Pictured from left to right:
Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ on Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, Alex Robinson, Insperity; Craig Richard, Chief Economic Development Officer of the Greater Houston Partnership; Brad Burke, Managing Director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and host of the Business Plan Competition; Jenny Corbin, CEO of TNG Pharmaceuticals and winner of the competition; Jim Turley, CEO of Ernst & Young; Katie Peterson of the Kauffman Foundation.
Winners of the 2011 IT and Web Rice Alliance Rising Venture Award
(L-R) Guardian Lion, Flextrip, Nimbix, LearningWeb, Kolarity, Provenio Group, Chai One, Qukku, eyeMe, YouData, Brad Burke or Rice Alliance and Greg Price of PKF Texas
2011 Rice Alliance Most Promising Energy Companies
(L-R) Paul Nichols, Cirasys, Inc.; Stuart Schaaf, Orbital Traction Ltd.; Nadia Shalaby, Artic Sand; Robert Schucker, Natrion Energy Corporation; Scott Taylor, Octave Reservoir Technologies, Inc.
Congratulations to NuMat of Northwestern University, Tabrez Ebrahim, Omar Farha, Chris Wilmar and Ben Hernandez. NuMat won $879,300 in richest business plan competition ever with $1.55 million in prizes.