Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Biggby co-founder to give LCC commencement address

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Staff report • April 14, 2009 • From LSJ.com

Biggby Coffee CEO and co-founder Bob Fish will give the commencement address at Lansing Community College’s May 1 graduation ceremony.


LCC selected Fish because of his significant entrepreneurial success, his innovative spirit and his charismatic and inspiring personality, the college said in a news release.


Fish founded the East Lansing-based company in 1995 with his partner, Mary Roszel, and opened the first cafe on Grand River in East Lansing. The company sold its first franchise is 1999, and now has more than 100 cafes in nine states.


LCC’s commencement will take place at 7 p.m. at Breslin Student Event Center in East Lansing.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bob - congrats LCC is lucky to have you coming! TCB

Anonymous said...

Congrats Bob! This is awesome!SD

Anonymous said...

Let me know if you want some help writing the commencement address :)

TD

Anonymous said...

That is cool--anyone can attend, I assume?