CCBN CEO And Founder Jeffrey P. Parker Named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year; Parker to be honored at Entrepreneur of the Year Celebration, October 11 - 12, 2001.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2001 CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp CCBN Charles County Business Network (www.ccbn.com), the leading provider of Internet-based shareholder communications services, today announced that CCBN CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder Jeffrey P. Parker was recently named as the Cornell 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year - an award recognizing the achievements and qualities of a Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. graduate who best exemplifies the ideals of entrepreneurship. Parker joins the ranks of other corporate visionaries including Jeff Hawkins Jeff Hawkins (born June 1, 1957 in Huntington, New York) is the founder of Palm Computing (where he invented the Palm Pilot)[1] and Handspring (where he invented the Treo). , inventor of the PalmPilot; Sanford "Sandy" Weill, CEO of Citigroup; and David Duffield David Duffield (born 1941) is a U.S. businessman in the software industry. He is best known as the co-founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft. In recent years he has consistently been on the Forbes World's Richest People list. , founder of PeopleSoft. Parker has been the founder, co-founder, CEO or director of more than a dozen successful companies as well as two venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] since his graduation from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1970. As the founder of First Call, Parker has been credited with fundamentally changing the way information is transmitted in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industry. "Over the years, I have dedicated my time and efforts to building businesses that are not only successful, but also reflect a revolutionary way of packaging and delivering information," Parker said. "It's quite an honor to receive this type of recognition from the Cornell community for something I am so passionate about." Founded in 1997 with his partner Rob Adler, CCBN has emerged as the leading company in Internet-based corporate communications. CCBN serves close to 6,000 public companies and has portal relationships with more than 25 major financial service sites to help companies efficiently and effectively communicate with both institutional and individual shareholders. Parker's commitment to entrepreneurship goes beyond CCBN. In 1996, he funded the Parker Center for Investment Research Parker Center for Investment Research The Parker Center for Investment Research is one of two centers of research, learning, and practice in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. at Cornell's Johnson School. The center features an advanced trading room, powered by several million dollars worth of computer equipment and financial software. At the Parker Center, students and faculty have access to the same data and analytics as those used by Wall Street's largest investment banking and money management firms. In 1995, Parker was appointed to the Cornell Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. , is co-chair of the university's Committee on Alumni Affairs and Development, a member of the university's Executive Committee and a member of the Johnson School Advisory Council. Parker will be honored at the Cornell 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year Celebration, a two-day gathering of alumni, students, and faculty. Parker will address the Cornell community at 4:00 pm on October 12, 2001 in the Statler Auditorium. The presentation is free and open to the public. The Entrepreneur of the Year Award was established by Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and is now a part of the University-wide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program (EPE EPE equine pituitary extract. ). Additional information is available at http://epe.cornell.edu. About CCBN Co-founded in 1997 by Jeffrey P. Parker, creator of First Call, and Robert Adler, CCBN is the global leader in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. CCBN builds, manages and hosts the investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. sections of Web sites for more than 2,500 public companies, providing detailed shareholder information through interactive, multi-media solutions. In addition, CCBN hosts live and archived quarterly conference calls for more than 3,000 corporations each quarter. Through its StreetEvents institutional event management database, (www.streetevents.com) and partnerships with leading retail financial portals, CCBN has created a revolutionary investor distribution network that delivers an unprecedented body of direct corporate information to the largest collective audience of institutional and individual investors in cyberspace. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., CCBN has additional offices in San Francisco and London. For more information, visit www.ccbn.com or call 866-228-CCBN (2226). |
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