Diamond in the Rough




Diamond Trophy

Distinguished Entrepreneurial Fellow Award




Through a wonderful grant from the Coleman Foundation (Fannie May Candies) this award is being created to help identify, encourage, support, mentor, hone, polish and develop young entrepreneurs in their early years so that they fulfill their potential and destiny, and become the outstanding young undergraduate collegiate entrepreneurs at LMU, from any major or school, probably in their Freshman or Sophomore year, who have powerful potential to achieve great entrepreneurial success if they are helped and mentored along the way. The award program will include a competitive application process, requiring applicants to convince the judges why they want this award, and need it to have their full impact in the future, and deserve it. One major component of judging will be the applicant's awareness of, and involvement in social impact activities that have a positive impact on society, and improve the social impact of business and entrepreneurship. The recipient of this award will be expected to get deeply involved in a number of entrepreneurial training, leadership, and mentor opportunities available through the LMU Entrepreneurship Program. The recipient will also receive a fellowship award of $5000.00 spread over the period of their involvement in this award program.

 







2009 Winner


 

Pisani
Julian Pisani




2008 Winners


 

KorbinD

Korbin Duley

KofiL

 

Kofi LeGrand

 

 

2007 Winner



2007 Diamond Award Winner

Corey Kulis

 

 


2006 Winner




Buddie Dillenberg

Buddy Dillenberg

"Pro Pedder Kustoms, LLC"


Stephene Johnson

Stephene Johnson
Event Planning

 

Jamal Kinney

 

Jamal Kinney
"Flipside Enterprises"
Social Entrepreneurship Business



 

 

2005 Winner

 

 


Garrett Awad

Garett Awad
"Ignite"
Ignite Media Productions



2004 Winners



Stephen Yoss

Stephen Yoss
"IRA Media"
Web Development & IT Support



Aram Nadjarian

Aram Nadjarian
"Kids Talk"
Kids oriented weekly TV show



2003 Winners



Cookie Twins

Catherine and Monica MacGilivray

"Two Cute Cookies" Custom Cookie Business
(They're TWINS!)



2002 Winners




Olga and David Flores
"Flores Family Clothing Creations"
Custom Designs for College Students


Mark Celio

Mark Celio
"Dimes for Dreams"
Social Entrepreneur Business



Stacy Lambatos

Stacy Lambatos
Event Planning Service


2001 Winners




Eric Valenzuela

Eric Valenzuela
"The Best Computer Guys"
Computer Consulting Business