Press Release
Contact: Robert Caudle |
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CED Elects New Board of Directors for 2006-2007
Board Sets Direction for Upcoming Year
July 25, 2006, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) has elected its new 2006-2007 board of directors to lead the organization through its next year of operations.
Reid Conrad, CEO of Chapel Hill-based Near-Time, Inc., will serve as CED’s chair for 2006-2007. Conrad succeeds Christy Shaffer, Ph.D., CEO of Durham-based Inspire Pharmaceuticals, as chair.
“CED is in a strategic phase, and I am excited to serve this important role,” Conrad said. “CED has always been about helping entrepreneurs leverage the network. As the traditional network is blended with digital outreach, CED will truly become a center of entrepreneurial excellence. The result will be a best of class approach to help more entrepreneurs become successful faster.”
CED’s 2006-2007 executive committee officers include Conrad (chair), CED’s Monica Doss (president), Ernst & Young’s Michael Constantino (treasurer), and Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman’s Kent Christison (secretary).
Other members of CED’s 2006-2007 executive committee include Dan Allred of Silicon Valley Bank, Peyton Anderson of Affinergy, Jeff Clark of The Aurora Funds, Steve Clark, Tom Finegan of Clarkston Consulting, John Glushik of Intersouth Partners, Mark Larson of Grant Thornton LLP, and Mary Musacchia of Global Business Development.
In addition to these executive committee appointments, the new members of CED’s board of directors include the following:
- Dave Babson
- Suzanne Burns, Eaton Electrical, Inc.
- Ken Carroll, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC
- Richard Casey, Square 1 Bank
- Greg Pelton, Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Adam Saffer, Saffer Foundation
- Jeff Glass, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
- Rich Harris, GVA Avantis Real Estate Services
- Gene Haley, Wilmington Pharmaceuticals
The complete list of CED’s 2006-2007 board of directors (including new members and returning members) is available online at www.cednc.org/about/board_of_directors/.
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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