The North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association (NCEITA) has announced finalists for its 10th annual NCEITA 21 Awards Celebration, set for Nov. 18 at the Embassy Suites in Cary. Grant Thornton, an accounting, tax and business advisory organization, is conducting the statewide selection process in cooperation with past and present NCEITA chairpersons. The finalists nominated for the 21 Awards include:
- Communications Company of the Year: Corning Incorporated, JPS Communications, Inc., Overture Networks, and U.S. Networks, Inc.
- Consumer Technology Company of the Year: Art.com, Motricity (formerly PowerByHand Inc.), and Time Warner Cable
- Corporate Citizenship of the Year: IBM, Inspire Pharmaceuticals and Progress Energy
- Corporate Education: Cisco Systems, Duke Energy, EMC Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Progress Energy, and SAS
- Early Stage Company of the Year: Affinergy, Inlet Technologies, KBI BioPharma, and StrikeIron, Inc.
- Electronics Company of the Year: Cree, Inc., EMC Corporation, RF Micro Devices, and Static Control Components
- Healthcare/Pharmaceutical Company of the Year: Icagen, Targacept, and TransTech Pharma
- IT Support Services Award: Inflow, Kennedy Covington, Kilpatrick Stockton, Linda Markus Daniels, and Peak 10
- Large Company of the Year: Constella Group, EMC Corporation, Peopleclick, and Static Control Components
- Media Award: Carolina Newswire, Time Warner Cable / News 14 Carolina, Triangle Business Journal, and Triangle Tech Journal
- Mid Size Company of the Year: Arsenal Digital Solutions, LVL7 Systems, Inc., QlikTech, Inc., and WebSourced, Inc.
- NCEITA Volunteer: Billy Glynn - Collective IQ, Randy Fraser - Time Warner Cable
- Private Company of the Year: A4 Health Systems, Constella Group, SAS, and Static Control Components
- Public Company of the Year: Cisco Systems, Cree, Inc., EMC Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline
- Public Leadership in Technology: Mr. Olin Broadway, Ms. Janet Smith, Representative Bill Daughtridge, Representative Bill Wainwright, Senator John Kerr, Senator Richard Stevens, and Senator Tony Rand
- Software Company of the Year: LVL7 Systems, Inc., SAS, SchoolDude.com, Ultimus
- Top Customer Service Company of the Year: Red Hat, SAS, Time Warner Cable
- Top Government / Non-Profit Technology of the Year: DonorsChoose, e-NC Authority, and MCNC
- Top Growth Company of the Year: A4 Health Systems, Art.com, and Constella Group
- Top VC Invested Company of the Year: Cellective Therapuetics, Icagen, SciQuest, and TransTech Pharma
For more information on the NCEITA 21 event, visit www.nceita.org or http://www.e-brochures-usa.com/2004NCEITA21/.