Chocolate Pizza has been in Ryan Novak’s blood since he was a toddler. His mother used to take him in a stroller across the street from his home to the Chocolate Pizza Company store where the future owner was skilled…
Category: Entrepreneur of the Month
Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: James Shomar ’12 M.S. ’14
James Shomar ’12 M.S. ’14 is the CEO of Solstice Power, a developer of proprietary technology for the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) and high power microelectronics industries. CPV is an innovative solar power technology that uses high magnification lenses to focus incoming sunlight…
Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Jamie Lynn (Kelling) Hall ’09
Having spent five years working for a Fortune 200 company, Jamie Lynne (Kelling) Hall ’09 had learned a tremendous amount about business operations, sales and management. After being a former collegiate athlete and in the gym her entire life, she…
Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Zach Schleien ’12
Zach Schleien ’12 and his mom, Debbie Schleien, launched LIFT Protein Muffins last year. LIFT Protein Muffins is a gluten-free, paleo muffin that serves as a meal replacement. Schleien saw an opportunity in the gluten-free, paleo market. There were few healthy…
Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Max Doblin ’15
If you hide a $100 bill somewhere around campus, people will go out and try to find it. That was the simple hypothesis from which Hypeist was born. Max Doblin ’15 and his co-founder, Blake Danzig, also a graduate of…
Whitman Launches “Alumni Entrepreneur of the Month”
Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises is a flagship department at the Whitman School. It is consistently ranked among the best in the country both for undergraduate and graduate studies. Accomplished faculty teach rigorous curriculum enhanced by invaluable practical learning opportunities. Through…