Garry and Robby Chopra of YoungLA Named EY US Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2026 Greater Los Angeles Award Winners

Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 26th, 2026, FinanceWire

Garry and Robby Chopra, founders of YoungLA, were named EY US Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 Greater Los Angeles Award winners. Garry and Robby were selected among 26 finalists competing for the title.

YoungLA is a lifestyle clothing brand headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Founded by brothers Garry and Robby Chopra in 2014 with a vision to create an affordable yet stylish and comfortable fitness brand, YoungLA began as a small business and has since grown into a globally recognized company. YoungLA designs and produces unique, high-quality apparel that customers can wear with confidence. From concept to completion, every item is crafted with a focus on quality and the customer experience.

Now in its 41st year, the Entrepreneur Of The Year program honors business leaders for their ingenuity, courage, and entrepreneurial spirit. It celebrates original founders who bootstrapped their business from inception or raised outside capital to grow their company, 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.

Regional 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, Garry and Robby will now be considered by the national judges for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 National Awards, which will be presented in November at the annual Strategic Growth Forum, where high-growth CEOs, Fortune 1000 executives and investors converge to shape the future of business. The National Overall Award winner will move on to compete for the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in May 2027.  

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

• Jason McGowan, Crumbl Cookies
• Reid Hoffman | Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Corp.
• Saeju Jeong, Noom
• Allison Ellsworth | Stephen Ellsworth, Poppi
• Jitendra Mohan | Sanjay Gajendra | Casey Morrison, Astera Labs
• Shelly Ibach, Sleep Number
• Howard Schultz, Starbucks Coffee Company
• Holly Thaggard | Amanda Baldwin, Supergoop! 
• Jodi L. Berg, Vita-Mix Corporation
• Michael Happe, Winnebago Industries
• Arthur Blank, Atlanta Falcons, The Home Depot, Georgia Force

Sponsors

Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards include presenting sponsors PNC Bank, Cresa, Marsh Risk, SAP and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In Greater Los Angeles, sponsors also include ADP, Cooley, Vaco, Big Picture, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Alston & Bird.  

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 and territories 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 national overall winner represents the US at the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year competition.

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