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Bryan Comandini
Lubin School of Business

Bryan Comandini

Company Description

Our mission is simple, New Heights Real Estate Solutions, LLC is the place you can turn to when you don't know where else to turn. Need a real estate agent that specializes in investment properties? Looking for a property manager? Need to sell your home fast? You've come to the right place. Contact us today, to discuss your situation.

Biography

Bryan Comandini is a real estate agent in New York City and Jersey City. He began his career after his service in the US Coast Guard, where he was an engineer. Since then, Bryan's focus has shifted from helping people in peril to helping people find their next home.

Bryan formed an interest in real estate while purchasing his first home on the North Carolina Coast at the early age of 23. He saw the value that his agent added to the transaction and ultimately the value in real estate investing. When the Coast Guard transferred him back to New Jersey, where he is originally from, Bryan decided to rent out his property in North Carolina and buy another property in Jersey City Heights.

Bryan's experience negotiating and facilitating his own deal gives him a unique prospective when advising his clients. Bryan understands that communication is the benchmark of any relationship and prides himself on his listening skills. Bryan's effectiveness in sourcing homes that best suit his clients’ needs combined with his negotiation skills ensure his clients have the best possible real estate experience.


Manuel Garza, Isaiah Jimenez, and Allan Krasner
Lubin School of Business & Seidenberg School of Computer Science

Wepptek

Company Description

Wepptek is a web and app development business that specializes in bringing your business to the next level. We work with many different platforms that allow us to help your branding whole also giving you full control and accessibility behind the scenes of your site. With the freedom to choose the features you desire, you are in full control of the price and power of your product! You can check us out at https://www.wepptek.com/

Biographies

Coming soon.


Joanne Mantzouridou Onasi
Lubin School of Business 

Joanne

DeGRwear PCC (DGR) is a Greek manufacturing company that makes exclusively handmade clothes and accessories, while passionately supporting ethical and sustainable fashion. The protection of the environment and nature is the inspiration behind the design of DGR products, the choice of raw materials, services, but also the choice of names for our products. All DGR products are unique, 100% handmade and are created with authentic love and care, made to order, for each and every unique client. https://www.degrwear.com/

Biography

Joanne is passionate about sustainable entrepreneurship, sustainable fashion, and the sustainability mindset. She completed her Bachelors in Psychology and Communications at St. Lawrence University. Currently, Joanne is pursuing her Masters on Strategic Management at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University and is a Graduate Assistant for the Management Department. She is the co-owner of DGR, COO of Fashion Revolution Greece and a Founding Member of the GoodHuman App.

 


Shahriar Priom and Jeremy Stein
Lubin School of Business

onQ

Company Description

With the hospitality industry suffering in New York due to COVID-19, we couldn’t resist helping out. So, we developed an app that allows you to navigate a menu, order and pay all through just a few clicks on your phone. onQ enables customers to speak directly to the kitchen, through our various order customization features. Order mistakes, billing errors and waiting for servers to take your order are now concepts of the past. Our mission is to simplify the outdated hospitality industry as we know it today, and to play a large role in helping our beloved New York community in getting back on track.

Biographies

Coming soon.

 


Graduated Businesses


Kumesh Aroomoogan
Lubin School of Business

Company Description

Accern is here to take the side of retail investors and supply them with sophisticated news research analytic tools to be on par with similar technologies used at institutions and hedge funds. Institutional investors have been known to manipulate the market whereas retail investors are always following what they hear in the media. The Big Data Era has left retail investors more vulnerable to institutional investors now more than ever due to all the noise being released in the media. Our mission is to create a level playing field for retail investors when it comes to trading.

Biography

Kumesh Aroomoogan is the co-founder and CEO of Accern and currently a senior at Pace University majoring in Public Accounting. He had pursued various startups in the past with each possessing its own lessons which was transferred to Accern, his current startup. Prior to startups, Kumesh had held positions as an analyst and accountant at Citigroup, SIFMA, and Ford Foundation. In addition to work, Kumesh likes to attend various networking events where he have made connections and friends with industry leaders, advisors, startup entrepreneurs, and much more.


Kazi Ali
Lubin School of Business

Company Description

Omicon Entertainment, Inc. is an event production company based in New York that takes a special interest in providing affordable and eventful projects for the millennial age group. Omicon Entertainment sells live-event experiences. Using state of the art venue resources, advanced production capabilities, experienced event planners, reliable promotional strategies and a wide array of talent-booking connections, Omicon Entertainment has been able to achieve a top-notch reputation in the live entertainment community and has over 60,000 attendees combined. Today, Omicon Entertainment, Inc. is a subsidiary of Omicon Group Inc. employing full time event professionals and operating from Wall Street in NYC. Our proficiency, vision, intuition and creativity propel our team to reach more fans across all media platforms in order to deliver a greater significance to entertainment culture. Now Omicon Entertainment is expanding into the technology world with a nightlife application with partners Jake T Austin, actor on the Fosters on ABC, Alex Shlaferman, owner of Vante Toys, and international entrepreneur Mehedi Hasan.

Biography

Kazi is the Founding Partner and CEO of Omicon Entertainment, Inc. After completing his first year at Pace University, Kazi was on a mission to throw his first party. Kazi is an ambitious, self-confident person and wasn’t content settling for being an ordinary event planner.

 


Paige Cecchi
Dyson College of Arts and Science

Company Description

SheerStock is a convenient monthly subscription service for women that delivers a variety of hosiery products, such as tights, stockings, and thigh-highs. SheerStock will offer a variety of styles, brands, colors, patterns, prints, and sizes to tailor to all women. The goal of SheerStock is to provide the customer with multiple pairs of legwear each month that are appropriate for a variety of occasions and will save the customer from “making the trip if they’ve found a rip.”

First, customers will fill out a brief style profile, outlining their personal fashion needs and preferences. For example, a customer can indicate if they primarily wear hosiery in a professional environment or as a fashion accessory. Next, they will specify their size and any features they desire, such as control top or open-toed varieties. This way, we can create a better assortment of hosiery each month for our customers.   Lastly, members will then receive a personalized package to meet their needs and preferences containing products from renowned brands, such as Hanes and L’eggs, and other well-known designers. Our goal is to provide the customer with essential hosiery products and introduce subscribers to the latest styles and trends.

SheerStock supports the professional advancement of underprivileged women by donating hosiery to women's empowerment organizations with each new subscriber. These trusted organizations are committed to providing career development tools and support networks that help women achieve their life goals and become financially stable.With SheerStock, we remind the customer that these organizations and women need support as they truly need these products. SheerStock ultimately values the empowerment of women, the goal that remains at the forefront of each stocking delivery.

Currently, subscription commerce is growing in the sector of beauty discovery. Most notably, Birchbox, the leading beauty sample subscription company, has sold over 5 million boxes to 400,000 subscribers since the company’s inception in 2010. The subscription business model has also proven itself effective in a disposable goods market. The company Dollar Shave Club provides subscribers with a monthly delivery of razor blades each month. Dollar Shave Club gained popularity in March 2012 when a promotional video went viral. Since then, the company has scaled to about 330,000 subscribers who purchase razors on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. There is a market for hosiery; at some point in the product lifecycle, stockings rip, tear, snag, and need to be replaced. SheerStock aims to disrupt the hosiery market and become the brand leader in subscription hosiery.

Biography

Paige Cecchi is currently a junior, B.S. Business Economics student at Pace University. Throughout her college experience, Paige has taken on leadership positions within the Economics Society on campus and expanded her network to include prominent alumni and likeminded motivated students. She has fostered an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age with the goal of starting her own business.

Paige is now focused on launching her company, SheerStock, a monthly subscription hosiery service. After many unpleasant experiences shopping for hosiery products in drug stores, Paige thought of a way to make buying hosiery online easy, convenient, and reliable, as these products are regularly disposable. Along the way, Paige realized organizations that provide professional clothing to underprivileged women were lacking new hosiery products to supply to their members. With both efforts in mind, Paige plans on launching SheerStock this May.


Ajinkya Datalkar, Manoela Morais, Chimka Munkhbayar, Helen Tsai
Lubin School of Business and Seidenberg School of Computer Science

Agrolly

Company Description

Agrolly helps rural household farmers to tackle the challenges of climate change and increase financial credits. Agrolly connects rural household farmers and provides an integrated analysis of weather, water, and soil for productive planting. With Agrolly, farmers will be able to plan production efficiently and prevent disaster risks caused by extreme weather conditions. Local banks can leverage Agrolly to calculate the risks and provide more inclusive loans and credits to rural farmers.
 

Biography

A team of recent Pace grads won the Call for Code 2020 Global Challenge, which includes a $200,000 prize (https://developer.ibm.com/callforcode/2020-solutions/). They developed Agrolly, an application to help rural farmers in developing countries better cope with the environmental and business challenges of climate change. Team members are Chimka Munkhbayar ’20 (MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies), Manoela Morais ’20 (MS in Financial Risk Management), Ajinkya Datalkar ’20 (MS in Computer Science), and Helen Tsai ’21 (MS in Computer Science).

Bruce worked with Chimka on the underlying concept in the graduate Entrepreneurship Capstone course on Entrepreneurial Implementation during the Spring 2020 semester, which ran as a Tutorial. Additionally, Manoela and Ajinkya previously teamed up and won Second Place in the Pace Mobile App Design Contest 7.0/Hackathon  and First Place in the Fifteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest. Helen worked on a different team, winning First Place, in the Pace Mobile App Design Contest 7.0/Hackathon, and participated with her team in the Fifteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest.
 


Gregory Matarazzo
Lubin School of Business

Company Description

Burassi is a New York based street wear brand that was launched in 2012. Since launch, the brand has amassed sales in almost all 50 states and over 15 other countries and continues to expand with each release. The brand is currently sold through the online website and is also available in various online retailers as well as a few local boutiques. It’s current goal is to continue expanding into major retailers both in-store and online and to make a full transition from producing printed shirts to 100% custom cut and sewn manufactured products such as jackets, pants, and more.

Biography

Gregory Matarazzo is currently an undergraduate marketing major in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. He is originally from New Jersey but chose to go to school in New York City to pursue his entrepreneurial passions. In his free time Gregory enjoys sports, traveling, and networking with fellow entrepreneurs.


Megan Peterson
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Company Description

Foodie Out Loud was founded by “foodie,” Megan Peterson. Foodie Out Loud is your guide to the best eats from breakfast to dessert, featuring the best restaurants in New York City. After eating and photographing, Megan uses her innovative marketing strategy powered by blog and photo to feature the best eats to the general public. On her website, you can read about, see photos, access menus, and make reservations for her highly recommended restaurants.

Biography

Megan Peterson is a senior BFA Commercial Dance major, and Arts & Entertainment Management minor at Pace University. Megan founded Foodie Out Loud while photographing good eats she found upon moving to downtown Manhattan in 2014. After posting mouth watering photos to her personal Instagram account, she found herself being a concierge, suggesting restaurants for any occasion to other students and newcomers to the NYC area.

Due to an overwhelming flood of texts, calls, emails, and stopping her in passing, she created a website, an Instagram, and Twitter account to continue guiding the community to good eats. A year later, it led to photography, and media marketing freelancing for New York City restaurants.


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