Babson College senior Matt Lauzon has been named a finalist in the “Most Promising Campus CEO” contest.

Lauzon is cofounder of Paragon Lake, an online retailer of custom-designed jewelry (www.paragonlake.com).

Profiles of the nine finalists are available on www.campusceo.com. Visitors to the site can vote on their favorite business/business idea now and the winners will be revealed in a live Web-based event on February 27th at noon EST. The event is free and open to all who register at www.campusceo.com. The contest’s first place prize is worth over $20,000.

The “Most Promising Campus CEO” contest, designed to recognize and reward talented student entrepreneurs, was launched by Dr. Randal Pinkett, author of the just-released “Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur’s Guide To Launching a Multimillion Dollar Business” (Kaplan Publishing). Dr. Pinkett, currently the CEO of his own successful business, was a student entrepreneur himself in his time at Rutgers (undergrad), MIT (MBA & PhD) and Oxford (Rhodes scholar). Additionally, Dr. Pinkett was the first African American winner of NBC’s The Apprentice.

Kaplan Publishing is one of the nation’s leading education, career and business publishers. With offices in New York and Chicago, Kaplan Publishing produces more than 150 books a year on test preparation, admissions, academic and professional development, general business, management, sales, marketing, real estate, finance and investing. Kaplan Publishing is a unit of Kaplan, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). For more information, please visit www.kaplan publishing.com.