Council for Entrepreneurial Development: Press Release, August 18, 2008
Contact: Cassandra Cranston |
Phone: (919) 549-7500 |
CED Announces New Additions to Board of Directors and Staff
Research Triangle Park, NC (August 18, 2008)– The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) announces thirteen additions to their 2008-2009 board of directors. New board members consist of key investors, business professionals and university leaders from across the Triangle, including:
• Greg Anglum, partner, Grant Thornton LLP
• Steven Burke, vice president of corporate affairs, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
• David Finch, president and CEO, ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions
• Vipin Garg, president and CEO, Tranzyme Inc.
• Brian Handly, senior vice president of sales, Microsoft Corporation
• Kevin Johnson, vice president of business development, Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
• Karen LeVert, president and CEO, Southeast Tech Inventures Inc.
• Chris Lynch, attorney, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
• Greg Owen, senior vice president, relationship manager, Wachovia
• John Paris, partner, Williams Mullen
• Jack Sheffield, managing director, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown
• David Spitz, vice president, Channel Advisor
• Garheng Kong, partner, Intersouth Partners
• Ted Zoller, executive director, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Stephen Wiehe, president and CEO of SciQuest, Inc., will serve as CED’s chair for 2008-2009. Wiehe succeeds Mary Musacchia as chair.
CED’s 2008-2009 executive committee officers include Stephen Wiehe (chair), Kent Christison (secretary), Greg Anglum (treasurer), Michael Elliot (chair-elect), Mary Musacchia, Susan Acker-Walsh, Jason Caplain, John Fogg, Richard Harris, Chris Kroeger, Steve Nelson, and Anastasia Pucci.
The complete list of CED’s 2008-2009 board of directors (including new members and returning members) is available online at www.cednc.org/about/board_of_directors/.
CED also introduces Stephanie Dorko as the new director of development. Prior to joining CED, Dorko worked as a fundraiser on numerous political campaigns, most recently for State Treasurer Richard Moore. She also worked as vice president of government affairs for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity College in Washington, DC. Dorko is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina.
About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the region’s entrepreneurial culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,000 active members representing over 1,100 companies. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, service partners, researchers and public policy makers in diverse emerging industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. For more information, visit www.cednc.org.