Heroines in Technology Awards Presented at Fourth Annual Event Hosted by Women in Technology and March of Dimes.ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Annual Event Celebrating Community Service Raised $106,000 for March of Dimes
The March of Dimes and Women in Technology on Friday announced the 2004 winners of the Heroines in Technology Awards. At the fourth annual gala at the McLean Hilton on Friday, November 12, Mistress of Ceremonies Maureen Bunyan of Washington's ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. 7 joined co-chairs Dede Haskins, Vice President of Enabling Technology with Cigital and President of Women in Technology, and Deanne Inman, Partner with Deloitte, to announce the inspirational winners of the 2004 awards. The Heroines in Technology Awards are designed to honor women and businesses who balance demanding roles in the fast-paced technology sector with significant philanthropic commitments in the Greater Washington community. All proceeds from the event will benefit the March of Dimes. Following are the 2004 winners, in the Individual Category, announced at the gala: --Ivona Aksentijevich, MD, Staff Scientist, NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. and Raphaela Theresia Goldbach-Mansky, Staff Clinician, NIH --Lou Anne Brossman, Director of Federal Marketing, Juniper Networks --Ruth Yankoupe, Senior Director, Nextel Communications The first-ever Corporate Award, recognizing an organization that itself has shown extraordinary commitment to community service, went to SiloSmashers and was accepted by Angela Drummond, President & 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. . In addition, a Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Bobbie Kilberg, President of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC NVTC Northern Virginia Technology Council NVTC National Virtual Translation Center NVTC Nissan Valve Timing Control NVTC Narva Vocational Training Centre (Narva, Estonia) ). Under her leadership, NVTC has earned national accolades, notably branding the region as a major global technology center. Ms. Kilberg has had a distinguished career in Washington while maintaining an outstanding and truly influential level of community service. The other 2004 finalists that joined in the celebration were, in the Individual Category: Elizabeth Brooks, VP, Corporate Communications, Nextel Communications; Lisa Martin, President, LeapFrog; and Anne Crossman, Head Revolutionary, Completed Systems. In the Corporate Category the finalists celebrated on Friday were Amyx Corporation, Cheryl Amyx, President; CGH CGH Comparative Genomic Hybridization CGH Changi General Hospital (Singapore) CGH Computer-Generated Hologram CGH Community General Hospital (Syracuse, NY) Technologies, Inc., Cindy Troutman, President/CEO; Completed Systems, Anne Crossman, Head Revolutionary; and LeapFrog, Lisa Martin, President. "Each of the winners tonight has a truly extraordinary story, and we are so pleased to have this opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments," says Dede Haskins, President of Women in Technology. "The honorees here tonight offer inspiration to us all, demonstrating such unwavering commitment to community service while balancing demanding careers in technology. We can't imagine a more worthy organization than the March of Dimes as the beneficiary of this wonderful celebration." Nominations were considered in the areas of Biotechnology, IT Service Providers, Hardware, Software, Telecommunications, Government, Medical Technology and the Internet. For more information about the event, log on to http://www.marchofdimes.com/metrodc or call Karoline Hurd at the March of Dimes (703-824-0111 x21). The March of Dimes and Women in Technology were supported in this event by sponsors including Deloitte as the dinner sponsor, WTOP as a media sponsor, and many other generous organizations including EFX EFX Effects (as in motion picture special effects; sometimes just FX) EFX Elite Force Xtreme (gaming) EFX Elliptical Fitness Crosstrainer EFX Expeditionary Force Experiment Media, Digilink, Veritas, Kaplan Financial Group, Sapient sa·pi·ent adj. Having great wisdom and discernment. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi , McConnell International, CLMS CLMS California League of Middle Schools CLMS Center for Labor Market Studies CLMS Contraceptive Logistics Management System CLMS Connectionless Message Service CLMS Corriher-Lipe Middle School CLMS Component and Library Management System , SiloSmashers, and CBIZ CBIZ Century Business Services Inc. . About WIT Women in Technology (WIT) is a not for profit organization dedicated to offering women involved in all levels of the technology industry a wide range of professional development and networking opportunities. One of the organization's main goals is to create a forum where women in technology can be recognized and promoted as role models. WIT was founded in 1994 and has over 900 members. For more information, please visit WIT's web site, www.womenintechnology.org. About the March of Dimes The March of Dimes is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects birth defects, abnormalities in physical or mental structure or function that are present at birth. They range from minor to seriously deforming or life-threatening. A major defect of some type occurs in approximately 3% of all births. and infant mortality (hardware) infant mortality - It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical . Founded in 1938, the March of Dimes funds programs of research, community services, education, and advocacy to save babies and in 2003 launched a five-year campaign to address the increasing rate of premature birth. For more information, visit the March of Dimes Web site at marchofdimes.com or its Spanish Web site at nacersano.org. |
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