技术的企业家

Willhem Delventhal was an entrepreneur 和 coder at the age of 15 when he sold his first mobile application game. With this experience he knew he wanted to end up working 和 innovating in Silicon Valley. In selecting a university that would help him continue down that path, Delventhal chose RWU.

“There's a vast range of opportunities 和 support at Roger Williams. You can pack a lot into four years here.”

参加过, Delventhal chose to major in business management to build his entrepreneurial skills 和 minor in 计算机科学 和 web开发. He completed a summer internship in Silicon Valley at Lumosity, an online brain-培训 game company. While interning there, he had an idea for his own company – an electronic greeting card service that delivers messages to senders in the form of a game. With the guidance 和 help of Mario J. Gabelli School of Business Professor W. Brett McKenzie, Deleventhal took that idea 和 pitched it at Rhode Isl和’s Elevator Pitch Contest. Delventhal launched the company after winning.

Along with off-campus opportunities, Delventhal discovered RWU offers its students avenues for exploring 和 developing their passions on campus. For Delventhal, that passion was being a technical entrepreneur. He started the Tech-E’s club (or 技术的企业家s) as a way to innovate app-designs to benefit the RWU campus. 该俱乐部创建了HawkStop, a map-based application for the campus shuttle, which it then pitched 和 successfully sold to the University.

回顾, Delventhal says he never imagined that his transition from student to professional would be so seamless. He now works for Lumosity, the company he interned with. He believes it was the perfect combination of his hard work 和 skill with the experience of four years at RWU that made his transition so smooth.