On Friday, May 20, the Final Presentations and Awards Ceremony for the 2011 Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of Business was held at the UC Irvine Student Center. During the finals, 15 semi-finalist teams competed for $36,000 in awards.
As a result of the judging of each team’s business plan and investment presentation, the Competition Judges selected the following teams as the winners of the 2011 Business Plan Competition. Please join me in congratulating our winners (names in bold type denote Merage students):
1st Place, Overall Competition, $15,000
CritWalls
Johnny Liao
Tina Lodovico
Josh Wu
Tao Zhang
Coach: Demetri Andrikos
critwalls.com
From left to right: Charlie Baecker, Tina Lodovico, Josh Wu, Johnny Liao, Tao Zhang, Bruce Feuchter, Rageev Tyagi
2nd Place, Overall Competition, $7,500
Food N’ Me
Kelly Johnston
Wajdie Ahmad
Frederic De Wulf
Marta De Wulf
Coach: Sam Wu and Ted Hsieh
foodnme.com
3rd Place, Overall Competition, $2,500
KeenCAT
Arlene Doria
Melinda Simon
Nick Martin
Crystal Rapier
Kelly Chen
Coach: Don Beall
KeenCAT Technologies
4th Place, Overall Competition, $1,000
Pinnacle Therapeutics
Lawrence Kim
Steven Chan
Khoa Tu
Mohammed Elayan
Ed Wu
Cyrus Manuel
Allen Foulad
Coach: Ray Cohen
Pinnacle Therapeutics
Best Concept Paper, Graduate Division
STACKED Wines
Matthew Zimmer
Jodi Wynn
Douglas Allan
Jennifer Aronson
Michael Kajdasz
Howard Lee
Coach: Doug Pennington
stackedwines.com
Vator.tv People’s Choice Award, $1,500
Pinnacle Therapeutics
Lawrence Kim
Steven Chan
Khoa Tu
Mohammed Elayan
Ed Wu
Cyrus Manuel
Allen Foulad
Coach: Ray Cohen
Pinnacle Therapeutics
1st Place, Undergraduate Division, $2,500
Spawnd
John Junyszek
Naren Sathiyamoorthy
Rohan Venapusala
Ryan Reyes
Henry Bradlow
Coach: Ash Kumar
spawnd.com
2nd Place, Undergraduate Division, $1,500
SphereView
Jimmy Chieh Ming Hsu
Karen Zhou
Sepehr Tehrani
Coach: Chuck Krumm and Ismail Eldumiati
SphereView
Best Concept Paper, Undergraduate Division
Spawnd
John Junyszek
Naren Sathiyamoorthy
Rohan Venapusala
Ryan Reyes
Henry Bradlow
Coach: Ash Kumar
spawnd.com
Prosperitas Ideas to Action Award, $2,000
Pleiades
Peyton Paulick
Nizan Friedman
David Bardin
Tim Kooyers
Coach: Sanjay Dalal
Pleiades
2011 Kick-Off Photos
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