Jessica MacNeil

Students get a chance to intern as CEO
May 1, 2008

The title CEO Intern seems inherently contradictory, but it is an accurate description of a student-focused reality show that is in the works for this summer.

CEO Intern is a reality TV program that follows five students who will become group CEO of the cryogenic processing company, 300 Below. The students will be put in charge of a veteran staff that is likely to challenge them socially as well as from a business standpoint.

Cryogenic processing is the science of improving metals to make them last longer and perform better by exposing them to extreme temperatures. 300 Below has customers in several different industries that will provide many opportunities for filming the show around the world.

Babson College students Beni Chudnovskiy, Nick Bawa, and Charles H. Brown, Harvard University student Nancy Xu, and Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering student Gabe Greeley will be the first five students to participate in the project.

While the other team members have various business backgrounds in real estate, logistics and marketing, Greeley is a senior Mechanical Engineering major, who works for Dassault Systèmes S.A. as a software engineer for SolidWorks. His engineering experience includes design work for microscopic actuators in a telescope lens. Greeley's skills will be valuable in 300 Below's motor sports division and when working with industry visionaries such as Jonathan Goodwin to use cryogenics in developing engines with improved horsepower and fuel efficiency.

The program will be filmed June 1 through July 31 in Illinois, at 300 Below in Decatur and at a cabin in Central Illinois that will serve as the group's home for the summer. While the group works in Decatur during the week, their weekends will be spent traveling to cities such as Boston, New York City, Aspen and Chicago, where they will meet with entrepreneurial visionaries and business executives.

The Producer/Creator of the project is Prescott Paulin, a Babson student, and the son of 300 Below CEO Pete Paulin. Prescott's aim for the show is to help America's small businesses learn how to make improvements through creativity, teamwork and innovation.

CEO Intern’s distribution partner is PermissionTV.com. Content will be featured on a custom branded player hosted on PermissionTV's high speed content delivery network.

Xerox and Recycline are currently on board as sponsors, but the project is pursuing more investors to cover the expected million-dollar budget necessary to produce the show. 300 Below will allow the show to film for three seasons and use any profits made from the show to create scholarships.

Posted by Jessica MacNeil on May 1, 2008 | Comments (0)