Community Service Award

hesketh.com/inc.

Heather Hesketh
hesketh.com/inc.

Description

Heather Hesketh is co-founder of hesketh.com, a leading user experience agency specializing in Internet-based solutions for venture-backed startups, progressive not-for-profits, and higher education. hesketh’s team of nationally recognized experts maximizes value through the strategic convergence of technology, creativity, and usability. hesketh.com’s professional services include user experience design, application development & integration, and ongoing support. The company recognizes that local economic growth depends both on looking inward and projecting outward.

Reasons for winning the award

hesketh.com has been actively involved in serving the community. The company is a partner-level sponsor in CED’s Innovation to Impact campaign. In addition, hesketh.com has been CED’s Web sponsor since 1996, when the company first put CED on the Web. As CED has evolved, hesketh.com has helped the organization transition into a sophisticated Web presence. Most recently, the company led CED’s Web site redesign and built the architecture of the new Web pages. Through their work with CED’s Web site, hesketh.com has positioned the Triangle nationally by creating a fantastic Web resource for entrepreneur. hesketh.com’s other community activities:

  • Founding of webdesign-L: a five-year-old, 2000+ member online community that has a loyal international following.
  • Annual sponsor of the Triangle Women’s Center Art Show, Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands.
  • Pro bono work for Building Character.
  • Steering committee of the Web Standards Project.
  • Steering committee of Austin’s South by SouthWest (SxSW) Interactive conference.
  • Founding members of Triangle InterNetworkers.
  • Founding member of Triangle Web Women (formerly Webgrrls).

Quote

"I hope that through our achievements and passion, we can motivate others as much as communities like CED inspire us." -- Heather Hesketh, CEO

History

In 1995 a burning question was “Web what?” and hesketh.com had a vision. Building useful and usable Web sites and applications freed businesses from the constraints of geography. The vision proved founders Heather Hesketh and Steven Champeon to be thought leaders, earning them recognition in such media outlets as The New York Times, Salon.com, and Wired and building a prestigious client list including CED, Duke University, and Oxford University Press. Heather Hesketh’s educational background is in aerospace engineering.

Photo courtesy of BP Studios.

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