The Entrepreneurs Club invites a speaker to join us every week at our get togethers on Tuesdays at 6pm in 150 Dodge Hall. Many of our speakers are CEOs and founders of successful firms that love sharing their insights with students, and hiring interns!

Acquia

Bryan House, VP of Marketing

Bryan House gave us a walk through his incredibly diverse career, which has lead him to where he is at today. Bryan stressed the importance of taking risks, and always trying to move forward. Two to five years is the optimal time to spend in a big company if one wishes to maintain the entrepreneurial drive. Bryan showed us that it’s okay to just let things happen, and they’ll ultimately work out in the end – as long as hard work is involved!

Antler Agency

Terry Lozoff, President & CEO

Terry Lozoff has been on the front lines of the non-traditional and digital marketing industry for nearly a decade. As co-founder, President and CEO of Antler, Terry leads a stellar team of forward-thinking minds, social media and digital experts, trendsetters, and experiential marketing aces.

Au Bon Pain

Sue Morelli, CEO

Ms. Susan Morelli has been Chief Executive Officer and President of ABP Corporation since 2006. Ms. Morelli joined Au Bon Pain in 1988 and since then was responsible for a myriad of disciplines within the company. From 1984 to 1988, Ms. Morelli worked in the cable television industry at American Cablesystems, a successful start-up that was sold to Continental Cablevision. Ms. Morelli earned a B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1981, and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1984.

Blank Label

Fan Bi, Founder & Chief Shirt

Last night we had the “Chief Shirt” from Blank Label, Fan Bi. Fan gave us some great insight and the hard truth of starting up a business while still in school (he dropped out in order to prioritize his now successful business). In addition to Fan, as always, we had an activity where we split the room into groups and came up with some new ideas for apple products and apps. You can check out some videos on our Facebook Page.

Boloco

John Pepper, CEO and Founder

With over 16 locations and another one coming soon, John Pepper has built Boloco into a Boston burrito empire. After starting out on Wall Street and realizing it sucked, Pepper decided to take advantage of the need for quality burritos in Boston.

CampusLIVE

Ryan Durkin, COO

Graduating from UMass Amherst in 2008, Ryan paid his entire way with scholarships and hard work. His company raised $3,500,000 in VC funding and is used by over 100,000 college students across the U.S. Ryan is a hard working and incredibly passionate entrepreneur.

Gemvara

Matt Lauzon, CEO & Founder

Matt Lauzon co-founded Gemvara while earning his B.S. in Business Management at Babson College. Originally a B2B platform for independent jewelers, he transformed Gemvara into what it is today after recognizing a niche in the jewelry industry at the intersection of eCommerce and mass customization.

Goby

Vince Russo, CTO & Founder

Vince is goby's CTO and co-founder. He is responsible for architecting goby's search functionality and for ensuring ease of use, as well as for driving product developments as they relate to the company vision. Prior to co-founding goby, Vince was CTO with Reprise Media, a leading full service search engine marketing firm.

Grasshopper Group

Jon Kay, Ambassador of Buzz

Jonathan Kay was one of our best speakers to date. Talk about captivating an audience! He covered all the ins and outs of what it means to fail, what you can do to avoid it, and the little tricks in learning what your customer really wants.

Greenhorn Connect

Jason Evanish, CEO and Founder

Gradating from NU in 2009, Jason has become an integral part of the Boston startup community as the co-founder of GreenhornConnect.com, a hub of information for Boston's tech scene. Jason is also an expert on customer development and lean startups, which he led in his role at oneforty prior to their acquisition by Hubspot.

Harmonix

Eric Malafeew, Creator of Rock

Harmonix is one of the world’s leading independent game development studios, creators of the blockbuster Rock Band and Dance Central franchises, the newly released iOS video music app VidRhythm, as well as the original developers of Guitar Hero.

Her Campus

Annie Wang, CTO & Founder

Annie singlehandedly built and continues to develop the HerCampus.com site, building off her previous experiences with website design. She is responsible for managing the online publication of all Her Campus content as well as directing the image and branding of Her Campus.

Hodara Real Estate

Julian Jung, Real Estate Entre

This week we featured one of our Northeastern classmates, Julian Jung, who told us all about his experiences in the real estate market. Julian has become incredibly successful by both working hard and making his money work for him, while still enrolled in classes. Julian’s love for his trade really shows, and he clearly loves the lifestyle he’s living – something we’re all aspiring to find!

Influencers@

Spencer Bramson, CEO

Spencer dropped out of Bentley as a sophomore after starting a fast growing college marketing company, Buzz University. Now a marketing whiz, Spencer is committed full-time to making influencers@ one of the strongest marketing firms around that connects brands with the 18-30 demographic.

Karmaloop

Greg Selkoe, Founder

Karmaloop.com was founded in and is currently headquartered in Boston, MA, with an office and TV studio in New York City. It is one of the world’s largest online retailers of streetwear (including footwear, apparel and accessories). The company targets and sells to the "Verge Culture” demographic, the multicultural 18-34 youth.

Monster.com

Jeff Taylor, Founder

Jeff Taylor wow-ed a crowd of students tonight as he took us through the story of how he created Monster.com and his other passion, being a DJ. Jeff's job search website is one of the largest on the Internet, and on top of that he has become an infamous DJ around the world, entertaining crowds of thousands.

Newbury Comics

Mike Dreese, CEO and Founder

With humble beginnings on Boston's very own Newbury Street, Newbury Comics was founded in 1978 by two determined MIT students. The entertainment superstore now has over 29 locations in the New England area and is well known as the best comic book destination in town

NextView Ventures

Rob Go, Venture Capitalist

Rob is cofounder of NextView Ventures, a seed stage investment firm focused on internet enabled innovation. Rob spends as much time as possible working with young entrepreneurs and investing in businesses that are trying to solve important problems for everyday people.

Njabini Apparel

Mike Behan, CEO & Founder

Thanks again to Mike Behan, founder of Njabini Apparel for coming out! Mike showed us that a business can do so much more than generate profit. Mike’s business truly improves the livelihood of 14 disabled mothers in Kenya. He has truly started something great and hopefully inspired some of our members to do the same!

OsmoPure

Dave Perry, Founder & CEO

After graduating RPI in 2009, Dave decided to forgo the security of a “big boy” job in order to develop a couple of promising student led startups. Ultimately, he decided to focus his efforts on making a dent in the world’s water crisis by working full time to grow OsmoPure. Named Future Forward 2010 Game Changer of the Year and Masschallenge winner.

PerkStreet

Jason Henrichs

Jason is a serial entrepreneur, board member, advisor, and investor. Currently a part of 9 different companies and organizations, he's accomplished more than many would in a lifetime. From box maker in the shipping department of Deluxe Check Printers 15 years ago to now senior executive, Jason has come a long way.

SCVNGR

Nick Herbold, Chief Guru

As SCVNGR's resident guru, Nick handles all facets of our community team, interacting with players, gaining valuable feedback and providing support when needed. He’s SCVNGR savvy so feel free to reach with any questions about how to play. Nick “H-bomb” Herbold also runs SCVNGR’s Human Trafficking Division.

Terrible Labs

Cort Johnson, Co-Founder

Passionate about helping start-ups and growing the Boston Entrepreneurial community, Cort Johnson has co-founded 3 companies. After graduating Bentley in 2006, he built DartBoston, and also co-founded a web app development shop, Terrible Labs.

The Tap Lab

Dave Bisceglia, CEO & Founder

Dave is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Tap Lab, a Cambridge-based startup that develops social mobile games with a real-world twist. His focus is in game design and business development. The Tap Lab was part of TechStars Boston 2011 as well as a winner of MassChallenge 2011. Prior to The Tap Lab, Dave was the Co-Founder and President of the Boston University Entrepreneurship Club. Dave has a passion for entertainment and has experience working as a marketing intern/representative at Walden Media, Universal Pictures (UK), and Warner Music Group.

Zaarly

Ken Kamada, CFO

We had an absolutely incredible turnout for our kick-off event (over 150 students!). The atmosphere was one of passion, aspiration, and excitement. Ken took us through his undergrad years at BC, going into finance, eventually founding his own investment management firm and acting as CFO for multiple tech startups.