Council for Entrepreneurial Development: Press Release, June 6, 2008
Contact: Cassandra Cranston |
Phone: (919) 549-7500 |
CED Honors Entrepreneurial Excellence Award Winners
CED Presents Annual Awards on June 5 at Durham’s American Tobacco Historic District
June 6, 2008, Research Triangle Park, NC - The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) honored area entrepreneurs and high-growth companies during the organization’s 22nd annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards on June 5, at the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham, NC. Over 300 people attended the celebration to show their support for North Carolina’s entrepreneurial community.
"The climate for entrepreneurs has never been stronger in North Carolina," said CED Chairperson Mary Musacchia. “This was clear at CED’s annual awards celebration which honored entrepreneurial success stories such as BEECo, Inc., an RTI International spin out; iContact Corp., a leading email marketing service provider; and those who give back to the entrepreneurial community like Brooks Malone, Jason Caplain and Kent Christison.”
Below is the complete list of the 2008 Entrepreneurial Excellence Award winners:
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Monica Doss
• Entrepreneurial Excellence – Scot Wingo, ChannelAdvisor Corp.
• Outstanding Service to Entrepreneurs – Brooks Malone, Hughes Pittman & Gupton L.L.P
• Public Deal of the Year – TranS1, Inc., Rick Randall
• Private Deal of the Year – InnerPulse, Inc., Dan Pelak
• Growth Company of the Year (Life Science) – Serenex, Inc., Richard Kent
• Growth Company of the Year (Technology) – iContact Corp., Ryan Allis and Aaron Houghton
• Technology of the Year – Digitalsmiths, Ben Weinberger
• Spin-Out of the Year – BEECo, Inc., John Goherke
• Social Entrepreneurship Award – The Caring Community Foundation, Jill Wolford
• FastTrac Tech Company of the Year – Oncoscope, Inc., William Brown and Adam Wax
• Charles Hamner Leadership Award – Monica Doss (previously awarded at CED’s Biotech 2008 conference on May 19, 2008)
• Chairman’s Service
o Jason Caplain, Southern Capitol Ventures
o Kent Christison, Kennedy Covington
For more details on the event, awards or winners, visit www.cednc.org/awards <http://www.cednc.org/awards>. Profiles and pictures of award winners are available on the website or by request.
About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), headquartered in Research Triangle Park, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the Research Triangle, North Carolina and Southeast region. Since 2001, CED has helped triangle-area companies raise over $2.6 billion in venture capital. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. For more information, visit www.cednc.org.