award 2025
We are living in a time where a torrent of brilliant ideas bursts forth every second, some blossoming into reality, while others fade before they ever take shape, missing their chance to spark innovation or elevate the standards of global business.
Most companies competing in the global economy recognize the importance of innovation as a key driver of competitiveness, despite the challenges associated with its conceptualization and implementation. And, excellence encompasses the dimensions of quantity, quality, and speed of introducing innovations.
Despite the widespread acceptance of innovation’s significance by company leadership, many argue about the dissatisfaction concerning the results drawn from innovation investments. To overcome innovation challenges effectively and attain excellence, company leadership must embrace sound innovation management principles for success.
In this edition of The CEO Views, we recognize companies that have set themselves apart through outstanding innovation. Join us as we highlight the winners of the 2025 Innovation Excellence Award.
Company
Management
Brief
Miriam Schnyder,
Founder, Owner, & MD
Art X on Glass is a vision that individualizes spaces by excelling in glass painting. With its personalized painting, design products, and artworks, it awakens emotions, tells stories, and transforms spaces.
Christopher Hopper,
Co-Founder
With a vision to create a future of solar for all, Aurora Solar designed a PV system that can be installed easily. Its solar platforms transform the process of designing, selling, and delivering solar projects.
Susan Farquhar,
CEO
Calla Property helps clients grow wealth through tailored residential property investment strategies. It delivers a seamless, research-driven experience in transforming residential properties into a sustainable wealth-building tool.
Alex Tew & Michael Acton Smith,
Founders
Calm is a mental health software company whose top-rated app helps people drift into restful sleep, ease their worries, and embrace mindful living. With more than 180 million downloads and three million five-star reviews, Calm is making mental health support accessible to everyone.
Dr. David Bearss,
President
Halia Therapeutics excels in achieving genetic resilience with clinical biotechnology. With its proprietary resilience-mapping platform, GENMOR-AI™, the company has transformed the domain of genomic research.
Kashish Gupta,
CEO
Hightouch builds a platform that helps enterprises leverage the most innovative technologies in AI and customer data to grow businesses. It handles the scale of the largest enterprises with intense customer data use cases.
Dave Kowert,
CEO
NVolve Technologies is committed to delivering a superior building product to the world. Its factory-built housing
solutions are engineered for durability, speed, and largescale deployment.
Dr. Kailash Katkar,
Chairman & MD
As one of India’s leading cybersecurity providers, Seqritel combines mature security research with next-gen innovation to deliver smart, adaptive, and easy protection for businesses.
Charlie Solberg,
CEO
Solberg pioneers in filtration and silencing solutions by expressing innovation through product development and
customer service. From blowers to gas turbines, it offers a wide range of solutions.
Jose Hamilton,
CEO & Co-Founder
Psychiatrist Jose Hamilton, M.D., founded Youper with a vision to deliver a system where anyone could receive evidence-based care in real-time. It blends artificial intelligence, psychology, and compassionate design to deliver mental health support