Day 15, June 12, 2009 - Nshville Chamber Presentations

Promptly upon completing their second networking event, we moved to Averbuch auditorium at 9:00 am to present to the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber was so excited about our teams’ ideas that over 20 members joined us for the judging including Janet Miller, Chief Economic Development and Marketing Officer. Once again our teams “wowed” the judges with their branding campaigns for the city. In the end however, Team 7 came away with the win. Later in the program, Team 7 will be attending a networking event at Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor’s residence, with the top 50 executives in Nashville in addition to a $100 cash prize for each participant. On Friday, June 19th, the winning team will be presenting their ideas to the Mayor of Nashville, the Honorable Karl Dean.

Presentation Winners: Team 7 took 1st place for their presentation. Members are George Boghos, Lyle Holmes, Anna Laptook, Andrew Lossing, Adair Meaden, Hewsan Pang, Alli Thompson, and Charles Welch. Teams 1 and 2 took 2nd and 3rd place for their presentations.

Research Winners: In our research phase of the competition, Team 2 took 1st place (Austin Campbell, Christina Chen, Jenny Duty, Jamie Kaplan, Stacie Pawlicki, Meaghan Rymer, Stephanos Stroop, and Jens von der Linden). Teams 5 and 8 took 2nd and 3rd place for their research.

Storyboard Winners: Within the storyboard phase of the competition, Team 7 took 1st place (George Boghos, Lyle Holmes, Anna Laptook, Andrew Lossing, Adair Meaden, Hewsan Pang, Alli Thompson, and Charles Welch). Teams 1 and 2 took 2nd and 3rd place for their storyboards.

Client Ranking Winners: Teams also compete to rank the recommendations in the same order the client firm will rank the teams. Team 5 took 1st place in this category (Lily Chen, Stephanie Coe, Olivia Cotton, David Jogwe, Tanner Rice, Adrian Rossi-Mastracci, Ryan Stutler and Westley Taylor), followed by Team 7 in 2nd place and Team 4 in 3rd place.

Most Valuable Players: The individuals named MVP for this round of work were: Patrick Widen, Stacie Pawlicki, Raul Perez-Gurdian, Ryan Foley, Tanner Rice, Scott Greer, Adair Meaden, Andrew Lossing and Danielle Levy.

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Michael Burcham
Faculty Director, Accelerator 2009