Loyola competes in Singapore business competition

New Orleans CityBusiness, Jul 15, 2006 by CityBusiness Staff Report

A Metairie Park Country Day School alumni will lead Loyola University's team in an international business competition which could net the trio $20,000 for their proposal.

Jeffrey Doussan, a 2002 Country Day graduate heads the RealSNAP Backup, Inc., team, an enterprise to provide safe location data backup services for companies large enough to require servers but too small to afford or manage the high cost technology that large companies use. The other members are Khalil Bou-Mikael and Summer Veatch, 2006 graduates of Loyola University and greater New Orleans area natives.

The team leaves for Singapore today, where they will compete for the finals in the Lee Kuan Yew Global Plan competition from July 18 through July 20. Doussan's team is the only team from the United States to advance to the finals.

According to Loyola University, the competition is sponsored by the Singapore Management University and brings together teams from universities around the world to compete for cash prizes based on plans for an original start-up or early stage business venture.