List of startups that are connected to Duke alumni

Here's a partial list of startups that are connected to Duke alumni

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ActiveWords Inc

The ActiveWords vision is to empower people by applying ActiveWords across all computing environments and platforms. People will get the results they want from all devices by selecting, entering, or speaking the words they associate with their desired results. This interface is consistent across all devices and integrates seamlessly with all other user interface elements.If you want a stock quote for IBM; just enter the word ibm on your cell phone, PDA device, desktop PC, or other networked device. You are immediately presented with the quote along with other links pertaining to IBM. Your words give you instant access to what you want, when you want it, consistently personalized to your needs, on any computing device.

 

Website: www.activewords.com

Who:Burton Bruggeman

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=1590&pvs=pp&authToken=Jf0l&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile

 

Advanced Liquid Logic

For almost a decade co-founders Michael Pollack and Vamsee Pamula have been pursuing a better way to do microfluidics. Inspired by the electronics industry and the transition from analog to digital devices, the concept of "Digital Microfluidics" was born in the engineering labs of Duke University. After several years of research the co-founders and their collaborators decided that the technology was ready for commercialization.In 2004, Advanced Liquid Logic was formed. The team was soon joined by an experienced CEO and successful entrepreneur, Richard West. The company quickly grew – adding experts in the fields of biochemistry, engineering, manufacturing and product development. More innovation followed, accumulating over 80 issued and pending patents and enabling elegant solutions to complex fluidic problems.

 

Website: www.liquid-logic.com

Who:Vamsee Pamula

Michael Pollack

Rich West

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/361/a64, http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2007/10/08/story6.html, http://www.utdallas.edu/research/fyi/061103/venture_capital.html

 

Affinergy

Affinergy develops site-specific biological systems using biofriendly linkers that selectively adhere to proteins, drugs, cells, and biomaterial surfaces in order to kickstart biology toward an intended outcome. Affinergy is focused on developing coatings and medical devices for the orthopedic and cardiovascular markets. Affinergy's technology was patented at Duke University and was awarded 2005 Innovation of the Year by Frost & Sullivan in the category of Medical Device Coatings.

 

 

Website: www.affinergy.com

Who:Dan Kenan

Jonathan Gindes

Profile: http://memp.pratt.duke.edu/dr-dan-kenanco-founderaffinergy-inc-01162009, http://www.affinergy.com/about.html

 

Agarigen

Agarigen, Inc. is a privately held Delaware corporation dedicated to harnessing the remarkable biological productivity of the common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) for the manufacture of biologics (biopharmaceuticals, therapeutic proteins).  Compared to conventional cell culture technologies, Agarigen's Mushroom-made Pharmaceuticals (MMP™) system can deliver high-quality therapeutics at a fraction of the current manufacturing cost, time, and start-up capital.  The favorable economy, rapid growth cycle, and high biomass output of the mushroom make the MMP™ system the most efficient and effective approach to the manufacture of biologics.

 

Website: www.agarigen.com

Who:Brett Lund

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brettlund

 

Akira Technologies

Akira technologies is an integrated an pioneering one-stop solutions shop for total e-businesses service. It was founded with a clear focus and a vital purpose in mind: to proactively evaluate the advances of the IT industry and apply them to your ever increasing business needs. Akira offers customized and comprehensive solutions, which complement your business and technical objectives.

 

Website: www.akira-tech.com

Who:Srinivas Chennamaraja

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivasrchennamaraja

 

Atlas Digital Solutions

Atlas Digital Solutions customizes cost efficient solutions that eliminate the risks otherwise associated with protection of vital information, satisfy legal and regulatory compliance mandates, and assure business continuity. As a leader in global data storage solutions, Atlas Digital Solutions simplifies and seamlessly automates the management of multi-vendor enterprise data storage and protection environments. By outsourcing these essential functions, our clients dramatically reduce costs, optimize performance, and eliminate risk of loss of critical data through state of the art storage and backup solutions, while refocusing valuable IT resources.

 

Website: www.atlasdigitalsolutions.com

Who:David Johnson

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dljohnson

 

Black Mamba Productions

Black Mamba Productions is a company that is entirely at the client's service with the vision of being a unique film production company for all. This is attainable through a moving production bureau. This positions the company as an agent. The company will be able to fully handle funded projects and will work closely with clients on the development of their existing concepts with the utmost professionalism and sincerity.The company will be able to fully handle funded projects and will work closely with clients on the development of their existing concepts with the utmost professionalism and sincerity.

 

Website: www.blackmambapro.com

Who:Morris Lwenya

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/morris/lwenya

 

Bluestripe

BlueStripe was formed to change the way companies manage applications. Our products provide the visibility and tools that enable our customers to understand how and why their business-critical applications behave as they do - whether the applications reside in a physical or virtual environment.

 

Website: www.bluestripe.com

Who:Vic Nyman

Profile: http://bluestripe.com/company/, http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=2265485&pvs=pp&authToken=Natc&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile

 

Brownstone Investment Group

Since its inception in 1998, Brownstone Investment Group LLC has carved out a distinct niche within the financial community. The firm focuses exclusively on trading and investing in the fixed income marketplace through wholesale transactions within the broker dealer community. The firm neither carries any retail or institutional accounts nor charges any commissions or fees. It is this unique and unbiased approach that enables Brownstone to direct its significant resources towards the regional dealer and bank community in an ethical, impartial and transparent fashion.

 

Website: www.brownstone.com

Who:Douglas Lowey

Profile: N/A

 

Bunk1

Bunk1 provides summer camps with password protected Community features such as online photo galleries, camper email, & fax-back reply systems as well as full websites, staffing services and a widely used summer camp search engine.

 

Website: www.bunk1.com

Who:Ari Ackerman

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/365/8ab, http://www.worldjewishnewsagency.org/people_and_profiles.htm

 

Business Success Strategists

At Business Success Strategists, we provide custom, high quality, business consulting services to C-level business managers and owners of entrepreneurial and established, small and medium-sized businesses.  Integrity and ethics are of paramount importance in working with our clients.  We consistently strive to meet or exceed our client's consulting needs and expectations. How is your business doing in these economically turbulent times?  Like all things, this too will pass.  When it does, you'll want your business to be positioned to capture your share of the market!    Actually, this may be the perfect opportunity to think about where you'd like your business to be.  Business Success Strategists, LLC can facilitate that process.

 

Website: www.businesssuccessstrategists.com

Who:Rebecca Kuprowicz

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/rebecca/kuprowicz

 

Campus Destinations

Campus Destinations is the premier mapping and informational services company for college campuses. Campus Destinations mission is "to save students time and money" by eliminating inefficient ways of allocating their schedule and funds and creating an interactive portal that enables them to profit from the correction of this externality. Campus Destinations also strives to establish relationships with other college-based companies in order to provide the best possible service to the university student population. The Campus Destinations software team specializes in using Web 2.0 technologies to create platforms with both customization and scalability in mind.

 

Website: www.campusdestinations.com

Who:Arup Banerjee

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/154/bb6, http://www.updatapartners.com/web/module/press/newsid/62/interior_partnersteam.asp

 

Capitol Solutions

CAPITOL SOLUTIONS® is a small, bipartisan government relations firm that has provided customized lobbying services to FORTUNE 500 companies, industry associations, and non-profit organizations since 1998. Our team of professionals has over 50 years of federal government relations experience. At CAPITOL SOLUTIONS®, we use our skills as legislative strategists and our expertise in federal budget and appropriations process to help our clients achieve their policy objectives.

 

Website: www.capitolsolutions.com

Who:David Taylor

Profile: http://www.capitolsolutions.com/david_taylor.aspx,http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/GAYBInfo/David_Taylor_Partner_and_Chief_Executive_Officer_Capitol_Solutions_Government_Relations_Consultants_LLC.html

 

Carina Cellars

Our goal at Carina Cellars is a simple one: to produce top-quality Santa Barbara County Rhône wines that showcase and emphasize terroir above all else. We partner with growers who share our philosophies on farming – a dedication to canopy management, low yields and vine balance. Our winemaking approach is traditional and minimalist. The resulting wines are rich in traditional varietal flavors and aromas - Viogniers full of tropical fruit and spring flowers, dark, spicy Syrahs and intense, blackcurranty Cabernet Sauvignons. Carina Cellars produced only 2,000 cases in 2004, but as Colman Andrews of Saveur magazine writes of Tensley, "Tiny quantities, big talent budding here."

 

Website: http://carinacellars.com

Who:David Hardee

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/21/68b

 

Catchafire

Catchafire will ignite a movement of pro bono volunteerism to increase the power that nonprofits have in serving our communities.  We will take a fresh approach to volunteerism by combining web-based search functionality that matches nonprofits and professionals based on their skills with the power of a dynamic online community to create knowledge-driven, deep, and meaningful relationships between the nonprofit and professional worlds.

 

Website: www.catchafire.com

Who:Rachael Chong

Profile:

 

CedarCroft Homes

For 15 years, our goal as home builders in Charlotte NC has been to create beautiful neighborhoods filled with Charlotte North Carolina homes that harmonize with the environment and enrich the quality of life for families. Our commitment to quality, functional space and architectural aesthetics at the very best price continues to make our homes the place you'll want to come home to. As a recent visitor to our Mooresville community who currently lives and works in Charlotte said, "this is how coming home should feel."

 

Website: www.cedarcrofthomes.com

Who:Frank Jacobus

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottenclanddeveloper

 

Centice

In 2004, Centice was founded to commercialize patented and patent-pending computational sensor technology originally developed at Duke University. Although our technology has multiple applications, Centice has focused on the development of the PASS Rx system – a pharmaceutical verification product. The PASS Rx system improves the verification process for dispensed medications, thereby increasing patient safety, reducing human error and streamlining the pharmaceutical dispensing process.

 

Website: www.centice.com

Who:David Brady

Profile: http://centice.com/about/board-of-directors/#david,

 

Challenge Games

Challenge Games creates online, short-form asynchronous games that can be played in 3-10 minute time increments.

 

Website: http://www.challengegames.com/

Who:Andrew Busey

Profile: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/andrew-busey

 

Chordoma Foundation

The Chordoma Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to curing chordoma. It was incorporated in February, 2007 by Dr. Simone Sommer, and her son Josh, after he was diagnosed with a chordoma in 2006, during his freshman year at Duke University. Since his diagnosis, Josh has worked in an oncology lab at Duke to find his own cure. Currently, we operate with seven volunteer board members, numerous scientific and medical advisors, and two part time staffers. Our dedicated board members have extensive experience in medicine, public health, nonprofit management, venture capital, technology transfer, and law.

 

Website: www.chordomafoundation.org

Who:Josh Sommer

Profile: http://www.chordomafoundation.org/about/ourstory.aspx,  http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/845627.html

 

CoaLogix

CoaLogix is focused on providing cutting edge services to coal-fired generating facilities to reduce their environmental footprint through technology, optimization and efficiency improvements. CoaLogix currently owns SCR-Tech which provides SCR (selective catalyst reduction) services to power plants, including a proprietary technology to regenerate catalyst. It is a  unique company that specializes in filtering out harmful agents from coal-fired plant emissions, has secured $11.5 million to deploy its technology for more electric utilities.

 

Website: http://www.coalogix.com/

Who:Bill McMahon

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/23b/728

 

Consumer United

Consumer United is a group formed to get better deals on phone, Internet, cable, insurance, personal banking, utilities and gasoline from leading providers.Our goal is to help you get rid of hidden fees, improved customer service and $1,000+ in annual savings. Consumer United selects the best service providers in each category and negotiates better deals for our members. We pick the best provider and receive a payment from the provider, when a member decides to enroll for a service through us. Our commercial relationships with each service provider are in place to help make the switching process as convenient as possible for our members, and in some cases we can offer exclusive deals that are not available directly from the provider.

 

Website: www.consumerunited.com

Who:Justin Dangel

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/aa0/b45, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiKKaka-KJU,

 

Cosmic Cantina

Cosmos Lyles started Cosmic Cantina, a collegiate based burrito restaurant, near Duke University's East Campus when he was a senior at the school. Its Northern-California style burritos have also been successful in the Cantina's other locations; Chapel Hill and New York City.

 

Website: N/A

Who:Cosmos Lyles

Profile: http://events.nytimes.com/gst/nycguide.html?detail=restaurants&id=1002207971987,

 

Daylight Network

Daylight Network, which can be found at www.daylightnetwork.com is a free site that allows anyone to audit government performance, take action, and create real change: follow the money through interactive graphs of the entire federal budget, Predict what government will do through the Daylight $5000 Obama Prediction Market, where members can apply their knowledge to predict key developments during President Obama's first 100 days in office.

 

Website: www.daylightnetwork.com

Who:Aaron Day

Profile:

 

Dori Klass and Associates

We believe that all of this begins with the individual and with a commitment to becoming as mindful, conscious, strong, powerful, self-confident, self-assured and successful as is possible. We know that there are powerful and productive programs available today, such as ours, which enable each one of us to do this personal growth and development work essential to optimizing one's circumstances, resources and potential. We are committed to lifelong learning, growth and personal and professional transformation, ours and yours.  Consequently, we continue to invest in programs that enable us to do this work as well.

 

Website: www.doriklass.com

Who:Dori Klass

Profile: http://www.doriklass.com/about.html,       http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=2893964&pvs=pp&authToken=PAmS&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile

 

dotFX Inc.

dotFX is a pioneering software company that has led the breakthrough in click to run software for the next generation of rich, collaborative internet applications. The dotFX technology provides unrivalled features for building reliable, scalable, interactive, collaborative, and connected applications with unprecedented ease. dotFX is a company focused on Web 3.0

 

Website: www.dotfx.com

Who:Pete Hartigan

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/pete/hartigan

 

Enforta Wireless

Enforta was formed in October 2003 with the objective to provide broadband services using WiMAX and other advanced technologies in Russia's regional capitals. Enforta is a member of the 'WiMAX Forum®' and the 'Wireless Communications Association International.'

 

Website: www.enforta.ru

Who:Lee Sparkman

Profile: http://www.maravedis-bwa.com/article-70.html, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/675/946

 

Eno Sports

Eno is a fast-growing lifestyle fashion company. Headquartered in shanghai, eno designs, manufactures and retails a branded line of streetwear in collaboration with artists, musicians and students from china and around the world. Eno currently operates nine stores in China - two in Beijing, five in Shanghai and two in Kunming.

 

Website: www.enosports.cn

Who:Renee Hartmann

Profile: http://thechinabusinessnetwork.com/Retail-FMCG/Introduction-To-Renee-Hartmann-Co-Founder-of-Eno.html

 

FanPrice

FanPrice.com wishes to create a positive and safe experience for Fans wishing to buy tickets. FanPrice.com puts this desire for a positive customer experience into writing with this Ticket Guarantee, which makes sure that tickets will arrive on time for the event and will be refunded if it canceled in anyway. FanPrice has links to concert, theatre, football, baseball, hockey, soccer, and Broadway tickets.

 

Website: www.fanprice.com

Who:Jeff Berman

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/69/48b

 

FastEMC

FastEMC® medical billing software is a billing service on your desktop. Whether you have existing practice management software or not, FastEMC is the most affordable, efficient way to handle your claims data. FastEMC eliminates long delays and lost claims to help you make the most of your practice.

 

Website: www.fastemc.com

Who:Andrew Turnbull

Profile: N/A

 

Flat World Knowledge

Flat World Knowledge is a new approach to college textbooks. We preserve the best of the old - books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards. Then we flip it all on its head. Our books are free online. We offer convenient, low-cost choices for students – softcovers for under $30, audio books and chapters, self-print options, and more. Our books are open for instructors to modify and make their own (for their own course - not for anybody else's). Our books are the hub of a social learning network where students learn from the book and each other. Flat World Knowledge. Because great minds are evenly distributed. Great textbooks are not. Until Now.

 

Website: www.flatworldknowledge.com

Who:Jeff Shelsted

Profile: http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/our-team,  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Jeff/Shelstad/?trk=ppro_find_others

 

Flipgloss Media

FlipGloss is an interactive photo experience that lets you flip, hover and discover. FlipGloss offers a fun way to browse photo content with visual links to inspiring objects, places and people across fashion, living, travel, culture and other categories. FlipGloss Media, Inc. was founded in early 2008 with backing from Forbes Media. FlipGloss is based in Venice, CA and New York City.Our backgrounds span Yahoo!, New York Times Digital, Microsoft, Napster, Monster.com, Electronic Arts and Instyle Magazine, as well as startups that brought us to those big companies including LAUNCH.com (now Yahoo! Music) and Abuzz.com (acquired by New York Times Co.).

 

Website: www.flipgloss.com

Who:Kerry Trainor

Profile: http://www.flipgloss.com/about/, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/kerry/trainor

 

Flytxt

Flytxt is the leading technology provider for Mobile Marketing 2.0. Neon, the carrier-class integrated mobile marketing platform from Flytxt enables mobile operators and service providers to unlock the huge potential of mobile as a customer engagement channel. Flytxt was founded by mobile marketing experts with over 9 years of domain experience. They pioneered the mobile marketing agency business with many successful projects including Orange Wednesdays and Cadburys Txt 'n' Wins. Flytxt has won several awards from reputed industry forums including MMA Global for its path breaking innovations and mobile marketing campaigns.

 

Website: www.flytxt.com

Who:Pamir Gelenbe

Profile: http://cll.bizjournals.com/gen/executive.html?excode=64ED919D0A10443BBFBC7AEA2A3ADF5A, http://www.spoke.com/info/pNiSFR/PamirGelenbe

 

Frontier Renewables

Frontier Renewables is a global provider of renewable energy solutions for cities, corporations and residential developments. Addressing the surge in demand for clean energy, the firm develops, builds and operates utility scale projects. Frontier provides the complete package from initial analysis to the engineering, procurement and construction of the plants. Frontier leverages its architectural and engineering know-how to balance cost and efficiency. Frontier has assembled an experienced team with extensive engineering, architectural, general management, construction and finance backgrounds to bring projects to fruition. Frontier has offices in Europe and the U.S. and provides its services worldwide.

 

Website: www.frontier-renewables.com

Who:Balduin Hesse

Profile: http://www.frontier-renewables.com/company/team.php,   http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/balduin/hesse

 

Full Circle Wine Solutions

Based in San Francisco, Full Circle Wine Solutions is a global wine and spirits education firm that grows brand loyalty and client profits through tailored wine programs and effective hospitality training. Using a vast and established network of sommelier educators, we host high quality and consistent wine tasting experiences across multiple locations around the world. Each program is carefully tailored to clients? needs to achieve optimal results, creating signature programs that can help clients develop brand ambassadors, acquire new customers, retain employees, and train restaurant staff for stronger profit delivery.

 

Website: www.winecoach.com

Who:Limeng Stroh

Profile: http://www.winecouch.com/index.php/page/show/48,  http://www.linkedin.com/in/limengstroh

 

Grassroots Bio

GrassRoots is an agricultural biotechnology company utilizing a Systems Biology Approach to develop new valuable crop lines for the biofuel, food and industrial markets. The company, formed in 2007, intends to commercialize  innovations and expertise developed by Dr. Philip Benfey at Duke University. Dr. Benfey is one of the world leaders in the fields of plant cell development and genomics.  His research in the areas of genomics and cell development form the core of our technologies which will provide a competitive advantage in bringing important new products to the agricultural markets.

 

Website: www.grassrootsbio.com

Who:Doug Eisner

Profile: http://www.grassrootsbio.com/Team.html

 

Groom Energy Solutions

Groom is a full service Energy Solutions provider, offering a broad range of energy savings programs. Our customer's value the convenience of a construction management approach that Groom brings, by incorporating multiple technologies and vendors into one comprehensive solution. We have the size and flexibility to work with our customer's staff, our own professionals, or 3rd parties to implement solutions.

 

Website: www.groomenergy.com

Who:Jon Guerster

Profile: http://www.groomenergy.com/our_team.html,        http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/123/284

 

Group Logic, Inc.

As a performance-focused software company, Group Logic has covered a lot of distance since opening its doors in 1988. We've successfully worked through more than 80 commercial releases, built an impressive client list of more than 4,000 leading companies, and won recognition and respect as a leader in our industry.At Group Logic we look beyond the digital bells and whistles. This is still a people business, where commitment and reliability make all the difference in creating a lasting partnership. That's why more than 4,000 top companies trust us every day to move their mission-critical data around their enterprise-and around the world.

 

Website: www.grouplogic.com

Who:Reid Lewis

Profile: http://www.grouplogic.com/about-us/?fa=management-team,                                http://www.linkedin.com/in/reidlewis

 

Gunther's Gourmet

Gunther's Gourmet creates delectable All-Natural Marinades, Vinaigrettes and Salsas.

Gunther's is managed by Nick and his brother Mike.

Check them out at www.gunthersgourmet.com

 

Website: www.gunthersgourmet.com

Who:Nick Lampros

Profile:

 

Hannon Hill

Hannon Hill creates web marketing solutions that give people and organizations the freedom to manage their Internet, Intranet, Extranet and Portal content with ease. Our primary software solution, Cascade Server, is ideal for organizations in industries such as education, healthcare, technology, government, and publishing.

 

Website: www.hannonhill.com

Who:David Cummings

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcummings

 

Holiday Golightly

Holiday Golightly will recommend and book fantastically unique trip experiences that fit your group's interests and match your style, provide group travel planning coordination tools on the website – including calendar coordination (you know you need it), private discussion boards (although, remember, secrets don't make friends), and payment allocation tools – all tools you can use to help plan your trip even if we don't book it for you, as well as sharing reviews and recommendations.

 

Website: www.holidaygolightly.com

Who:Kerry Rupp

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/kerry/rupp

 

Info Gears, Inc.

The InfoGears family of Software Solutions, Network Solutions, and Consulting Services are affordable integrated solutions for organizations that have outgrown their basic business software and static web site. InfoGears provides the IT infrastructure of a large corporation without the frustration or costs associated with managing complex systems. And we help you use these powerful solutions by providing the Professional Services and Consulting to ensure your success.

 

Website: www.infogears.com

Who:Craig Delger

Profile: http://www.infogears.com/cgi-bin/infogears/aboutus.html, http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=8615882&pvs=pp&authToken=CMls&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile

 

Informed Clinical Sciences Corporation

The mission of ICSC is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical care, enrich the healthcare experience, and advance the wellbeing of patients and their families through the use of the Internet and related technologies. This is accomplished through multidisciplinary scientific study and integrative technologic development that will establish intelligent informatics systems, pair healthcare participants and digital medicine symbiotically, attain informed and responsible patient engagement, appropriate medical resources effectively, and pioneer real-time evidence generation productively, all serving to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

 

Website: www.icsciences.com

Who:Pete Nichols Jr.

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/petenicholasjr

 

Integrated Oncology Solutions

IOS operates as a small-molecule drug discovery and development company. The Company's programs target nuclear receptor (NR)-based oncology applications. IOS 974, the Company's program which will start its Phase I development in 2008, is a clinical stage Selective Estrogen Receptor Degrader (SERD) breast cancer treatment. The Company's second program, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Expansion, is an approach based on a small molecule, nuclear receptor modulator agent to expand cord blood or bone marrow stem cells to treat a variety of serious and lethal blood diseases. ; Operates as a small-molecule drug discovery and development company.

 

Website: www.ioshealth.com

Who:Donald McDonnell

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/a66/785,

 

Intelligence Group

The Intelligence Group is a market research and trend consulting firm focused on understanding consumer culture and translating that knowledge into actionable insights. The Intelligence Group is the foremost expert on Gen X, Gen Y, and consumer culture, and offers a full range of research, consulting, and trend forecasting services. The company's in-depth understanding of the consumer allow them to apply knowledge to a variety of businesses and product categories.

 

Website: www.intelg.com

Who:Jane Buckingham

Profile: http://www.aeispeakers.com/speakerbio.php?SpeakerID=1257

 

KALYX Technologies

Along with a team of experts, including athletes, designers, reconstructive surgeons, structural engineers, and textile experts, KALYX  has developed the world's most advanced line of encapsulated sports bras. Our sports bras are designed for a wide range of activities.  KALYX products make it possible for the athlete in every woman to exercise comfortably, even under extreme conditions.

 

Website: www.kalyxtechnologies.com

Who:Kimberly Cayce

Profile:

 

King Imaging Enterprises

King Imaging Enterprises provides diagnostic imaging consulting, development, and ongoing management services for hospitals, physician practices, and independent imaging centers.

 

Website: n/a

Who:Chris King

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ckenterprises

 

Kosmedix

Kosmedix has built a unique profile and vision. With dr. Maha lesch, a dermatologist and skin care scientist with more than a decade experience in the skincare industry, as its founder and with a wonderful team of experts kosmedix developed into an image beyond providing the basic skin care line. Kosmedix introduces to the market juviderm - a trendy high end skincare line with products that were researched and developed with an eye on results and pleasure of senses.

 

 

Website: http://www.alibaba.com/member/kos100.html

Who:Maha Lesch

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drlesch

 

MarketSquare Solutions

 

Website: www.marketsquaresolutions.com

Who:Kurt Baumberger

Profile: http://www.marketsquaresolutions.com/Company.aspx

 

mental_floss magazine

Mental Floss magazine offers a fun, irreverent look at knowledge and facts. As Pearson put it, "Our mission is to find anyway we can to blur the lines between education and entertainment." The founders started the venture at Duke University as a campus publication and quickly turned it into a national magazine. But they have pushed the brand further than the magazine -- producing books, board games, and soon a series of children's books.

 

Website: www.mentalfloss.com

Who:Mangesh Hattikudar

Will Pearson

Profile: http://www.inc.com/30under30/2007/22-pearson.html, http://www.mentalfloss.com/magazine/staff.php

 

Mindset Media

Mindset Media sprang from a simple conviction: that the internet is a brilliant direct response medium, but that it radically underserves brand marketers, who are rightly overwhelmed by its complexity and underwhelmed by its "one-to-one" and "click and buy" capabilities. Our product takes interactivity, the property that makes the internet special as a medium, and puts it to use for brand marketers on a mass scale.Our company can deliver in one simple media buy millions of people with the Mindset that matters most to your brand. No other company in any other advertising medium can do this.

 

Website: www.mindset-media.com

Who:Jim Meyer

Profile: http://www.mindset-media.com/about/team/,

 

Mint.com

Mint is fresh, intelligent online money management. With Mint, you can achieve better online financial management in less than five minutes. After that, revolutionary, patent–pending Mint money management software does the rest, with virtually no more work required. It automatically pulls together your bank, credit union and credit card data, and provides up–to–date and amazingly accurate views of your financial—life from the big picture to specific details, in a friendly and intuitive way.

 

Website: www.mint.com

Who:Aaron Patzer

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/apatzer, http://www.workhappy.net/2008/02/interview-wit-1.html,  http://www.crunchbase.com/person/aaron-patzer

 

Mixx

Mixx is your link to the web content that really matters. There's a lot of information out there and, let's face it, you don't have all day to find the good stuff. And who knows better than you what informs you, what makes you think, what makes you laugh? Use YourMixx to tailor the content categories, tags, specific users and groups, and we'll deliver the top-rated content as chosen by you and people who share your passions. So go ahead and whip up your own version of the web. Just tell us how you like it Mixxed and we'll deliver the best the web has to offer—morning, noon and night.

 

Website: www.mixx.com

Who:Chris McGill

Profile: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-mcgill, http://collective-thoughts.com/2007/11/28/what-a-mixx-up-interview-with-mixx-founder-chris-mcgill/

 

Neopatents

Neopatents' believes in maximizing the value and commercial impact of intellectual property.  Our team of patent professionals leverage our proprietary software and methods to visualize and systematically analyze the landscape,  find exceptional value, and collaborate with our clients to provide answers and create positive impact.At Neopatents, our goal is to put business leaders in control of their patents.We feel that patents should serve the business and help it achieve its goals — you can almost think of them as employees. With Neopatents' Patent Smart™ process, you can manage your patent activity like you manage other critical business processes.

 

Website: www.neopatents.com

Who:JiNan Glasgow

Profile:http://www.neopatents.com/company/management/,  http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2005/05/30/focus17.html

 

Next Jump, Inc.

Next Jump, Inc. provides rewards and loyalty programs to corporations, affinity groups, and institutions. It offers events, offers, and retail opportunities to members in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company also provides targeted marketing services, such as performance based pull marketing and email based push marketing to brand merchants.

 

Website: www.nextjump.com

Who:Greg Kunkel

Profile:

 

NoodleTools, Inc.

NoodleTools, Inc., a California company incorporated in 2002. NoodleTools' flagship product, NoodleBib, has emerged as the leading bibliography software on the Internet, transforming bibliographic instruction methodologies in thousands of subscribing schools and libraries. The NoodleTools team offers expert help and unparalleled customer support to the students and professionals who depend on NoodleBib and other award-winning tools in the NoodleTools research suite.

 

Website: www.noodletools.com

Who:Damon Abilock

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=311026&pvs=pp&authToken=4lUf&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile, http://www.noodletools.com/about/team.php

 

Oncoscope

Oncoscope, Inc. develops proprietary optical imaging systems for guided biopsy in epithelial tissues in the esophagus, colon, lung, cervix, and bladder, where 85% of all cancers start.hese systems are non-invasive and are used during conventional endoscopic examinations. They provide an immediate measurement of the diameter and density of cell nuclei, an indicator of potentially cancerous growth.This information enables the physician to target suspect areas of tissue for conventional physical biopsy, reducing the cost, time, and uncertainty associated with existing random biopsy techniques.

 

Website: www.oncoscope.com

Who:Adam Wax

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/965/882, http://www.oncoscope.com/management.htm

 

One Hundred Year Horizons

In One Hundred Year Horizons, we are committed to acknowledging our respective strengths, finding ways to make the best use of all of our strengths, while at the same time allowing ourselves and each other to be human. Our commitment to this work is supported by our commitment to our own health and well being, and to our relationships with colleagues, friends, family and community. We seek to cultivate an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust, in an environment of inclusion rather than exclusion, guided by the concept that those affected by decisions should be given the opportunity to participate in the decision making process.

 

Website: http://www.onehundredyearhorizons.com/

Who:Barbara Seiders

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraseiders

 

OnePark Systems

OnePark Systems is an innovator in the development of automation systems for commercial parking garages.  Our unique ViewPark product provides a state of the art parking detection and guidance system that can be upgraded to include a full security system, lighting control, vehicle identification, and revenue enhancement features such as reserved parking. Space specific occupancy data is fed in real-time to management systems software.  The data can be aggregated across space and time to create reports to aid in management decision making.

 

Website: www.viewparksystems.com

Who:Robb Cadwallader

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/b83/aa0

 

Outside The Classroom

Outside The Classroom is a Boston-based company that was founded to address epidemic-level public health issues affecting education, corporate, and government institutions. The company's mission is to deliver tangible results to its customers by providing measurable reductions in the negative consequences associated with these health issues. In an effort to deliver on this promise, Outside The Classroom has remained focused on one of the largest of these problems: high-risk drinking.

 

Website: www.outsidetheclassroom.com

Who:Brandon Busteed

Profile: http://www.outsidetheclassroom.com/about/our_team/management.asp, http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/03/0503angels3.html

 

Oyster Digital Media

Founded in 2007, Oyster Digital Media has developed the first end-to-end solution for retail digital media and merchandising. With a founding team of executives from retail technology, technology retail, merchandising and digital media, Oyster is creating a paradigm shift in the retail experience.

 

Website: www.oysterdigital.net

Who:Jordan Scott Baltimore

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/jordan%20scott/baltimore,

 

Pardot

Pardot is an innovative provider of on-demand interactive marketing solutions. Prospect Insight, Pardot's industry leading marketing automation suite, is used by hundreds of sales and marketing professionals each month due to its rich feature set, ease of use, and flexibility.

 

Website: www.pardot.com

Who:David Cummings

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcummings

 

Perez-Simmons Content Solutions

Perez-Simons Content Solutions provides Internet marketing services to small and medium-sized companies to bring traffic to their websites and increase revenue. Focused on our clients' goals, we develop and implement powerful and effective eMarketing strategies to increase ROI. We also offer web design, Spanish translations, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services in Spanish for companies interested in reaching the Hispanic market.

 

Website: www.perezsimmons.com

Who:Mariela Perez-Simmons

Profile: http://www.perezsimons.com/ourblog/10-To-Watch-Mariela-Perez-Simons-Tapping-a-niche.html

 

Performance Bike

Over twenty five years ago, Garry and Sharon Snook began Performance, Inc. in the basement of their home in Chapel Hill, NC. It has since grown into the nations leading Bicycle mail order and retail company.Performance, Inc. has thrived on its ability to meet and anticipate customer needs. We have offered a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee on all products sold since the early beginings of our company. This led to other equally significant services and policies like our Overnight Shipping and Price Protection Plan which allows you to receive your product the next business day at the best price.

 

Website: http://www.performancebike.com/

Who:Garry Snook

Profile: http://www.grandcanyontrust.org/about/board.php#garry

 

Precision Biosciences

The Precision BioSciences mission is to utilize our revolutionary engineered endonucleases to become the world leader in the field of Genomic Molecular Biology. To meet this goal, Precision is broadly applying its DNE technology to genetic challenges requiring a high degree of precision such as genome engineering and gene therapy.Precision's technology was first developed in the Biochemistry Department at the Duke University Medical Center.  The technology and related patent applications have since been exclusively licensed to Precision BioSciences for all fields of use

 

Website: www.precisionbiosciences.com

Who:Matthew Kane

Bill Karpovich

Profile: http://www.precisionbiosciences.com/exec_mgmt.html,

 

Proventys

Proventys is a healthcare technology company committed to advancing personalized medicine through validated predictive solutions delivered at the point of care. The company's proprietary, web-based platform leverages validated risk models and other predictive technologies to help clinicians make complex treatment decisions personalized to the patient across a range of disease conditions. By helping clinicians predict individual patient outcomes and guiding appropriate care decisions, Proventys is enabling a prospective, personalized approach to healthcare.

 

Website: www.proventys.com

Who:Ralph Snyderman

Profile: http://www.proventys.com/en/AboutUs/Leadership.aspx?tab=2, http://people.forbes.com/profile/ralph-snyderman/76616,http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS49596+29-Nov-2007+PRN20071129

 

Quanterix

Quanterix Corporation is developing a novel platform for single molecule analysis that will bring an unprecedented level of sensitivity, precision, and assay robustness to clinical diagnostics, drug development, and life science research. Our unique approach permits rapid quantification and analysis of individual proteins and small molecules within complex biological samples, enabling us to address a variety of unmet medical needs. Founded in 2007, Quanterix is backed by leading life science investors including ARCH Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and Flagship Ventures.

 

Website: www.quanterix.com

Who:Nick Naclerio

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/35b/682,    http://www.quanterix.com/company/management.html

 

RE:INVENTION Inc.

Is your company courting women entrepreneurs and executives to boost sales and profits? Working women influence nearly 90% of all purchasing decisions and they are fiercely brand loyal. Nearly 90% use the same products and services at home that they use at the office. They are 3x more likely than men to tell someone about a customer experience. If you aren't connecting with working women, you are overlooking the fastest growing business segment.Re:invention helps companies gain this important sector of the market.

 

Website: www.reinventioninc.com

Who:Kirsten Osolind

Profile: http://www.reinventioninc.com/

 

Reverbnation

ReverbNation.com is a Music 2.0 company that is responding to the changing music business paradigm. We provide innovative marketing solutions that musicians need to compete, cooperate, and differentiate in an increasingly noisy online environment. Unlike typical "closed" communities, artists use ReverbNation as their home base for approaching marketing and promotion across the Internet as a whole — be it via social networks, blogs, or the artist's homepage. Tools like TunePaks, FanReach, and Widgets give the artist the power to spread their music and information virtually anywhere.

 

Website: www.reverbnation.com

Who:Jed Carlson

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jedcarlson

 

Rutter's Holdings

Rutter's Farm Stores debuted in 1967 as an additional outlet for Rutter's Dairy products. Today, Rutter's Farm Stores has more than 55 stores in York, Lancaster, Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin and Franklin counties.n 2005, Rutter's Holdings Inc. was formed as a parent company for the three operating companies: Rutter's Dairy, Rutter's Farm Stores and M&G Realty. For its contributions to central Pennsylvania's business community – in the form of leadership, innovation and growth – Rutter's Holdings was named the Central Penn Business Journal's Business of the Year for 2005.

 

Website: www.rutters.com

Who:Scott Hartman

Profile: N/A

 

Scratch Music Group / Scratch DJ Academy

Headquartered in New York City, with locations in Los Angeles and Miami, Scratch Music Group captures the power of music and in turn empowers brands to strategically leverage it as an asset. Since its inception in 2003, SMG has become the leading music solution provider for many of the world's top brands. SMG brings together the most talented individuals from music, marketing, and technology and leverages their knowledge and expertise to create and implement innovative products, programs, and services designed for distinction.

 

Website: www.scratchmusicgroup.com

Who:Rob Principe

Profile: http://www.scratchmusicgroup.com/main.html, http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/070803/depmini-principe.html

 

Seastone

Gift card promotional programs are the key to selling more gift cards, and Seastone is the leader in gift card promotional programs.  With the broadest line of products on the market, continual innovation, and dependable execution and delivery, Seastone has taken a substantial lead in helping retailers promote their gift card programs and sell more gift cards.  In fact, Seastone is trusted by leading retailers in every retail segment.Through our Give-A-Gift™ brand we offer innovative product collections, as well as coordinated gift card programs.  We can also help you design and develop a fully customized program.  Partner with the leader in gift card promotional programs.

 

Website: www.seastone.com

Who:Warren Osborn

Profile: http://marriottschool.byu.edu/advisoryboard/detail.cfm?mem=1182&group=3

 

Shoeboxed

Shoeboxed makes it easy to organize and manage your receipts for expense reports, tax returns, budgeting, and for returns and exchanges. We'll also help you organize your business cards for an easy way to manage your contacts. And since we do the scanning and data entry, you'll have all the data and organization but won't do any of the hard work.

 

Website: www.shoeboxed.com

Who:Taylor Mingos

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/260/7a5, http://www.crunchbase.com/person/taylor-mingos

 

Sound Pure LLC

Atlas recently opened a new business venture in the heart of Durham--a combination recording studio and specialty guitar boutique with the professional audio equipment sales and distribution business he began as a Duke undergrad. During his freshman year, Atlas began recording campus events and concerts as a free-lance recording engineer. As that business grew, the young entrepreneur sought out ways to improve the quality of his recordings by investing in high end microphones and recording equipment--by 1999 he complemented his engineering enterprise with on-line equipment sales using profits he re-invested into the business: "I wired my life savings, started importing Neumann microphones and putting them on e-Bay back in its infancy...it was a way for me to have a supplemental business, but also acquire a lot of the equipment for myself..."

 

Website:

Who:Todd Atlas

Chris Boerner

Profile: http://music.duke.edu/profiles/profile_atlas_boerner.php

 

Sports Endeavors/Eurosport

The mission statement of Sports Endeavors is to be the worlds leading authentic grassroots soccer and lacrosse company, building strong relationships in a vibrant, creative and ethical environment. To inform, inspire and innovate. This idea reflects all that Sports Endeavors, Inc. stands for and is the basis for the way we conduct business. Based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, Sports Endeavors, Inc. was founded in 1984 by the Moylan family to provide American soccer players with equipment and information unavailable anywhere else. Since our first catalog hit the presses, Eurosport, the Fabled Soccer Traders have worked to promote the game of soccer at all levels and to educate players, officials and their families about our sport and its equipment.

 

Website: www.soccer.com, www.sportsendeavors.com, www.lacrosse.com

Who:Brendan Moylan

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/418/571

 

Stellar Media

From its offices near the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Stellar Media is committed to providing quality writing, editing, and video production services to businesses and nonprofits around the world. It is not enough to have a great service, product or talent. You have to communicate what makes you special to the world.  The Stellar Media produces everything from press releases to video to Flash animation and is in the process of adding website design to its portfolio of servcies.

 

Website: www.stellarmediaonline.com

Who:Eric Larson

Profile: http://www.stellarmediaonline.com/about/meet-our-staff/

 

Sweepery

Sweepery makes it easy for businesses to create online giveaways. Whether you're a web publisher, brand, or ad agency, Sweepery is a simple and cost-effective way to gather valuable contact and demographic information about both existing and potential customers. In a world defined by huge up-front costs and painfully slow campaign creation, Sweepery giveaway widgets are easily integrated, free to set up, and rapidly customized to get precisely the data your business needs. Incentives work. Over 82% of people are happy to provide information about themselves in exchange for a chance to win something. We've created Sweepery to put the power of incentive marketing in your hands.

 

Website: www.sweepery.com

Who:Matt Oesterle

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/oesterle,

 

Synecor

Synecor evolved from the confluence of several synergistic strategic relationships, initially in the field of interventional cardiology, but has expanded its field to include all medical specialties such as obesity, spine therapeutics, and more. Synecor was founded by Dr. Richard Stack after two decades of collaboration with leading cardiologists, clinician-inventors, and scientists from across the nation and as an outgrowth of close working relationships among corporate leaders in the medical device industry, and experts at Duke University.

 

Website: www.synecor.com

Who:Richard Stack

Profile: http://www.synecor.com/managing_partners.htm#rs, http://www.synecor.com/p_management.html#stack

 

TechVest Ventures

TechVest International is a Consulting and Investing Company. We find appropriate investors and opportunities as needed. Specializing in Venture Development, we get deeply involved in our clients' businesses, sometimes investing, sometimes coordinating funding searches, usually bringing in others such as investment bankers and other venture capitalists as well as corporate partners to make the ventures succeed.

 

Website: www.techvest.com

Who:Michael Hentschel

Profile: http://www.spock.com/Michael-Hentschel-RhoFj1DI,    http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/gen/executive.html?excode=E806D46ED4CD4F55B7C12532CCF864AB

 

The Carlyle Group

Established in 1987, The Carlyle Group is a private global investment firm that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings.The Carlyle Group is one of the world's largest private equity firms, with more than $85.5 billion under management. With 66 funds across four investment disciplines (buyouts, growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance), Carlyle combines global vision with local insight, relying on a top-flight team of 480+ investment professionals operating out of offices in 20 countries to uncover superior opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America.

 

Website: www.carlyle.com

Who:David Rubenstein

Profile: http://www.carlyle.com/Team/item5553.html, http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/54/richlist07_David-Rubenstein_SQMN.html,http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2007/11/ma_outlook_2008_the_carlyle_gr.php

 

Theranova

TheraNova is a medical device development company focused on developing solutions to large markets with unmet needs.  TheraNova accomplished this through two separate pathways- internal concept generation and development and external project support. The internal concept generation aspect of TheraNova is embodied in an intellectual property holding company that has filed patents for, and is in the process of incubating, multiple medical devices. TheraNova also supports external projects through the traditional contract Research and Development model.  TheraNova hopes to add contract manufacturing to its list of services and expects to do so in the near future.

 

Website: www.theranova.com

Who:Dan Burnett

Profile: http://www.theranova.com/management.html,

 

Think Digital

Think Digital, Inc. is an independent, state-of-the-art digital production studio and publisher that is well-positioned to become an industry leader in special interest subject matter.Think Digital bridges the gap between an original DVD content creation house and also a leading source for high-value special-interest DVD titles. Think Digital produces original, value-rich DVD works and distributes its properties through its own interactive web store as well as through a worldwide multi-channel distribution network which includes traditional retail outlets.

 

Website: www.thinkdigital.tv

Who:Greg Berkin

Profile: http://www.thinkdigital.tv/company.htm,     http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=38322&pvs=pp&authToken=heLs&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile

 

Uloop

Uloop empowers college students to buy, sell, promote and trade with classmates. We started in January '07 at UC Santa Barbara, and Uloop is now connecting students on college campuses across the country. Hundreds of thousands of students are using Uloop to sell textbooks, find roommates, events, housing, full-time and part-time jobs, internships and even rides home!

 

Website: www.uloop.com

Who:Corey Cleek

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/coreycleek

 

wmsVision, Inc.

We're a lean organization specializing in lean solutions. We develop and apply SCE (Supply Chain Execution) applications, concentrating on warehouse management systems, lean manufacturing and distribution software... Inventory, cycle time, and labor reduction are the prime targets of our focus.Working with our clients, we've achieved some enviable results in industries ranging from drug distribution to telecommunications equipment manufacturing. We deliver software, integration, training, and customer support. We deliver and install hardware, as required. Customers get on-time, on-budget results. If you are seeking information about qualified, task-tested developers of warehouse management software, material control software, and inventory control systems, we invite you to learn more about us. Fully integrated or applied individually, wmsVision solutions enable clients to attain world-class customer satisfaction levels affordably, efficiently, and quickly.

 

Website: www.wmsvision.com

Who:Johnny Yuen

Profile: http://www.wmsvision.com/team.htm, http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=42603862&pvs=pp&authToken=xNQY&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile

 

Yapta

Yapta is intended to help you get a handle on fluctuating travel prices so that you know when to "buy low". Yapta conducts daily price checks on the specific flights and hotels that you choose, and alerts you when prices drop or when they fall within your budget. Yapta also alerts you when you can use your frequent flier miles to book award seats on the flights of your choice. Yapta will track the price of the flights you've already booked and - if the price drops below what you paid - it will alert you when you're eligible for a refund or travel credit from the airline.Since Yapta was launched in May 2007, the site has alerted hundreds-of-thousands of travelers to more than $150 million in travel savings.

 

Website: www.yapta.com

Who:Tom Romary

Profile: http://www.yapta.com/about/,     http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/yapta-ceo-qa-with-to-929/

 

Zico

ZICO is 100% pure coconut water with natural flavor essences. With five essential electrolytes, more potassium than a banana, low acidity, no fat, no sugar added, and no cholesterol, ZICO is the natural, refreshing way to hydrate and replenish. As a company, we're on a mission to tell the world that Mother Nature made a better sports drink, ZICO pure coconut water. We're athletes. We drink ZICO daily (lots of it!), know it works and want to help others make the switch to ZICO too. We also think coconut water can become an important alternative agricultural product for the developing world and are committed to bring you ZICO in a socially and environmentally responsible and sustainable way.

 

Website: www.zico.com

Who:Mark Rampolla

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=1744637&pvs=pp&authToken=43ce&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile

 

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