Art Dodge Named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025

Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) has recognized Art Dodge, CEO and president of Ecore Int’l, as a 2025 Entrepreneur Of The Year® Greater Philadelphia Award winner. The prestigious program honors visionary business leaders who are driving innovation, fueling growth and making a lasting impact in their industries and communities. For 40 years, EY has celebrated entrepreneurs who are transforming the business landscape and creating long-term value.

Dodge was selected by an independent panel of top CEOs and business leaders including past winners. He joins a distinguished group of Greater Philadelphia business leaders recognized by EY for their entrepreneurial leadership and long-term impact.

“I am honored to receive this recognition from Ernst & Young,” said Dodge. “This award reflects the incredible work of the entire Ecore team, whose dedication to innovation, sustainability and sustained growth continues to drive our mission forward.

“We are in the business of making magic – turning trash into value in sustainable ways that keep waste out of landfills permanently,” Dodge said. “As North America’s largest converter of reclaimed scrap-tire rubber, we take pride in leading the industry with innovative upcycling processes that advance circular manufacturing and responsible resource management. At the core, we’re driven by a simple question: What if all the rubber the world will ever need has already been made?”

As a fifth-generation leader of Ecore, Dodge has transformed the company from its roots as a small, family-run cork business into a global leader in circularity and sustainable manufacturing. Founded in 1871, Ecore has built on its 150-year legacy of creativity and innovation in the service of recycling, pioneering proprietary processes that now divert more than 430 million pounds of rubber from landfills each year. As the next evolution of that journey, Ecore recently launched its TRUcircularity™ program, empowering customers and vendor partners to play a more active role in rubber recycling and resource conservation.

As a Greater Philadelphia award winner, Dodge is now a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 National Awards. The National Award winners, including the Entrepreneur of the Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced in November at the Strategic Growth Forum.^®. The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will compete for the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Award in June 2026.

Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes many different types of business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit. The program celebrates original founders who bootstrapped their business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow their companies; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy business model to strengthen it for the future.

The Entrepreneur of the Year program has recognized the leadership of entrepreneurs such as:

About Ecore:

Ecore is a transformational rubber circularity company. Built on a legacy that began in 1871, we are leading our industry’s circular economy founded on the magic of rubber – a material with a proven past and the potential to reinvent the future. Like rubber itself, we are constantly flexing and finding new challenges to solve, new performance properties to engineer and new uses for this infinitely reusable material. Headquartered in Lancaster, Pa., Ecore serves customers in more than 75 countries, designing innovative technologies and solutions for many industries, including rubber reclamation services, rubber materials, commercial and performance flooring, play surfacing, industrial components, transportation, and agricultural products. Ecore brands include Ecore Athletic, ECOsurfaces, Centaur, QT Sound Insulation, A-Turf, Surface America, SpectraTurf, Ameritread, itsTRU® Technology, and TRUcircularity. Learn more at www.ecoreintl.com.

About Entrepreneur Of The Year                                                                                                                       

Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year has celebrated more than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful, dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly 60 countries globally.The US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of independent judges select the regional award winners every June. Those winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic Growth Forum^® in November where National finalists and award winners are announced. The overall National winner represents the US at the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ competition. Visit ey.com/us/eoy.

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