Hopkins Consulting Agency

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Hopkins Consulting Agency
Company type Private
IndustryConsulting, Technology Commercialization, Business Plan Preparation
Founded2006 (2006)
Founder Alex Nisichenko
Headquarters
Baltimore, MD
,
USA
Area served
Nationwide
Key people
 Josiah Tsui
(Enterprise Manager)
Saumya Gurbani
(Assistant Manager)
Pam Arrington
(Chair, Board of Directors)
RevenuePrivate
Number of employees
< 20
Parent Hopkins Student Enterprises, The Johns Hopkins University
Website www.jhu.edu/hca

Hopkins Consulting Agency (HCA), formerly known as "Hopkins Technology Commercialization Agency" (HTCA), is an entirely student-run non-profit business and technology consulting company based at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus. HCA was founded in 2006 and provides technology commercialization services and business plan preparation services to universities, federal research labs, engineering firms, and independent entrepreneurs and inventors.

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History

HCA was founded in 2006 by Alex Nisichenko, Johns Hopkins University 2007. [1] The company was founded as Hopkins Technology Commercialization Agency (HTCA) and focused on preparing technology commercialization assessment reports for universities, federal research labs, and small engineering firms. At the time, the company was the nation's first entirely student-run technology commercialization agency.

In 2008, under the leadership of former Enterprise Manager Riaz Virani the company began broadening its services to include business consulting and business plan preparation. In 2009, former Enterprise Manager Kieran Gupta continued to diversify the company's services and successfully re-branded the company as Hopkins Consulting Agency (HCA) to better represent the broad set of services now offered by the company. As a result of this diversification, by the middle of 2010 approximately half of HCA's business was in the form of business consulting and business plan preparation.

Company Structure

Hopkins Consulting Agency is directly affiliated with and owned by Johns Hopkins University. The parent company is Hopkins Student Enterprises (HSE), [2] a student group that resides within the Center for Leadership Education (CLE), a department under the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Services

Hopkins Consulting Agency has two primary service offerings:

1. Technology Commercialization Assessment Reports [1]

2. Business Plans

HCA differentiates itself by providing a high-level of personalization and customization in its reports through constant communication with the client throughout the report-writing process. In addition, because the company maintains very low overhead costs and a full team of student employees, HCA has significantly lower expenses than other consulting firms and can thus charge clients at a steep discount rate. [1]

Board of directors

Although Hopkins Consulting Agency is autonomously managed and operated by students, the company has a Board of Directors composed of full-time faculty and staff of The Johns Hopkins University. The primary function of the Board of Directors is to oversee operations of the company and provide advice on company direction and development.

Notable clients

Past enterprise managers

The following students of the Johns Hopkins University have served as Enterprise Manager of Hopkins Consulting Agency.

TermEnterprise ManagerSignificant ContributionsFuture Career
2006–2007 Alex Nisichenko Founded original Hopkins Technology Commercialization AgencyResearch Assistant at the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
2006–2007 Sudhir Khetan Co-FounderResearcher in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania
2007–2008 Andrew Boudreau Member of founding teamConsultant at Invotex Group, Maryland First Financial Services Corp.
2008–2009 Riaz Virani Diversified company's servicesAnalyst at Deloitte Consulting Firm
2009–2010 Kieran Gupta [5] Rebranded company as Hopkins Consulting AgencyProgram Manager at Microsoft Business Division
2010–2011 Saumya Gurbani Established relations with the Carey Business School and created the Consulting Seminar Series; expanded HCA's services to include business plan preparation for startup ventures.MSE candidate in biomedical engineering at Whiting School of Engineering and an ORISE Fellow at the Food and Drug Administration
2011–2012 Josiah Tsui --

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Smart Students, Big Ideas". The Johns Hopkins University Arts & Sciences Magazine. Maria Blackburn. Spring 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  2. ↑ Hopkins Student Enterprises, Center for Leadership Education, Johns Hopkins University.
  3. ↑ Inventors Network of the Capital Area Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine . June 16, 2008. July 21, 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  4. ↑ Digital Harbor Online Archived 2010-08-02 at the Wayback Machine . Directory for current technology news in the Baltimore area. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  5. 1 2 "Hopkins Student Enterprise". Young Money Magazine. Cara Newman. December 29, 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
  6. 1 2 Center for Leadership Education Staff. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
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