The Alternative Investments Group at the Goizueta Business School
The Alternative Investments Group at the Goizueta Business School
Atlanta, GA – (Business Wire) -Triton Value Partners, an Atlanta based business advisory/private equity firm, announced today that it will sponsor Goizueta Business School’s first-annual venture capital case competition. The competition will be hosted at Emory University by the Alternative Investments Group, a student run undergraduate BBA club, on March 21-22, 2008. The competition will officially be known as the Triton Venture Capital Case Competition.
The competition represents the first of its kind for undergraduate business school students in the Southeast. In the competition, student groups will evaluate business plans submitted by professional entrepreneurs through the lens of a venture capitalist. They will conduct due diligence sessions with the entrepreneurs, analyze the business’ various financial models, and present an investment decisions to a panel of judges made up of venture capitalists from the Atlanta area.
This unique opportunity will bring Emory undergraduate BBA students, faculty, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs together in an academic setting. It represents the growing interest of students in alternative investments and the demand to acquire more in-depth knowledge of venture capital.
Paul H. Freischlag, Jr, a Managing Director of Triton Value Partners, stated the “Triton Value Partners is honored to continue it close association with Emory and the Goizueta Business School by participating and sponsoring this event. As with the Graduate School’s Venture Capital Case Competition we have been involved with over the years, extending this program to the undergraduate school further unites the business and academic communities by providing real world experience for the students and a fresh perspective to the entrepreneurs and investors.“
Rashid Lattouf and Darin Upton, both BBA students expected to graduate in the Spring of 2009, are the co-directors of the competition. The event highlights the willingness of the Goizueta faculty to support its students’ interests. Every aspect of the competition, from conception to execution, is a result of Goizueta undergraduates’ effort.
Triton Value Partners is a full-service management advisory group that provides small and medium-sized enterprises with the mission critical experience, services and resources required to help them create and execute business plans that make the companies more valuable.
Triton’s team of Atlanta-based Partners boasts an average of twenty-five years of experience as corporate executives, business owners and professional investors. The firm draws upon this wealth of experience to provide a full range of advisory services including: strategic planning, business/market development, operations, and capital structure. Triton’s client service approach leverages its Partners’ functional expertise and industry skills to maximize the strength of each client’s organization and infrastructure.
Triton Value Partners is based in Atlanta, Georgia, but serves a client base that operates across the U.S. and internationally. More information on Triton Value Partners is available on the company’s web-site: www.tritonvp.com .
Emory’s Goizueta Business School offers an Undergraduate Program, a Two-Year MBA Program, a One-Year MBA Program, an Evening MBA Program, two formats of the W. Cliff Oxford Executive MBA (Weekend and Modular) and a Doctoral degree, together with a set of innovative non-degree Emory Executive Development programs. For more information: www.goizueta.emory.edu .
The Alternative Investments Group (AIG) is a student organization created within GBS with the dual objectives of networking and educating Goizueta students in private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds
AIG believes that hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital will continue to play a prominent role in financial markets over the long term. AIG thus hopes to make its members highly competitive for careers in these areas, whether immediately after graduation or following other work in finance. In support of this pursuit, AIG intends to make undergraduates at Goizueta Business School known for competencies in alternative investments. For Information: www.GoizuetaVC.org
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