The 2008 Cardinal Challenge
Business Plan Competition
February 22-23
Louisville, Kentucky

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Photos of Event and Winning Teams

Congratulations to the winners of the
2008 Cardinal Challenge!

Business Plan Competition

First Place - $15,000

HeartSounds, Inc
University of Illinois--Chicago

Amir Bastawrous MD
Michael D. McCoy
Matthew W. Norris

Second Place - $5,000

BioRegenix, Inc.
University of Illinois—Chicago

Darius Kaulius
Gokul Kumar
Thomas Triantafillou

Third Place - $3,000

Spice9
Arizona State University

Ganesh Acharya
Harish Desai
Yuvraj Malhotra
Amit Shah

Fast Pitch Competition

First Place - $1500

Advotech Medical Sciences
University of Manitoba

Taren Gesell
David Mowatt

Second Place - $1000 (tie)

The Partum Group
University of Louisville

Divya Cantor MD
Katie Dawson
James Mudd

NatureCure Technologies
Kennesaw State University

Kate Gorinshteyn
Boris Gorinshteyn
Mike Kayembe
Ken Langston

More Photos from the 2008 Cardinal Challenge

The Cardinal Challenge represents a prestigious, global academic competition with real-world opportunities and consequences. As a regional qualifying event for the international “Super Bowl” of business plan events, Moot Corp. Global Business Plan Competition, the University of Louisville Cardinal Challenge showcases new business concepts developed by MBA students at 12 of the country’s leading university entrepreneurship programs, including UofL.
The Challenge will bring approximately 80 exceptional MBA students and their coaches/mentors together for Business Plan and Fast Pitch competitions.
The teams will compete for more than $30,000 in prize money by presenting their concepts to a panel of judges comprised of venture capitalists, angel investors and successful entrepreneurs. The winning Business Plan Presentation team earns an automatic bid to the annual Moot Corp Global Business Plan Competition.
All teams are guaranteed at least $750 for participating in the competition.
The 2008 Cardinal Challenge illustrates the University of Louisville College of Business’s role as a leader in entrepreneurship education and real-world learning experience, and showcases the Metro Louisville as an expanding, entrepreneur-friendly marketplace. Business concepts, services and technology developed by UofL students have gone on to launch as entrepreneurial ventures in health care, fitness, energy, media, beverage and other industries.
The official hotel for the Cardinal Challenge is the Hyatt Regency in downtown Louisville. Special rates have been established for participating teams.

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