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Branding and Entrepreneurship Panel

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)

Boston, MA

Branding and Entrepreneurship Panel

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Event Details

NOTE: Please Ignore Eventbrite's Stated Location.
The event will be held at Boston University, 600 Commonwealth Ave, College of Arts & Sciences Room 326 (the East end of CAS)

The Boston University Entrepreneurship Club, Public Relations Student Society of America, Marketing Club and Alpha Kappa Psi, a professional business fraternity, will be hosting a panel of innovative entrepreneurs that have combined business and PR skills to turn their visions into successfully branded businesses.

The goals of this panel are to educate Boston University students on how business practices, branding and marketing interact and to prove how necessary these skills are in a developing an enterprise.

There will be panelist introductions, a Q&A period, and breakout discussions.

Refreshments will be provided.

The event will start at 6pm, but feel free to come a bit late.

PRSSA's educator of the year, Professor Steve Quigley will be moderating the panel.

The panelists are as follows:

CampusLIVE's Founder and CEO, Ryan Durkin
-CampusLIVE is a platform that enables students to connect to brands in fun and exciting ways. They create "engagement" campaigns for sponsors like Ace Ticket, Peter Pan Bus Lines, Comcast, HotelPlanner.com and Big Y Supermarkets. These campaigns offer students the opportunity to win awesome prizes, exclusive trips and huge discounts in exchange for playing social games. These games might include polls, surveys, scavenger hunts, team matches and more.

Hodara Real Estate's Co-Founder, Vincent Vomero
-Hodara Real Estate Group is a full-service brokerage, specializing in brokerage income producing properties

HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Manager, Rebecca Corliss
-HubSpot has taken all of the best inbound marketing methods and consolidated them into one integrated software package, so you can blog, tweet, optimize, capture leads and nurture them all in one place.


Boston Innovation and Streetwise Media Co-Founder and CEO, Chase Garbarino
-Created in 2008 as a community startup blog hosted on WordPress, BostInno went through brief stints as a wiki and then a Twitter aggregator.  On December 7, 2009, BostInno was re-launched as an online news platform focused on creating original content covering Boston’s innovation ecosystem.

Business Professor and Start-up Consultant, Marc Girolimetti 
-Marc Girolimetti graduated from Babson College and has taught at Boston University. He is currently consulting with start-ups while preparing to launch a new gaming venture. 

When & Where


Boston, MA

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)


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Boston University’s PRSSA Chapter



BU PRSSA is a student-run professional development and public relations group at Boston University’s College of Communication. The members meet weekly to hear local professional speakers and attend local, regional and national events. For the third consecutive year, BU PRSSA will host PR Advanced, the PRSSA New England division’s Regional Activity.