Press Release
Contact: Robert Albright |
Phone: 919-549-7500 ext.123 |
CED Honors Entrepreneurial Excellence Award Winners
CED Presents Annual Awards on June 15 at Durham’s American Tobacco Historic District
June 16, 2005, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) honored area entrepreneurs and high-growth companies during the organization’s 19th annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards on June 15 at the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham, NC. Over 415 people attended the sold-out celebration.
Below are the 2005 award winners:
- Entrepreneurial Excellence Stephen Clark, SpectraSite Communications, Inc.
- Outstanding Service to Entrepreneurs Research Triangle Regional Partnership
- Deal of the Year (Public Company) Closure Medical Corporation
- Deal of the Year (Private Company) Motricity, Inc.
- Growth Company of the Year ChannelAdvisor Corporation
- Technology of the Year
- HyperBranch Medical Technology, Inc.
- Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc.
- Community Impact Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative & The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Spin-Out of the Year
- Centice Corporation
- Liquidia Technologies
- Chairman’s Service
- Leslie Alexandre, Dr.P.H., NC Biotechnology Center
- Monica Doss, Council for Entrepreneurial Development
- Robert McMahan, Ph.D., North Carolina Board of Science and Technology
- Dave Rizzo, NC IDEA
- Sam Taylor, NC Innovation Foundation and NCBIO
- FastTrac Tech Company of the Year Refense Technologies, Inc.
- Charles Hamner Award - Walter Daniels (previously awarded at CED’s Biotech 2005 conference on May 25, 2005)
“This year's award winners showcase the wide-ranging impact that entrepreneurs have on our economy,” said CED President Monica Doss. “From medical devices to thermoelectrics, wireless technology to enterprise security the Triangle region boasts a strong 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 16.
About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located in Research Triangle Park, NC, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research Triangle region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and monthly programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is one of the largest entrepreneurial support organizations in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. www.cednc.org
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