April 5, 2008

Baton Rouge-based Nerjyzed - the creator of BCFx, the Black College Football Experience video game - plans to add 25 jobs in 2008 as it continues marketing its first major project and develops new video games.

The company and its chief executive officer, Southern University engineering graduate Jacqueline Beauchamp, are featured in the April issue of Black Enterprise magazine. Beauchamp tells Black Enterprise that her 42-employee company raised $8 million to develop a business strategy, pay university licensing fees for BCFx, hire employees and develop marketing plans.

Those efforts date back to 2003 in Dallas before Beauchamp and partner Frederick Johnson, Nerjyzed's chief financial officer, moved the company to Baton Rouge. In 2008, Nerjyzed wants to boost sales of BCFx 35 percent while developing several nonsports-related video games.

"Our goal is to continue infusing the video game and publishing industry with positive content related to the urban lifestyle," Beauchamp told Black Enterprise.