Anaheim entrepreneur Keith Pham, who earned his MBA from Chapman University in 2005, has agreed to endow the campus' annual entrepreneurship business plan competition.

The competition through the campus Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics will be held later this spring, said Director P.K. Shukla. Pham's endowment will provide prize money for the winners.

Pham is chief executive of Technology Development Center Inc., an Anaheim information technology supplier and a premier partner of Cisco Systems Inc. He earned his MBA at Chapman's Argyros School of Business and Economics while growing the company from annual revenues of $9 million to more than $21 million.

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