Syracuse Sun

Trey Augliano ’27 has been selected as Syracuse University Libraries’ inaugural Intelligence++ Innovation Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year. Augliano is studying entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and this recognition highlights his dedication to innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly working with diverse communities.

Intelligence++ is an interdisciplinary initiative at Syracuse University focused on inclusive entrepreneurship, design, and community. It is a partnership between Syracuse University Libraries, the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, and InclusiveU, a program of the Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education. Intelligence++ is supported through a donation by Gianfranco Zaccai ’70 H’09 and the Zaccai Foundation for Augmented Intelligence.

Augliano is the founder of Flamingo Brands, a global e-commerce company. During the past academic year, he served as an Orange Innovation Scholar for Syracuse University Libraries and worked with the Blackstone LaunchPad and Couri Hatchery as a tech commercialization specialist. He was a member of the student steering committee for the inaugural ’CUSE50 program. He previously interned as an angel investment portfolio manager at Shaw Harbor Holdings, where he worked alongside the founder and CEO.

As the Intelligence++ Innovation Scholar, Augliano will assist with Intelligence++ Ventures, a funding program to help students across campus commercialize products, services, and technologies that support people with intellectual disabilities or who are neurodivergent. The Intelligence++ Scholar serves as a peer mentor to students from all disciplines to help bring their ideas to life and engages with SU alumni who are innovators in this field.

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