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Contact: Robert Albright |
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Red Hat, Targacept and Alston & Bird Executives Lead Featured Panel at CED’s Engage: Human Capital
June 29 Program to Explore Trends, Opportunities and Best Practices in Human Capital
June 9, 2005, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced additional program details for Engage: Human Capital, set for June 29 from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Durham Marriot Hotel Civic Center.
Executives from Targacept, Red Hat and Alston & Bird will lead a featured panel discussion at CED’s half-day program. The panel, “Practical Applications of Human Capital in High-Growth Companies,” will feature the following experts:
- Cathy A. Benton, Chief Human Resources Officer, Alston & Bird LLP
- Karen A. Hicks, Director of Human Resources, Targacept
- Mary Sutton, Senior Vice President of Human Capital, Red Hat
- Moderator: Anastasia Pucci, President, Carlyle & Conlan Inc.
With backgrounds ranging from information technology to life science industries, these panelists will explain how they’ve successfully leveraged human capital in their line of business. Alston & Bird, for example, has been recognized by Fortune Magazine for the last six years on the publication’s annual list of the “100 Best Companies To Work for in America” - making it the only organization in any industry to make the top 10 on this list the last four years.
In addition to this featured panel, Engage: Human Capital will also provide four previously announced break-out sessions and a featured panel with PeopleClick executives Steve Sasser and David Russo. Sasser and Russo will discuss “Taking Human Capital to the Next Level,” while the other concurrent panels will examine such as topics as benchmarking benefits, management team hiring and interviewing techniques.
For more details on Engage, visit www.cednc.org/engage.
About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located in Research Triangle Park, NC, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of 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 3,500 members representing 1,000 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. www.cednc.org
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