The winners of the Wharton Business Plan Competition
Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
at NASDAQ's MarketSite
in New York City.

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The winners of the Wharton Business Plan Competition, preside over the Closeing bell to celebrate AMERISAFE's listing on the NASDAQ.

In 1973, the Wharton School became the first school to develop a fully integrated curriculum of entrepreneurial studies. Today, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs (www.wep.wharton.upenn.edu) supports innovation and entrepreneurship globally through teaching, research and outreach to a range of organizations, programs, initiatives and research centers. At the same time, Wharton students and alumni are helping to build entrepreneurial enterprises around the world, making an impact in virtually every industry.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania -- founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school -- is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world, Wharton bridges research and practice through its broad engagement with the global business community. The school has more than 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA including those at Wharton West, and doctoral students; more than 8,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and an alumni network of more than 81,000 graduates. Wharton at 125: www.wharton.upenn.edu.

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