The Rochester Regional Business Plan Contest has completed its 2009 cycle. Please stay tuned for details on the 2010 contest!
The organizers of the
2009 Rochester Regional Business Plan contest
invite you to join us for the first annual
Celebration of Entrepreneurship Luncheon
Friday, May 15, 2009
12 noon – 1:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Rochester
Meet the 2009 Contest Winners!
Keynote address by
Jack Derby
President, Derby Management
and Investor, Common Angels
Tickets are $45 each or $450 for a table of ten.
Please >>register online<< or by calling HTR at 585-214-2400.
Registration & Networking: 11:30 am – noon
Luncheon and Awards: 12 noon – 1:30 pm
You are also invited to join us from 9:00am – 11:00am
in the Hyatt Regency Ballroom to listen to the
five Business Plan Contest Finalists give their presentations
to the blue ribbon judging panel.
Admission is free, but registration is required at info(at)htr.org or 585-214-2400.
Celebrate our region’s creative thinkers
and the next generation of entrepreneurs!
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER, JACK DERBY
Prior to forming Derby Management in 1990, Jack Derby’s background included positions as CEO of Mayer Electronics Corporation, President of CB Sports, President of Litton Industries Medical Systems, CEO of Datamedix Corporation and President of Becton Dickinson Medical Systems.
Jack has been named to Mass High Tech’s All Star Team. He is often quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and has published articles and editorials in The Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech. He is frequent speaker at numerous business organizations including the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Small Business Association of New England, the Harvard Business School, and the WPI Venture Forum. He is also a guest lecturer at MIT where he teaches classes in business planning and marketing for undergraduate students in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Jack also lectures in entrepreneurship at Green Mountain College and is an adjunct professor at Tufts University’s School of Engineering where he teaches a course in Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing.
Jack is extremely active in the New England entrepreneurial and venture capital communities. He is currently or has been an active board member in twenty companies including fourteen companies that he has either co-founded or restructured. He was instrumental in restructuring the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum where he has held the position of Chairman of the Forum. Additionally, he has been the Vice Chair of the Smaller Business Association of New England. In 2004, Jack was the recipient of the Smaller Business Association of New England’s “Pro Bono Publico Award” for his significant contributions to the entrepreneurial community. Jack has also been a Director of MIT’s Technology Capital Network, and the President of the University Club of Boston. Currently, he is Chairman of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) of Boston, and a Director of the ACG International Board, a Director Emeritus of The Associated Industries of Massachusetts, and currently a Director at Accounting Management Solutions, Beacon Hospice, Brainshark Corporation, Hybricon Corporation, Rome Snowboards and Ntirety Inc
First Place
Generonix
Second Place
MicroGen Systems
Third Place
Clinical Insight
Contest Finalists
Clinical Insight
Generonix
MicroGen Systems
SweetWater Ethanol
Tenrehte Technologies
Contest Semi-Finalists
Clinical Insight
Generonix
International Data Preservation
MicroGen Systems
Seamless Communications Group
Spectralsight
SweetWater Ethanol
Tenrehte Technologies
Contest Participants
AdStratus
American Pharmaceutical Network
Betta Book Publishing
Calendars & Conflicts
Carpen Cos
CellularMD
Clinical Insight
Environmental Energy Technologies
Epiphergy
Fanatic Inks
FloodWatch
Generonix
Image Science Associates
International Data Preservation
Jijuu
Mag-Energy AEV
Medical Health Supply
MicroGen Systems
Orpanc Inc
PhotoLounge
PolitAgora
Preserving The Past
Process Parameter Design Tech.
Seamless Communications Group
Spectralsight
Startec Media
Startup
SweetWater Ethanol
Tau Cygnus
Tenrehte Technologies
Upstate Renewable Diesel
WebHome USA
What You Need Enterprises
WOODCPA*PLUS
Contest Organizers
Digital Rochester
Greater Rochester Enterprise
High Tech Rochester
Nazareth College
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Simon School
Gold Sponsors
Maggie Brooks, County Executive
Nixon, Peabody
Silver Sponsor
EFP Group
Bronze Sponsors
Boylan Brown
Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti
IP.com
Mengel Metzger Barr
Odyssey Software
XLI Corporation
Media Sponsor
Rochester Business Journal
Design Sponsor
Dixon Schwabl
Print Sponsor
ColorCentric
Other Sponsors
Entre Computer Services
NYSTAR
Rochester Angel Network
Trillium Group
TW Telecom
Visron Design
