Entrepreneurship

Founder, Chief Executive Officer – Champions for Charity

Champions for Charity is a 501(c)(3) working to empower young athletes to make a difference in the world around them. Champions for Charity is a student-run initiative that began in January of 2016. With the goal of creating an impact in the community, and empowering youth to actualize their potential, Champions for Charity is a vehicle for social change. By allowing teams in sports tournaments to represent the cause of their choice, Champions for Charity instills the elements of representation, empowerment, and connection, creating an altruistic environment.
To date, we have raised over $50,000 for charities on a local, national, and international scale. Our success has landed media coverage by National Public Radio’s Ideastream, WKYC’s We The People, Freshwater Cleveland, and the Jewish News, in addition to winning the Teen Pitch Tank Competition by the Young Entrepreneur Institute, as well as receiving an honorable mention in the BizInnovator competition by the Jacobson Institute at the University of Iowa.

Co-Founder, CollegeTech

In the fall of 2017, Andrew and his roommate Brent Szklaruk-Salazar started CollegeTech an e-commerce site to tech out student dorm rooms with affordable technology. In the summer of 2018, Andrew and Brent sold the company to a private buyer. Throughout his work with the business, Andrew recognized market opportunity, created the website (collegetech.us) and logo, produced a  marketing strategy, worked with social media advertising and marketing, and led search engine optimization (SEO), Google Analytics and Webmaster to increase sales.

Founder, Roth Young Entrepreneur Consulting

In the summer of 2017, Andrew founded Roth Young Entrepreneur Consulting. Initially, the business focused on providing young entrepreneurs with consulting services to boost their business success and launch them to becoming leaders of the next generation. Now, the company has pivoted to becoming a design-based consulting service focused on Generation Z design to make companies stand out amongst a new generation of customers.

Co-Founder, MarketplaceU

A new business started in one of his HOD classes, MarketplaceU is a student to student marketplace designed to make college life more affordable. The business will be launching this fall on campus.