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C.E.O. Club Presenting Talk by Josh Whiton, NC State Young Alumnus, Entrepreneur, TransL?c Founder

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Club at NC State University is hosting a presentation this Wednesday, October 12, by Josh Whiton, an NC State alumnus, founder and chief executive officer of TransL?c.

He will be speaking on the topic of launching a successful technology based company. His presentation will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Erdahl Cloyd Theater, located in North Carolina State University’s D.H. Hill Library. The theater is the auditorium in the library’s west wing. D. H. Hill Library is located at 2 Broughton Drive on NC State’s North Campus in Raleigh, N.C. There is no charge to attend, and all college students and entrepreneurs in the Triangle are invited.

Students who use NC State’s Wolfline bus system and track the progress of the buses via computer or mobile phone are benefitting from TransL?c’s services. The company uses GPS technologies to display the location of its client transit systems’ buses on an easy to use map that can be viewed online via computers and mobile phones.

Whiton launched TransL?c while a student in computer science in NC State’s College of Engineering. He also had taken entrepreneurship courses in the Poole College of Management and participated in an entrepreneurship competition hosted by the college’s entrepreneurship faculty at the time. Prize money earned in the competition helped him launch his company, and NC State’s Wolfline was one of his first clients.

The client list on TransL?c’s website now shows that more than two dozen universities, from Auburn to Yale, are using the system, as well as several hospital and regional transit systems. Among those coming on line soon are the NC Triangle Region, Gap Inc.’s Corporate Shuttle Service, and U.S. Capital Grounds.

TransL?c in August was listing among the North Carolina Companies to Watch by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, based in Research Triangle Park.

“Josh Whiton is an entrepreneur and explorer of the psyche with a bent for social and ecological reform,” said Keith Griffin, vice president of marketing for the NCSU C.E.O club chapter. “He believes that everything can be improved and whatever can’t can be composted.”

Griffin said Whiton also “is working on an electric car startup, an urban farm, and a lecture series that he hopes will nourish many an intellect in his neighborhood.”

In addition to this special presentation, the NCSU Chapter of the C.E.O. Club hosts informal discussions at HotBox Pizza, 2304 Hillsborough Street, on Thursdays, several times a month, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Check the C.E.O. Club’s Facebook page for dates and other details.

C.E.O. Club officers for the 2011-12 academic year are Justin Senkbeil, president; Keegan Guizard, vice president; Keith Griffin, vice president of marketing; Genya Kalinina, treasurer; and Michelle Fidelia, secretary.

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