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Kevin Colleran Fact Sheet 25-year-old Kevin Colleran has been involved in online and offline business for over 12 years. He was named the 2002 "North East College Entrepreneur of the Year" in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards by The Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization and has been given the national "College Entrepreneur Of The Year" Award by the College Television Network and Duck Head clothing company. Colleran was honored as one of the top "Youth Entrepreneurs of the Year" by the National Congress for Community Economic Development as well as being awarded the "Student Business Initiative Award" by Babson College. In 2001 Kevin was recognized by Ernst & Young as an honorary "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" in their annual entrepreneur awards. Kevin also represented the United States in a multi-year Youth Employment Initiative in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, The United Nations, and the Synergos Institute. Currently, Kevin is part of Facebook.com, a social directory for high school and college students which has grown to become the 7th largest website on the internet in terms of monthly pageviews. Kevin was the first Sales Executive at Facebook and currently focuses on advertiser relationships within the Entertainment, Travel, Beverage, Health and Beauty, and Automotive industries. Facebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges and universities. Facebook enables students to search for people at their school, find students who share similar interests or courses, look up friends of friends, network, and visualize their social network via photos. The international phenomenon has now grown to have nearly 80% of the US college market active on the site. Beginning in 2004, Kevin was brought into Newark, New Jersey by a major philanthropist and given the task of creating nightlife in Newark by planning and opening various bars, restaurants, and clubs in the revitalized city. While working on this project, Colleran conceptualized, designed, and implemented GoNewarkU!, a series of more than 40 parties, concerts, and events in downtown Newark geared towards the 45,000 college students at Rutgers, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Seton Hall Law School, UMDNJ, and Essex County College. In May 2002 Kevin began working in the music industry with senior executives of BMG Music International (parent of RCA, Arista, J, and Jive record labels) helping design programs to allow BMG to revolutionize the music industry in terms of improving the relationship between artists and record labels as well as trying to discover new technologies to allow record labels to avoid piracy. In July 2003 Kevin opened his New York consulting office to work with record labels including Arista Records in an effort to create strategic partnerships with corporations looking to use music in their marketing and promotional efforts. Kevin develops music sponsorships and marketing programs for clients such as Starbucks, 1-800Flowers, Princeton Review, US Air Force, LG Electronics and more utilizing his artist roster of Outkast, Pink, Santana, Avril, Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Usher, and others. Kevin has also been able to use his expertise of the music, entertainment, and sponsorship industries to become a consultant for a major nightclub and entertainment complex in Cancun Mexico. While at Babson College, where he graduated in May 2003, Colleran founded the first undergraduate business incubator and launched several companies that he still runs today. Kevin is currently the co-CEO of BlabberForce Enterprises, Inc., a college marketing, promotions, and consulting firm which is the first undergraduate business coming out of Babson. BlabberForce is the parent company of ClubVibes Boston, one of the fastest growing nightlife entertainment portals in North America. Colleran's business accomplishments helped him to make it to the final casting round of NBC's 'The Apprentice' reality television show from a national applicant pool of over 215,000. Kevin used this experience to begin working with cast members from the entrepreneurial reality show show as well as exclusively managing cast members of "The Real Cancun", New Line Cinema's spring break reality movie which is credited as the first full length feature reality film. Kevin has been interviewed by Newsweek, USA Today, Forbes, Inc., Yahoo Internet Life, Entrepreneur, ComputerWorld, and Ad Age magazines as well as being selected for the National WHO'S WHO in Executives and Professionals for the last six years. in 2003, Kevin and 13 other award winning global student entrepreneurs wrote and published an entrepreneurial guidebook called "Student Entrepreneurs: 14 Undergraduate All-Stars Tell Their Stories" which features a chapter by Kevin called "Building A Personal Brand." Also, Rob and Terry Adams have written a book on behalf of Entrepreneur Magazine featuring Kevin and other entrepreneurial teens called "How To Be A Teenage Millionaire" which offers business advice from Kevin as well as noted entrepreneurs Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Fred Deluca, Lillian Vernon and others. Kevin is also the founder and President of PhotoMasteprieces.com. PhotoMasterpieces uses a patented high tech process to turn photographs into canvas oil paintings. The product has been featured on ABC, CBS, FOX, radio, newspapers, magazines, and was even named one of the Best Valentine's Day Gifts of 2002 by NBC radio. Colleran's previous business ventures include Starting Page!, LiveService.com, and Cyber Marketing Solutions International. He was the Special Projects Director and member of the Board of Directors for NEATO, the do-it-yourself media labeling company with over $45 Million in sales and products available in more than 25,000 retail stores. When not running his companies, Colleran has written articles for PLAYBOY.com and Collegiate Monthly 101 magazine covering entertainment and technology issues. He has been featured in many local and International newspapers, magazines, and online publications. He can also be heard on numerous syndicated radio shows. He is well known and respected among other entrepreneurs and even spent part of 2001 in Colorado shadowing entrepreneurial billionaire John Malone (TCI, AT&T, Liberty Media) through his daily business activities. Kevin has become
an expert in the field of college marketing and student
entrepreneurship. He has received support from business leaders,
congress people, and the media. He speaks regularly at conferences and
summits around the world dealing with college and entrepreneurial
issues. Kevin
graduated from Babson College in May
2003 with Magna Cum Laude, Presidential Scholar, and Dean's List honors Kevin's Past Speaking Engagements
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