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Dear Paul Merage School of Business colleagues and friends:
On Friday, April 27, the Final Presentations and Awards Ceremony for the 2012 Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of Business was held at the UC Irvine Student Center. During the finals, 14 Campus-Wide and 6 Life Science semi-finalist teams competed for over $70,000 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 2012 Business Plan Competition. Please join me in congratulating our winners (names in bold type denote Merage students):
1st Place, Campus Wide Division, $15,000 and $3,600 in kind from Tech Portal Calit2
Face2Face
Lisa Clibourn
Marissa Green
Nima Alipour
Christopher Viveiros
Angelo Oddo
Alex Danilychev
Jennifer Green
Coach: Alvin Viray
Face2Face
From left to right: Charlie Baecker, Lisa Clibourn, Jennifer Green, Alvin Viray, Rick So
2nd Place, Campus Wide Division, $7,500
Syndesis
Omid Akbari
Murtaza Masood
Raymond Raven
Coach: Ralph Stern
Syndesis
3rd Place, Campus Wide Division, $2,500
BlueVortex
Sascha Calkins
Rick Bautista
Amy Min
Coach: Paul Donahue
BlueVortex
Best Concept Paper, Campus Wide Division
Deco4Life
Rachel Chen
Elsa Huang
Bryan Wang
Neil Gershgorn
Eric Meeks
Coach: Susan Ellis
Deco4Life
1st Place, Life Science Division, $15,000 and $6,000 in kind from Tech Portal Orange
Archon Medical Technologies
Summer Ko
Derek Wong
Sohail Zahid
Daniel Peng
Stephen Van Kooten
Leslie Myint
Ang Andy Tu
Anvesh Annadanam
Luis Herrera
Haley Huang
Coach: Judy Stechert
Archon Medical Technologies
From left to right: Charlie Baecker, Rick So
2nd Place, Life Science Division, $7,500
Impetro Technologies
Farhad Daghighian
Max Akhterov
Venu Gundeti
Tameem Anwar
Ariel Beroukhim
Suraj Sumpath
Raj Parikh
Coach: Mike Mesenbrink
Impetro Technologies
3rd Place, Life Science Division, $2,500
CircuSonic Therapeutics
Parham Zarrini
Kevin Rooney
Jiawen Li
Arthur Che
Coach: Gary Sanders
CircuSonic Therapeutics
Best Concept Paper, Life Science Division
ValveStrong
S. Hamed Alavi
Yoon Kyung Kim
Ryan Mahoney
Coach: Stanton Rowe
ValveStrong
Vator.tv People’s Choice Award, $1,500
CrowdScholar
Darren Barone
James Peng
Daniel Yang
Coach: Kirsten Mangers
CrowdScholar
1st Place, Undergraduate Division, $2,500
SteamFair
Sundeep Gambhir
Shridhar Gupta
Oliver Moravcevic
Coach: Douglas Pennington
SteamFair
2nd Place, Undergraduate Division, $1,500
Spawnd
Rohan Venapusala
Ryan Reyes
Bellal Labanieh
Naren Sathiya
John Unyshek
Coach: Ash Kumar
Spawnd
3rd Place, Undergraduate Division, $1,000
CrowdScholar
Darren Barone
James Peng
Daniel Yang
Coach: Kirsten Mangers
CrowdScholar
Best Concept Paper, Undergraduate Division
SteamFair
Sundeep Gambhir
Shridhar Gupta
Oliver Moravcevic
Coach: Douglas Pennington
SteamFair
Fort Ashford InfoTech Innovation Award, $2,500
IMPower
Jennifer Tsau
Jonard Talamayan
Rena Yang
Sean Burke
Sumeet Rao
Maria S. Isidore
Coach: Demetri Andrikos
IMpower
UCI Environment Institute Clean Tech Award, $7,500
BlueVortex
Sascha Calkins
Rick Bautista
Amy Min
Coach: Paul Donahue
BlueVortex
Legal Venture Counsel, Inc. Award, $5,000 in kind
Spawnd
Rohan Venapusala
Ryan Reyes
Bellal Labanieh
Naren Sathiya
John Unyshek
Coach: Ash Kumar
Spawnd
California Dreamin’ Competition Award
Archon Medical Technologies
Summer Ko
Derek Wong
Sohail Zahid
Daniel Peng
Stephen Van Kooten
Leslie Myint
Ang Andy Tu
Anvesh Annadanam
Luis Herrera
Haley Huang
Coach: Judy Stechert
Archon Medical Technologies
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