Jeff Jahn (07C)
Brin Enterkin (12C)
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Outstanding Young Alumni
Early success
A recipe for the future
Alan Storey
• Started his first official business, DynamiX Web design, while a Berry sophomore, serving simultaneously as CEO, design department, sales team and head of support • As a senior, hired his first full-time employee, purchased a home and carried an 18-hour class load while working 15-hour+ days and traveling frequently On the [super] fast track
• Since 2012, DynamiX’s business has grown 35 to 55 percent annually; in 2014, the firm achieved 100 percent growth in staff (now employing 14) and launched almost 50 new websites for Atlanta-based and national customers, including Marlow’s Tavern, Ray’s Restaurants, Clark Howard and Herman Cain • In 2011, co-founded the internationally recognized, neighborhoodbased Home Elephant social media platform that now encompasses more than 6,800 communities in 96+ countries • In 2012, co-founded the apartment-renter retention platform Dwellio Awards and accolades
• Recognized in 2013 as one of “20 Rising Stars Under 40” by Cobb Life magazine • In 2015 Horizon Interactive Awards competition, DynamiX became the most-awarded website development firm nationally when it took home 46 trophies, including a “Best of Category” award and 10 “Gold” trophies • DynamiX earned the highest recognition for Internet excellence when it was named one of only 12 Webby Award honorees in the 2015 Food and Drink category for its work on the Ray’s Restaurants site • Other DynamiX awards for innovative design, development and technology include seven W3 national awards, seven international Davey Awards and an Interactive Media Awards “Best in Class” designation • Home Elephant has been featured by news outlets across the country, including Fox News, ABC News, CNN, Adweek, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Huffington Post and CBS News’ The Early Show in his own words
“Since I started my first unofficial business at 14 (selling IT services to companies), I’ve been addicted to creating new things and the challenges that come from being an entrepreneur.”
• While a Berry student, founded The African SOUP, a project to feed and care for Ugandan orphans; since graduation, has grown that effort into a community development organization and national effort to reform primary education across Uganda • With Sydney Hulebak (14C), co-founded Lion’s Thread, a start-up social-enterprise company that empowers Ugandan women to handcraft bow ties for the American market • Opting for a non-typical career with her own definition of success, moved to Uganda fulltime in 2014, magnifying The SOUP’s impact – the organization has established a school, two safe “haven homes,” two fresh-water wells, a 1,200-chicken coop and a farm and now is projected to generate enough income to become financially self-sustaining • Known as “Auntie Brin,” frequently rides a bicycle between villages to check on and nurse the ill and aging Thinking big
• With her team, developed a partnering network of more than 20 organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development and the Ugandan Ministry of Education, to improve Uganda’s primary school curriculum through active learning focused on critical-, creative- and ethical-thinking skills • Working on a multimillion-dollar project with the Ministry of Energy and U.S. investors to bring renewable energy and meaningful work to Eastern Uganda All about serving others
• Winner of the Simon Fellow of Noble Purpose Award and the Woodruff, Whitehead and Evans Foundation Fellowship • Invited speaker at the UNICEF/Millennium Network Conference on her generation’s role in addressing social issues In her own words
“My career is a stab at making the world a better place. I have a couple of titles, but those are purely arbitrary. I simply do what I can to demonstrate love to as many people as possible.”
Berry Magazine • Summer 2015
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