New York: More than 30 Indian Americans are among the regional finalists selected for the Ernst and Young''s Entrepreneur of The Year awards for 2007.

Prominent American Indians in the list include Dipak Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Anil Sunkara, chief executive officer of AdvanSoft International. Both are from Lake area of Michigan.

Jaswinder Singh Chaddha, Francisco D''Souza, Roopa Makhija, Hiten Patel, Ranjani Posddar, Imran Shah and Karmit S. Sidhu are the seven finalists from the state of New Jersey.

Other notable regional Indian American finalists include Prashanth Boccasam, Shankar Iyer, Rahul Sharma, Bala Sundar, Yatish Mishra, Puneet Nanda, Manu Shah, Raj, Pritam M. Advani, Inderpal Guglani, Anurag Mehta, Naseem A. Munshi, Asit J. Choksi, Satin Mirchandani, Shri Thanedari, Dilip Dubey, Ravinder Sandhu, Ganesh Iyer, Gulam Khan, Sunil Hirani, Adnan Mjalli, Raman Kumar, Rohit H. Patel and Raza Bokhari.

The winners will be inducted into the Ernst and Young''s Entrepreneur of The Year Hall of Fame.