The GSEA awards the first, second and third place winners as determined by our judges through the semi-final and final rounds of the GSEA competition, as well as special awards for Social Impact and Innovation. The student entrepreneurs that receive these awards have fought it out through the GSEA competition and emerged as the best student entrepreneurs from around the globe. Please select the links on the right to view past winners of the GSEA.
The GSEA is proud to recognize our 2006 overall winners of the GSEA competition:
2007
First Place: Fraser Doherty - SuperJam - University of Strathclyde, Scotland
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Fraser Doherty is currently an Undergraduate Accountancy student at The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He began making homemade jam using his Grandmother’s recipes at the age of fourteen, selling his produce to neighbors and at church fetes. Within eighteen months, he decided to leave school and work on his idea full-time for a year before starting University.
During this ‘gap year’, Fraser developed a highly innovative set of recipes for manufacturing jams entirely from fruit and fruit juice. He also decided to use fruits high in nutrients, ‘Super Fruits’, in his recipes and develop fun and modern branding for the range. Soon, Waitrose gave Fraser a contract to supply their 184 stores with his ‘SuperJam’. This launch was accompanied by prime time news coverage and Fraser has since secured contracts to supply other large retailers in the UK and Ireland, such as the UK’s largest grocer; Tesco. |
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Second Place: Kendal Harazny - TicketGold - University of Alberta, Canada
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Kendal Harazny is a 5th year Commerce student with a Finance major at the University of Alberta School of Business, with an expected graduation date of April 2008. Kendal began his post-secondary education in Regina, Saskatchewan in the Secondary Education program studying to be a high school math teacher. Quickly realizing that he had a passion for the rapidly evolving and constantly changing business world, along with the creating and growth of his company, TicketGold, Kendal decided to move to Edmonton, Alberta to obtain a Commerce degree.
Kendal is the sole proprietor of TicketGold, founded in October, 2003. TicketGold is a ticket brokerage company providing premium and sold out event tickets to private and corporate clients throughout North America. TicketGold employs over twenty people and has had rapid growth year over year. He was recently awarded the 2007 ACE CIBC Canadian Student Entrepreneur of the Year. He was named as one of Edmontonian’s Sizzling 20 under 30. His company, TicketGold, has been named #8 in the 2007 PROFIT magazine’s “Canada’s 50 Hottest Emerging Growth Companies.” He was also awarded the PROFIT Young Entrepreneur Award, and is the youngest CEO to ever be listed on the PROFIT Hot 50 list - at age 22. In his spare time, he enjoys snowboarding, wakeboarding, and travelling. Kendal is also very involved within the School of Business as the co-chair for RoundTable 08, the most prestigious undergraduate business student conference in Canada. |
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Third Place: Erik Fjellborg - Calnet - Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
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At age 17, during his last year in high-school, Erik founded Calnet (Calendar-Networks). The business plan was to create a web-based scheduling tool that would save time for McDonald’s management and staff. The system was first launched at a local restaurant and soon spread to other cities and restaurants. Today 170 McDonald’s restaurants in Sweden are licensed for the application and agreements with two additional McDonald’s countries are signed. In February 2008 McTime will be used at more than 1500 McDonald’s stores.
McTime has been a great success among the McDonald’s staff, of whom 30% visits McTime at least once a day and 80% at least once a week. The high usage has resulted in a valuable ‘business community portal’ which has been used for communication of all sorts. In October 2007 Calnet merged with UCMS Group. Becoming a part of UCMS is a big and important step in the global development of the company as it offers benefits in a number of areas. Erik is also a part of the UCMS global management team. Erik is very interested in political and entrepreneurial issues and is a member of the Swedish Junior Achievement Young Enterprise (JA-YE) national association Board. He is also an experienced speaker as a result of numerous classes, seminars and lectures on various aspects of entrepreneurship and its challenges. Erik is the youngest CEO ever to have been invited to the CEO-CF (CEO Collaboration Forum). |
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Social Impact: Fraser Doherty - SuperJam - University of Strathclyde, Scotland
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Fraser Doherty is currently an Undergraduate Accountancy student at The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He began making homemade jam using his Grandmother’s recipes at the age of fourteen, selling his produce to neighbors and at church fetes. Within eighteen months, he decided to leave school and work on his idea full-time for a year before starting University.
During this ‘gap year’, Fraser developed a highly innovative set of recipes for manufacturing jams entirely from fruit and fruit juice. He also decided to use fruits high in nutrients, ‘Super Fruits’, in his recipes and develop fun and modern branding for the range. Soon, Waitrose gave Fraser a contract to supply their 184 stores with his ‘SuperJam’. This launch was accompanied by prime time news coverage and Fraser has since secured contracts to supply other large retailers in the UK and Ireland, such as the UK’s largest grocer; Tesco. |
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Innovation: Erik Fjellborg - Calnet - Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
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At age 17, during his last year in high-school, Erik founded Calnet (Calendar-Networks). The business plan was to create a web-based scheduling tool that would save time for McDonald’s management and staff. The system was first launched at a local restaurant and soon spread to other cities and restaurants. Today 170 McDonald’s restaurants in Sweden are licensed for the application and agreements with two additional McDonald’s countries are signed. In February 2008 McTime will be used at more than 1500 McDonald’s stores.
McTime has been a great success among the McDonald’s staff, of whom 30% visits McTime at least once a day and 80% at least once a week. The high usage has resulted in a valuable ‘business community portal’ which has been used for communication of all sorts. In October 2007 Calnet merged with UCMS Group. Becoming a part of UCMS is a big and important step in the global development of the company as it offers benefits in a number of areas. Erik is also a part of the UCMS global management team. Erik is very interested in political and entrepreneurial issues and is a member of the Swedish Junior Achievement Young Enterprise (JA-YE) national association Board. He is also an experienced speaker as a result of numerous classes, seminars and lectures on various aspects of entrepreneurship and its challenges. Erik is the youngest CEO ever to have been invited to the CEO-CF (CEO Collaboration Forum). |
