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At 26, Ash Huzenlaub was the youngest CEO/chair of a publicly-held company in the U.S. He stills heads that emergency room software company now, two years later, and came to FIU November 12 to share his experience, paying special attention to two soon-to-be finance majors: Jason Tilghman and Andrew Lanzziano, who launched a local chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization (CEO). He told the audience of 50 at a recent Entrepreneurship Lecture that he started his first business at age 7, selling cleaners and fire-retardants out of a red wagon he towed door-to-door. Between ages 12 and 18, Huzenlaub master-minded a car-detailing business, grossing $3,000 a month. He also created a classified ad magazine and a collection service for recyclables-both of which he sold at profits-all before he entered college. "Then I asked myself: Do you want to be a glorified trash man, or do you want to run collegiate track?" Huzenlaub recalled. he then enrolled at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas as a collegiate distance runner and lead initiatives to begin entrepreneurship education at the university by working with entrepreneurial trustees. Today the program, which was developed by one of Huzenlaub's mentors, is one of the top twenty Schools of Entrepreneurship in the country. Following the lecture, one in a series sponsored by the College's Global Entrepreneurship Center (GEC), Huzenlaub broke for lunch with Tilghman, Lanzziano, and Alan Carsrud, Huzenlaub's mentor and director of the GEC. "Ash gave them a mouthful at lunch about how to grow a major CEO chapter," Carsrud said. "I gave them the goal of a 1,000 members in a year. I think they can do it." For more information on the CEO, contact Jason Tilghman.
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