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JCEI Boards

We would like to acknowledge the following members of our Midwest and West Coast Advisory Boards for their support, vision, and guidance.

Midwest Advisory Board

  • Terry Dwyer, Breakwater Partners, LLC
  • Lyle A. Feigenbaum, Orangetheory
  • Richard L. Johnson, Jr., Johnson Ventures, Inc.
  • Chris Kroll, Old National Bank Wealth Management
  • Chris LaMothe, Ascendanci Ventures, LLC
  • Michael S. Maurer, Indianapolis Business Journal
  • Robert C. McDonald, MD, MBA, Aledo Consulting, Inc.
  • Matthew B. Murphy III, Strada Education Network
  • Alex Paskoff, Ingram Micro Mobility
  • Jim Pearson, NICO Corporation
  • Joseph P. Schaffer, Monument Advisors
  • Jacob Schpok, Elevate Ventures
  • Andrew Seger, Wabash Valley Produce, Inc.
  • John Walter, Direct Supply
  • Scott Webber, Entrepreneurial Consultant

West Coast Advisory Board

  • Greg M. Ayers, MD, PhD, Healthcare Consultant
  • Lawrence M. Blatt, PhD, Aligos Therapeutics
  • Kate Doerksen, Sage Social
  • Diane Dudeck, RMS
  • John P. Dudeck, The Dudeck Group
  • Brent Elliott, Elliott Enterprise, LLC
  • Jack Gill, PhD, The Gill Foundation of Texas
  • Jason Gill, Gilfin International and The Gill Foundation of Texas
  • Louis G. Jordan, Tympany Vineyards
  • Ken Kaczmarek, Entrepreneurial Consultant
  • Rob Michiels, CONSILIUM Associates LLC
  • Michelle Murphy, PhD, Theranica
  • Gregory S. Oslan, Arturo Intelligence, Inc.
  • Micah Pellerin, Microsoft
  • Neal Rickner, Elevation VC
  • Jennifer Gill Roberts, Grit Labs
  • Richard P. Roethke, Barrington Investment Co., LLC
  • Mary Schroeder, Entrepreneurial Consultant
  • Ken Schwarz, Entrepreneurial Consultant
  • John C. Shoemaker, Extreme Networks
  • Andrew F. Smith, ATDynamics
  • Sanjay Subhedar, Storm Ventures, LLC
  • Jeff Thermond, XSeed Capital
  • Paul F. Truex, LQT Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Amit Zavery, Google Cloud

Distinguished Entrepreneur 2024: Matthew J Rubin, MBA’08

For his entrepreneurial expertise and achievements, Matthew J Rubin, MBA’08 was recognized as the Distinguished Entrepreneur 2024 by the Kelley School of Business.

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WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.630 2 00:00:01.630 --> 00:00:06.050 I began my endeavor in the medical fields. 3 00:00:06.050 --> 00:00:08.260 And when you work in the medical school 4 00:00:08.260 --> 00:00:12.250 and you work on commercializing technology for cancer treatments 5 00:00:12.250 --> 00:00:16.480 or diabetes treatments, you start seeing a lot of problems. 6 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.240 And you see that those problems really 7 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:21.640 started with food consumption. 8 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:24.320 And so if you truly want to be preventative, 9 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:26.200 it's not how do you detect cancer early 10 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:28.150 or how do you detect diabetes early. 11 00:00:28.150 --> 00:00:30.340 It's how do you make it affordable to have 12 00:00:30.340 --> 00:00:33.880 truly top quality products for everyone across the world. 13 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:35.930 So to solve some of our health problems, 14 00:00:35.930 --> 00:00:37.930 I really got inspired in how do we solve 15 00:00:37.930 --> 00:00:39.970 some of our food problems. 16 00:00:39.970 --> 00:00:40.590 Hi. 17 00:00:40.590 --> 00:00:41.360 I'm Matt Rubin. 18 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:44.210 I'm founder and CEO of True Essence Foods. 19 00:00:44.210 --> 00:00:46.270 It's been my pleasure to serve as the founder 20 00:00:46.270 --> 00:00:49.450 and CEO of this company for the last 11 years. 21 00:00:49.450 --> 00:00:52.600 True Essence Foods is an industrial technology company. 22 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.150 We work with large companies and small companies 23 00:00:55.150 --> 00:00:59.230 alike across the globe to implement industrial technology 24 00:00:59.230 --> 00:01:03.060 solutions that allow companies to balance the flavors, 25 00:01:03.060 --> 00:01:05.930 preserve some of the natural products 26 00:01:05.930 --> 00:01:09.980 that they process to enable them to produce top quality 27 00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:11.580 next generation products. 28 00:01:11.580 --> 00:01:14.830 True Essence Foods works in a variety of product categories. 29 00:01:14.830 --> 00:01:16.550 We work in fermented foods where we 30 00:01:16.550 --> 00:01:19.190 can help balance the bites out of everything 31 00:01:19.190 --> 00:01:22.700 from spirits, beer, wine, kombucha, even vinegars 32 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:23.760 without the bite. 33 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.930 We're able to work in specialty extracts 34 00:01:26.930 --> 00:01:29.810 to make them smoother and more refined to give a better palate 35 00:01:29.810 --> 00:01:30.800 experience. 36 00:01:30.800 --> 00:01:34.670 We're able to dehydrate food while maintaining top class 37 00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:38.360 and world nutritional content, organoleptic properties, 38 00:01:38.360 --> 00:01:39.500 and shelf life. 39 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:43.040 I attended the Kelley School of Business beginning in 2005. 40 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:47.150 I finished my undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry, 41 00:01:47.150 --> 00:01:48.950 and I was a direct admit into the Kelley 42 00:01:48.950 --> 00:01:51.230 School of Business MBA program. 43 00:01:51.230 --> 00:01:53.790 When considering many different types of universities, 44 00:01:53.790 --> 00:01:57.740 I was really inspired by the forward thought leadership 45 00:01:57.740 --> 00:02:00.980 that the Kelley School was presenting in their desire 46 00:02:00.980 --> 00:02:04.110 to combine people with scientific knowledge. 47 00:02:04.110 --> 00:02:06.780 Dr. Kuratko with the Kelley School of Business, 48 00:02:06.780 --> 00:02:11.870 he really understood my desires for entrepreneurial education 49 00:02:11.870 --> 00:02:14.150 and really saw my passion for wanting 50 00:02:14.150 --> 00:02:17.400 to push the boundaries of technology commercialization. 51 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.200 He really nurtured many of my desires early in my career, 52 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:26.020 helped me transition from the Kelley MBA full-time program 53 00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:27.770 in Bloomington to Kelley Direct, so that I 54 00:02:27.770 --> 00:02:31.070 could pursue some of these entrepreneurial endeavors, 55 00:02:31.070 --> 00:02:35.150 while simultaneously helping me reconnect as a adjunct faculty 56 00:02:35.150 --> 00:02:38.870 member to help teach the next generation of Kelley students. 57 00:02:38.870 --> 00:02:40.370 It's a very interesting experience 58 00:02:40.370 --> 00:02:43.050 to work with and manage a large team of individuals. 59 00:02:43.050 --> 00:02:47.130 So at True Essence Foods, as the CEO, I have to wear many hats, 60 00:02:47.130 --> 00:02:48.500 so I had to grow many heads. 61 00:02:48.500 --> 00:02:50.210 On a daily basis, we have to switch 62 00:02:50.210 --> 00:02:52.860 conversations from shipping and logistics, 63 00:02:52.860 --> 00:02:56.480 engineering and scaled production, and the science that 64 00:02:56.480 --> 00:02:59.540 underlines and pins all of the products 65 00:02:59.540 --> 00:03:02.840 that we taste at a research level to industrial scale. 66 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:05.500 To give you an example of the pressure of the team, currently, 67 00:03:05.500 --> 00:03:09.580 we're scaling operations in China 200-fold within the next 68 00:03:09.580 --> 00:03:12.560 three months for one particular product category. 69 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.560 It's very important to understand 70 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.470 that as an entrepreneur, some people remember that the arc 71 00:03:17.470 --> 00:03:19.780 that you go on in business, but your kids 72 00:03:19.780 --> 00:03:22.930 will always remember the arc of you as a parent. 73 00:03:22.930 --> 00:03:25.240 And this helps to provide balance. 74 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.990 This balance of family values, combined with business, 75 00:03:28.990 --> 00:03:32.240 carries through to the culture of True Essence Foods. 76 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.235 And I've enjoyed watching people take time with their children, 77 00:03:35.235 --> 00:03:37.660 and they've enjoyed watching our team grow 78 00:03:37.660 --> 00:03:39.320 from a balanced perspective. 79 00:03:39.320 --> 00:03:41.380 I love running an entrepreneurial company 80 00:03:41.380 --> 00:03:42.530 in Indianapolis. 81 00:03:42.530 --> 00:03:45.350 I love running a food tech company in Indianapolis. 82 00:03:45.350 --> 00:03:47.360 Indianapolis is a great place. 83 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:48.650 It's easy to get around. 84 00:03:48.650 --> 00:03:50.900 It's easy to attract top talent. 85 00:03:50.900 --> 00:03:53.060 The cost of living is very reasonable. 86 00:03:53.060 --> 00:03:55.450 And as a business community, it's 87 00:03:55.450 --> 00:03:57.340 not a community that tries to celebrate 88 00:03:57.340 --> 00:03:58.790 the hype of a business. 89 00:03:58.790 --> 00:04:02.350 They try to celebrate the nuts and bolts and the common sense 90 00:04:02.350 --> 00:04:06.720 business economics to make sure that what we have is truly real. 91 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:08.900 I would love to take this time to thank the Kelley 92 00:04:08.900 --> 00:04:13.555 School of Business for honoring me with this great award. 93 00:04:13.555 --> 00:04:14.930 As an entrepreneur, I'd also like 94 00:04:14.930 --> 00:04:18.560 to thank many of the people that have helped me get here. 95 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:21.890 Mark Long and Bob McDonald have always believed in me 96 00:04:21.890 --> 00:04:23.220 as an entrepreneur. 97 00:04:23.220 --> 00:04:25.790 I want to thank some of the Kelley School faculty, Dr. 98 00:04:25.790 --> 00:04:28.760 K, Larry Davidson, and many others 99 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:32.100 for their participation and their guidance. 100 00:04:32.100 --> 00:04:33.950 I would also love to thank my family. 101 00:04:33.950 --> 00:04:35.810 In the entrepreneurial mindset, you're 102 00:04:35.810 --> 00:04:38.640 always looking to what is the next thing that you can achieve. 103 00:04:38.640 --> 00:04:41.780 And it's really important to take a moment, and pause, 104 00:04:41.780 --> 00:04:44.240 and celebrate some of the fruits of your labor 105 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.010 before continuing forward. 106 00:04:46.010 --> 00:04:47.863 Thank you so much for this honor, 107 00:04:47.863 --> 00:04:49.280 and thank you for this opportunity 108 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:51.350 to share it with you. 109 00:04:51.350 --> 00:04:54.080 Matt, congratulations on receiving this Distinguished 110 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:55.980 Entrepreneur Award from the Kelley School. 111 00:04:55.980 --> 00:04:57.270 Very well deserved. 112 00:04:57.270 --> 00:04:59.760 For those of you who don't yet know Matt Rubin, you should. 113 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:01.420 He's a very visionary entrepreneur. 114 00:05:01.420 --> 00:05:03.130 A true polymath. 115 00:05:03.130 --> 00:05:06.670 A dabbler and an expert in so many different subjects 116 00:05:06.670 --> 00:05:08.680 makes Matt a really fun person to hang out with 117 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.520 and a very good visionary entrepreneur. 118 00:05:10.520 --> 00:05:12.980 He's doing amazing things with his food company, 119 00:05:12.980 --> 00:05:15.400 changing the way food is made. 120 00:05:15.400 --> 00:05:16.940 It's a really big deal. 121 00:05:16.940 --> 00:05:19.550 And he's doing that here in Indiana, which is fun. 122 00:05:19.550 --> 00:05:21.230 So congratulations, Matt. 123 00:05:21.230 --> 00:05:22.750 Very well deserved. 124 00:05:22.750 --> 00:05:23.440 Hello, Matt. 125 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:24.440 Dr. K here. 126 00:05:24.440 --> 00:05:27.100 Just want to congratulate you on a very special honor that 127 00:05:27.100 --> 00:05:28.430 is so well deserved. 128 00:05:28.430 --> 00:05:31.300 When I think back of why I'm sharing this with you, 129 00:05:31.300 --> 00:05:33.700 you're my first graduate out of my program 130 00:05:33.700 --> 00:05:35.120 to receive this honor. 131 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:37.570 I've had some advisors win in the past but never actually 132 00:05:37.570 --> 00:05:38.540 one of my graduates. 133 00:05:38.540 --> 00:05:40.810 So it's really a terrific thing for me 134 00:05:40.810 --> 00:05:42.740 to see and share with you. 135 00:05:42.740 --> 00:05:45.760 When I think about your journey, it's been pretty incredible. 136 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:48.040 It's been truly the epitomization 137 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:49.370 of the entrepreneurial mindset. 138 00:05:49.370 --> 00:05:51.430 You start out as a commercialization officer 139 00:05:51.430 --> 00:05:54.010 for the Indiana University Research and Technology 140 00:05:54.010 --> 00:05:57.858 Corporation, helping others commercialize their ideas. 141 00:05:57.858 --> 00:05:59.650 Then you came to work for me at the Johnson 142 00:05:59.650 --> 00:06:02.070 Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 143 00:06:02.070 --> 00:06:04.680 where you taught undergraduate classes in entrepreneurship, 144 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.070 sort of helping the next generation 145 00:06:07.070 --> 00:06:10.500 of young entrepreneurs exceed with their ideas. 146 00:06:10.500 --> 00:06:13.280 And then off you went on your own entrepreneurial journey 147 00:06:13.280 --> 00:06:16.530 with your own venture, which has been hugely successful. 148 00:06:16.530 --> 00:06:18.950 And so it's been really remarkable to watch 149 00:06:18.950 --> 00:06:19.960 what you've done. 150 00:06:19.960 --> 00:06:23.120 You are truly exemplification of the entrepreneurial mindset 151 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:26.520 that we want to see in all of our students and young people. 152 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:30.780 And so this is a special night for you, special honor. 153 00:06:30.780 --> 00:06:32.910 As I said earlier, is well deserved. 154 00:06:32.910 --> 00:06:35.390 And I want to be here to congratulate you and share 155 00:06:35.390 --> 00:06:37.180 a little bit in this glory. 156 00:06:37.180 --> 00:06:39.290 So congratulations, Matt. 157 00:06:39.290 --> 00:06:40.650 Terrific honor. 158 00:06:40.650 --> 00:06:43.640 And really, you stand now as a role model for all others 159 00:06:43.640 --> 00:06:46.105 to follow in your footsteps, to really try 160 00:06:46.105 --> 00:06:47.480 to achieve the things that you've 161 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:49.850 achieved in the world of entrepreneurship. 162 00:06:49.850 --> 00:06:51.190 Congratulations, Matt. 163 00:06:51.190 --> 00:06:53.500 Very proud of you. 164 00:06:53.500 --> 00:06:59.000

Distinguished Entrepreneur 2023: Greg Oslan, BS'82

For his entrepreneurial expertise and achievements, Greg Oslan, BS'82 was recognized as the Distinguished Entrepreneur 2023 by the Kelley School of Business.

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Entrepreneurism and entrepreneurship is not

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a thing. It, it's a way of life.

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Greg Oslan and I'm an entrepreneur, uh, at heart,

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I've been this way my whole life. I don't think I realized it until I was much,

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much older. Uh, but it's in my d n a, it's in my blood, uh,

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and it's something I truly love to do. Today I am, uh, a board member,

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an investor,

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and a strategic advisor to both early stage companies in the

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tech sector as well as the US government. And with the US government.

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It's the application of commercial technologies applied to military mission.

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Quickly, when I, uh, applied to Indiana University and, um,

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my intent was to become, uh, a doctor, and after a couple years of doing that,

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realized that may not be my calling.

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experience other things. Talked to a counselor there who said,

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you ought to look at, you know, computers. And I'm like, huh.

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Didn't know much about those. In, you know, in 19 79, 1 thing led to another.

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time where it was starting to go through its transition.

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I had eight different jobs at at and t and Ameritech over my career at 15 years

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there. And I was able to start everything on my own.

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So I went from computer programming to management,

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to computer operations to marketing and sales.

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I built a company called Mobile Vision. It was a joint venture between, uh,

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Ameritech and another third party company.

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So that kind of opened up the door to what do you do beyond, uh,

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corporate America?

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to an entrepreneur, uh, outside of the company. Uh,

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and across my career I've been chairman and or c e o of 12 companies,

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10 times that, that I've been involved in, uh, in investing in,

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or advising in through the various venture firms,

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each of those with a technology route.

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And each of those that could, and many of them that do today,

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uh, benefit, um, the US government in our way of life,

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either in the Department of Defense or the intelligence community.

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Each one of those has taught me something and has helped me learn, you know,

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along the way. And most have been extraordinarily rewarding.

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I've stayed connected to Kelly in a number of ways,

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but most of that credit is due to the School of

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Entrepreneurship. Uh, and, uh, Don Rocco, Dr.

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tenacious for those of you, you who know Dr. K.

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did get the meeting, and I gave him 15 minutes, and two hours later,

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I realized I was gonna be part of something big. Don walked in and said, Greg,

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Don uses his hands and this is how he talks. So he said, let me tell you,

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I don't want any of your money. I want to build a great program,

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I want to build the number one program in the country.

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Really good goal for a university that had no program.

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to the program it is today, which, um,

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with a much larger and broader group as well, as much broader offerings,

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we've had a number of students that have gone on to start their own businesses.

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that came outta the university and came out of a real problem,

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and he actually went on Shark Tank and turned out and did a real business.

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That's a, a great example of a super success.

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and the roots at a university such as Indiana. We just want to help.

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We just want to give back. And the ability to give back to the university,

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I want to thank you and I want to thank the Indiana University Kelley School of

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Business for the Distinguished Entrepreneurship Award.

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I'm honored, I'm humbled,

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slightly embarrassed maybe at some level because I'm not used to this. Uh,

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and I'm not one to promote myself individually in this way.

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I wanna thank Ash and ID for their leadership,

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and particularly Don, uh, and Dr. K for, uh,

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starting this program. Uh,

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I don't know that I would be here today if it was not for that. Uh,

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and I know a whole bunch of people in this world would not be great

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entrepreneurs if it were not for this program. Clearly,

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I could never have done what I've done without my family

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from my brother in my formative careers. He's in the audience today.

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We're still very close to my daughters,

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Jacqueline and Leslie. Leslie, my youngest, graduated from, uh,

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Indiana about seven years ago. And of course, my wife Sandy, um,

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who allowed me to do this last entrepreneurial gig as a C E O.

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And I do promise I won't do it again. Um,

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I want to thank all of you for being here tonight, and thank you, uh, for, uh,

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providing me this great honor.

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Congratulations to Greg Oslan on your most prestigious award, uh,

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Greg. It's, uh, fantastic. Uh, uh,

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I remember in 2016 when we started working together, uh,

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we formed a space portfolio at the Defense Innovation Unit.

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Me doing the military side, you leading the commercial,

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there's just two of us today. It's the largest portfolio at D I U and, uh,

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certainly not just in terms of impact, but also in terms of dollars.

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So thank you very much. Uh,

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look forward to working again with you in the future,

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and congratulations once again.

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Hey, Greg, congratulations, um, uh,

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outstanding that Indiana University has recognized you for this award.

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They could not have chosen a better person. Um,

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you're very inventive and creative.

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Love the confidence that you have in yourself.

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You have this knack of convincing people, uh, even super complex, uh,

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problems are very achievable.

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And you also have this management style and leadership style, uh,

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to convince people how to do it and get behind it. Uh,

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and probably the last thing is, if you were, remember,

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we were raising daughters together at the same time.

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And thankfully my twins were a couple years younger. Uh,

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a lot of the advice that you gave me in talking me off the ledge, uh,

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not only made me, uh, you know, a better person, but a better father.

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I super appreciate that. And again, congratulations on such a great, uh,

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prestigious award for tonight.

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Well, Greg, this award is, uh, well deserved as a distinguished entrepreneur.

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I should know, you're one of my first, uh,

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advisors on the West coast that I came to and asked for advice to help us build

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this entrepreneurship program. You accepted, oh,

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there's a funny story behind that, of course.

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But you accepted and you become one of the, um, most powerful and, uh,

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valuable advisors that I have. And so, uh,

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now we look at our entrepreneurship program today, and it's, uh,

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one of the tops in the country and has been for 18 years. And ironically,

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that's about the time that we've served together on, on the board and stuff.

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And you've helped me. So, uh,

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you've been so meaningful and so important and so valuable,

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and obviously this award, I think is partially depicted with, uh,

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what you've done with our entrepreneurship program. So, congratulations. Uh,

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you mean the world to me. You're not only just an advisor, speaker,

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and board member, but a great friend. So, congratulations, Greg. Well deserved.

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