NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT CTR. FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES



SOM CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES



The NYIT School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (SOMCES) is actively building a dynamic community of entrepreneurs and thought leaders who desire to change the world through making and risk-taking.





BUILD THE TECHNOLOGY FUTURE WITH US.


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RE-IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY.



SOMCES @ NYIT is a hub for the interests and pursuits of students, faculty, and external practitioners. By facilitating a comprehensive set of activities, processes, and leadership strategies that are proven to impact new venture success SOMCES fosters new venture development and innovation across NYIT's Manhattan and Old Westbury campuses.


Meet Our People

SOMCES FACULTY.



D. Bernard Webster, MFA



Executive Director & Entrepreneur-in-Residence



D. Bernard Webster is an innovation engineer and go-to-market strategist responsible for training more than 20,000 startup entrepreneurs across New York City and New Jersey since 2009. He has launched several successful technology startups career including a recent winner of the US Small Business Administration's Growth Technology Accelerator competition in 2015. Webster is a recognized thought leader and certified instructor in Entrepreneurship and has been a contributor for several industry magazines including Forbes.com, the Huffington Post, and Black Enterprise.com



Deborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D



Marketing/Experiential Education



A dynamic, well-respected educator, Cohn engaged students and colleagues in numerous ways. For example, she organizes and coordinates more than 100 PE seminars annually by featuring industry professionals, adjuncts, advisory board members, and alumni in support of student learning. She is most proud of her work as executive producer of the SOM Podcast – In Reality: Lessons from Leaders and Entrepreneurs. She also has secured several high-quality, widely recognized peer-reviewed journal articles, for example in Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, Journal of Business Research, and International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising. She collaborates with researchers at many universities and presents at academic conferences and workshops around the world.



Jaishankar Ganesh, Ph.D



Dean



Dr. Ganesh brings to New York Tech a wealth of cumulative experience as an academic scholar, administrator, and an entrepreneur, with a brief stint in the corporate world. His scholarship focuses on issues of marketing management and international marketing strategy, with emphasis on customer satisfaction, retail patronage behavior, global competitive strategies and innovations, and cross-national diffusion of products and services. He has published in the top journals in his field, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Retailing, and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.



ARA OHANIAN



Entrepreneur-in-Residence





Global Entrepreneur and executive with solid track record building cloud based global software businesses. An innovator in the field of mobile content deliveries, performance and impact measurement.


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GRADUATES



Launching innovative companies in today's leading technology industries.



IOT



Andium is a revolutionary software platform that brings the intelligence of modern computing to devices as small as your fingernail, providing a level of technological sophistication previously unavailable in such cost-effective and power-efficient hardware.



SAAS



Your WrkBench is a fully-personalizable platform to sketch out and organize your ideas whenever they come to you, with complete freedom. Turns abstract thinking into concrete plans using collaborative project management tools. Assign task owners, make decisions together and easily share updates without ever leaving your WrkBench.



Augmented/Virtual Reality



WebGuyz works with code to create diverse platforms that allows users to manage your content and modify your websites to reflect your growing business. Our development lets you integrate your website and blog into one cohesive digital platform for all of your visitors to access your products, services, or industry insights.



"WE PUSH THE ENVELOPE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT & VENTURE "



Who we are





​SOMCES cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit of NYIT faculty and students by supporting new venture creation and development activities holistically. SOMCES leverages rich experiential education opportunities and technical assistance via its dedicated business incubator, preparing students to eventually launch new businesses and develop technical talent and expertise. Given NYIT’s strengths as a technological university with a leading global presence, SOMCES continues to build student competencies in product development and technology management, further aligning their education with the demands of today’s competitive global marketplace.



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VENTURES LAUNCHED



1MM



STARTUP InVESTMENTS



25



JOBS CREATED



12



coffees a day



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