The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) has awarded Fuqua alumni Laurel Djoukeng MBA ’20 and Patrick Pierson-Prah MBA ’21, student loan assistance from the Fuqua Entrepreneurial Grants to support these alumni in their roles as founders. Djoukeng is founder and CEO of Sparc, which connects people who have similar interests and arranges live engagements […]
Romy Parzick MBA ’06 is the CEO of Vault, which helps reduce employees’ student debt via tools and services for employers. Romy’s approach to people-centered leadership was profiled in a Forbes article.
David Hailey, the founder and CEO of Countalytics, doesn’t come from the traditional background of the founder of a tech company. David’s background is in auditing and consulting, as reinforced by his nearly two decades spent working as a risk manager at EY and a General Manager at Delta Airlines in their Corporate Audit department. […]
Tim Sestrich loves to tinker and fills his time creating side projects. This has always been true, even as an undergraduate where he devoted his senior project to building and launching an apartment search website that would compete with Craigslist for the University of Pittsburgh’s student body. Tim drew inspiration from the first post-dotcom bubble […]
Wayne Cavanaugh, the founder and current CEO of Ninja Nation, had his first experience as an entrepreneur as an undergraduate at DePaul University. Along with a few friends, Cavanaugh briefly ran a valet service for local restaurants before joining the workforce in the finance and private equity industry. This mix of entrepreneurial spirit and financial […]
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) has awarded Alan Ma, Daytime MBA ’20, student loan assistance from the Fuqua Entrepreneurship Grants to support him in his role as Co-Founder and VP of Business Operations at CasTag Biosciences in Durham. CasTag Biosciences has developed a novel CRISPR gene editing technology to allow functional studies of […]
5th in our five-part special series, Fuqua Entrepreneurs’ Insights on the Road Ahead Shankar Musunuri: Leaders need to stay positive and continue to motivate your teams. Life won’t be the same for next 1-2 years. However, this pandemic will pass eventually. You need to be strong and compassionate as a leader. You have to make […]
4th in our five-part special series, Fuqua Entrepreneurs’ Insights on the Road Ahead Brian Hamilton: Now may be a good time to look to buy a business, depending on the sector. While it may be difficult to attract capital, the prices are lower due to uncertainty—that is the tradeoff. Shankar Musunuri: If you have ideas […]
3rd in our five-part special series, Fuqua Entrepreneurs’ Insights on the Road Ahead Shankar Musunuri: Many businesses are contributing to society in this crisis including manufacture of PPEs (personal protection equipment). In our Pharma Industry, if they have ability to contribute to development of new vaccines, therapeutics or diagnostics, they are jumping in to contribute […]
2nd in our five-part special series, Fuqua Entrepreneurs’ Insights on the Road Ahead Working from home… Shankar Musunuri: Most businesses moved to virtual meetings instead of face-face and they are functioning fine. Once restrictions are lifted, this will result in reduced travel budgets and airlines will continue to struggle for a while. Employers may be […]