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IEI Concludes 2009 Entrepreneurship Fireside Chats: Successful Entrepreneurs Inspire Students Through Small Group, Free-Flow Dialog

Temple's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute recently concluded seven sessions of small group, interactive dialog with prominent entrepreneurs -- a new program for the organization. The "fireside chats" featured highly successful entrepreneurs engaging in passionate, informative conversations with small groups (25 - 35) of students on a wide range of topics.

Entrepreneurs featured included:

  • Nick Bayer - President and CEO of Saxby's Worldwide Coffee. A cross between old world "Mom and Pop" cofee houses and Starbucks, Saxby's is led by a 30-year old entrepreneur with plans to grow his business from 50 to 100 stores in 2009 via a franchising model. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Ned Moore - Co-Founder and CEO, Portico Systems. Portico System's innovative soltuions enable health plans to reduce administrative, medical and IT costs, and is a six-time "Philly 100" awardee for end-over-end growth. Moore was named Tech CEO of the Year at the 2009 Enterprise Awards (Eastern Technology Council). BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Donald McNeill - Founder and Chairman, McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds. "You've Been Sentenced", a board game for entertainment or educational use, has received multiple awards in the game business and is poised to become the next Cranium. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Jane Hoffer - Former President and CEO, Prescient Applied Intelligence (NASDAQ:PPID) Ms. Hoffer lead the evolution of the company into a premier provider and innovator of retailer-centric planning and collaboration solutions for the consumer products market, and guided the firm through a merger with viaLink, a provider of demand visibility and scan-based trading soltions to the retail supply chain. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Richard Bendis - President and CEO, Bendis Investment Group; Founder and Former CEO, Innovation Philadelphia. Benis served as Chairman, President and CEO of True Product ID, Inc., a global publicly traded anti-counterfeiting technology company (NASDAQ:TPID) headquartered in Philadelphia which he relocated to Beijing, China. Bendis also founded Innovation Philadelphia (IP), a public/private partnership dedicated to growing wealth and workforce in the region. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Brett Kingstone - Founded and Former CEO, Super Vision. Kinstone founded a fiber optics company in college which later because Super Vision, producing numerous fiber optic and LED lighting landmarks wordwide for Coca Cold, Pepsi, Universal Studios and Walt Disney. Super Vision has been honored as one of the Top 500 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the U.S. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Irwin Gross - Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, Premium Asset Management. Over the course of his career, Gross, a Temple alum, has been involved with founding, turning around, acquiring or building dozens of businesses, including International Mobile Machines, a pioneer in wireless communications. Now known as Interdigital Corporation, the firm has a market capitalization exceeding $1 billion. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.

 

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