Guest Speaker: Joseph Warren
Upcoming Events:
Tonight’s Meeting Features JOSEPH WARREN
Tuesday, October 18th,
DAV130
5:00-6:00pm Official TimeWe will be meeting from 6PM until at least 9PM to help each other with our pitches.
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Guest Speaker: Anand Pallegar
Entrepreneurship Student Club Meeting: with Anand Pallegar
When: Today , March 8, 5pm – 6pm
Where: Davis 130
Free Food and Fun Provided. Bring your friends and hear this Self made Business man speak!!
Anand likes to start things. He started atLarge, Inc. in 2004 to create heavy-hitting online brand experiences. His mantra: pick the right people, give them the tools they need – get out of the way. He’s on to something. In addition to the numerous atLarge awards scored under his direction, Anand has nabbed Florida Trend’s 50 Floridians Who Will Change the World, Tampa Bay CEO Magazine “CEO of the Year” and Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Up & Comers.
Guest Speaker: Brent Britton
Brent C. J. Britton – February 8th 2011
Brent C. J. Britton is a lawyer at GrayRobinson in Tampa, where he is the partner in charge of the Emerging Business and Technology Group. Britton specializes in structuring, negotiating, and drafting complex transactions in technology, intellectual property, and media. Britton helps innovators, inventors, and entrepreneurs in art, science, and technology start and run their companies.
A former software engineer who has been on the Internet since before it was called the Internet, Britton is the only attorney who holds a graduate degree from the MIT Media Lab, and he was the first lawyer to volunteer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He sits on the Boards of Directors of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum and the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry. Britton writes and lectures frequently on law, business, social media, and technology.
Brett gives a great presentation to the club.
Reuben Pressman Giving his Presentation
Mark Peterson & Daniel Scott
Nassim E. Shamsideen Brent C.J. Britton
Brent Spoke: Tuesday 2/7/2011
Guest Speaker: Michelle Royal
Michelle Royal
Michelle S. Royal – 1/25/2011
Michelle S. Royal is a visual thinker and business innovation consultant. She has too many art and psychology degrees, is on her 3rd career path (with the common thread of practical applications of creativity and innovation throughout), and commits 100% to whatever she finds meaningful and interesting.
Facilitator, consultant, producer and speaker, Michelle S. Royal has been developing the creative and innovation capacities within individuals and organizations for the past fifteen years. Royal specializes in the convergence of innovation, technology, visual and design thinking to mobilize transformative organizational change through accountability based leadership and collaborative driven strategies. In 2007, Royal founded and became the CEO of HDYI: How Do You Innovate?
Royal has worked with Fortune 500 companies as well as public sector organizations including, Subway Sandwiches Development Agencies, Kentucky League of Cities, Coastal Caison Construction (A Behr Subsidiary), Collaborative Labs of St. Petersburg College and the Florida Technology Journal.
Royal has worked with innovation experts from around the world, including leaders from Autodesk, XPLANE, SRI, and Enterprise Development Group. Royal was selected in 2009 as one of the lead innovation coaches in the European Union Project ECCE Innovation, representing the United Kingdom based company, Creative Industries Development Agency (CIDA). Royal was critical in developing the innovation program for CIDA and creating public and private partnerships between nine entrepreneurial creative companies, additional higher education institutions, and funding institutions to foster the growth potential of unique IP opportunities.
Royal is the Board Chair of Creative Tampa Bay, a lead faculty member of Orlando, Inc’s B.I.G.* Summit and annual program (Business Innovation and Growth), and a guest lecturer for the Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
Royal holds her Masters Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Michelle Royal and Mike Clark
Michelle Royal speaking at USFSP Entrepreneur Club
Michelle Spoke: Tuesday 1/25/2011
Guest Speaker: Dr. Gus Stavros
What: Entrepreneurship Club Meeting with Guest Speaker Dr. Gus Stavros
When: Oct 5, 2010 @ 6pm
Where: STG 110 (Dr Jackson’s classroom in the Science Tech building)
Gus A. Stavros’ Bio:
Gus A. Stavros a 1948 graduate of Columbia University, New York City. Matriculated for MBA at N.Y.U. Graduate School of Business Administration 1950-51. Received Certificate for Basic Engineering in the Army Specialized Training Program at University of Florida 1943-44. Served in the infantry, Patton’s Third Army in World War II and has three campaign ribbons-Northern France, Ardennes & Rhineland-Purple Heart & Bronze Star.
Gus arrived in Florida in 1958 to start a business forms manufacturing company in Pinellas County, FL. After 30 years as owner & CEO and building the company into the largest forms manufacturer in the southeast from 3 to 550 employees, Better Business Forms was sold in 1984 and Gus signed a five-year employment contract with Florida Progress and served as a Group Vice President until retirement in 1989.
He has served as chairman of Eckerd College, chairman of Florida State University Foundation Board of Trustees, president of the University of South Florida Foundation Board of Trustees, co-chairman of the University of South Florida Capital Campaign, chairman of the Florida Council on Economic Education, chairman of the Florida Foundation for Excellence in Education, founding chairman and chairman emeritus of the Pinellas Education Foundation, a founder, chairman and president of the Clearwater Performing Arts Center and Theater (Ruth Eckerd Hall), chairman of the Clearwater Parks and Recreation Board, president of the congregation of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Clearwater. He also served on the board of the Florida Council of 100 and GTE of Florida and various bank boards. In July, 2001, he received Governor Jeb Bush’s appointment to the new Operating Board of Trustees at the University of South Florida. In 2003 he also was named to the National Board of Junior Achievement and the Salvador Dali Museum of St. Petersburg, FL.
Gus has received many honors and awards, including: Florida Free Enterpriser of the Year 1982, Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame 1991, United Way Humanitarian Award, NCCJ Brotherhood Award, National Private Enterprise Education Award, Mr. Clearwater 1987 and Mr. Sun (St. Petersburg) 1994, Liberty Bell Award in 1987 from the Clearwater Bar and the Liberty Bell Award in 1998 from the St. Petersburg Bar. He received honorary doctorates in Humane Letters from Florida State University in 1991 and the University of South Florida in 1996 and an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from Webber International University in 2002. He received the University of South Florida Distinguished Citizen Award at the 2001 May Commencement, the Torch Award given by the Florida State University Faculty Senate in 1998, the FSU Circle of Gold Award in 1997, the University of South Florida Class of ’56 Award in 1994, the Champion of Higher Independent Education in Florida Award presented by the Presidents of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida in 1992 and the University of Tampa Ethics Award in October 2001. In May, 2002, he was named honoree by Junior Achievement of Central District of Florida. Also in May, 2002, the Stavros Family was named Family of the Year by Family Service Centers, Inc. of Tampa Bay. In 2003 he received the Service to Mankind Award (Sertoma), and he and Frances received the Ruth Eckerd Hall Marcia P. Hoffman Arts Education Award. In 2005 he received the prestigious Gold Leadership Award from JA Worldwide. The Free Enterprise and Economic Education Centers at Florida State University and the University of South Florida are named in his honor. The Gus A. Stavros Institute of Pinellas County, Florida administers Enterprise Village and Finance Park – nationally prominent programs teaching free enterprise and our economic system to 17,000 fifth graders annually and fiscal responsibility to14,000 eighth graders annually and ethics and career planning to high school students. A recent contractual agreement between JA Worldwide and the Pinellas County School Board and the Pinellas Education Foundation establishes the JA construction of Enterprise Villages and Finance Parks throughout the US and the world.