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Leading Industry Analyst and Investor
to Keynote CED's Infotech 2002
Entrepreneurial Spirit Meets Innovative Technology as CED, TiE Carolinas and Kenan-Flagler Business School Team Up for Regional Conference
August 20, 2002, Research Triangle Park, NC - The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced that Howard Anderson, founding partner and senior managing director, YankeeTek Ventures, will deliver the keynote address at CED's Research Triangle InfoTech 2002 in Research Triangle Park, NC, on October 30, 2002.
The keynote presentation will take place at the Sheraton Imperial in RTP on October 30 at 8:30 a.m.
Anderson, founder and president of The Yankee Group, the leading communications analysis firm in the United States, has 30 years of experience in the operations of a high-technology market research firm. He is also a co-founder of Battery Ventures, a venture capital firm in the Boston area, and most recently, YankeeTek, an incubator of high-tech ventures in Cambridge. Additionally, he is the William Porter Distinguished Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.
"We're thrilled to have such a distinguished speaker," said Chris Austen, general partner, Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, and InfoTech 2002 co-chair. "Howard brings a wealth of experience both as an entrepreneur and investor, as founder and long-time CEO of well-known industry research firm Yankee Group and founder of industry powerhouse Battery Ventures, his broad perspective should be right on target for this audience."
Presented by CED in partnership with The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) Carolinas and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, the conference will spotlight some of the best of North Carolina's multi-billion dollar IT industry as twenty companies demo their cutting-edge technologies. Last year, CED's InfoTech 2001 drew close to 900.
Other confirmed speakers to date include:
Frank Brick, Chairman & CEO, Arsenal Digital Solutions
Roger Dick, CIO Blue Cross Blue Shield NC
Mike Guthrie, General Partner, TPG Ventures
Glenn Kline, Managing Partner, Academy Funds
Marc Lautenbach, General Manager, Global Small and Medium Business, IBM
Keith E. Miller, Managing Director, GE Equity
Penelope Patsuris, Senior Writer, Forbes
Frank Plastina, President, Metro & Enterprise Networks, Nortel Networks
Dede Ramoneda, Vice President IT Systems Delivery, Progress Energy
Jai Singh, Editor-in-Chief, CNET News.com
Mary Sutton, Vice President of Human Capital, Red Hat
More information on the conference and speakers can be found at www.cednc.org/infotech/2002. A complete agenda will be announced at a later date along with other speakers and panelists.
About Mr. Anderson
Howard Anderson is a founding partner and Senior Managing Director of YankeeTek
Ventures. He is also founder and chairman of The Yankee Group, a high-technology
research and consulting firm, where he served as President and CEO from 1970-1999
until it was sold to Primark, a New York Stock Exchange firm, in 1996.
Howard is also the William Porter Distinguished Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches two courses on entrepreneurship: New Enterprises and Entrepreneurs in the Internet. He was one of three founders of Battery Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital firm specializing in technology companies, where he has served as Managing Partner and Special Limited Partner since the company's inception.
Network World recently selected Howard as one of the 25 most important people in communications. He has presented keynote addresses at both Comdex and Network Interop. Anderson earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
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 the largest
entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,000 members
representing 1,200 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms.
www.cednc.org