Marcum Bernstein & Pinchuk’s Co-Managing Partner to Participate as Judge in Entrepreneurial China Business Plan Competition at Peking University in Beijing

New York, January 3, 2012 – Drew Bernstein, Co-Managing Partner of Marcum Bernstein & Pinchuk (MarcumBP), will participate as a judge in the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship of the University of Maryland’s 7th Annual China Business Plan Competition. The competition will be delivered in partnership with the Peking University Guanghua School of Management in Beijing, China where the event will take place on Thursday, January 5th.

The annual China Business Plan Competition is designed to encourage the growth of innovation and entrepreneurship within China. Teams of top MBA students from the University of Maryland, Peking University, Tianjin University, Zhejiang University, and the Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology will compete for up to $10,000 in cash prizes in this year’s event. Business plan entries will include ideas that either take place in China or leverage Chinese resources.

This is the second time Mr. Bernstein, an alumnus of the University of Maryland Business School, will participate as a judge in the competition. In addition to judging the competition, he will also address the participating students to share his experiences of doing business in China for over 10 years.

“I feel very honored to be invited to participate in this event and to have the opportunity to interact with the competing students who are fostering valuable international relationships while developing innovative business ideas for China, one of the world’s most important global markets,” said Mr. Bernstein. “I greatly admire the efforts that these students are making to gain the cultural understanding, patience and respect necessary of our future leaders.”

Additional judges for the competition will include other business leaders, business school faculty members and directors of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship of the University of Maryland.

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