Road to Entrepreneurial Leadership (R2EL) Launches Seminar Series in Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland – November 8, 2010 – Road to Entrepreneurial Leadership (R2EL), a non-profit initiative with the vision of inspiring and enabling tomorrow’s entrepreneurial leaders to create world-changing startups, today announced that it will hold its inaugural seminar on Monday, November 29, 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland, with Mr. Ulf Michael “Monty” Widenius, founder of MySQL - the world’s largest open-source database - as its guest of honor and speaker. R2EL seminars are free and open to students, budding entrepreneurs and the public at large, all of whom can attend either in person in Zurich or online via the R2EL webcast.

R2EL enables entrepreneurs via its monthly seminar series where successful business leaders share their roads to entrepreneurial leadership with a view to inspiring, mentoring and leading students into realizing their dreams of creating successful businesses. R2EL seminars are webcast live to encourage participation of attendees worldwide.

“Entrepreneurs create innovative companies that create jobs and add value to the world’s socio-economic development” said Peter Alfred-Adekeye - R2EL Founder. “R2EL is our humble way of giving back to younger generations and we hope it helps to foster entrepreneurship for years to come.”

The R2EL initiative is funded by generous contributions from Pingsta and Multiven as well as sponsors from the entrepreneurial eco-system. R2EL partners with organizations that share its goal of fostering entrepreneurship and its current partners include University of St. Gallen - Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence, Swiss Private Equity & Corporate Finance Association (SECA), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and EPFL- Innogrants.

• To learn more about R2EL, please visit www.r2el.org
• To learn more about speaking at R2EL, please visit www.r2el.org/en/speaker.html
• To learn more about sponsoring R2EL, please visit www.r2el.org/en/sponsors.html

About R2EL
Road to Entrepreneurial Leadership - R2EL - is a monthly seminar series where successful entrepreneurs and business leaders inspire, mentor and lead students and budding entrepreneurs from the world over into realizing their dreams of creating world-changing startups. R2EL seminars are free and open to students and the public at large, all of whom can attend either in person in Zurich, Switzerland or online via the R2EL webcast. To learn more about R2EL, please visit www.r2el.org.

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