Entrepreneurship Council

     They are advocates, innovators, mavericks, mentors, dreamers. . . and dynamos.

     The College of Business Entrepreneurship Council is the critical link between our highly ranked Entrepreneurship programs the local business community.

     The members of the EC provide the primary leadership and support for staging The Aleris New Venture Competition and The Cardinal Challenge, our Moot Corp regional business plan competition. They also play key roles in creating and growing student-led ventures, and help shape civic and political agendas that promote entrepreneurial success.

     Their charge is to maintain our Entrepreneurship Program as the premier innovation education experience in Kentucky and one of the Top 25 programs in the nation.

Entrepreneurship Council Members

Suzanne Bergmeister CEO, Sunflower Business Ventures  Robert L. Brown, GB’74, LA’74, AS’71 Attorney-at-Law, Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, PLLC Garret D. Cawthon, GB’94, SP’84, SS’83 President, Touchless Care Concepts Kevin D. Cogan, BU’79 The Jefferson Development Group R. Collie King, III CEO/President, MyCareerNetwork.com Harry E. Kron, GB’95, SS’86 Taradene Pamela S. Longwell, BU'83 CEO, Feeders Supply Diane B. Medley, BU'80 CEO, Chilton & Medley, PLC Martin N. McClelland Managing Director, Mainstream Investment Advisers Matt McGarvey Venture Finance Director, The Innovation Group Ed G. Nasief, AS’71 Senior Vice President, Investments, UBS Financial Services Inc. Sean M. O’Leary, GB’95 CEO, Genscape W. Kent Oyler, III, GB’82, BU’80 Founder, OPM Services Inc. W. Earl Reed, III, BU’73 CEO, The Allegro Group  James C. Seiffert, LA’80 Stites & Harbison, PLLC Wright Steenrod Chrysalis Ventures, Inc JC Stites Founder and CEO, Autodemo William G. Strench Frost Brown Todd, LLC Paul Van der Pol, GB’98 Principal, Tripoli Consulting Susan E. Weiss, GB'94 Principal, Net Tango Tyree G. Wilburn, GB’75, BU’74 Chair, President & CEO, Merit Health Systems  Lior Yaron President, LSY International Inc.