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U OF R Center For Entrepreneurship Gets $5 Million Commitment

A Simon School Business grad of the University of Rochester and his wife have made a multi-million dollar commitment in support of entrepreneurship education.

Mark Ain, the former chairman and CEO of Kronos, a Massachusetts-based  workforce management company that he founded in 1977.  Ain also has an MBA from the Simon Business School.

He and his wife Carolyn now  have made a total commitment to the university's Meliora Challenge of $5 million.

In recognition of their philanthropy, the U of R's Center for Entrepreneurship will be named the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship.

Randy Gorbman is WXXI's director of news and public affairs. Randy manages the day-to-day operations of WXXI News on radio, television, and online.