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Ventures Competing in 2009 Global Moot Corp Competition
Listed in Opening Round Division Order

Division I

Burning Hollow Technologies
Boston University
Burning Hollow Technologies has built a scalable, full featured system that controls many of the electronics in the home, i.e., the lights, thermostat, distributed media, etc.
Mark Kasdorf
Faculty Adviser: Vinit Nijhawan

KT TAPE
Brigham Young University
Kinesiology tape, a high performance athletic tape, reduces pain, accelerates recovery and enhances performance. KT TAPE is making the product consumer friendly and introducing it into mass retail.
Reed Quinn, Michelle Quinn, Chu-chun Quinn
Faculty Adviser: Nile Hatch

GYAN
Northwestern University
GYAN is an education microfranchisor that delivers vocational English training to employable youth in rural India and supplies companies with a trained rural workforce.
Supina Mapon, Pavan Singh, Ramya Singh
Faculty Adviser: Barry Merkin

Kidsfirst
London Business School
Kidsfirst aims to establish the first major chain of quality nurseries in Western Germany targeting predominantly children ages zero to three.
Annette Hellweg, Maitreyi Chowdhry, Lisa Hu
Faculty Adviser: Jeff Skinner

Cee-bot
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
People can interactively design robots via the Internet and interactively tele-control the actions of the robots with real-time visual feedback and other hepatic feedbacks.
Ying Liang, Wing Man Lam, Cheung Tan Kwok
Faculty Adviser: Yunhui Liu

Division II

Oxford Specialty Oils
Oxford University
TropicOiL Ltd specializes in the production and commercialization of fair trade, organic and innovative specialty oils with applications in the cosmetics and nutraceuticals industries.
Jose Diaz, Benedek Frank, Partha Sensarma, Amy Su, Kien Nguan Tee
Faculty Adviser: Fiona Reid

Multi-Vision
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Multi-Vision is an innovation driven company whose technology enables users to quickly modify the focal length of a Liquid Crystal Lens by electronic control.
Pradeep Ambavaram, Loui Liu, Fredrik Angel, Pierre Meyer
Faculty Adviser: Stephen Nason

NALION Technologies
University of Waterloo
NALION Technologies is commercializing a breakthrough in Li-ion battery technology. With a patented technology, the new material is 67% lower cost and more environmentally responsive.
Fraser Harris, Karen Doering, Balinder Ahluwalia, Hanxiao Zhou,
Lingling Yang
Faculty Adviser: Paul Doherty

Dynamics Inc.
Carnegie Mellon University
Dynamics produces next-generation interactive payment cards that include programmable magnetic stripes such that dynamic information can be communicated to the 60 million 1970s era magnetic stripe readers used in daily payment card transactions.
Jeffrey Mullen, Andy Hicks, Brad Carpenter
Faculty Adviser: Tom Emerson

XanYouth Actives
Thammasat University
XanYouth Actives has a breakthrough patent-pending natural antioxidant, offering 300% higher inhibition effectiveness, 1/5 the cost and wide applications in an $11.3B industrial, consumer, skincare and foods antioxidant market.
Puk Nuchanatanon, Numfon Sripawadkul, Arjaree Phetrattanakul, Promsit Mingsittichai
Faculty Adviser: Bill Randall

Division III

Profile UST
San Diego State University
Profile UST is a device that provides safety, security and cost savings to the Water Treatment Industry by rapidly monitoring bacteria levels.
George Flint, James Holland, Ehson Salaami, Nabil Arrach
Faculty Adviser: Bernhard Schroeder

Somnium Innovations
The University of Adelaide
Somnium Innovations provides innovative water treatment solutions that present significant competitive advantages and product applications in diverse global multi-billion dollar wastewater treatment markets including mining.
Jamie Miller, Ty Yengi, Gregor Edeson, Michael Brauer
Faculty Adviser: Noel Lindsay

necoPlastics
University of Louisville
necoPlastics will utilize a patented technology to recycle mixed-waste plastic types 3-7 along with high-carbon fly ash to create a recycled plastic resin.
Charles Price, Nick Jacoby, Steve Flaherty, Whitney Austin, Jason Wade
Faculty Adviser: Van Clouse

Xeromax Sciences
Brigham Young University
Xeromax offers a next generation waterproofing solution for fibers and textiles that maintains breathability while offering durability. Hydrapel is a patent- pending, environmentally friendly coating technology.
Christopher Bryant, Jason Huntsman, Jon Ward
Faculty Adviser: Nile Hatch

DCI Technologies
Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV)
OxsysPro: Applying a novel, unique and efficient method powered by electricity, this reactor will oxidize any organic pollutant in industrial wastewaters.
Esteban Torres, Jorge Galvez, Luis Godinez, Jorge Armendariz, Yanira Garcia
Faculty Adviser: Gary Cadenhead

Division IV

PowerMundo
Colorado State University
PowerMundo will introduce clean technology product distribution in developing countries.
Jacob Castillo, Michael Callahan
Faculty Adviser: Kenneth Petersen

Heat 2 Optimize
Boise State University
Heat 2 Optimize uses two tank electric water heaters that can be controlled by utility companies to shift electricity consumption to off peak periods.
David Rush
Faculty Adviser: Kent Neupert

Husk
University of Michigan
Husk converts an agricultural waste byproduct into high-grade insulation that delivers a significant improvement over conventional insulation.
Ian Dailey, Erica Graham, Elizabeth Ulhorn, Siddharth Sinha, Shally Madan
Faculty Adviser: Paul Kirsch

CERGIS
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CERGIS will develop and deliver high tech systems to pump manufacturers which will reduce damages from cavitations in marine and offshore pump systems.
Jørgen Mathisen, Erik Austbø, Erik Svensrud
Faculty Adviser: Lars Øystein Widding

Tetra One Source
University of Louisville
Tetra One Source markets a patented formulation of environmentally friendly raw materials that attract and bind to toxic heavy metals in soil and liquid solutions.
Daniel Johnsen, Abby Lovan
Faculty Adviser: Van Clouse

Division V

YouCaptivate
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
YouCaptivate is a web-based company helping people define their best looks for any occasion, allowing crowdsourcing of requests via an exclusive community of good-looking lovers.
Oscar Fabra, Nelson Rodriguez, Fabian Roldán, Lida Castro
Faculty Adviser: Ruben Salazar

PassPro-tech
The University of Texas at Dallas
PassPro-tech is a unique, single-sign-on technology for secure authorization of users on multiple networks. Independent lab certification has demonstrated the significantly higher level of security than competing logon solutions.
Stephen Dunlap, Ben Morrow
Faculty Adviser: Joseph Picken

CaptainU
University of Chicago
CaptainU is an innovative web platform that connects high school athletes and college coaches and allows them to manage the college sports recruiting process online.
Michael Farb, Nicole Shariatzadeh, Umar Haider, Avi Stopper
Faculty Adviser: Ellen Rudnick

FocalPop
The University of Texas at Austin
FocalPop helps advertisers find quality photography online. We reverse the photo acquisition process allowing buyers to crowdsource requests via an expansive community of photographers.
Brian Romanko, Becky Parker, Ronnie LeBert, Eddie Howard, Libby Essinger
Faculty Adviser: Rob Adams

The Interactive Fan
University of Oregon
The Interactive Fan is interactive, real-time, mobile marketing platforms that connect event sponsors with consumers on web-enabled mobile phones, delivering sponsors measurable marketing data while engaging and entertaining.
Jesse Thomas, Dan Pivirotto, Jim Sever, Jeff Sharma, Tom Czarnowski
Faculty Adviser: Don Upson

Division VI

Tears for Life
University of Arkansas
Tears for Life is a medical diagnostic equipment company developing a tear test kit that screens women for breast cancer using proteins found in tears.
Jared Greer, Bessie Williams, Chris Elizer, Jordan Greer
Faculty Adviser: Carol Reeves

Epitherapeutics
Queen's University
Epitherapeutics is a novel cancer therapeutic which addresses the core reason of death from cancer, metastasis.
Shyam Ramchandani, Amit Bhalla, Ryan Son Kee
Faculty Adviser: Elspeth Murray

Impedo Medical
University of San Francisco
Impedo Medical is commercializing an early test for breast cancer using a simple finger prick blood sample. The product is based on technology developed at Lawrence Livermore National Labs.
Charles Milo, Candace Caulkins, Laura Jensen, Gina Collins
Faculty Adviser: Mark Cannice

Fluoptics
E. M. Lyon
Fluoptics has developed a patented system for intra-operative cancer imaging that simultaneously reduces the risk of remission and increases quality of life post-operation.
Grant Gudgel, Kulshekhar Kabra, Adrien Peirotes, Patrice Lemery, Damien Rossignol, Odile Allard
Faculty Adviser: Rickie Moore

Silicon Biodevices
University of California Berkeley
Silicon Biodevices is developing a novel, patent-pending platform based on microchip technology for rapid and accurate detection of HIV in the point-of-care setting.
Octavian Florescu, Karl Skucha, Tayson Siegel
Faculty Adviser: Bernhard Boser

Division VII

Veritract
University of Utah
Veritract is a biomedical device company developing nasogastric and nasonteric feeding tubes with integrated optics, lighting and steering controls, allowing for precision placement of tubes into the digestive tract.
Mark Adams, Arlo McGinn, Kalyani Yerra
Faculty Adviser: Irina Baird

SOVAmed
Wissenschaftliche Hochschule fur Untemehmensfuhrung (WHU)
SOVAmed will become the market leader for assessing vascular diseases in radiological image data by means of computer-aided procedures as a distant service provider.
Matthias Raspe, Michael Raven
Faculty Adviser: Florian Forster

Purus Technologies
University of Manitoba
Purus Technologies will commercialize the CarieSpot, an optics based dental cavity detection device which will detect potential cavities in their earliest stages.
Erik St-Hilaire, Kyle Emond, Sonja Tunovic
Faculty Adviser: Rob Warren

Novophage Therapeutics
Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Novophage Therapeutics provides a novel approach to combat antibiotics-resistant infections by combining our engineered bacteriophages with antibiotics.
Michael Koeris, Tanguy Chau, Tim Lu, Ann DeWitt
Faculty Adviser: James Collins

Audiallo
University of Michigan
Audiallo is a semiconductor company that designs biologically-inspired, audio-processing technology which targets the hearing aid and high-end audio markets.
Aaron Nelson, Brian Degnan
Faculty Adviser: Paul Kirsch

Division VIII

Grain Life Technologies
Fayetteville State University
Grain Life Technologies offers the grain and seed industry advanced post-harvest technologies which increase production efficiency by dramatically lowering grain drying costs and virtually eliminates post-harvest loss.
Gregory Wydysh, Christine Powell, Adriana Gomez
Faculty Adviser: Assad Tavakoli

PULSE
Universidad de los Andes
Hand Business Solutions Ltd. sells technology and information services tools to improve the relations between doctors and patients with a focus on specialized doctors, hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry.
Víctor Andrés González Céspedes, Rodrigo Leudo, Ángela Maria Ardila Arenas
Faculty Adviser: Rafael Vesga

ElutInc
University of Utah
ElutInc improves orthopedic surgeries by preventing infection and promoting healing with our proprietary bone grafts that elute antibiotics and other drugs directly into surgical sites.
Charity Williams
Faculty Adviser: Troy D'Ambrosio

NuVision Pharmaceuticals
Kennesaw State University
NuVision has two products: Valoxiderm, a treatment that minimizes the risks of developing bedsores and Trioxiderm-MD, a treatment for diabetic ulcers. Their effectiveness has been demonstrated in alpha and beta tests.
Kate Gorinshteyn, Ken Langston, Boris Gorinstheyn, Ted Randall
Faculty Adviser: Charles Hofer

Altave
University of Manitoba
Altave is a new medical device start-up entering the organ and tissue preservation market.
Jason Leibert, Scott Young, Cam Bulloch, Yilan Zhang
Faculty Adviser: Rob Warren