Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Rob Abbanat, President of Roswell based interactive multimedia firm Engineered Multimedia, Inc., is the winner of the 1998 Small Business Administration's Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the nine state Southern region. Abbanat also captured the 1998 Boston College Young Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater. Abbanat earned his Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Computer Science from Boston College in 1992, and his Masters in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1994. At Tech, Abbanat worked as a Research Assistant for Dr. Kurt Gramoll, Director of the Aerospace Engineering Multimedia Lab. After graduation, Abbanat and Gramoll formed EMI.