U of A Student Team Wins Third Place at the Stu Clark New Venture Championships: Graduate Edition
Horizon Health Solutions leadership team.
A graduate student-led team from the U of A won third place at the Stu Clark New Venture Championships in Manitoba, Canada. The prize money for third place in the business plan competition is $5,000.
Horizon Health Solutions is led by Amy Hopper, a U of A M.B.A. candidate; John Sherill, a Ph.D. and Post-doctoral Fellow at UAMS; Joshuah Walker, a U of A M.B.A. candidate; and Solomon Isu, a U of A chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate advised by professors Ranil Wickramasinghe and Xianghong Qian.
The Horizon Health team is mentored by faculty members Sarah Goforth and David Hinton. Horizon Health is commercializing innovative solutions for pharmacies, the first of which is a software-as-a-service called PriceView. The Stu Clark New Venture Championship (Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba) rewards an entrepreneurial mindset amongst competing student teams. Horizon Health Solutions has also been shortlisted among 42 global teams pitching at the Rice Business Plan Competition (Largest Intercollegiate Startup Competition).
Horizon Health Solutions is a competing finalist at the Heartland Challenge Startup Competition and the Arkansas Governor's Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition.
Contacts
Solomon Isu, graduate assistant
Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering
479-575-4969,
soisu@uark.edu
Sarah Goforth, executive director
Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
479-225-7185,
goforth@uark.edu