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News from the Babson College Community
June, 2009

Name of business: Guesthouse Network LLC (http://www.guesthousenetwork.com/Index.aspx)
Mission:  Providing comprehensive software and marketing solutions that aggregate, under one brand, metropolitan guesthouse accommodations, into a global branded network.  
Year Founded: 2008, while attending Babson’s FW Olin Graduate School of Business
Founders: Assaf Korkidi M’08, and Fernando De La Torre Rabago, M’08
Employees:  3
Past experience: Assaf worked as a corporate [...]

                  
Babson College photography lecturer David Akiba has had two local exhibits of his work.  Gallery Kayafas is showing “In Plain Sight,” through June 27th; and “In Winter: Photographs, 1989-2009,” was displayed at the St. Botolph Club through mid-June.
David Akiba has been an exhibiting artist and teacher for over forty years, and his [...]

Babson 2005 MBA alumna Hui Hui Low has taken the lead marketing role to help launch the website, www.RefugeeDayLive.org. Created by VSee, the site will make it possible for a first-ever live audio-visual feed from refugee camps in remote locations in Chad and Colombia available to reporters, activists, government agencies, and others.  
The webcast, sponsored [...]

     
Name of business: Blank Label; www.blank-label.com

 

Mission:  Empowering students to look memorable, and allowing them to carry their youthful individuality to the workplace.  
 

Year Began: 2008    

Where: Sydney, Atlanta, Boston    

Founder:  Fan Bi, fbi@blank-label.com, 781 591 9924; Ugrad    

Employees: 2 Partners, 1 full-time, 2 part-time, 1 intern    

Founder’s Past Life/Business:  Always interested in empowering students, Fan started his first venture, a not-for-profit [...]