OCTOBER 21, 2012
Children’s Hope India
A recognition plaque names Poonam and AJ Khubani and Telebrands Corp., thanking them for generosity and a longstanding commitment to helping children living in poverty.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & EDUCATION
Experience shared.
Possibility multiplied.
AJ’s educational work brought the practical experience of building Telebrands to engineers, inventors and student entrepreneurs.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY / MARCH 11, 2003
An earlier chapter
in a lasting relationship.
Before AJ’s 2005–2011 Entrepreneurial Engineering role, Professor Daniel Nosenchuck thanked him for a “Finding Winning Products” lecture to Princeton’s MAE 322 Mechanical Design class.
“You provided critical insight into product selection methodologies and marketing that few others could have given us.”
Daniel Nosenchuck · Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Letter to AJ Khubani, March 11, 2003
The letter records an enthusiastic student response and an invitation to return to judge final product presentations. It gives the educational story a contemporary document from its early years.
Read the framed letter ↗PRINCETON UNIVERSITY / 2005–2011
Where engineering
meets entrepreneurship.
Chairman, Industrial Directors BoardEntrepreneurial Engineering program
September 2005–January 2011
Working with Professor Daniel M. Nosenchuck, AJ helped develop the program’s entrepreneurial content and contributed teaching and mentorship across six fall-semester offerings.
Telebrands professionals participated as lecturers, mentors and project reviewers. Their work connected the experience of developing and marketing consumer products with student teams learning to bring their own ideas forward.
After many course offerings, AJ accompanied selected student teams on educational manufacturing visits to China, funded by AJ and/or Telebrands.2
Read Professor Nosenchuck’s statement ↗
INVESTING IN THE NEXT GENERATION / 2017
Giving new ideas
a place to begin.4
$500,000Five-year commitment announced
$80,000Announced annual student prize pool
BulbHead.com’s 2017 announcement committed $500,000 over five years through 2022 to Montclair State University’s Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship.
The support for BulbHead.com Inventors Day for Aspiring Entrepreneurs put student ideas in front of judges and helped promising teams take their next steps.
Explore entrepreneurship & education ↗BEYOND THE BUSINESS
Support remembered.
Commitments recognized.
The office collection also preserves acknowledgments of charitable support and sponsorship.
CUT-A-THON / 2011
Beauty for a Cure
A certificate of appreciation names Aluma Wallet for support of Beauty for a Cure and Long Island breast cancer coalitions.
AUGUST 2, 2014
Miss America’s Outstanding Teen
A plaque acknowledges Telebrands as a Diamond Sponsor of the 2014 MAOTeen competition in Orlando, Florida.5
CHILDREN’S HOPE INDIA / 2009
The Lotus Award.
A shared honor.
AJ and Poonam Khubani received Children’s Hope India’s Lotus Award at its 2009 An Evening in Rajasthan gala, recognizing their corporate philanthropy.
Contemporary coverage in Black Tie Magazine described it as the organization’s highest honor.
Read the 2009 award coverage ↗Award and photograph context ↗
Photo: David Kaptein / Black Tie Magazine ↗
FROM THE 2015 TRIBUTE FILM
Helping the next
generation build.
“AJ didn’t take his education and leave. He made a success and then he came back to the university to help support the next generation of AJs.”
Dr. Susan Cole · President of Montclair State University at the time of the film
Watch the tribute at 5:46 ↗ALUMNUS. MENTOR. ENTREPRENEUR.
Sharing the lessons
behind the business.
AJ returned to Montclair State as the School of Business convocation keynote speaker in 2014. His educational work and Telebrands’ Inventors Days reflect related interests: practical problem solving, entrepreneurship and giving developing ideas a chance to be heard.
Notes & sources
- Photograph or illustration: Nassau Hall · Princeton UniversityNassau Hall · Princeton UniversityPhotograph: Dmadeo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0↩
- Where engineering meets entrepreneurship.After many course offerings, AJ accompanied selected student teams on educational manufacturing visits to China, funded by AJ and/or Telebrands. Professor Nosenchuck’s September 16, 2026 statement documents the contribution; exact trip and student totals remain under review.↩
- Photograph or illustration: Montclair State University check presentation, 2017Montclair State University check presentation, 2017. Photograph supplied by AJ Khubani.↩
- Giving new ideas a place to begin.The figures describe the 2017 company announcement, not an audit of completed disbursements or a current contest offer. View supporting record ↗↩
- Support remembered. Commitments recognized.Historical acknowledgments from the photographed inscriptions. They do not establish donation amounts or continuing sponsorships.↩