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2007 BUILD Youth Business Plan Competitions

About the Competitions

As BUILD has grown, so have our celebrations!

This year, we proudly hosted two independent Youth Business Plan Competitions, one at each of our BUILD sites: the 8th Annual BUILD Youth Business Plan Competition on the Peninsula on May 12, and the Inaugural BUILD Oakland Youth Business Plan Competition in the East Bay on May 19. 

Young Hype, a t-shirt company from Menlo-Atherton High School, and Beat the Heat, a company producing sweat guards for baseball caps from Oakland High School, won first place at their respective competitions and recieved a cash award and automatic acceptance into BUILD's Youth Business Incubator.  Photos from the this year's event can be seen here.  Thank you to everyone who made these competitions such a success!

2007 Final Round Judges

Peninsula Competition:
Gideon Yu -- CFO, YouTube
Maeve Richard -- CFO/COO, Progress Investment Management Company
Robin Abrams -- Former CEO, Firefly Mobile
Wende Hutton-- Venture Capitalist, Canaan Partners
Juan Soto -- Vice President of Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Drew Lanza -- General Partner, Morgenthaler
Sulu Mamdani -- Principal, SVB Capital

Oakland Competition:
Sinjin Bain – Executive Producer, Electronic Arts
Anthony Batarse – CEO Lloyd A. Wise, Inc. and Board President, Port of Oakland
Michael Bush – President, The MattMar Group
Andrea Arria-Devoe – San Francisco Editor, Daily Candy
Mike Hannigan – CEO, Give Something Back
Mark McDonald – Senior VP and Credit Officer, Summit Bank
Dr. Kimberly Statham – State Administrator, Oakland Unified School District
Randy Williams – Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum

2007 Round One Judges

Peninsula Competition:
Kelly Nelson -- Director of Marketing, Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley at East Palo Alto
Joe Hurd -- Vice President, Business Development, VideoEgg, Inc.
Fred Mendez-- Director of Community Reinvestment, Silicon Valley Bank
Mike Raab -- Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Jennifer Morris -- Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company
David Fischer -- VP of Online Sales and Operations, Google, Inc.
Diane Ford -- Director, The Sobrato Family Foundation
Laurene Powell Jobs -- Founder, CollegeTrack
Ronald Garcia, Ph.D. -- Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs, Stanford School of Medicine
Mike Bellissimo -- Senior Director, Solaris Marketing
Mike Cassidy -- Columnist, San Jose Mercury News
Gordon Lewin -- Governing Board Membe,r Board of Trustees SUHSD
Usha Sekar -- Founder and CEO, Meemli, Inc.
Don Gibson -- Governing Board Member, Board of Trustees SUHSD
Sarah "Sally" Stewart -- Governing Board Member, Board of Trustees SUHSD
James Patell-- Professor of Public and Private Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Kathryn Regan -- Founder and Owner, Gumshoe

Oakland Competition:
Jeffrey Cheung – President and CEO, OneCalifornia Bank
Jose Corona – Executive Director, Inner City Advisors
Adam Cohen – Executive Vice President, Sonic Focus
Kevin Francis – Regional Manager, Oracle
Qiava Harper – Founder, Culture Magazine
Sean Heywood – Co-Founder, MR.
Adam Hirschfelder – Program Officer, Koret Foundation
Laura Howard – Founder, Laloo’s Goat Milk Ice Cream
Peter Jackson – Chairman and CEO, Intraware
Sonia BasSheva Manjon– Director, Center for Art and Public Life Chair, Community Art & Diversity Studies, California College of the Arts
Lilia Marquez – CEO and Real Estate Broker, Marquez and Associates Real Estate
Monika Mathews – Program Officer, Marcled Foundation
Reem Rahim – Co-Founder and VP of Marketing, Numi Teas
Debra Taylor – SVP Regional Manager, Union Bank of CA
Nicole Thomas – Kitchen Teacher, Edible Schoolyard
L. Tim Wallace – Retired Resource Economist, UC Berkeley