VCU + ELS Business Leaders Get Awards!!!

The VCU School of Business proudly announces their 2011 award recipients.  While we love to congratulate all honorees, we will highlight the winners of the VCU School of Business Awards as well as ELS Members that won other awards...congrats to you all! We are very proud of our very own Mike Fisher, Timmy Nguyen, and Kwaku Osei!

School Awards

Davis Ratcliffe Insurance Award
Michael E. Fischer

The Ann G. and Barney Roland Freasier, Sr. Tax Award
Melinda A. Tanner

Outstanding Co-op Student Award
Rachel L. Keener

Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key Award
John H. Bell, Justin N. Richie

Wall Street Journal Award
Timothy H. Nguyen

Staff Member of the Year
Jason A. Chan

Faculty Award of Excellence
Gupreet S. Dhillon

Distinguished Scholar Award
Michael A. McDaniel

Distinguished Teacher Award
Sven Kepes

Distinguished Service Award
Randolph T. Barker

Professional Faculty Excellence Award
Manoj A. Thomas


Departmental Awards

Marketing
Distinguished Service - Kwaku Osei

VCU Business Society's 1st Annual Golf Open

Two Fridays ago on April 30th, 2010 the VCU Business Society, VCU's School of Business Alumni group, hosted their 1st Annual Golf Open at the Independence Golf Club in Midlothian, VA.

With over 70 players and even golf lessons for newcomers the golf open was a unique new addition to VCU's S of B tradition. The event was truly extraordinary and presented many student volunteers the opportunity to meet and bond with various business leaders - representative of the Greater Richmond community.

We believe the pictures tell a better story - Enjoy!

 Congratulations to this year's winners, who received gold jackets along with many other prizes.

If you couldn't make it this year, we hope to see you next year!

For more pictures of the event, please check our photo gallery section.

The 1st Annual Lessons From Leaders Forum!!!

On Wednesday, March 31st 2010 the collaboration of 10 great student organizations and the VCU Business Society became a reality through VCU's 1st Annual Lessons From Leaders Forum. This year's theme was “Perseverance: The Only Safe Ship in a Storm is Leadership” and we were blessed to be engaged by:

Glenn Davis - Founder/CEO of BranCore Technologies

Eric S. Edwards - Co-Founder/Chief Science Officer of Intelliject

John Siddall - Founder/CEO and Chairman of Siddall, Inc.

Nick Abraham - P & C Binding Manager of Markel (Southeast Region)

All moderated by the very talented and insightful David Stirrup of Mutual of Omaha. The event itself was very enjoyable and funny at times, but also very informative and inspiring as each panelist ventured into their pasts to share with us the moments where they met their deepest challenges. In addition, they offered great advice to all of the students in the audience on how to begin a successful career during the current uncertain job market. Finally, a new tradition was born through this event where VCU faculty and staff were awarded for their leadership and service; this year's recipients were Dr. David J. Urban - Grand Leader of the Year and Mr. Doug G. Knapp - Grand Advisor of the Year. The success of this event has ensured that it will become a permanent annual program at VCU, so please by prepared for next year's, which will be held on Monday, April 4th 2011!

The Ram to Ram Pilot Program

Last Thursday at our 1st Society's Assembly Mr. Knapp and the VCU Business Society revealed that they were interested in doing a pilot mentorship program with the Established Leaders' Society. The VCU Business Society is an organization for the School of Business's over 23,000 alumni. In this pilot, 10-15 of our members will be selected to become mentees to 10-15 highly distinguished alumni. These mentors are really amongst the who's who of the Richmond community, many of them are the CEO, President, Principal, or Vice President of their respective companies or branches. We have been selected to participate because of the distinguished and professional qualities within our society. Eventually the VCU Business Society will be opening up a full out Ram to Ram mentorship program for all VCU Business students, this pilot is meant to lay the foundation for such a future program. After this initial program, which will last 10 weeks, we will be working hand in hand with the VCU Business Society so that they may successfully launch this program in the near future for most of all VCU Business students. Although this is for VCU's School of Business, many of the other schools at VCU are expected to launch similar programs in the future. It is up to us to push them in the right direction.

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