2006 New Venture Challenge Competition Winners

First Place: Mike Ianelli and his teammates Dev Malik, Angelique Lower and Donald Simmons won first place with their plan for a BOC Group venture that has patented a process to eliminate trans-fats, lower saturated fats and reduce costs for the baking industry .

Second place: EMBA students Solomon Melesse, Willy Pegues, Chung-Mai Tseng, and Stanley Beatty and IPO sCOMM, Inc.,  for its device to improve communication between the deaf and hearing.

Third place: MBA students Mike Zimmerman, Guy Fish, Kevin Zeller, Daniel Dasani, and Mike Wilson and IPO Hallmark for their solution to increasing traffic and sales for Hallmark’s Gold Crown Stores.  

Fourth place: E.M.B.A. students Janet Kauk, Deanne Bronaugh, and Kelly Tuttle and IPO Midwest Research Institute for CheckEZ, a noninvasive device that monitors blood glucose levels for type I diabetics.

Read about the 2006 Competition