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Scott Hamilton, Paychex CEO turned passion into enterprise

A Fortune 500 CEO and an Olympic gold medalist will talk about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur April 29 at BGSU.

Scott Hamilton

photo by Don Snyder

Bowling Green native Scott Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal skater in 1984 and co-creator of Stars on Ice, and B. Thomas Golisano, founder, chairman and CEO of Paychex Inc., are the keynote speakers for "Turning Passion into Enterprise." The daylong seminar, hosted by the College of Business Administration, will be held in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union.

In addition to the keynote speakers, the seminar will feature discussions by two panels of entrepreneurs and the announcement of winners in the 2004 Student Entrepreneurship Competition.

Keynoter Golisano, the luncheon speaker, started Paychex in 1971 at the age of 30. Today, with more than 8,500 employees and 490,000 clients, the company is the nation's leading provider of payroll, human resource and benefits solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises. Based in Rochester, N.Y., the business generated nearly $1.1 billion in service revenues in 2003.

B. Thomas Golisano

Hamilton will deliver the second keynote address at 4 p.m. during the final session of the seminar. The adopted son of two former Bowling Green faculty members, both now deceased, he learned to skate at the BGSU Ice Arena. Since graduating in 1984 from the amateur ranks with numerous medals and world titles, he has captured even more accolades in the professional world of sports and entertainment.

Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs in all will share insights into their business successes and failures during the BGSU seminar, which is the first event in the Bob and Karen Sebo Lecture Series.

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