Maddalone Wall of Success Induction Ceremony
Please join us as we induct our newest members
The David ‘73 and Christine Spicer ‘75 Stack Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an interdisciplinary program focused on business creation from idea development through commercialization. The Center’s primary focus is on student businesses but with a secondary focus on outside business ideas that can also engage student interest and learning.
Siena’s Stack Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship engages students through high impact learning practices designed to develop critical thinking, innovation and entrepreneurial skills. Our process of “Innovate-Create-Accelerate” allows students to apply these skills to develop and implement successful business ventures. Through the Stack Center students learn to:
In short, students receive a lifetime's worth of business and entrepreneurship training in a fast-paced, accelerated experience. The Center engages more than 300 students annually all three schools: liberal arts, science and business.
The Center also seeks to highlight entrepreneurial-minded alumni who have successfully launched their own businesses to inspire the Center's current students. To that end, we are accepting nominations for the Maddalone Wall of Success and Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
The Maddalone Entrepreneur Wall of Success, made possible through the generous support of Guy Maddalone ’89, founder and CEO of GTM Payroll Services, is spearheaded by and located at the Stack Center. It displays the logos of companies launched by Siena graduates, with an inaugural class featuring more than 30 firms in fields ranging from high tech to traditional.
Located both inside and outside the Stack Center, as well as online, the wall will grow to showcase additional companies in the future. It is designed to provide a highly visible platform to highlight Siena graduates who have successfully launched their own businesses, and to inspire students by letting them know that they can follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before them.
Please join us as we induct our newest members
Five student teams presented their business ideas in the Entrepreneurship Track of the Siena College Ted Winnowski ‘63 Student Conference in Business. Taurus Ready Heaters with authors Nicholas Darling and Christian Zownir took the “Best Investment Award.” Above Simon Bruno and Sureet Pabbi address the conference.
Siena sent six teams of student entrepreneurs to the Regional New York State Business Plan Competition on April 5, 2018. Three of Siena’s teams advanced to the NYSBPC Finals.
Joshua Daly with Bug Flusher place second in the Energy and Sustainability Track of the NYSBD 2018 Finals.
Entrepreneurship Club President Sureet Pabbi participated in the April 27, 2018 Celebration of Academic Excellence. His business idea, Amar Atta, is a 100% gluten free chapati flour designed to provide a new healthier alternative to flour in Indian cuisine. Sureet won second place in the Stack Center’s Spring 2018 Spark Tank competition with this idea.