NSU’s Graduate Business Student Association presents:
Daymond John: Lessons from an Entrepreneurial Icon
Star on ABC’s “Shark Tank”
Founder and CEO of FUBU
Monday, April 22, 2013
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center
(Located on NSU’s main campus in Davie, Florida; across from the Carl DeSantis Building and adjacent to the Alvin Sherman Library)
Free Admission: Pick up your tickets at the front desk at the Carl DeSantis Building.
Seating is limited. Doors will open at 5:00 p.m.
The first 50 students in attendance will receive a FREE copy of Daymond John’s book and are invited to attend an autograph session after the presentation.
For more information, please contact GBSA President Anthony Campenni: campenni@nova.edu
About the Speaker:
With business savvy and style to spare, speaker Daymond John entertains audiences every week as the go-to branding guru on ABC’s hit entrepreneurial business show, Shark Tank. A highly regarded marketing expert and author, John is the founder of iconic fashion brand FUBU (“For Us by Us”), which effectively created the then-untapped urban apparel market.
Hollis, Queens – the birthplace of hip-hop and John’s home community – helped spur the inspiration for FUBU. Embraced by the likes of Rick Ross, Lil John, DJ Khaled, and SouljaBoy, FUBU ultimately changed the face of the fashion world. After cementing himself as a branding visionary with his books, Display of Power and The Brand Within, and his role as one of the “Sharks,” John formed Shark Branding to provide companies with the marketing insights that have proven his own companies successful.
A Brandweek Marketer of the Year, Ernst & Young New York Entrepreneur of the Year, recipient of the Advertising Age Marketing 1000 Award for Outstanding Ad Campaign, and one of Crain’s New York Business’s Forty Under Forty, John has been recognized time and again for his staggering contributions to fashion and the changing face of American business.
Called “a driven, visionary leader” (Russell Simmons) who knows that “building your brand never stops” (Kim Kardashian), John acts as a seasoned guide to organizations striving to create an enduring brand. Arguing that branding relationships have seeped into every aspect of daily life, John’s message draws on both his own experiences as an entrepreneur as well as his hard-won insights as a consultant to the world’s most cutting-edge trendsetters and tastemakers.
To view a video about Daymond John, visit: http://vimeo.com/34570235.
For more information, about the speaker, visit http://daymondjohn.com/.
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This is an excellent initiative from the Graduate Business Student’s Association. However, I think there should be some attempt to include long distance students by arranging web coverage. Online students would then become engaged in these activities! Best of luck with the event.
Andrea: As the GBSA President, I want you to know we tried to include the long distance students with web coverage or video taping. The speaker and agency would not put that into the contract because he didn’t want to have his presentation shared via the internet. With technology these days, it can be easily recorded and shared all over the internet – which ultimately would spread and defeat the purpose of him coming to schools to present. We tried to engage the online students but with this speaker it just wouldn’t work. I appreciate your support of the event and hopefully in the near future we can arrange something for the online students. If you have any ideas, feel free to email me: campenni@nova.edu . Thank you! Anthony Campenni