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Marketing

Alexis Yim's dissertation proposal was selected as one of two winners of the 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition! Alexis is a fourth-year doctoral student in Marketing.

Chambers Marketing doctoral student Elvira Kizilova was a featured student on the AMA/DocSig student spotlight. You can read more about it here.

Vantage Ventures

ASCEND WV: Remote Worker Program

We will be officially welcoming a new addition to Vantage Ventures! Forrest Schwartz and Paris Winfrey will be joining our space from the Remote Worker Program through Ascend WV, which allows people from all over the world to live, work and play in West Virginia. Vantage Ventures will initially be one of the three remote worker locations throughout the state. Learn more about Ascend WV: https://ascendwv.com/

FinTech update

West Virginia seeks to be home to some of the most innovative companies in the country — including in the insurance industry. To foster that innovation, the West Virginia Legislature passed HB 2221 this past session. On the heels of its unanimous vote last year to be the fourth state in the country to enact the creation of Regulatory FinTech Sandbox, West Virginia's Insurance regulators have opened the door to companies with great ideas for new insurance products to apply for an innovation waiver to make those ideas a reality.

Watch for Vantage Venture's announcement of incoming FinTech start-ups to West Virginia. In the meantime, you can read the bill around insurance innovation in its entirety here.