Young Entrepreneur in Residence Interns

2009

Chris DeFilippo

Chris "Flip" DeFilippo is a second year MBA student concentrating in Entrepreneurship and Finance at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Currently, he is working with three NC IDEA grant winners: LearnVC, Epiphany Mobile, and Tec-Cel. At Fuqua, Flip helped to start the inaugural Summer Residency in Entrepreneurship program, a business incubator for fellow MBA students, and he is also on the board of the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club. He is a volunteer with an entrepreneurship education program in Durham high schools and serves on Carrboro's Economic Sustainability Commission. Before attending Fuqua, Flip was as an application engineer and an acoustics product manager for National Instruments in Austin, TX. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Penn State University. After graduation, he plans to work in business development for an early stage tech startup.

Marc Zawel

Marc is a second year MBA student concentrating in both Entrepreneurship and Customer and Product Management at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. At NC IDEA, he is providing strategic consulting to recent grant recipients, including StatSheet and Green Cooling Group. Prior to business school, Marc spent two years in business development and content strategy at D.C.-based Internet start-up RevolutionHealth.com. He also wrote a college admissions guidebook (Untangling the Ivy League) and worked as a reporter for the New York Times, Washington Post and People. Marc graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor of arts in history. He plans on launching his own digital media business upon graduation.

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