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Out To Lunch: Power Up And Away

Trey Fayard.
Alison Moon
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It's New Orleans
Trey Fayard.

There are places in the world nobody wants to be. Jail. Hospital. And stuck in an airport, which can feel like a combination of the previous two.

If you’ve ever sat for hours in an airport and cursed the fact that you can’t fly direct from New Orleans to where you want to go, so has Trey Fayard.

That’s why Trey started up New Orleans based GLO Airlines.

There’s an even worse circle of Hell you can find yourself in. Not only stuck in an airport, but now your phone’s dead. And there’s no place to charge it up. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a temporary plug-in battery that let you use your phone immediately and keep moving so you’re not tied to a wall outlet? You can do exactly that -- thanks to Josh Reyher and New Orleans startup company Mobile Qubes.

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.