Canada, India, Mexico, Russia and United States Take Top Honors at Global Finals

New York, New York, USA (17 November 2012) – The Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), a global competition of students running revenue-generating businesses while carrying full college course loads, today announced the Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner. Chelsea Sloan, University of Utah student and founder of Uptown Cheapskate, a teen/young adult fashion exchange franchise, is the competition’s first female winner, and will receive $150,000 in cash and in-kind business services from the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) to help propel her business to the next level.

Sloan opened the first Uptown Cheapskate location in Salt Lake City, Utah with her brother, Scott Sloan, in 2009. After just eight months in operation and turning a profit, Sloan franchised the trendy consignment store and has since expanded to 20 locations in 12 states. Sloan first won the EO Alchemy regional competition in Seattle before besting the top 30 international student entrepreneurs at Global Finals at the New York Stock Exchange on November 16th. These 30 semi-finalists competed and were selected from a field of roughly 1,100 applications from 42 countries on 6 continents. The 2012 Global Finals competition marked the most female finalists, with 7 women making it to the top 30.

“Participating in the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s GSEA program has been a once in a lifetime experience,” said Chelsea Sloan, founder of Uptown Cheapskate and Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year. “The networking, mentorship and training that I have received is priceless and winning the title pushes my passion for entrepreneurship even further.”

“The caliber of contestants in this year’s Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards is absolutely incredible,” said Samer Kurdi, EO Global Chairman. “These students, who have founded successful businesses while still in school, are changing industries, communities and the world and they inspire all of us to become better entrepreneurs and global citizens.”

First Runner Up: Mikhail Naumov is a Rutgers University student and founder of The GREEN Program, a provider of experiential education programs in Costa Rica. GREEN, or Global Renewable Energy Education Network, combines volunteering with education, and develops programs that teach participants about reusable energy through developing an actual green energy site for an area in need.

Second Runner Up: Brett Sheffield is a student at the University of Manitoba in Canada and founder of Sheffield Farms and Stay Fit Health Club. Sheffield Farms is a 1,700-acre grain farm in rural Manitoba, founded in 2008 utilizing the latest farming technology. Stay Fit Health Club is a 24-hour fitness center in its first year of operation. After winning the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) competition, Sheffield advanced to the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s GSEA to take second place.

Social Impact Award: Elizabeth Aguirre Moreno Valle, a student at TEC de Monterrey in Mexico started the Fast Fruit Factory. The company provides fresh fruit and fruit juices at kiosks at schools, universities and malls with the mission to provide healthy food options.

Innovation Award: Mandar Tulankar, a student at Nuva College of Engineering in India and founder of Angels R&D Pvt Ltd., invented the mobile shoe charger that uses the pressure created by walking to power cell phones.

Lessons from the Edge Awards: Daniel Mishin, a Russian student at The Institute of Economics and Computer Science, started and owns Bear Hostels, a high quality, low price youth hostel brand throughout Moscow.

High School Winner: Tony Ren is a Canadian International Baccalaureate student at Bayview Secondary School, and founder and president of Median Web Solutions. With just $3,000 he created this web design agency that customizes sites for the youth market. He has since gone on to become the president of EasyStudy Canada, an academic resources site for secondary school students in Ontario, and is the CTO of Epitome Marketing, a youth based marketing firm. He is also one of the youngest employees of the Royal Bank of Canada where he is working to develop the Social Business Association, an entrepreneurial social collaboration platform.

Graduate Student Winner: A recent MBA graduate from Brigham Young University, Brad Moss founded React Games in 2008 to develop mobile games for smartphones and tablets for brands. Since then, Moss has created award-winning games and grown the company to more than 21 employees and has worked with EA, Hasbro, A&E and Intel.

The Global Finals is a featured program of the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, and is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, NYSE Big Start Up and Thomas Franchise Solutions Ltd. This year’s judges included representatives from NYSE Euronext, The Kauffman Foundation, Cisco, The New York Times, Upstart.Business Journal, EO and former GSEA champions.

About the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards
As the premier global competition for high school, undergraduate and graduate students, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) represents over 1,700 of the prominent student entrepreneurs from over 20 countries. Built on a mission to inspire students to start and grow entrepreneurial ventures, GSEA brings global visibility to pioneering student business owners. Since 1998, the GSEA, a program founded at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University, has honored outstanding students who simultaneously attend university full-time while running their own businesses. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) took on leadership of the GSEA in 2006 to offer student entrepreneurs access to a global network of mentors, resources and connections from the most influential community of entrepreneurs in the world. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s GSEA is generously supported by major foundations, including the NYSE Euronext Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and Peter Thomas. To nominate a student entrepreneur or to get involved, go to www.gsea.org and follow GSEA on Twitter at @GSEACompetition.

About the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)
The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a dynamic global network of more than 8,700 business owners in 42 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, the year 2012 marks EO’s 25th anniversary. With its transformative experiences and unparalleled peer network, EO transforms the lives of the entrepreneurs who transform the world. EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. Membership in one of EO’s 120 chapters is by invitation only; the average member is 41 years old with annual revenues of US $17.3 million. For more information on EO, visit www.eonetwork.org, call +1.703.519.6700 and follow EO on Twitter at @EntrepreneurOrg.

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Detroit, MI – September 28, 2012 – The Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s (EO) Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), the premier global competition for students who have founded and operate businesses while attending college or university, today announced that Sarah Haselkorn, Washington University, St. Louis student and founder of GreenBean, was the winner of the Thrive Midwestern Regional Competition. Haselkorn will now move on to the Global Finals to compete for $250,000 in cash and in-kind business services at the New York Stock Exchange in November to fuel the next phase of her company’s growth.

Sarah Haselkorn, founder of Green Bean and 2012 Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s GSEA Thrive regional winner said “I have had a passion for entrepreneurship since I began running a summer camp in the seventh grade out of a three-ring binder. This competition is an amazing opportunity for me to network with like-minded students and seasoned business veterans that will help me grow and develop as an entrepreneur.”

Haselkorn, a senior at Washington University, St. Louis majoring in Systems Science & Engineering, founded Green Bean as a junior in January 2011. The fast-casual, salad and wrap restaurant in the Central West End in St. Louis, MO. is “green” from the floor boards to the food. When converting the space into a 20-seat eatery, Green Bean salvaged all the wood from the previous business and recycled it throughout the space. All of the food, cutlery and dishes used in the restaurant are compostable or recyclable and all the ingredients are fresh and locally grown.

“EO’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards is an incredible opportunity for new business leaders who want to push their development and take their business to the next level,” said Adam Robinson, founder of Hireology and sub-committee chair for the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s GSEA.

A program of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards celebrates students who are defying the odds and taking the American dream into their own hands. Balancing final exams with fiscal year budgets out of their dorm rooms, each of the young CEOs participating in the competition have built revenue generating businesses during one of the toughest economies in a generation.  The Thrive Midwestern Regional Competition brought four semi-finalists from across the Midwest to Detroit, where they presented their current businesses and future projections, as well as their personal passion for entrepreneurship. In addition to Green Bean, participating companies included a presentation and video design company, a provider of landscaping and auto services, and a developer of an Android-enabled Geiger Counter. Besting the competition, Haselkorn will face-off at the Global Finals. November 14-16 at the New York Stock Exchange for the title of Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year, from among the top 30 regional finalists competing from more than 42 countries around the world.

About the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards
As the premier global competition for undergraduate student business owners, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) inspire students to adopt entrepreneurial endeavors by bringing global visibility to student business owners who are innovative, profitable and socially responsible. Since 1998, the GSEA, a program founded at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University, has honored outstanding students who juggle a full course load while running their own businesses. The Entrepreneurs’  Organization (EO) took on leadership of the GSEA in 2006 to offer student entrepreneurs access to a global network of mentors, resources and connections from the most influential community of entrepreneurs in the world. The GSEA is generously supported by major foundations, including the NYSE Euronext Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and  Peter Thomas. To nominate a student entrepreneur or to get involved, go to http://www.gsea.org.

About the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)
The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a dynamic global network of more than 8,000 business owners in 42 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, the year 2012 marks EO’s 25th anniversary. With its transformative experiences and unparalleled peer network, EO transforms the lives of the entrepreneurs who transform the world. EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. Membership in one of EO’s 120 chapters is by invitation only; the average member is 41 years old with annual revenues of US $17.3 million. For more information on EO, visit www.eonetwork.org or call +1.703.519.6700.

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“We are proud to partner with programs that drive the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders,” said Thom Ruhe, president of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation. “In recognizing real-world entrepreneurial achievement, EO’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards represents the Foundation’s vision for advancing the entrepreneurial spirit.”

The Kauffman Foundation’s continued support of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s GSEA complements the decade-long partnership the Kauffman Foundation has with EO. The Global Finals brings together some of the most innovative students from around the world. This offers a unique opportunity for education and mentorship that can fast-track these future entrepreneurial leaders to the next level of business success.

“The Kauffman Foundation and the Entrepreneurs’ Organization share an understanding of the impact entrepreneurs can have in growing and transforming the global economy,” said Samer Kurdi, chairman of the Global Board of Directors for the Entrepreneur’s Organization. “The student entrepreneurs in our program are generating jobs for their classmates, resourcing local vendors, and in some cases addressing global social challenges. Being a featured event of GEW highlights the power these students bring to their communities.”

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, founded in 1998, is underway in more than 23 countries around the world, from Malaysia to Ghana. Last year, the program received over 1,600 applicants. By November, 30 of the world’s top student entrepreneurs will have been selected to compete in New York City for $150,000 in cash and in-kind services that will help to propel their dorm-room venture into a successful business.

There is still time to apply to many regional competitions for a chance at Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s GSEA Global Finals. For more information about the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s GSEA or find application information, visit http://www.gsea.org/.

Global Entrepreneurship Week will catalyze tens of thousands of activities worldwide from November 12 – 18, 2012. To learn more about Global Entrepreneurship Week, visit www.unleashingideas.org.

About the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards
As the premier global competition for undergraduate student business owners, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) inspire students to adopt entrepreneurial endeavors by bringing global visibility to student business owners who are innovative, profitable and socially responsible. Since 1998, the GSEA, a program founded at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University, has honored outstanding students who juggle a full course load while running their own businesses. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) took on leadership of the GSEA in 2006 to offer student entrepreneurs access to a global network of mentors, resources and connections from the most influential community of entrepreneurs in the world. The GSEA is generously supported by major foundations, including the NYSE Euronext Foundation the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Ernst & Young and the Be Great Organization. To nominate a student entrepreneur or to get involved, go to http://www.gsea.org.

About the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)
The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a dynamic global network of more than 8,000 business owners in 40 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, the year 2012 marks EO’s 25th anniversary. With its transformative experiences and unparalleled peer network, EO transforms the lives of the entrepreneurs who transform the world. EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. Membership in one of EO’s 120 chapters is by invitation only; the average member is 41 years old with annual revenues of US $17.3 million. For more information on EO, visit www.eonetwork.org or call +1.703.519.6700.

About Global Entrepreneurship Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. During one week each November, thousands of events and competitions around the world inspire millions to engage in entrepreneurial activity while connecting them to potential collaborators, mentors and even investors. In four years, Global Entrepreneurship Week has expanded to more than 120 countries—empowering nearly 20 million people through 95,000 activities over that time. Powered by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the initiative is supported by dozens of world leaders and a growing network of 24,000 partner organizations. For more information, visit www.unleashingideas.org and follow @unleashingideas on Twitter.

About the Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people’s eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. In addition, the Foundation focuses on initiatives in the Kansas City region to advance students’ math and science skills, and improve the educational achievement of urban students, including the Ewing Marion Kauffman School, a college preparatory charter school for middle and high school students set to open in 2011. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has approximately $2 billion in assets. For more information, visit www.kauffman.org and follow the Foundation on Twitter at @kauffmanfdn.

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A member of the New Orleans chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Mr. Langley poured his energy into developing the organization’s Accelerator program. A few years later, he was elected E.O.’s global chairman and embarked on a Forrest Gump-like entrepreneurship tour, popping up in places from Egypt to Pakistan where history was happening.

Read the article at [The New York Times].

If the Saginaw State University student made a persuasive argument in the regional finals, his Warren-based company could head to the worldwide finals of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneurs Awards and a grand prize of more than $250,000 in cash and business services.

The 22-year-old business-management major cleared a couple of rounds of the same competition in 2009 when his outfit was tinier. Now, DeDecker believes he has a legitimate shot to advance to the global finals in New York after he explained his company and ambitions to judges in Wednesday’s competition.

Read the article at [The Detrioit News].

The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards regional semifinal is scheduled Wednesday afternoon at the MGM Grand Hotel in Detroit.

Students will present their companies to a panel of chief executives and business leaders. The winner will compete in November against other semi-finalists from around the world.

Read the article at [Whiotv.com].

I had the opportunity to ask this student entrepreneur some questions about his winning product and company, which gives some great insights into his mindset, persistence and innovative spirit.

CR: What is DryBath and what problem does it solve?

LM: DryBath is the world’s first and only bath-substituting skin gel…you apply it to your skin, then you don’t need to bathe.

I invented it to benefit people from the poorest communities in the world, and also for people in the developed world. For people without water, DryBath provides empowerment as an affordable tool to achieve lifesaving personal hygiene without having to be dependent on stagnant community water infrastructure development. For wealthier communities, it offers a convenient way to save time and decrease their unhealthy practice of unnecessary daily bathing (which is proven to cause continuous drying of the skin), while achieving adequate personal hygiene. In both situations, precious water is saved, which can be put to better use.

CR: How did the idea for DryBath come about?

LM: The idea came to me in the 11th grade in 2007. It was a cold winter’s day; I was sunbathing with some friends of mine, when one of my best friends had to go bathe. After we nagged him to hit the shower, he eventually said, “why doesn’t someone invent something you can just put on your skin and avoid the need to bathe?”

A light bulb went on as I realized that I would be willing to pay money out of my pocket to buy such a product. Bear in mind that we were in the middle of the rural Limpopo province, with almost non-existent resources. I went home that day and used my web-enabled basic cellphone to research if such a product existed. My research showed that the product didn’t seem to exist, and there was a huge market of 2.5 billion people in the world without proper access to water who were in dire need of such a product (that number doesn’t include the billion more like my friend, who were lazy to bathe). Coming from a poor background myself, I felt compelled to create the product. It took 6 months and endless time on Google & Wikipedia to do it.

CR: Tell us a bit about your background.

LM: I am the only child of Stanford Malatji and the eldest of 2 sons to Lovemore Marishane. My dad achieved financial freedom and has been able to provide me with great schooling and the ethic of always pushing myself to do more; while my mom is lives on the economic margin of society and has provided me with the emotional development necessary to seek improvement for the poor community I spent half my life growing up in.

My dad ignited my entrepreneurial passion in my first year of high school, and my love of science allowed me to indulge my curiosities of coming up with inventions for different opportunities I saw. In 9th grade, I formulated my own biodiesel fuel, invented a healthy cigarette; and in 10th grade I authored a mobile dictionary and attempted to publish a nationwide security magazine.

CR: What is the pricing of the product and how many units have you sold to date?

LM: We’re selling DryBath sachets to corporates at around USD1.5 per sachet (1 sachet contains 25ml and replaces one bathe). For each sachet that corporates purchase, we provide a free sachet to our charity partners for distribution through their humanitarian work. We sell DryBath sachets on the retail market in poor communities for USD 0.50 each, with an aim of lowering this price in half when we reach economies of scale. We have sold 162,000 sachets to date.

CR: How did you decide to participate in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards?

LM: I heard about the competition in 2009 during my first year of university, I entered and lost the South African regional. In 2010, I entered again and made it to the global finals; and in 2011 I gave it one last shot, and I’m glad to have brought it to African soil.

Read entire interview at [HuffingtonPost.com].

The 21-year-old “opportunity obsessed” Ludwick Marishane founded Headboy Industries in 2007 to create products that solve the world’s most difficult problems and make them available to everyone. Its flagship product, DryBath, is the world’s only bath substitute lotion for the whole body. First designed for sleepy college students too lazy to shower, its greatest application is for the millions people worldwide who have no daily access to clean water. This year, Marishane was also named one of 12 “Brightest Young Minds in the World” at the annual Google Zeitgeist event and was the youngest person ever to speak at the event. Currently in his last year at the University of Cape Town, Marishane is majoring in accounting and finance and plans to continue to develop and commercialize products that are profitable and have a global impact.

“Participating in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards was a game-changing experience for my personal and professional growth, and winning is proof that crazy high school dreams can go on to bring about real change in the world,” said Ludwick Marishane, founder of Headboy Industries and student at the University of Cape Town. “All of the finalists in this competition work incredibly hard every day, balancing student life and their businesses. Meeting them and the distinguished entrepreneurs that made up the judges’ panel was a humbling and re-invigorating experience. I went for the competition but came back with a global board of peer advisors and lifelong mentors through the Entrepreneurs’ Organization.”

“This year’s GSEA competition coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and really symbolizes how young entrepreneurs are making their mark: creating employment, changing the world and in Ludwick’s case, saving lives,” said Kevin Langley, Global Chairman of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. “Like Steve Jobs and Michael Dell in their day, EO continues to be the place where young entrepreneurs on every continent come to learn and grow their business and themselves.”

Runners Up and Honorable Mentions

Runner Up: Garrett Gee, sophomore at Brigham Young University and founder of Scan.me, providers of custom QR codes and other cutting edge software solutions that help drive online traffic. In 1999, Garrett became the youngest inductee into the Utah Top 100 Entrepreneurs and was the Guinness Book of World Records holder for Tetris, until he was dethroned 2007.

Lessons from the Edge Award: Jake Jorgovan was also named second runner up, is a Belmont University recent graduate and founder of Rabbit Hole Creative, a provider of custom-design video and production services for tours and events. Pushing the limits of video and sound technology, Rabbit Hole Creative offers all-inclusive, turnkey solutions to take events to the next level. Jorgovan majored in audio engineering and entrepreneurism.

Innovation Award: Dinesh Wadhwani, Babson senior and founder of ThinkLite LLC, provides customized, energy efficient green lighting solutions provider. Wadhwani, who is a second-time global finalist, founded ThinkLite in 2009 after learning of the lack of choice available in the green lighting industry. Dinesh is also the co-founder of three other companies including Slick Stick, Wadhsoft Inc. and Turn the Campus.

Social Impact Award: Matias Daniel Doublier is the founder of Electryalg and student at Colegio Marianista in Argentina. Electryalg creates custom, algae-based green energy solutions, turning algae into energy to provide low cost, environmentally sustainable electricity to homes, farms and other areas of Argentina that do not have or cannot afford traditional electricity solutions.

GSEA Graduate and High School Award Winners

This year’s GSEA high school winner is Dino Zaharakis, founder of zlabs and creator of the DZDock, a one-size-fits-all dock for electronic devices. Dino designed the product when he was just 11 years old in his home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after his father challenged him to create an iPod stand and an e-commerce Web site to sell it, to get his own cell phone. Mike Wahl, the GSEA graduate winner, is a Ph.D. candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland in the Faculty of Medicine and the founder of Definitions Wellness Safety Services and Definitions Fitness and Lifestyle Studio. Definitions provides science-based, fitness training for individuals, as well as major industrial and corporate clients in Canada and the United States at worksites – whether an offshore oil drilling site or an office settings – to improve the wellness and safety culture of the organization.

As a featured event of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the GSEA Global Finals had 30 finalists competing more than eight hours of presentations and judges’ questions at the New York Stock Exchange – the first time the Global Finals has been held in New York City. For more information on the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, visit www.GSEA.org

About The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards

As the premier global competition for undergraduate student business owners, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) inspire students to adopt entrepreneurial endeavors by bringing global visibility to student business owners who are innovative, profitable and socially responsible. Since 1998, the GSEA, a program founded at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University, has honored outstanding students who juggle a full course load while running their own businesses. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) took on leadership of the GSEA in 2006 to offer student entrepreneurs access to a global network of mentors, resources and connections from the most influential community of entrepreneurs in the world. The GSEA is generously supported by major foundations, including the NYSE Euronext Foundation the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Ernst & Young and the Be Great Organization. To nominate a student entrepreneur or to get involved, go to http://www.gsea.org.

About the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a dynamic global network of more than 8,000 business owners in 40 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, the year 2012 marks EO’s 25th anniversary. With its transformative experiences and unparalleled peer network, EO transforms the lives of the entrepreneurs who transform the world. EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. Membership in one of EO’s 120 chapters is by invitation only; the average member is 41 years old with annual revenues of US $17.3 million. For more information on EO, visit www.eonetwork.org or call +1.703.519.6700.

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From 20-22 June 2010, the EO delegates joined the international delegations in Toronto, Canada, to identify and examine the issues challenging young and emerging entrepreneurs around the world. In the discussion on how best to ensure future prosperity, it is evident that the world has evolved into a knowledge-based economy, in which entrepreneurial education and innovation will be the drivers of growth and success.

“We were thrilled to collaborate with other entrepreneurial leaders at the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit,” said Matt Stewart, Global Chairman of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. “To meet the challenges of the 21st century economy, meaningful partnerships between leaders in the entrepreneurial community must be cultivated. The world’s leaders, both private and public, must follow through with substantial actions to foster and support the next generation of entrepreneurs.”

To that end, the representatives from all of the G20 countries worked together to draft a communiqué that will be officially submitted to the G20 Business Summit (B20) for deliberation. The delegation’s recommendations are planned to be the focus for a discussion of entrepreneurship at the B20 Summit on 25-26 June 2010.

EO is recognized globally for its thought leadership in the entrepreneurial community, as well as its experience in fostering young and emerging entrepreneurs through its Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) and Accelerator programs.

The GSEA is the premier global competition for undergraduate and graduate students who own and operate businesses while attending college or university. Nominees compete against their peers from around the world. EO also operates the Accelerator program, which is aimed at empowering first-stage entrepreneurs with the tools they need to grow their business and to provide them with the skills to make them better entrepreneurs and leaders.

Attending the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit on behalf of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization were members of EO’s global leadership as well as leading members of the Accelerator program and current GSEA finalists.

“If education and innovation are to be the currencies of this century, it is imperative that the leaders in the entrepreneurial community work together to foster the next generation of business leaders and innovators,” said Kevin Langley, President, U.S. Delegation. “Bringing the world’s entrepreneurial leaders together for this conversation is a great and necessary first step toward the promise of our future.”

About the Entrepreneurs’ Organization
The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) – for entrepreneurs only – is a dynamic global network of more than 7,300 business owners in 42 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. Membership in one of EO’s 116 chapters is by invitation only; the average member is 40 years old with annual revenues of US$17.3 million. For more information on EO, visit www.eonetwork.org or call +1.703.519.6700.

About the CYBF G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit
The Canadian Youth Business Foundation will host the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit in Toronto, Canada, from June 20 to 22. The Summit will bring together more than 200 young entrepreneurs (aged 18 to 40) and leaders of entrepreneurial organizations from G20 countries to exchange ideas and establish international networks and partnerships that will help drive sustainable global economic growth. For more information, visit www.cybf-g20.com.

Keeley and eight other leading entrepreneurs were named winners of selected categories by an independent judging panel made up of regional business, academic and community leaders. Keeley was name the winner of the “emerging” category at a gala event on Thursday, June 10th in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

About College Nannies & Tutors
College Nannies & Tutors is the nation’s largest resource for customized nanny and tutoring services and was founded by Keeley in 2001 while earning a degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN while being a nanny himself for two boys and a little girl during school. College Nannies & Tutors is now operating over 65 locations on both coasts and in the Midwest and has been featured in such media outlets as Newsweek, USA Today, CNN, NPR and others. In addition to being named the “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year” in 2010, Keeley was named the “Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2003, one of the “Top 25 under 25 to Watch” by Business Week Magazine, one of the “20 under 30 Who Will Change the World” by Citizen Culture Magazine, and one of theMinneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal’s “Young Entrepreneurs” and “40 under 40” all by age 29.

About Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year® Awards Program
Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year® is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The award makes a difference through the unique way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global award of its kind, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 135 cities in 50 countries.

Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young LLP is a client-serving member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited located in the U.S.