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Monday, December 21, 2009

ATCOM President And CEO Named To Council For Entrepreneurial Development Board Of Directors

ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions (www.atcombts.com), a advice solutions provider, has appear that David Finch, admiral and CEO of the company, has been called to the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) axle of directors. As a affiliate of the axle of directors, Finch will accommodate acknowledgment and abutment to CED apropos its cardinal plan and abetment with the administration of the alignment through the 2008-2009 year. CED is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture.

Founded in 1979, ATCOM is an industry baton in business telecommunications with an ability in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a technology that enables businesses to advancement their absolute systems while all-embracing Internet technologies such as the Web, e-mail, burning messaging, attendance and video conferencing. The privately-held close is headquartered in Research Triangle Park with bounded offices in Charlotte and the Triad. For added information, appointment www.atcombts.com.

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www.cednc.org
www.mmimarketing.com

News Facts:
•David Finch, admiral and CEO of ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions, has been called to the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) axle of directors.
•As a affiliate of the axle of directors, Finch will accommodate acknowledgment and abutment to CED apropos its cardinal plan and abetment with the administration of the alignment through the 2008-2009 year.
•CED is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture.
•Founded in 1979, ATCOM is an industry baton in business telecommunications with an ability in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a technology that enables businesses to advancement their absolute systems while all-embracing Internet technologies such as the Web, e-mail, burning messaging, attendance and video conferencing.
•The privately-held close is headquartered in Research Triangle Park with bounded offices in Charlotte and the Triad.
•For added information, appointment www.atcombts.com.

Quotes:
“I am admiring to be called as a affiliate of the CED axle of directors,” said Finch. “Countless companies accept benefited from CED’s programs, including ATCOM. I am accustomed to be in the aggregation of abounding acknowledged and admired entrepreneurs.”

About The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED):
With address in Research Triangle Park, CED is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. The alignment provides networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs, and serves added than 5 thousand breath members. For added advice on the alignment or the axle of directors, appointment www.cednc.org.

About ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions:
ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions, a advice solutions provider founded in 1979, is an industry baton in business telecommunications with an ability in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a technology that enables businesses to advancement their absolute systems while all-embracing Internet technologies such as the Web, e-mail, burning messaging, attendance and video conferencing. With a applicant abject absolute over 5,000 businesses, ATCOM offers deployment of business blast systems, unified messaging systems, wireless solutions, LAN/WAN infrastructure/services, video conferencing, carrier arrangement casework for bounded and continued distance, and structured cabling solutions for articulation and data. The privately-held close is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with bounded offices in Charlotte and the Triad. ATCOM has alert accustomed accolade acceptance as one of North Carolina’s Top 50 Technology Companies, a lot of afresh in 2001. For added information, amuse alarm (800) 849-8266 or appointment the Web website at www.atcombts.com.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

Council For Entrepreneurial Development Kicks Off CAFÉ Workshop Series

Joan Siefert Rose, admiral of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear the barrage of the Competitive Advantage through Fundamentals of Entrepreneurs (CAFÉ) Workshop Series. The new breakfast program, which is appointed to run from August 2009 to December 2010, was crafted in acknowledgment to acknowledgment acquired from CED’s recently-completed affiliate survey. CAFÉ has been advised as a hands-on fundamentals branch for across entrepreneurs in capricious stages of business and development.

Through CAFÉ, bounded professionals get the befalling to apprentice about the analytical issues that affect a company’s success. Topics that will be covered cover able management, sales, adopting capital, accounts and cost-effective business strategies. Meetings will abide of abrupt console discussions from celebrated organizations, followed by break-out groups for catechism and answers led by these accustomed professionals, and networking opportunities.

The CAFÉ sessions will be captivated from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. on baddest dates at CED’s offices, amid at 100 Capitola Drive, Suite 106 in Durham. Entrepreneurial ability booths will be present at anniversary meeting. The aboriginal affair of the alternation is blue-blooded “Expanding Your Network: An Introduction to Area’s Entrepreneur Support Organizations,” is appointed for Thursday, Aug. 13, and is chargeless to attend. The affair will affection assembly from several bounded organizations that abide to added abutment the arising advance business community, including:

•Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)
•Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP)
•The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
•First Flight Venture Center
•Licensing Executives Society (LES)
•National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)
•National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
•North Carolina Biotechnology Center
•NC IDEA
•North Carolina Chinese Business Association (NCCBA)
•North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA)
•Renewable Energy Business Network (REBN)
•Small Business Technology Development Council (SBTDC)
•Triangle Gaming Initiative (TGI)
•TiE Carolinas
•Triangle Technology Executive Council (TTEC)

With the barring of the August 13 session, branch fees are $10 for CED associates and $40 for non-members, and allotment is appropriate to attend. A complete account and arbitrary of anniversary affair is accessible at www.cednc.org/CAFÉ. For added information, acquaintance Bob Pickens at (919) 226-0481 or bpickens@cednc.org.

Related Links:
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www.cednc.org
www.mmimarketing.com

Quotes:
“CED is aflame to appoint bounded entrepreneurs in a new and allusive way,” said Rose. “We are assured that the program, advised in acknowledgment to acknowledgment from our affiliate survey, will be a above ability for bounded entrepreneurs.”

About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development:
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1,000-person businesses. For added information, appointment www.cednc.org.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

Council For Entrepreneurial Development To Host August STREAK Seminar

Joan Siefert Rose, admiral of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear the next chapter of its accepted STREAK program, to be captivated Thursday, Aug. 13. STREAK is advised to abetment early-stage, high-growth activity sciences and technology companies in advancing for and extensive fundraising goals through the appraisal of angle presentations by a acclimatized console of investors, entrepreneurs and business experts.

Presenting will be Scott Nowokunski, CEO of Beanstalk Data, Inc. (www.beanstalkdata.com), a Charlotte business automation aggregation that develops, sells and employs proprietary software to automate clients’ business output; and Loren Harrell, CEO of MemberHub (www.memberhub.com), a Raleigh-based aggregation that provides a centralized abode for member-driven organizations such as churches, nonprofits and associations to enhance advice and affix with their associates in defended online hubs. Panelists cover Glen Caplan of Hutchison Law Group; Lister Delgado of NC IDEA; Brooks Malone of Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP; Mike Munsch, above CED and TriState Investment Group (TIG) chairman; Tom Roberts of Harbert Management Corp.; and Teresa Spangler of PlazaBridge.

One of CED’s a lot of accepted and admired offerings, STREAK provides associates the befalling to abide their business plan and broker angle for application to present afore a custom-built able panel. The panelists are best to abode the specific needs of anniversary aggregation by accouterment acknowledgment on strategy, business advice, allotment options and added accordant contacts. STREAK is sponsored by Hutchison Law Group and Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP.

STREAK is a closed-door affair befalling that is alone accessible to CED associates and takes abode on the additional Thursday afternoon of anniversary month. Of the 12 companies called to present afore the panels, CED will baddest the a lot of notable presenters to advertise at a January event. For data on access belief and the appliance process, CED associates should e-mail their business plan and added accordant advice to affairs coordinators Bob Pickens at bpickens@cednc.org or Dhruv Patel at dpatel@cednc.org.

Related Links:
www.cednc.org
www.beanstalkdata.com
www.memberhub.com

Quotes:
“CED is aflame to accommodate this befalling to affiliate companies Beanstalk Data and MemberHub,” said Rose. “The STREAK affairs puts companies like these in foreground of some of the top ambitious and adventure basic assets our across has to offer.”

About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development:
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1,000-person businesses. For added information, appointment www.cednc.org.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

CED’s September STREAK Seminar To Feature Research Triangle Park-Based Bioptigen

Joan Siefert Rose, admiral of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear the next chapter of its accepted STREAK program, to be captivated Thursday, Sept. 10. STREAK is advised to abetment early-stage, high-growth activity sciences and technology companies in advancing for and extensive fundraising goals through the appraisal of angle presentations by a acclimatized console of investors, entrepreneurs and business experts.

Presenting will be Dr. Eric L. Buckland, director, admiral and CEO of Bioptigen (www.bcentral.com), a Research Triangle Park optical imaging technology company. Bioptigen’s in vivo optical imaging systems accredit real-time non-invasive imaging of centralized tissue microstructure, advancing analytical applications in biologic development, analysis research, tissue engineering, and medical vision.

Panelists cover Jeff Clark of Aurora Funds; Joe Kalinowski of Trilogy Associates; Tom Livingstone of Scale Finance; Chris Price of LifeScience Consultancy; Ed Whitehorne, administrator and administrator of FHI; and Bill Wofford of Hutchison Law Group.

One of CED’s a lot of accepted and admired offerings, STREAK provides associates the befalling to abide their business plan and broker angle for application to present afore a custom-built able panel. The panelists are best to abode the specific needs of anniversary aggregation by accouterment acknowledgment on strategy, business advice, allotment options and added accordant contacts. STREAK is sponsored by Hutchison Law Group and Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP.

STREAK is a closed-door affair befalling that is alone accessible to CED associates and takes abode on the additional Thursday afternoon of anniversary month. Of the 12 companies called to present afore the panels, CED will baddest the a lot of notable presenters to advertise at a January event. For data on access belief and the appliance process, CED associates should e-mail their business plan and added accordant advice to affairs coordinators Bob Pickens at bpickens@cednc.org or Dhruv Patel at dpatel@cednc.org.

Related Links:
www.cednc.org
www.bcentral.com

Quotes:
“We are aflame to accommodate the allowances offered by STREAK to Bioptigen,” said Rose. “This affairs connects our region’s a lot of able startup companies with a amount of accomplished ambitious resources.”

About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development:
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1,000-person businesses. For added information, appointment www.cednc.org.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

Council For Entrepreneurial Development Celebrates Its 25th Birthday

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) (www.cednc.org) has appear that it will host a anniversary to admire 25 years of ambitious abutment in the Research Triangle Park arena of North Carolina. The accidental affair will crop abode Friday, Sept. 25 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the American Tobacco Historic District’s Bay 7, amid in city Durham. All are acceptable to appear and adore food, drinks, abide music and acknowledging supporters of CED who accept been a allotment of the alignment during its 25 year history. Tickets are $25 and cover one guest.

CED’s 25th altogether affair will affection aliment and beverages by Red Hot & Blue of North Raleigh. The arch barbeque collective is a banderole sponsor of the accident in affiliation with Telegenics Media Productions. Raleigh-based LoneRider Brewing Company will accommodate its Shotgun Betty and DeadEye Jack beers. CED member-based bands The Dune Dogs and The JazzTones will accommodate abide music. Additional abutment for CED’s 25th altogether affair comes from Capital Broadcasting Company, MMI Public Relations and Host Committee members.

CED was accustomed in 1984 by a aggregation of business leaders, entrepreneurs and academicians in the Research Triangle Park as the aboriginal ambitious abutment alignment in the nation. Today, the alignment has developed to added than 5,500 associates and offers assets accompanying to the activity science and technology industries.

For added advice on the event, appointment www.cednc.org/birthday or acquaintance Jessica Hegele at (919) 226-0464 or jhegele@cednc.org.

Host Committee Members include:
Karen Adams, Ryan Allis, Alston & Bird, Peyton Anderson, Greg Anglum, The Aurora Funds, Jeff Barber, Randall Bennett, Michael Brader-Araje, Kirk Bradley, Patty Briguglio, Rich Brown, Chris Capel, Kent Christison, Jeff Clark, Code Refinery, Mike & Lori Constantino, Walter & Linda Daniels, Dick Daugherty, Jim & Monica Doss, Dennis Dougherty, John Draper, Mike Elliott, David Finch, Kevin Flynn, John Fogg, Forma Life Science Marketing, Kip Frey, Vipin Garg, John Glushik, Bill Greenlee, Tim Gupton, Brian Handly, Robbie Hardy, Rich Harris, Gary Hayes, Chris Hegele, Laura Hoke, Wayne Hunter, Fred Hutchison, I L S, Patrick Johnson, Byron Kirkland, Garheng Kong, Craig Landwehr, Rich Lee, Helga Leftwich, Karen LeVert, Chris Lynch, Brooks Malone, Merrill Mason, Chris Matton, Ed McCarthy, Ray McMahon, Bill & Ann Meloche, April Mills, MMI Public Relations, Mitch Mumma, Mary Musacchia, NC IDEA, Steve Nelson, Rob Orr, Bill Pappas, Michael Parkerson, Bob Pickens, Anastasia Pucci, Research Triangle Regional Partnership, Larry Robbins, Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, PA, Dr. Thomas K. Rao, Joan Siefert Rose & Jim Rose, Christy Shaffer, Jack Sheffield, Southern Capitol Ventures, David Spitz, Robbie & Lori Spivey, Wright Steenrod, Horace Stimson, Synecor, Ken Tindall, Rob Tyler, Earl Tye, Kay Wagoner, Steve Wiehe

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www.loneriderbeer.com
www.redhotandblue.com
www.telegenics-productions.com

Quotes:
“We are aflame to bless 25 years of account to entrepreneurs in the Triangle and North Carolina,” said Joan Siefert Rose, admiral of CED. “CED looks advanced to allowance our region’s ambitious ability advance for years to come.”

About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development:
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

About Red Hot & Blue Of North Raleigh:
Red Hot & Blue of North Raleigh accouterment appearance hickory-smoked St. Louis-style ribs (wet, dry and sweet), pulled pork, pulled chicken and beef brisket; ancillary items like broiled beans, cole slaw and potato bloom and desserts including assistant pudding and bake-apple cobblers. Red Hot & Blue caters contest of all sizes such as accumulated affairs and aggregation picnics with aggregate pick-up, Delivery Deluxe and full-service. “Top 10 BBQ Joints Across the US”---Smoke Magazine, “Best BBQ”---Metro Magazine. For added advice alarm Steven Bell at 919-846-7427, Raleigh@redhotandbluenc.com, 6615 Falls of the Neuse Rd., Raleigh, NC 27615.

About Telegenics Media Productions:
Telegenics Media Productions creates videos for companies to use on their web sites and to column on YouTube and Facebook additional videos for training, orientation, barter shows and accumulated presentations. The aggregation has twenty years of acquaintance with the pharmaceutical, life-science, medical accessory and aliment account industries with audience such as bioMérieux, Business Leader, CED, Glaxo, the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission, Red Hot & Blue restaurants, UNC Health Care and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Our artistic aggregation includes adept broadcasters who accept formed for ABC, CBS, CNN and PBS. Network TV is the company’s archetype for the above of its productions. Telegenics builds abiding relationships with its audience by acquirements about their products, their barter and their industry. For added information, contact: www.telegenics-productions.com.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmipublicrelations.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

NeuroScience Pharmaceuticals, Synereca Pharmaceuticals To Participate At CED October STREAK Seminar

CED, aforetime the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear that it will host the next chapter of its accepted STREAK program, to be captivated Thursday, Oct. 8 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. STREAK is advised to abetment early-stage, high-growth activity sciences and technology companies in advancing for and extensive fundraising goals through the appraisal of angle presentations by a acclimatized console of investors, entrepreneurs and business experts.

Presenting companies cover NeuroScience Pharmaceuticals (www.neurosciencepharma.com), a Research Triangle Park-based analytic date company, and Chapel Hill-based biologic developer Synereca Pharmaceuticals. Panelists cover Barry Brand, CEO and administrator of CeNeRx BioPharma, Inc.; broker and administrator Bruce Boehm; Turner Jenkins, investment analyst at Pappas Ventures; Helga Leftwich of Hutchison Law Group; Tim Trost, carnality admiral and CFO of Argos Therapeutics, Inc.

STREAK is a closed-door affair befalling that is alone accessible to CED associates and takes abode on the additional Thursday afternoon of anniversary month. Of the 12 companies called to present afore the panels, CED will baddest the a lot of notable presenters to advertise at a January event. For data on access belief and the appliance process, CED associates should e-mail their business plan and added accordant advice to affairs coordinators Bob Pickens at bpickens@cednc.org or Dhruv Patel at dpatel@cednc.org.

QUOTES:
“NeuroScience Pharmaceuticals and Synereca Pharmaceuticals both represent the affectionate of agitative startup companies blooming in our bounded biosciences sector,” said CED admiral Joan Siefert Rose. “CED is captivated to allotment with them the befalling to accommodated with the Triangle’s anticipation leaders in entrepreneurship.”

NEW MEDIA CONTENT:
Council for Entrepreneurial Development blog http://cednc.wordpress.com

Council for Entrepreneurial Development Twitter page http://twitter.com/CEDNC

DETAILS:
- NeuroScience Pharmaceuticals is a analytic date aggregation committed to the development of a activity of neurosteroid drugs for the analysis of academician disorders, including ameliorative break for schizophrenia, column alarming accent ataxia (PTSD), alarming academician abrasion (TBI), depression, Alzheimer's and addiction.

- Synereca Pharmaceuticals was created to abode the growing botheration of bacterial attrition to accepted antibiotics by developing orally breath drugs that restore or access the capability of absolute antibiotics. The company’s antecedent affairs focuses on inhibiting RecA, a key agitator in bacterial DNA adjustment as able-bodied as in the development and manual of antibacterial resistance. Prototype RecA inhibitors potentiate the killing of a advanced array of pathogenic bacilli by a ample ambit of antibacterial antibiotics.

- One of CED’s a lot of accepted and admired offerings, STREAK provides associates the befalling to abide their business plan and broker angle for application to present afore a custom-built able panel. The panelists are best to abode the specific needs of anniversary aggregation by accouterment acknowledgment on strategy, business advice, allotment options and added accordant contacts. STREAK is sponsored by Hutchison Law Group and Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

Jake Potter
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
jake@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com

15 CED Member Companies To Participate In Internet Summit 09

CED, aforetime the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear their affiliate companies which are accommodating in Internet Summit 09, a appointment to advance advanced cerebration on capacity accompanying to the Internet abridgement and Web-oriented technologies. The appointment is appointed for Wednesday, Nov. 4 and Thursday, Nov. 5 at the Raleigh Convention Center, amid at 500 South Salisbury Street in Raleigh.

MemberHub.com, Preation, Inc. and Shoeboxed, Inc. accept been called to authenticate their avant-garde Web-based technologies at Internet Summit 09, and assembly from 12 added affiliate companies will action their ability during activating console discussions. These cover Cliff Reeves of Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team; Gary Milner, all-around alternate business administrator at Lenovo; David Morken, CEO of Bandwidth.com; Keith Moore, arch business administrator of iContact; Jeffrey Revoy, admiral of alternate casework at CenturyLink; Joe Colopy, CEO of Bronto; Rich Lee, architect and CEO of Hosted Solutions; Jason Caplain, accepted accomplice and co-founder of Southern Capitol Ventures; David Jones, accomplice at Southern Capitol Ventures; Dean Gels, administrator of RBC Capital Markets; Richard Kristof, co-founder and CEO of American Research Institute; Jud Bowman, admiral and CEO of PocketGear, Inc. and co-founder and above CTO of Motricity, Inc.; and David Spitz, COO of ChannelAdvisor.

QUOTES:
“We are aflame to see the abyss of captivation that CED affiliate companies accept at this year’s Internet Summit,” said Joan Siefert Rose, admiral of CED. “The 15 companies represented this year action outstanding casework to the rapidly evolving Internet economy.”

NEW MEDIA CONTENT:
Council for Entrepreneurial Development blog http://cednc.wordpress.com

Council for Entrepreneurial Development Twitter page http://twitter.com/CEDNC

DETAILS:
- It is the mission of CED to identify, accredit and advance top growth, top appulse companies like those called to audience at Internet Summit 09. The ambition of the additional anniversary Internet Summit is to advance advanced cerebration and anticipation administration on capacity accompanying to Internet technologies and Web 2.0.

- Presented by TechJournal South and Southern Capitol Ventures, the Internet Summit supports Web-oriented ambitious activity, innovation, and the resultant bread-and-butter development of the Southeast region.

- MemberHub (www.memberhub.com) offers a apparatus that helps member-driven organizations administer associates information, acquaint with associates and body online communities for their abounding groups. By accumulation both associates administration and clandestine accumulation accord accoutrement into one solution, MemberHub provides a band-aid to today’s bulky amusing media craze.

- Preation (www.preation.com) is a arch innovator of online business technology. After the success of iContact, they are now focused on Eden Platform, a able Web website agreeable administration arrangement that gives baby businesses the adeptness to accumulate added after-effects from their Web sites.

- Shoeboxed (www.shoeboxed.com) is a mail-in account for receipts, invoices, business cards and added mission analytical abstracts that every baby business have to manage. Using postage-paid envelopes, Shoeboxed subscribers artlessly mail in their receipts, invoices and business cards. Shoeboxed scans the documents, extracts and verifies the data, and makes it accessible for download in IRS accustomed formats. Shoeboxed's iPhone app was just called as "App of the Week" by The New York Times.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

Jake Potter
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
jake@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com

Clean Design Named Agency Of Record For CED

Clean Design, Inc. (www.cleandesign.com), a branding and architecture agency specializing in apprehension the insights and account that acknowledge a company’s casting truth, has appear that the close has been called the agency of almanac for CED (www.cednc.org), aforetime the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. As allotment of CED’s rebranding campaign, Clean Design has developed a new accumulated character and logo, and a new casting and business action to be formed out over the advancing year to advance acceptance of CED’s mission a allotment of entrepreneurs, adventure capitalists and added stakeholders

QUOTES:
“We are acutely admiring with Clean Design’s administration in administering our rebranding,” said CED President Joan Siefert Rose. “The new branding absolutely strikes at our amount mission, which is to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and to advanced the ambitious ability of Research Triangle and North Carolina.”

“CED’s tagline, ‘Start Something,’ is a alarm to action for the Triangle’s accomplished technology and activity sciences ambitious community,” said Natalie Perkins, admiral of Clean Design. “We are admiring to advice CED acquaint their mission of allowance amaranthine entrepreneurs about-face their next abundant abstraction into a acknowledged business.”

DETAILS:
- CED apparent its new branding at a 25th altogether affair commemorating a division aeon of account to the Triangle’s ambitious culture, captivated Sept. 25 in Durham, N.C.

ABOUT CLEAN DESIGN, INC.:
Clean Design, Inc. is a branding and architecture agency specializing in apprehension the insights and account that acknowledge a company’s casting truth. The agency works with some of the world’s a lot of accustomed brands including John Deere, Lenovo and Progress Energy. Clean Design provides branding, design, advertising, ecology design, alternate design, character and packaging. The agency is committed to blockage accurate to its purpose: to architecture annihilation better. Most recently, Clean Design was called the agency of almanac for The Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary, N.C. Clean Design is one of the better architecture agencies in the Triangle. For added information, amuse appointment www.cleandesign.com.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly the Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and Web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person startups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

Jennifer Fair
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
jennifer@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com

CED Sets Dates For Upcoming Conference Season

CED, aforetime the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.cednc.org), has appear the accident dates for its accessible appointment season, featuring two arch contest for the ambitious community. CED will present its 19th anniversary Biotech appointment Monday, Feb. 22 through Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, at the Raleigh Convention Center, amid at 500 South Salisbury Street in Raleigh, N.C. CED aswell will present the 27th Venture appointment Tuesday, April 20 through Thursday, April 22, 2010 at the Pinehurst Resort, amid at 1 Carolina Vista Drive in the Village of Pinehurst, N.C.

Biotech 2010’s accepted speakers cover John Clerici, accomplice and chairmain of the activity sciences and accessible bloom accommodation convenance at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP; J. Donald deBethizy, Ph.D., admiral and CEO of Targacept, Inc.; Nicole Fouché, controlling administrator of Triangle Global Health Consortium; Steve Krognes, CFO of Genentech, Inc.; Ernest Mario, Ph.D., aforetime of GlaxoSmithKline, Alza Corporation and Reliant Pharmaceuticals; J. Michael Pearson, administrator and CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International; Allen D. Roses, M.D., FRCP, administrator of the Deane Drug Discovery Institute at Duke University; Stephen Sands, carnality administrator of U.S. investment cyberbanking and all-around co-head of the healthcare accumulation at Lazard Frere & Co.; Christy Shaffer, Ph.D., admiral and CEO of Inspire Pharmaceuticals; Kevin Schulman, MD, assistant of anesthetic at Duke University’s School of Medicine; Dr. Lauren Silverman, managing administrator of Novartis Option Fund; Stephen F. Stefano, chief carnality admiral of North American business development and new artefact planning at GlaxoSmithKline; and Jon Stonehouse, admiral and CEO of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc..

Confirmed speakers at Venture 2010 cover Jim Whitehurst, admiral and CEO of Red Hat; Jim Rogers, axle chairman, admiral and CEO of Duke Energy; and Mark W. Yusko, admiral and arch investment administrator of Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC. An broker console on April 21 will cover Brad Feld, managing administrator at Foundry Group; Noel Fenton, accepted accomplice at Trinity Ventures; and Todd Forrest, managing administrator and CFO of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

QUOTES:
"The CED conferences are active abutting credibility amid investors and entrepreneurs," said Jud Bowman, admiral and CEO of CED affiliate aggregation PocketGear. "In 2002, our presentation at the CED Venture appointment anon led to our company's $14 actor additional annular financing, which fabricated all the aberration in ascent our business."

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DETAILS:
- CED’s Biotech 2010 appointment will analyze discussions on all-around health, alone medicine, the accepted allotment ambiance and biologic partnering. With about 1,000 attendees at the 2009 event, the appointment is accepted for alluring activity science executives, aboriginal date entrepreneurs, action makers, investors, university leaders and researchers.

- One new affection for CED’s Biotech 2010 is a Venture Day featuring Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.

- CED’s Venture Conference is the longest active costs accident in the nation. The appointment will advertise the top investment opportunities in the technology, activity science and apple-pie tech sectors from the Southeast above assorted stages of development. Each year, the appointment attracts hundreds of adventure capitalists, angel investors and financiers from throughout the United States.

- This year, CED’s Venture Conference for the aboriginal time will present the University Showcase, a attending at the top technologies advancing out of universities.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly the Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

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PlotWatt To Participate At CED’s November STREAK Seminar

CED, aforetime the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear that it will host the next chapter of its accepted STREAK program, to be captivated Thursday, Nov. 12 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. STREAK is advised to abetment early-stage, high-growth activity sciences and technology companies in advancing for and extensive fundraising goals through the appraisal of angle presentations by a acclimatized console of investors, entrepreneurs and business experts.

The presenting aggregation at the accident will be PlotWatt (www.plotwatt.com), a Web-based electrical contractor. Panelists cover Bruce Boehm, an absolute adventure capitalist; R. Brooks Malone, III, CPA at Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP; Jack Spain, chief adviser at Fuentek, LLC; J. Robert Tyler, III, accomplice at Poyner Spruill, LLP; and Grace W. Ueng, managing administrator at Savvy Marketing Group.

STREAK is a closed-door affair befalling that is alone accessible to CED associates and takes abode on the additional Thursday afternoon of anniversary month. Of the 12 companies called to present afore the panels, CED will baddest the a lot of notable presenters to advertise at a January event. For data on access belief and the appliance process, CED associates should e-mail their business plan and added accordant advice to affairs coordinators Bob Pickens at bpickens@cednc.org or Dhruv Patel at dpatel@cednc.org.

QUOTES:
“We are aflame to accept PlotWatt present at our November STREAK seminar,” said Bob Pickens, administrator of entrepreneurship at CED. “The STREAK affairs will acquiesce them the befalling to crop their business to the next akin by accouterment acceptance to our area’s top ambitious and adventure basic resources.”

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DETAILS:
- PlotWatt offers a Web-based account to accommodate residential electricity users with customized recommendations for acutely abbreviation their home’s electric bills. Easily installable monitors augment abstracts from the consumer’s ambit breaker to a abstracts processing center. Proprietary algorithms are again activated to the abstracts to construe absolute activity burning into appliance-level amount and actionable recommendations.

- One of CED’s a lot of accepted and admired offerings, STREAK provides associates the befalling to abide their business plan and broker angle for application to present afore a custom-built able panel. The panelists are best to abode the specific needs of anniversary aggregation by accouterment acknowledgment on strategy, business advice, allotment options and added accordant contacts. STREAK is sponsored by Hutchison Law Group and Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

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David Finch Of ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions To Speak At CED’s CAFÉ Workshop

David Finch, admiral and CEO of ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions (www.atcombts.com), a communications solutions provider, will serve as a featured apostle at CED’s (www.cednc.org) Competitive Advantage through Fundamentals of Entrepreneurs (CAFÉ) Workshop. Finch will allege on the affair of “Sales: Is Your Sales Engine Tuned for Maximum Performance?” and will advance a break-out affair on accouterment a able abutment system.

QUOTES:
“I am aflame to allege at CED’s CAFÉ event,” said Finch. “CED has provided abundant abutment to entrepreneurs for added than 25 years, and I acknowledge the alignment for acceptance me to allotment my thoughts on maximizing a company’s achievement via sales. The branch will be a abundant befalling for Triangle business leaders to apprehend admonition on appropriately and bigger amalgam and utilizing their sales team.”

DETAILS:
- The branch will crop abode on Thursday, Dec. 10 from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. at CED’s Entrepreneurship Center, amid at 100 Capitola Drive, Ste. 106 in Durham.

- Other featured speakers include: Bobby Martin, buyer of RHM Associates, LLC and Steve Wiehe, admiral and CEO of SciQuest, Inc. Scott Burkhead of Burkhead Brand Consultants and David Buffaloe of M-Pact Marketing, LLC will accord to the break-out affair led by Finch.

- Tickets for the accident are $10 in advanced or $20 on-site for CED members, and $40 in advanced or $50 on-site for non-members.

- Finch is a continued time adherent of CED and currently serves on the organizations 2009-2010 axle of directors.

- CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture.

- Through CAFÉ, bounded professionals get the befalling to apprentice about the analytical issues that affect a company’s success. Topics covered cover able management, sales, adopting capital, accounts and cost-effective business strategies. Meetings abide of abrupt console discussions from celebrated organizations, followed by break-out groups for catechism and answers led by these accustomed professionals, and networking opportunities.

ABOUT ATCOM BUSINESS TELECOM SOLUTIONS:
ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions, a advice solutions provider founded in 1979, is an industry baton in business telecommunications with an ability in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a technology that enables businesses to advancement their absolute systems while all-embracing Internet technologies such as the Web, e-mail, burning messaging, attendance and video conferencing. With a applicant abject absolute over 5,000 businesses, ATCOM offers deployment of business blast systems, unified messaging systems, wireless solutions, LAN/WAN infrastructure/services, video conferencing, carrier arrangement casework for bounded and continued distance, and structured cabling solutions for articulation and data. The privately-held close is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with bounded offices in Charlotte and the Triad. ATCOM was ranked as one of North Carolina’s top baby businesses in 2008 and 2009 by Business Leader magazine, and has alert accustomed accolade acceptance as one of North Carolina’s Top 50 Technology Companies. For added information, amuse alarm (800) 849-8266 or appointment the Web website at www.atcombts.com.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

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CED Offers New Program Components For Biotech 2010 Conference

CED, aforetime the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear that it will action new programming for CED’s Biotech 2010 conference. CED will present its 19th anniversary Biotech appointment Monday, Feb. 22 through Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, at the Raleigh Convention Center, amid at 500 South Salisbury Street. The arch activity science accident will affection keynotes such as Steve Krognes, chief carnality admiral and arch banking administrator for Genentech, Inc. and Louis Lange, M.D., Ph.D., controlling carnality admiral of Cardiovascular Therapeutics at Gilead Sciences, Inc.

QUOTES:
“CED has alien these new affairs offerings as a aftereffect of connected abutment from our biotechnology community, as apparent by our record-breaking 1,000 attendee army at Biotech 2009,” said CED admiral Joan Siefert Rose. “We plan to beat our attendees’ expectations afresh this year.”

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DETAILS:
- Biotech 2010 will be presented by CED in affiliation with the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (www.ncbiotech.org) and North Carolina Biosciences Organization (www.ncbioscience.org). The appointment will focus on biologic partnering, alone anesthetic and all-around health. Keynote speakers include: Ernest Mario, Ph.D., administrator and CEO, Capnia; Steve Krognes, chief carnality admiral and arch banking officer, Genentech, Inc.; Louis G. Lange, M.D., Ph.D., controlling carnality president, Cardiovascular Therapeutics, of Gilead Sciences, Inc.; and Allen D. Roses, MD, FRCP, director, Deane Drug Discovery Institute, Duke University.

- Biotech 2010 will affection two new affairs offerings: The North Carolina Biotechnology Center will host partnering meetings, advised for arising biotech companies to bout with arch biologic companies. More advice and allotment is accessible at www.cednc.org/partnering. Additionally, Hoffman-La Roche Inc. will host Venture Day, a adventitious for an investor-only admirers to crop a attending at the new biologic development business model.

- Biotech 2010 will affection able panels on capacity such as biologic partnering, alone anesthetic and the accepted allotment environment.

- CED is alms aboriginal bird allotment ante for Biotech 2010 until Wednesday, January 20. For added advice on the aboriginal bird rates, appointment http://cednc.org/content/registration/380.

- As allotment of a new promotion, CED is alms absolute and new associates a $50 abatement if registering for Biotech 2010 or Venture 2010 if they renew their associates or accompany CED at the aforementioned time. For added advice or to crop advantage of CED’s promotion, acquaintance Lilith Anderson, CED’s accessory administrator of development at (919) 226-0468 or e-mail landerson@cednc.org.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

Jake Potter
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Vascular Pharmaceuticals, PhytoChem Pharmaceuticals To Participate At CED’s December STREAK Seminar

CED, aforetime the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear that it will host the next chapter of its accepted STREAK program, to be captivated Thursday, Dec. 10 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. STREAK is advised to abetment early-stage, high-growth activity sciences and technology companies in advancing for and extensive fundraising goals through the appraisal of angle presentations by a acclimatized console of investors, entrepreneurs and business experts.

Presenters at the academy cover Richard Shea, CEO of Vascular Pharmaceuticals and Timothy Klapish, COO of PhytoChem Pharmaceuticals (www.phytochem.com). Panelists cover Phillipa Charlton, M.D. MPH, medical administrator at Tranzyme Pharma; Clayton Duncan, admiral and CEO of Vindica Therapeutics; Christopher Humprey, accomplice at Alston & Bird LLP; Charles Osborne, CFO at Scynexis Inc.; Tom Roberg, CEO and controlling administrator at LAAM Sciences Inc.; Scott Weiner, arch at Pappas Ventures; and William Wofford, accomplice at Hutchison Law Group.

STREAK is a closed-door affair befalling that is alone accessible to CED associates and takes abode on the additional Thursday afternoon of anniversary month. Of the 12 companies called to present afore the panels, CED will baddest the a lot of notable presenters to advertise at a January event. For data on access belief and the appliance process, CED associates should e-mail their business plan and added accordant advice to affairs coordinators Bob Pickens at bpickens@cednc.org or Dhruv Patel at dpatel@cednc.org.

QUOTES:
“We are aflame to accept PhytoChem and Vascular Pharmaceuticals, two cutting-edge biologic companies, present at our December STREAK seminar,” said Bob Pickens, administrator of entrepreneurship at CED. “The STREAK affairs will acquiesce them the adventitious to crop their companies to the next date and add to their approaching success.”

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DETAILS:
- Vascular Pharmaceuticals is focused on the development and commercialization of atypical ameliorative articles for the analysis of cardiovascular and metabolic complications accompanying to diabetes.

- The above focus of the Vascular Pharmaceuticals is advancing the advance affairs in diabetic atherosclerosis into animal analytic trials in backward 2011.

- PhytoChem Pharmaceuticals is a growing biologic close focused on analysis of accustomed compounds targeted at cardiovascular, cancer, and dermatological conditions.

- One of CED’s a lot of accepted and admired offerings, STREAK provides associates the befalling to abide their business plan and broker angle for application to present afore a custom-built able panel. The panelists are best to abode the specific needs of anniversary aggregation by accouterment acknowledgment on strategy, business advice, allotment options and added accordant contacts. STREAK is sponsored by Hutchison Law Group and Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for added information.

Jake Potter
MMI Public Relations
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jake@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
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