We’re thrilled to share that during an awards gala this week in Atlanta, Ernst & Young named Colonial CEO Melanie Little as an Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southeast Region.

The prestigious award honors visionary leaders of companies demonstrating high growth through innovation and transformation – a description perfectly fitting Colonial. As Melanie noted in accepting the award, this honor recognizes the work being done by more than 1,100 OneColonial employees to safely execute on our mission each day and the collective leadership setting the strategy to meet her mission.

“We’re on an exciting journey of transformation and growth,” Melanie said. “It takes all of our team members at Colonial to make this possible, to execute on our mission of safely and reliably serving more than 50 million Americans for generations to come.”

See EY’s news release on the awards here.

Melanie now moves on to consideration for EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year National Awards, which will be presented in November.