Press Releases


December 17, 1997

Contact: Carolyn Foy
Council for Entrepreneurial Development
919.549.7500 ext. 128

CED Reaches Future Focus Goal

December 17, 1997, Research Triangle Park, N.C. --. The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) has reached its Future Focus goal of $2.25 million new dollars raised for the $4 million Future Focus program.

CED would like to thank these Advance Division ($50,000 or more) investors whose contributions were key in helping CED reach its goal:

CED especially thanks Fred Hutchison, Hutchison & Mason, LLP, and Jack Clayton, Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, who co-chaired the Future Focus campaign.

We would like to thank all Future Focus investors for making it possible for CED to its Future Focus goal of $2.25 million new dollars raised for the $4 million Future Focus program.
Special thanks to Fred Hutchison, Hutchison & Mason, LLP, and Jack Clayton, Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, who co-chaired the Future Focus campaign.

FUTURE FOCUS INVESTORS
A special thanks to Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc., Carolina Power & Light and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for their outstanding support of the Future Focus program.

ADVANCED DIVISION

  • ATCOM Business Telephone Systems

  • Carolina Power & Light

  • Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc.

  • Daniels & Daniels, PA

  • Duke Energy

  • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

  • GTE Telephone Operations Systems

  • Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

  • Maupin Taylor & Ellis, PA

  • The News & Observer

  • Quintiles Transnational Corp.

  • Smith Helms Mullis & Moore, LLP

  • Wachovia Bank of North Carolina

  • Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

LEADERSHIP DIVISION

  • 360 Communications

  • Bell Seltzer Intellectual Property Law Group Alston & Bird, LLP

  • AON Group

  • Bowne of Charlotte

  • Branch Banking & Trust

  • BTI Telecommunications Services

  • Cadmus Financial Communications

  • Coopers & Lybrand, LLP

  • Gray Ventures, Inc.

  • Highwoods Properties

  • Hutchison & Mason, PLLC

  • Intersouth Partners

  • KPMG Peat Marwick

  • Manpower Temporary Services

  • MCI Telecommunications

  • Midway Airlines

  • Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

  • Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, LLP

  • North Carolina Biotechnology Center

  • Price Waterhouse, LLP

  • R&M Group

  • Strategic Technologies

  • Triangle Business Journal

  • Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton, LLP

PACESETTER DIVISION

  • All Kinds of Minds

  • Analytical Sciences, Inc.

  • Arthur Andersen

  • Associated Insurers, Inc.

  • Barber Family Fund

  • Batchelor Tillery & Roberts, LLP

  • Biogen

  • Mr. Adam Broome

  • Capital Associates

  • Cardiovascular Diagnostics, Inc.

  • Carolantic Realty

  • Cato Research, Ltd.

  • Central Carolina Bank

  • Cherokee Industries, LLC

  • CI Partners

  • Closure Medical Corporation

  • The Customer Connection

  • Deloitte & Touche, LLP

  • Ernst & Young, LLP

  • The Fitzgerald Group

  • Front Royal, Inc.

  • Goodman Segar Hogan Hoffler

  • Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP

  • ICAgen, Inc.

  • Inspire Pharmaceuticals

  • Intercardia, Inc.

  • Interim Search Solutions

  • Interpath

  • iRenaissance

  • Mr. Paul Jones

  • Kitty Hawk Capital

  • Lanesborough Limited

  • Laser Image Corporate Publishing

  • Lifelong Learning Associates

  • Mr. Mike Munsch

  • Mobius Group, Inc.

  • NationsBank

  • The North Carolina Enterprise Corp.

  • O'Brien/Atkins Associates

  • Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP

  • PDR Information Services

  • Plants By Grant

  • Poyner & Spruill, LLP

  • Mr. Paul Rasmussen

  • RESOURCE/SOLUTIONS, INC.

  • Mr. Dan Shea

  • Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP

  • SouthTrust Bank

  • Storr Office Environments

  • TechKnowledge Communcations

  • Thomas Commercial

  • Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc.

  • Trimeris, Inc.

  • Tri-State Investment Group

  • United Federal

  • Venture Management, Inc.

  • Wakefield Group, LP

  • Whitestone Technologies Group

  • The Word Factory

  • York Properties, Inc.

  • The Zimmerman Group

About CED

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located at the CED Entrepreneurship Center in Research Triangle Park, NC, was 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. CED sponsors annual conferences, seminars, workshops and monthly programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED also offers the FastTrac entrepreneurial training program, youth programs and other outreach programs.

CED is a private, non-profit organization and is the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 3,000 members representing 1000 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms.

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