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Meet Our Icon Award Winners

ICON Award Winners

2025

  • Martha Sheridan

    President and CEO, Meet Boston 

2024

  • Padma Lakshmi

    ICON Award Winner 2024, NYT best-selling Author, Host and Executive Producer, “Taste the Nation” and “Top Chef”

2023

  • Niki Leondakis

    2023 ICON Award Winner,
    Chief Executive Officer, CorePower Yoga

2022

  • Nathan Blecharczyk; 2022 3rd ICON Award Winner
    Nathan Blecharczyk

    2022 ICON Award Winner,
    Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Airbnb

  • Brian Chesky; 2022 3rd Icon Award Winner
    Brian Chesky

    2022 ICON Award Winner,
    Co-Founder & CEO, Airbnb

  • Joe Gebbia; 2022 3rd ICON Award Winner
    Joe Gebbia

    2022 ICON Award Winner,
    Co-Founder & Chairman of Airbnb.org, Airbnb

2021

  • Danny Meyer, BU SHA's 2nd Icon Award Winner 2021
    Danny Meyer

    2021 ICON AWARD WINNER,
    Founder and CEO,
    Union Square Hospitality Group

2020

  • Richard Friedman BU SHA's first recipient of its Icon Award
    Richard Friedman

    2020 ICON AWARD WINNER,
    President and Chief Executive Officer,
    Carpenter & Company Inc.

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SHA Calendar

  • 24 Apr SHA Hiring: Meet and Greet with Anthem Group
  • 26 Apr SHA Gala
  • 28 Apr SHA Hiring: Meet and Greet with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
  • 30 Apr SHA Hiring: Meet and Greet with Boston Yacht Haven

BU Calendar

  • 23 Apr Film Screening: "Harmonium" by Tadanobu Asano
  • 23 Apr ECE PhD Prospectus Defense: Ruangrawee Kitichotkul
  • 23 Apr MSE Masters Thesis Final Presentation: Karl Valter

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