University of Wisconsin Law School third-year student Khaja M. Din and business partner Brent Newport, a student at the UW School of Business, have won first place at the Business School’s 2006 G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition on April 21, 2006, sharing a prize of $10,000.

Din is President and Newport is Director of Business Development of IPIC (Internet Privacy & Identity Credential), a young company whose entry in the contest was a preventive solution to identity theft.

IPIC was chosen over 11 other undergraduate and graduate student enterprises whose business plans were presented to a panel of judges in the competition, named for UW-Madison alumnus Steven Burrill, CEO of the San Francisco-based Burrill & Company.

Din and Newport are also finalists in the Wisconsin State Governor’s Business Plan Competition, in a group of 20 from the original 160 entries, and they were finalists at the Wake Forest University Business School’s National Elevator Pitch Competition earlier in 2006.

Din attributes his company’s success in major part to the business law education he has received at the UW Law School. "I know we could not have done this without the help, mentorship, education, encouragement, and support I received from the Law School," he told Dean Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., who was his professor of Business Organizations. Din expressed heartfelt appreciation, as well, to Law and Business Professor Gordon Smith for important mentoring in Entrepreneurship.

For more information on IPIC, see http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2884.

Submitted by on April 24, 2006

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