Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Staff
Meet the Lavin Center Team
In order to fuel the passions and dreams of entrepreneurs, the Lavin Center provides a wide range of support staff. These members have expertise that include web design, accounting, strategic consulting, and marketing, among many other areas.
The Lavin Center staff also has a far reaching network that starts with SDSU faculty and goes to outside contributors from the likes of CEOs, senior level executives, business founders, SDSU alumni, and affiliated industry organizations. We represent and provide access to hundreds of other academic and business professionals who support the Lavin Center’s mission of entrepreneurship which is to actively inspire entrepreneurs in and outside the San Diego community.
Lavin Center Staff
Beryl Pratts
Finance and Programs Analyst
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Beryl Pratts is currently working as the Finance and Programs Analyst for the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. She is responsible for financial forecasting, budgeting, and program evaluation, as well as streamlining and managing financials for the Center's programs.
Prior to working at the Center, Beryl worked a variety of accounting positions with Sempra Energy, San Diego Gas and Electric and Southern California Gas Companies. Beryl has worked in financial analysis with experience in financial systems. She graduated with a degree in Business Administration, Accounting major from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Cathy Pucher
Executive Director
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Mujtaba Ahsan
Faculty Director
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Student Staff
Sarah Ainsworth
Program Coordinator
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Sarah Ainsworth is a third year Business Management student at San Diego State University. She was born and raised in San Diego, California to a family with entrepreneurial spirit. In April 2022, Sarah was brought on as a Programs Coordinator at the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. Sarah’s responsibilities include coordinating the LEAP program, the SEED Fund Program, SEED Fund Dinners, the L. Robert Payne Lecture Series and the California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference. At the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center, she makes it a priority to remember to plan and execute in a way which will properly attest to Leonard Lavin’s vision. Her passions include sustainability, travel, uniting people for a common goal, and climate advocacy. In her free time, Sarah enjoys going to the gym, skiing, live music and spending time in the sun.
Puneet Patil
Website Designer
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Destiny Lopez
Program Coordinator
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