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| The Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership |
| Results of the IFEL 2nd Annual Business Plan Competition |
| Finalists A Taste of Rubies is a dessert company specializing in the manufacturing, production and distribution of Pleasantly Addictive Gourmet Cheesecakes Ruby Wesley, Founder and Owner (New Brunswick) The Burning Bush Christian Bookstore & Café, a bookstore and café featuring a variety of popular and self-published Christian books, periodicals, and music Ellis J. Still, President and Chief Executive Officer (Newark) Colorefex LLC, a provider of custom powder coatings and painting services Chanard Cooper, Chief Executive Officer (Hillside) Indigo Bleu LLC, a full-service wedding and event-planning boutique based Kenesha Brathwaite, Founder (Fair Lawn) Tafel Inc. is dedicated to the development and manufacture of clean energy power sources Lijun Gao, President (Bridgewater) Verify-ED, a resume verification and background screening service provider Joelle Hinds-Ware, Managing Partner (Montclair) Regal Communications, LLC, a value-added reseller of secondary market networking equipment and a provider of network system management services Kenneth King, Managing Partner (Piscataway) Capital Match Participants Angel Nursing provides comprehensive childbirth education and related services. Shelby Pitts, President and CEO (Phillipsburg, NJ) Bobbies Babies offers child care for children from six weeks to five years of age with developmentally appropriate programs in a safe, secure and stimulating environment. Tangela Stewart (Newark, NJ) Dungey Digital Labs designs, builds, and hosts websites for select customers in the entertainment, consumer products, healthcare, and travel industries, providing video streaming, Flash development, and ecommerce and auction services, concentrating on improving achievement of performance goals. David Dungey, Owner (Hackensack, NJ) Herbal Healing Gardens is a home based business that creates homemade herbal handmade soaps and skin care products for customers who are seeking a premium product that is organic and handmade. Doris Peace Warden, Master Herbalist and Soapmaker (Magnolia, NJ) Lila Technologies is working to commercialize a science mashup platform that enables data integration across semi-structured ad hoc data. Karan Bhatia, Founder (Summit, NJ) Maybe Mom offers a saliva-based fertility testing device with 98% accuracy. Helen Denise, CEO (Newark, NJ) Thomas Learning Center provides personalized, one-on-one and small group tutoring and academic enrichment sessions in a warm and caring environment for the academically and economically at-risk students of the Newark public school system in grades K-12. LaNisha Thomas, Owner (Newark) |
| Verify-ED winner of the 2nd Annual IFEL Business Plan Competition |