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SUMMARY:Ajit Prabhu — Entrepreneur of the Year Celebration
LOCATION:EMPAC Theater and Evelyn’s Café\, 50 Eighth Street\, Troy\, NY
DESCRIPTION:Ajit Prabhu co-founded Quest Global in 1997 while studying at R
 PI. Nearly three decades later\, the company operates in more than twenty 
 countries\, with 104 delivery centers and more than 23\,000 employees\, ac
 cording to RPI’s announcement. Its engineers work across aerospace\, aut
 omotive manufacturing\, energy\, medical technology\, rail and semiconduct
 ors—industries in which a design has to function reliably outside the dr
 awing board.\n\nThat growth is why RPI’s Severino Center for Technologic
 al Entrepreneurship has selected Prabhu for the William F. Glaser ’53 En
 trepreneur of the Year Award. Established in 1990\, the award recognizes a
 lumni whose business careers can provide substantive lessons for new entre
 preneurs. Prabhu’s story offers a useful case: building an engineering-s
 ervices company requires technical credibility\, clients willing to trust 
 a young business and the ability to organize teams across countries and sp
 ecialties.\n\nThe public celebration begins with a fireside conversation w
 ith President Marty Schmidt\, followed by a startup pitch competition and 
 faculty-student poster presentations. Readers can hear an established foun
 der discuss his experience\, then see ideas at an earlier stage of develop
 ment. For engineers\, business owners and anyone curious about how a techn
 ically skilled team becomes a durable company\, the afternoon has more sub
 stance than an award ceremony alone.\n\nSchedule: 1 PM fireside conversati
 on and awards\; 2:30 PM startup pitch competition\; 3:30 PM posters and ne
 tworking\; 4:30 PM pitch and poster awards. RSVP: https://webforms.rpi.edu
 /form/severino-center-entrepreneur-of\n\nAdmission: Free and open to the p
 ublic\; RSVP requested\nOfficial details: https://empac.rpi.edu/events/202
 6/2026-rpi-entrepreneur-year-award-celebration\nVenue: EMPAC Theater and E
 velyn’s Café\, 50 Eighth Street\, Troy\, NY\nMap: https://www.google.co
 m/maps/search/?api=1&query=EMPAC%20Theater%20and%20Evelyn%E2%80%99s%20Caf%
 C3%A9%2C%2050%20Eighth%20Street%2C%20Troy%2C%20NY
URL:https://empac.rpi.edu/events/2026/2026-rpi-entrepreneur-year-award-cele
 bration
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