Enterprising Graduates – LJMU Graduate Entrepreneurs Awards
October 21st, 2008 by jacquiLast Thursday I attended the Liverpool John Moores University Graduate Entrepreneurs Awards Event held at the new Studio 2 @ Parr Street Studios. The event was a great success with a lovely venue, food and drink. But the best thing about the evening was too see the great enterprising talent that has come from Liverpool John Moores University Start Up Programme.
Liverpool John Moores does a great a job of nurturing enterprise talent in the city and the event recognised those that actively support it with the Young Enterprise Volunteer of the Year Award which went to Make Your Mark Ambassador Julia Emelogu of Maximum Impact Solutions.
Other award of the evening were Start Up of the Year which was awarded to Matthew Blanchard of Guilt Edged Clothing, Best use of LJMU’s business start up support awarded to Barry Piorkowski inventor of Strike Trainer.
The final two awards of the evening again went to Make Your Mark Ambassadors.
Kayleigh Baccino and Talia Baccino of TrendyVend won the Innovation Award for their unique vending machine supplying cosmetics and beauty products.
The final award of the evening went to Paul Corcoran of Agent Marketing. Paul won the Entrepreneurial Alumnus of the year which was presented to him by last years previous winner Gary Millar. Paul a young entrepreneur himself fully supports other young entrepreneurs in the city and has donated time to both Make Your Mark and LJMU’s Young Graduate Programme. A well deserving award for one of Liverpool’s dedicated enterprise ambassador’s.
I had a wonderful evening celebrating with all the winners and thank you to Dominique Aspey for inviting me along.
If you would like more information about LJMU’s Start Up programme you can got to www.ljmu.ac.uk/startup or contact them on 0151 231 8060 or startup@ljmu.ac.uk
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