Past Winners

2009 Winners

The Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition's Finals took place on Friday, April 3, 2009. We are proud to announce the following winning teams:

General Business Category

1st Place - Tendix

($5,000) - Krieger School of Art and Sciences, undergraduates, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, graduate

Corban Tillemann-Dick
Levi Tillemann-Dick
Tomicah Tillemann


2nd Place - Nimble Notebooks

($3,000) - School of Medicine, post-doctoral student

Brian Green



3rd Place- Care-Ease

($1,000) - Carey Business School/School of Public Health, graduate

Ateret Haselkorn

General Business Runners-Up

($250.00 each team)

Biz-Wiz: The Business Helper

Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, graduates

Donika Hristova
Stefka Hristova
Sonam Liberman
Dr. Roger Leeds

In Game

Whiting School of Engineering, undergraduates

Jan Lee
Nikhil Vadhavkar

The Lumber Market

Carey Business School, Graduate fellow

Kenneth Beresh

Biotechnology & Medical Category

1st Place - Surgy Pack

($5,000) - Whiting School of Engineering, undergraduates

Vicki Zhou
Gayathree Murugappan
Kevin Yeh
Brian Liu
Sameer Manek
Anshuman Gupta


2ndPlace - NECO-Intuitive Medical Devices

($3,000)- Whiting School of Engineering, graduates and undergraduates

Francisco Contijoch
Aubri Gillespie
Michelle Haran
Smita Mohan
Carolyn Purington
Tom Chen
Shah, Rohan
Kaori Yamada
Philip Parker

3rd Place-Stem Cell Orthopedics

($1,000) - Whiting School of Engineering, undergraduates

Matt Rubashkin
Kristie Charoen
Raghav Badrinath
Stephanie D'Souza
Steven Su

Biotechnology & Medical Devices Runner's-Up

($250.00) per team

Hydrangle

Whiting School of Engineering, undergraduates

Laura Paulsen
Nikhil Vadhavkar
Allison Connolly
Chris Mihlasky
Peter Li
Teja Mandava
Neil Manimala
Mingyoung Jeong

Maternal Diagnostics

-Whiting School of Engineering, undergraduates

William Feng
Collin Anderson
Annie Ng
Ting-Yu Shih
Neeta Shroff
James Steinhardt
Jia Wang

Vaxaboost

Yihua Loo
Marc Frahm
Xinmin Li
Bradford Pantuck
Daniel Weinstein

Please note, the Division and Degree Level only represent the primary contact of the team, not all team members.