• Bill Barton First Prize Award: $10,000
         -  Pintics - Francisco Guerrero
   
• Larry Boucher Second Prize Award: $5,000
         -  Onyababy - Aleshia Rickard
   
• Dan Doles Third Prize Award: $2,500
         -  Gluten Free Bakery of Santa Cruz - Amy Cesari
   
• Best Written Business Plan Award(sponsored by Dave Hadden): $500
         -  Cantaritos - Uriel Chavez
   
• Complimentary Award(sponsored by Matt Ready):
         -  the remaining four finalists each received a solid state storage drive (approx. price $100).  

All the finalist teams did a terrific job in presenting their business plans to the judges. We look forward to staying in touch with all of them!

Thank You to the Sponsors and Judges

Our sincere thanks to the sponsors of the awards: Bill Barton, Larry Boucher, Dan Doles, Dave Hadden and Matt Ready.

2012 Organizers

The Business Plan Competition is Campus wide and supported by the Entrepreneurial Society. The following faculty members and Entrepreneurial Society Members are involved.

Faculty

Steve Bennet, Accounting & Finance
Subhankar Dhar, Management Information Systems
Jan English-Lueck, AD, Social Science, Anthropology
Joe Giglierano, Marketing
Bobbi Makani, Marketing
Michael Merz, Marketing
William Musgrave, Organization & Management
Greg Payne, AD, CASA, Kinesiology
Janene Perez, Child and Adolescent Development
Iris Quan, Organization & Management
Leslie Speer, Design
Sally Veregge, Biological Sciences
Chunlei Wang, Organization & Management
Leonard Wesley, Computer Engineering
Robert Wood, Organization & Management
Anu Vuorikoski, Accounting & Finance, and Associate Director, SVCE
Anu Basu, Organization & Management, and Director, Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Society

Brian Orlando, President
Sanjay Maharani, Vice President