CED's First Engage Session to Highlight Financial Landscape.Business Editors RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2004 The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) An earlier videodisc technology from RCA that was released in 1981 and abandoned five years later. Like phonograph records, the analog disc contained grooves that a stylus rode over. ) has finalized details for its Engage: Finance session, which will be held Jan. 15 at Embassy Suites in Cary. Engage: Finance is the first in a series of Engage sessions for the entire entrepreneurial community featuring a keynote speaker, panel sessions and networking opportunities - all in a compressed time format. At Engage: Finance, previously announced keynote speaker Ken Wilcox, president and 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. of Silicon Valley Bank, will discuss the latest developments and issues in the current financial landscape. The Jan. 15 event will also include successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other area financial leaders exploring a range of topics during four concurrent sessions. Engage: Finance kicks off with these four interactive panels at 11 a.m., followed by Wilcox's luncheon keynote address. The program concludes with a networking reception from 1 to 2 p.m. Confirmed speakers and session topics at Engage: Finance include the following: Finding Funding: Which Source is Right for Your Company? -- John Cambier, Vice President of New Ventures, MCNC MCNC Microelectronics Center of North Carolina Research and Development Institute -- Nick England, President and CEO, 3rdTech, Inc. -- John Ujvari, SBIR SBIR Small Business Innovation Research (program/grant) SBIR Space Based Infra-Red SBIR Speaker-Boundary Interference SBIR Site Backsurface-referenced Ideal Plane/Range (silicon wafers) Program Specialist, Small Business and Technology Development Center -- Michael Zapata, President, ArrayXpress, Inc. -- Glenn Kline, President and CEO, Silicon Semiconductor Growing Your Company to Scale Without Venture Capital -- Donald Holzworth, CEO, Constella Group, Inc. -- Thomas Finegan, CEO and Co-Founder, Clarkston Consulting -- Andrew Kennedy, President, Boramed, Inc. -- Joshua Chodniewicz, CEO and Co-Founder, Art.com Debates in the Board Room: Not Your Typical "Corporate Reforms" Discussion -- Chuck ReCorr, National Association of Corporate Directors -- Janet Wylie, President and CEO, Engineous Software Inc. -- Greg Bohlen, CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , The Aurora Funds, Inc. -- Jim Verdonik, Partner, Daniels Daniels & Verdonik, P.A. -- John Miller, President, Triangle Financial Concepts, Inc. Exploring the Exit Alphabet Soup: M&A, IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. , LBO LBO See: Leveraged buyout LBO See leveraged buyout (LBO). , ESOP ESOP See: Employee Stock Ownership Plan ESOP See Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). -- Jack McGlinn, Director, CapitalSouth Partners -- Rick Carlisle, Managing Partner, Dogwood dogwood or cornel (kôr`nəl), shrub or tree of the genus Cornus, chiefly of north temperate and tropical mountain regions, characteristically having an inconspicuous flower surrounded by large, showy bracts which Equity -- Bruce Kelleher, Managing Director, Cary Street Partners LLC -- Gail Brown, Financial Consultant, Wachovia Securities/Asset Management Group Pre-registration for Engage: Finance closes Jan. 12 ($50 for CED members, $75 for non-members). Registration details, sponsors and the complete agenda are available online at www.cednc.org/engage. Beyond the Jan. 15 session on finance, other upcoming Engage sessions include Engage: Healthcare Industry on March 31 and Engage: Marketing in May. About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located in Research Triangle Park, NC, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research Triangle region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and monthly programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. www.cednc.org |
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