At 7:30pm we will be hearing from Mike Figliuolo, founder of thoughtLEADERS. Mike graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1993 where he was an honor graduate and a Distinguished Cadet. He was recently named the Columbus, Ohio Small Business Leader of the Year for 2010 by the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and Business First. Mike is also a member of the Ohio TechAngel Fund, a principal at weBuild (a web/mobile accelerator), the CEO of TiXiT (an event ticket discount site), the founder of SimpleMile (a droid-based business service app), a founder of FreakJet.com (a humor site), and the author of the upcoming leadership book One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership.

At 7:30pm, we’ll be hearing some BBC history from our founding father, Nathan Hurd, unfortunately saying some goodbyes and also ushering in a new leadership team. This will be a huge BBC night, you don’t want to miss club history! Of course pizza at Woody’s after the meeting.

This week in the Ohio Union Senate Chamber, Mallory Brown strapped on a backpack in January 2008 and set out to discover new people and places. On a day excursion from Northern Thailand, Mallory visited Laos, one of the poorest countries in the world. She met a family in need as they were gathered under a tree selling potatoes and roots.It wasn’t money or food that they needed. It was clothes. World Clothes Line gives clothes to people who need them. Their “shoot for the stars” goal is to create an active clothing collection for every country of the world.

AddressTwo provides a simple Client Relationship Management system for managing the important relationships for small businesses. Though it began with just Nick, the business quickly grew to a successful full-service agency. So come hear all about AddressTwo and how Nick was able to take his idea for a simple CRM system and turn it into the very successful business it is today!