Sundar Ramayya and Sulekha Ramayya of EvolveNXT named EY US Entrepreneur Of The Year
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LOS ANGELES - Californer -- Founder and CEO Sundar Ramayya and President Sulekha Ramayya of EvolveNXT were named EY US Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2026 Greater Los Angeles Award winners.

Founded in 2011 and based in Torrance, California, EvolveNXT builds enterprise-grade software that helps insurance carriers manage distribution across Health, Life, and Property & Casualty lines. Its platform supports producer onboarding and contracting, incentive compensation, web enrollment, producer portals, and lead management, helping carriers onboard agents, keep them ready to sell, and compensate them accurately and on time. Today, carriers in all 50 states rely on EvolveNXT to run distribution across all lines of insurance business.

Sundar Ramayya co-founded EvolveNXT in 2011 and serves as Chief Executive Officer, leading the company's product direction and growth. Sulekha Ramayya, President, leads the company's operations and delivery. Under their leadership, EvolveNXT has grown from a focused idea into a platform insurance organizations depend on to bring greater efficiency, accuracy, and strategic value to a critical business function.

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"We started EvolveNXT to take on a problem most people overlook: making sure the agents who sell insurance are onboarded correctly and paid accurately, at scale," said Sundar Ramayya. "Fifteen years later, carriers in all 50 states run that work on our platform. This recognition belongs to the customers who trusted us with something that has no room for failure, and to our team of Evolvers that builds it."

"While we leverage our experience in the distribution performance management space, we are not shy about evolving our platform to continue being at the forefront of technology in the insurance sector," said Sulekha Ramayya. "This is a tremendous honor."

Learn more at https://evolvenxt.com

Now in its 41st year, the Entrepreneur Of The Year program honors business leaders for their courage and entrepreneurial spirit. The program recognizes founders, transformational CEOs, and multigenerational family business leaders who have built, expanded, or reimagined companies for long-term impact.

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Winners were chosen by an independent panel of past winners, top CEOs, and business leaders. Judges assessed candidates on long-term value creation, entrepreneurial spirit, purpose-driven commitment, and significant growth and impact.

As Greater Los Angeles award winners, Sundar Ramayya and Sulekha Ramayya will now be considered for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 National Awards, which will be presented in November at the annual Strategic Growth Forum®.

The Entrepreneur Of The Year program has recognized leaders including Jason McGowan of Crumbl Cookies, Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, Saeju Jeong of Noom, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Holly Thaggard and Amanda Baldwin of Supergoop!.