The Entrepreneurship Club
Events
E Club hosts special events outside of the business plan lab. These events include, but are not limited to trips (CEO), speakers, competitions, and socials.
Wally Amos
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr. is an American actor and writer from Tallahassee, Florida. He is the founder of the "Famous Amos" chocolate chip cookie brand. He later co-founded Uncle Wally's muffins. He currently resides in Kailua, Hawaii and also Long Island, New York, where he runs the Chip & Cookie gourmet cookie brand and store.
Wally will be speaking about his current work and past starting and working for Amos cookies. You can attend the lecture at
7 pm in Lender Auditorium February 8, 2010.
Ari Meisel
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
Ari Meisel is a serial entrepeneur who has started over nine companies. One of Ari’s companies is a real estate development company in Binghamton, NY which uses adaptive-reuse techniques in order to turn former buildings into new uses such as high end lofts. Ari also has a sustainable construction consulting company as well.
Ari has committed to coming up to speak on February 3rd, 2010 at 7:00 pm. This event will take place in room 003 of the Whitman School of Management. |
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The Entrepreneurship Club
Past Events
The E Club Speakers Series brings prominent entrepreneurs and business leaders from a wide variety of industries to campus for evening presentations. Speakers share their successes and failures, covering topics such as taking risks and overcoming challenges, transforming ideas into opportunities, choosing a management team, and how to keep a venture thriving.
Christie Hefner
NOVEMBER 5th, 2009
While Hugh Hefner made adult entertainment mainstream with his No. 1-selling men's magazine, it's been his daughter, Christie, 52, who has overseen the expansion of the Playboy empire beyond print. Faced with sliding sales and mounting competition, Hef's daughter made the innovative decision to steer the company onto the Internet in 1994, making it the first national magazine on the Web. Following the successful online venture, Hefner continued to build the brand, exporting it overseas and growing it at home with the creation of videogames, concept stores and plans for new entertainment venues in Las Vegas and Shanghai next year. Christie took the reins as chief executive and chairman in 1988 after 13 years in the family business, and since then she has overseen a recapitalization of the company and has watched global retail sales grow to over $500 million. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Brandeis graduate tried her hand in journalism for a year before joining the family publication.
Christie Hefner will be speaking on
November 5th, at 3:30 pm in the Lender Auditorium.
SPEAKER: DARYS ESTRELLA
OCTOBER 29, 2009
First starting her career as Vice President of Goldman Sachs, Ms. Estrella moved to "The Bolsa de Valores" or capital markets exchange of the Domincan Republic. As well as being the winner of the 2008 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, she has paved the way for many other Hispanic business women. Come hear her speak about experiences on Wall Street, networking, and founding a large financial institution.
SPEAKER: JOHNNY CUPCAKES
MARCH 23, 2009
Johnny Cupcakes is an indie clothing brand first created in 2001 as a joke. It was founded by entrepreneur Johnny Earle who started a t-shirt line using cupcakes as a prominent feature on merchandise, often replacing iconic symbols with cupcakes. Johnny came to Syracuse and encouraged students to follow through with their ideas even in the face of skeptical friends and family. The night comically ended with Johnny marching to a sorority to confront a legal issue with duplication of his cupcake trademark.
SPEAKER: BILL RANCIC
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
Bill Rancic is best known for being the first winner of the show The Apprentice hosted by entrepreneur Donald Trump. Bill spoke about his experiences on the show and other life lessons about business.
Most recently, Bill completed his second book, titled "Beyond the Lemonade Stand" which was written to help educate and motivate young people around the world about the value of money and how to leverage your skills, talents and abilities at an early age. All proceeds from the sale of this book have gone to charity.
Bill Rancic founded the successful company, Cigars Around the World twelve years ago in a 400 sq. ft. studio apartment. Today, it is a thriving multi-million dollar national operation. The son of educators, he is a true entrepreneur, who originally earned his way through college by starting a boat wash and wax business in the Chicago area.
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