Summary of the 2005 University of Cincinnati Spirit of Enterprise
Business Plan Competition
The inaugural competition was held on
Thursday, February 24th and Friday, February 25th 2005 at the Cincom Systems, Inc.
Headquarters. Teams in attendance included Carnegie Mellon University,
Indiana University, the University of Arizona, the University of Cincinnati, the
University of Georgia, the University of Louisville, the University of Oregon,
and Xavier University.
The quality presentations were judged by a
panoply of area entrepreneurs, business leaders and venture capitalists and
the event was made possible by the following gracious sponsors:
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Best Technology Plan |
Taxi/Limo Competition |
Platinum Level |
Bronze Level |
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Fort
Washinton Capital Partners |
Blue Chip Venture
Capital |
CINCOM |
KeyBank |
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Event Level |
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Blue Chip Venture Company
Fort Washington Capital Partners
LLC
River Cities Capital Fund
Queen City Angels First Fund
Greater Cincinnati Venture
Association
Executive Transportation, Inc.
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Awards were presented on the final day
at the Awards Banquet. The list of awards and recipients are as follows: |
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Specialty
Round Awards |
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Presentation of
Best Technology Award $1,000
(Sponsored by Fort
Washington Partners Capital Group)
Christopher Baucom,
CFA
Fort Washington
Capital Partners Group
The Winner:
University of Oregon
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Don Upson
Team Members: Mason
Adair, Jed Cahill, Jon Hofmeister, Clayton Jones, Lars Juel
Business Plan:
Perpetua
Concept Focus:
Energy Harvesting Technology
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Presentation of
Taxi/Limo Round Award $1,000
(Sponsored by Blue
Chip Venture Company)
Tony Shipley
Chairman, Queen
City Angels
The Winner:
University of Louisville
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Van G.H. Clouse
Team Members: John
Anderson, Anthony Appling, Jason Case, Sean Rice
Business Plan:
Energy Innovations
Concept Focus:
Energy Measurement Technology
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Championship
Round Awards |
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2nd Runner-Up
Queen City Angels First Fund Award $2,000
(Sponsored by the
Queen City Angels First Fund)
Tony Shipley
Chairman, Queen
City Angels
The Winner:
Carnegie Mellon University
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Thomas Hajduk
Team Members: Min
Kim, Bee-Bee Liew
Business Plan:
AccuMEM
Concept Focus:
Laboratory Technology
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1st Runner-Up
KeyBank Award $5,000
(Sponsored by
KeyBank)
Steve Emerson,
President, Cincinnati District
KeyBank
Mike Magazine, Dean
College of
Business, University of Cincinnati
The Winner:
University of Cincinnati
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Charles H. Matthews
Team Members: Brett
Smith, Bhaskar Narayan
Business Plan:
Pizzeria Fresco
Concept Focus: Food
Industry
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Cincom Systems
Spirit of Enterprise Champion Award $10,000
(Sponsored by
Cincom Systems, Inc.)
Thomas M. Nies
Founder, President
& CEO, Cincom Systems, Inc.
The Winner:
University of Oregon
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Don Upson
Team Members: Mason
Adair, Jed Cahill, Jon Hofmeister, Clayton Jones, Lars Juel
Business Plan:
Perpetua
Concept Focus:
Energy Harvesting Technology
The Champion also
received an automatic bid to the MOOT Corp Business Plan Competition and was
treated to a limo ride at the end of the competition to celebrate their success.
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