The 2013 JCI IOBA Creative Young Entrepreneur Award (CYEA).

• CYEA recognizes, honors and celebrates exceptional young entrepreneurs, between the age of 18 and 40, and the role of creativity in their success.

• With tears of joy and happiness Tatiana Saturnino-Felix of Tera Percussions took home the first place of the Creative Young Entrepreneur Award 2013.

• Celebrating now their first lustrum organizing this Award Ceremony, guided by an awesome team of young professionals, this year – Roushaira Alexander took the command. And by the reactions and expectations of the public we can say this was one of the best organized. Each year it gets better, in 2010, Gwendell ‘WENSHOW’ Mercelina Jr. was the Project Leader than followed by Nathalie Cannegieter in 2011, and last year 2012 by Milagros Rodriguez.

• The winner of CYEA was awarded during an awards ceremony night, where Banco di Caribe handed out the grand prize of NAF 10.000 to the absolute winner. This closing event took place at Kura Hulanda on June 6th, 2013.

• With a total of eleven finalists, after Tera Percussions taking home the big prize, the second place was Renato Ignacio of Minubia and the third place went to Tiffany Cristina of Arko-Iris Kinderdagverblijf & Rainbow Unique.

Past CYEA Winners:

· The first winner in 2009 was media professional Ruvette Dirksz who founded GRATE Group, with over 15 years experience in Public Relations and broadcasting business ‘on air’ and ‘off air.

· In 2010, Eugene Maduro took the prize with Living Green Furniture, which offers stylish and robust furniture for the home and office at a very low price.
· Ecoversum of Dennis Anthony won in 2011, EcoVersum stands for Ecological change. EcoVersum specializes in products that help you not only to reduce your carbon footprint and adopt a greener lifestyle but also to save money while doing it.

· Last year 2012, Timo Brouwer’s Green Force won. Green Force is an environmental and recycling company. The focus is on the environment and all related to it. Waste being a continuous ongoing problem created by our irresponsible consumption society, Green Force is dedicated to set up recycling systems at consumer and industrial level in order to tackle this problem.