Kirk A. Benson, Chairman and CEO of Headwaters Incorporated, Has Been Named Entrepreneur of the Year by Mountain West Capital Network.

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah -- Headwaters Incorporated (NYSE:HW) announced today that Kirk A. Benson, Chairman and CEO of Headwaters Incorporated, was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Mountain West Capital Network. He will be the keynote speaker at a luncheon being held today in his honor at The Little America Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City.

In April of 1999 when Mr. Benson became CEO of Headwaters, the Company was a struggling synthetic fuels operation employing roughly 70 people, with more than $28 million in debt and only $6.7 million in revenue. At the end of the Company's…