Trey Augliano ’27, a student in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, has been selected by Syracuse Libraries as its inaugural Intelligence++ Innovation Scholar for the 2024-2025 academic year.
This prestigious recognition highlights Augliano’s dedication to innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly working with diverse communities.
Intelligence ++ is an innovative, interdisciplinary initiative at Syracuse University focused on inclusive entrepreneurship, design, and community. It is a partnership between Syracuse Libraries, the College of Visual and Performing Arts School of Design, and InclusiveU, a program of the School of Education’s Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education. Intelligence ++ is supported through a generous donation by Gianfranco Zaccai ’70 H’09 and the Zaccai Foundation for Augmented Intelligence.
Augliano is studying entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises, and 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 Libraries and worked with the Blackstone LaunchPad and Couri Hatchery as a tech commercialization specialist.
A member of the student steering committee for the inaugural ‘CUSE50 program, Augliano previously interned as an angel investment portfolio manager at Shaw Harbor Holdings (SHH), where he worked alongside the founder and CEO.
The Intelligence++ Innovation Scholar will assist with Intelligence++ Ventures, a funding program to help students across campus commercialize products, services and technologies that support people with intellectual disability or who are neurodivergent.
The scholar serves as a peer mentor to students from across all disciplines and academic units to help bring their ideas to life and also engages with University alumni who are innovators in this field and who can serve as subject matter experts.