Founder and owner of Emma’s Premium Services, LLC.

As the founder and owner of Emma’s Premium Services, LLC, Anton Kogan embodies the very principles of growth and ingenuity which leverage his company as a valuable and influential asset.

Emma’s Premium Services, LLC is a company that provides inmates and their families with easier ways to purchase care packages that meet federal prison requirements for all 60 NYS Corr Facilities. 

Anton Kogan used a small loan from his uncle to start his enterprise in his mother’s kitchen, creating the organization’s website and app that allows inmates’ families to seamlessly select and send fresh food, clothing and electronics that met prison guidelines. As his business grew, Kogan started packaging supplies out of his mother’s garage while serving as the company’s communication contact, answering all calls directly for the first three years. After winning $20,000 in a Rutgers business plan competition, he was able to move further expand his operations to a 3,000-square-foot warehouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2017.

Today, the company helps over 210,000 families and offers a wide selection of fully-cooked, manufacturer-sealed items to inmates from brand names including Hillshire Farms, Tyson, Perdue, Polly-O and Pepperidge Farm and Nabisco. Emma’s has sent over 13.8 tons of food to inmates in NY state prisons.

Anton Kogan holds an MBA from Ohio State University, earned online during his sentence. In May 2020, he will have completed his MBA from Rutgers University. With an ambitious focus toward achieving $1 million in 2020 sales, Kogan is a living testimony of how the power of ingenuity and growth, coupled with access to the right resources, can help people thrive; a mindset which he intends to pay it forward for years to come.