Yes, in 1981 Richard created a guerilla marketing campaign, and trained and enlisted 100 street cart vendors (students) to sell the mighty Chipwich to famished and overheated New Yorkers. Two decades…thousands of pushcarts nationally…and a billion (that’s right, a billion) Chipwiches later, Coolbrands, the country’s second-largest ice cream distributor, bought Richard’s company.

Not a bad gig. Richard is also a world-renowned entrepreneur.  He’s been featured in over 8,000 major stories in newspapers, magazines and other media covering the past 25 years.  He’s received more awards than Titanic, including the Ad Age Executive Marketing Award, Adweek Magazine’s Hottest Product of the Year Award, and Sales and Marketing Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

(But, really, it’s all about the Chipwich.)

En route to stardom, Richard earned a B.S. in Economics from Brooklyn College, a J.D. from New York Law School, all while studying at night.

"When I Was Your Age…"
While Richard held many part-time jobs during high school, including delivering newspapers, bussing tables in a restaurant, and working as a sales clerk, his big break came at age eighteen, as a college freshman. Richard developed his own record label and (after negotiating with the college business office, music professors, and executives at RCA, BMG Music, Deutche Grammophon, etc.) created a two-record album featuring recordings for the Music 101 class required of all city college students. He then sold over fifty-thousand albums.
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Enter Sam Metzger, the triple-threat of myStudentBiz. Early in his career, Sam specialized in labor and corporate law, so he’s familiar with both management and employees. During the 1970s, Sam served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Director of Flagship Corporation, the Northeast’s largest food distributor, so he knows a thing or two about spreading food around (like the Easter Bunny, but with an eye for profit). A professor of Entrepreneurial Studies since 2001 at the Parsons School of Design, Sam knows how to help young businesspeople like you. And over the past twenty years as an investor in consumer product companies, you can be sure Sam knows what products and strategies will work. Lucky for us, he’s on our side.

Sam holds a B.A. in Economics from The College of William and Mary, and an L.L.B. from NYU Law School.

"When I Was Your Age…"
Before getting to the top, Sam started at the bottom as a bag boy at his local supermarket, a caddy at the local golf course, a flower delivery boy, and a lifeguard. But hey, now look at him.
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After retiring from Merrill Lynch as Senior Managing Director of the Investment Banking Department, Raymond helped found myStudentBiz. With twenty-five years of experience managing money matters for big-name Merrill Lynch clients, Raymond has been stewarding vast sums of capital for longer than the Olsen twins have graced the tabloids.

Finding his summa cum laude Yale B.A. inadequately prestigious, Raymond overachieved an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard in 1977 (for those of you doing the math, he’s still young enough to date Catherine Zeta Jones). In his spare time (sleep? what’s sleep?) Raymond also acts as a director of Alleghany Corporation, Avotus Corporation, and Merrill Lynch ventures, so he’s used to supervising boggling sums of money for very, very important people. Like you.

"When I Was Your Age…"
Back in high school, Raymond was the kid who showed up at your doorstep selling personalized Christmas cards and flower/vegetable seeds. Then, to help put himself through college, he delivered bed linens for Yale Student Laundry. (If only Chipwich had been around then!)
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Except in our case, Jeff uses his powers for good.

Jeff began his career of technological intrigue in 1997 as an analyst at Lazard Freres and Company. Then, in 2000, he went rogue and founded the eponymous Koetje Technologies (KTI), supplying the information technology needs of small and mid-sized businesses. In 2005, Business Technology Partners acquired KTI, and now he’s on the myStudentBiz team. With over ten years of experience with IT infrastructures, he’ll keep all our data flowing.

Jeff holds a dual degree, a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and an A.A.S. in Diversified Business from Ferris State University.

"When I Was Your Age…"
Jeff started working on a farm at age 12. He also worked in a greenhouse, coached youth basketball, painted, sold Cutco knives, and worked the night security detail in his school dorm. Always the thrill-seeker, Jeff demonstrated his aquatic prowess in the Lethal Weapon water stunt show at Six Flags Great Adventure after college graduation.
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After graduating from American University School of Law, John worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn before becoming a partner at the corporate law firm of Levy & Droney.

He’s also served as General Counsel for Huon Corporation, enabling its very lucrative sale to TiG. Most recently, John has been Associate General Counsel to RR Donnelley & Sons, the largest commercial printer in the world, where he supervised their merger with the Moore Corporation.

(See what we mean about making your head swim?)

Since 1990, John has been an Adjunct Professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law. And in the late 1990s, he served as a Legal Analyst for Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN. Even today, you can still hear John providing legal commentary for CBS Radio. Of course, we’re lucky enough to hear him all the time providing legal advice to myStudentBiz.

"When I Was Your Age…"
In high school, John managed valet parking at Piccadilly Restaurant in New Haven, CT. After his first year of college, he started a business called Cheap Labor, Incorporated. Then he bartended his way through college and law school, and also worked as a sales rep for Dictaphone, a Pitney Bowes company.
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Jennifer has been an Admission Counselor at Sarah Lawrence College, a College Advisor at the United Nations International School, the Marketing and Public Relations Manager for a publishing collaboration between Simon & Schuster and Kaplan Educational Centers, and, most recently, Assistant Director in Career Services at Fordham University. All this points to one thing: her goal is to help you reach yours.

Jennifer holds a B.A. in psychology from Bucknell University and a Master’s degree in Counseling from Fordham University.

"When I Was Your Age…"
In her early days, Jennifer worked as a babysitter and a cashier in the gift shop of a hospital, where she also volunteered. As an intern during college, she spent her summers at an ad agency working on the regional advertising for Domino’s Pizza and at the A&E Cable Network in their marketing department.
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When not excelling as a student, he was playing and instructing guitar, producing music, mentoring and speaking with D.A.R.E., coaching youth basketball, painting homes, and captaining varsity teams in high school and college. You could almost hate him if he weren’t such a darn good guy. A natural born leader and community activist, Michael is the ideal team member to spread the word about myStudentBiz. Always willing to lend a hand, Michael is invaluable in minding the details of our day-to-day operations and keeping us all on track.

Michael graduated in 2001 from Sacred Heart University, where he worked as a student athletic trainer, performed with the University Jazz ensemble and was a member of both the football and rugby teams.

"When I Was Your Age…"
Though Michael pretty much still is your age, he’s amassed a resume of diverse jobs including, water aerobics instructor, physical therapy aide, camp counselor, ice-cream server, lifeguard, landscaper (just to name a few), as well as a list of volunteer credits to boot (among them Project S.H.A.R.E, as well as serving as a Board Member of community recreation programs.)
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He didn’t stop there. Oh, no. James followed with East-West, New York City’s first gourmet natural food restaurant, which was frequented by such celebrities as John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He then developed his own product line of organic juices and pates, which he marketed to health food stores and supermarkets.

Looking ahead once again, James convinced the A&P Food Emporium of the coming wave of organic foods, then created food programs for NutriSystems.

With his encyclopedic knowledge of product development, quality control, manufacturing, and packaging, James will help myStudentBiz create the ultimate snack food.

"When I Was Your Age…"
In high school, James worked for a friend’s landscape business mowing lawns in the summer and selling Christmas trees in the winter. During college at Brooklyn College, James delivered Silver Star Ravioli and Italian bread to delis and food stores. This job allowed him to choose his own accounts and work around his school schedule. (Sound familiar?)
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