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Michael Simmons has been a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and panel participant on the topic of youth entrepreneurship at conferences from California to Washington D.C. As a student at the Stern School of Business at New York University, an author, teacher, speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur, he is able to deliver a unique perspective that connects with audiences.

Michael is a columnist at Entrepreneur.com and has been published in College Bound Magazine, Young Money Magazine, Whizteens in Business (a book on youth entrepreneurship), among other youth publications. In addition, he is on the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) New York Metro advisory board, a NFTE Certified Entrepreneurship Teacher and has taught an entrepreneurship class to inner-city youth with the Liberty Partnership Program. As the president of the Entrepreneurial Exchange Group (EEG) at NYU, EEG won the President's Service Award.

Michael co-founded his first business, Princeton WebSolutions (PWS) when he was sixteen years old. For the year 2000, Youngbiz Magazine rated PWS the #1 youth-run web development company in the nation. In addition, Michael was the winner of three entrepreneur of the year awards from NFTE, Fleet, and the National Coalition for Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship, and accepted as a Youth Venture social entrepreneur fellow.