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CED Honors Entrepreneurial Excellence Award Winners
CED Presents Annual Awards on June 21 at Durham’s American Tobacco Historic District
June 22, 2006, Research Triangle Park, NC –The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) honored area entrepreneurs and high-growth companies during the organization’s 20th annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards on June 21 at the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham, NC. More than 400 people attended the sold-out celebration.
Below are the 2006 award winners:
- Entrepreneurial Excellence – John McConnell
- Outstanding Service to Entrepreneurs – Karen LeVert, Southeast TechInventures Inc.
- Deal of the Year (Public Company) – Targacept, Inc.
- Deal of the Year (Private Company) – Square 1 Bank
- Growth Company of the Year – Parata Systems
- Technology of the Year – Geomagic, Inc.
- Community Impact – Jim Goodmon, Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc.
- Spin-Out of the Year – rPath
- Chairman’s Service
- Gene Haley, Wilmington Pharmaceuticals
- Steve Harper, UNC-Wilmington Cameron School of Business
- FastTrac Tech Company of the Year – Precision BioSciences
- Charles Hamner Leadership Award – Dennis Dougherty, Intersouth Partners (previously awarded at CED’s Biotech 2006 conference on May 22, 2006)
"This year's award winners highlight the important role that entrepreneurs play in our economy," said CED President Monica Doss. “From 3D imaging to drug development, healthcare technology to open source software – North Carolina’s innovation-based community boasts a rich pipeline of entrepreneurial success stories.”
For more details on the event, visit www.cednc.org/awards. Profiles and pictures of award winners will be posted online starting Thursday, June 22.
About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. 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. 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. www.cednc.org
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