CED Elects New Board of Directors for 2006-2007; Board Sets Direction for Upcoming Year.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. -- -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 elected its new 2006-2007 board of directors to lead the organization through its next year of operations. Reid Conrad, 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 Chapel Hill-based Near-Time, Inc., will serve as CED's chair for 2006-2007. Conrad succeeds Christy Shaffer, Ph.D., CEO of Durham-based Inspire Pharmaceuticals, as chair. "CED is in a strategic phase, and I am excited to serve this important role," Conrad said. "CED has always been about helping entrepreneurs leverage the network. As the traditional network is blended with digital outreach, CED will truly become a center of entrepreneurial excellence. The result will be a best of class approach to help more entrepreneurs become successful faster." CED's 2006-2007 executive committee officers include Conrad (chair), CED's Monica Doss (president), Ernst & Young's Michael Constantino (treasurer), and Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman's Kent Christison (secretary). Other members of CED's 2006-2007 executive committee include Dan Allred of Silicon Valley Bank, Peyton Anderson of Affinergy, Jeff Clark Jeff Clark (born March 26, 1957 Redwood City[1]) is one of the most noteworthy and respected big wave surfers, famous for surfing Mavericks alone for 15 years before it was widely discovered by the big-wave surfing community. of The Aurora Funds, Steve Clark This article is about the late Def Leppard guitarist. For other uses, see Steve Clark (disambiguation). Stephen Maynard Clark (April 23, 1960 – January 8, 1991) was the co-lead guitarist for British rock band Def Leppard until his death in 1991. , Tom Finegan of Clarkston Consulting, John Glushik of Intersouth Partners, Mark Larson of Grant Thornton LLP  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , and Mary Musacchia of Global Business Development. In addition to these executive committee appointments, the new members of CED's board of directors include the following: --Dave Babson --Suzanne Burns, Eaton Electrical, Inc. --Ken Carroll, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC PLLC Professional Limited Liability Company PLLC Polk Life and Learning Center (Bartow, FL) PLLC Partners of Limited Liability Corporation --Richard Casey, Square 1 Bank --Greg Pelton, Cisco Systems, Inc. --Adam Saffer, Saffer Foundation --Jeff Glass, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University --Rich Harris, GVA GVA general visceral afferent system of nerves. Avantis Real Estate Services --Gene Haley, Wilmington Pharmaceuticals The complete list of CED's 2006-2007 board of directors (including new members and returning members) is available online at www.cednc.org/about/board_of_directors/. About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, headquartered in Research Triangle Park with a divisional office in Wilmington, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the Research Triangle and North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . In July 2005, Wilmington's Coastal Entrepreneurial Council merged with CED to create CED-Coastal, a divisional office focused on entrepreneurial development in Wilmington and throughout North Carolina's entire coastal region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. www.cednc.org. |
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