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Knighted Adds Industry Pioneer and Entrepreneur to Senior Management Team

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Knighted Computer Systems, Inc. (Knighted), a leading provider of Supply Chain Execution software, today announced that Craig Wilensky, former founder and board member of InfoLogix, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFLG ) has joined Knighted as E...

Dendreon Corporation CEO Mitchell H. Gold, M.D. Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year(R) 2009 Award Finalist in the Pacific Northwest

SEATTLE, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dendreon Corporation today announced that Chief Executive Officer, Mitchell H. Gold, M.D., is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year (R) 2009 Award in the Pacific Northwest. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the awards program re...

KGI Entrepreneur Program Hosts Angel Investing Educational Meeting

CLAREMONT, Calif., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Keck Graduate Institute's (KGI) Biotechnology Entrepreneurship program today announced it will host an angel investor educational event on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. The meeting of Tech Coast Angels (TCA), a network of individual investors who fund ea...

Agensys Founder, President, & CEO Dr. Donald Rice Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Award Winner for the Greater Los Angeles Area

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in Emerging Category LOS ANGELES, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Agensys, Inc. a biotechnology company, today announced that Dr. Donald Rice, Founder, President, & CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Award in the Emerging ca...

New Enterprise Forum Celebrates 22nd Anniversary, Presents Annual Entrepreneur Awards to Randal Charlton & Others

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New Enterprise Forum will celebrate its 22nd year as a resource for Michigan entrepreneurs in conjunction with its annual awards presentations. The event takes place at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 21 at the Holiday Inn North Campus on 36...

Experts share advice for Wisconsin entrepreneur programs

MILWAUKEE Some of the people who helped North Carolina and Los Angeles become havens for entrepreneurs and host to surprisingly public communities of angel investors shared their most effective practices Tuesday at the Entrepreneurs Conference in Milwaukee . Their techniques included education...

Green Bay entrepreneur launches new message filtering solution

David Troup, founder of Solinus. GREEN BAY, Wis. The war against computer viruses and spam has no end in sight, but help is on the way from a software products and services company based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Anti-spam company Solinus announced last week the availability of a new versio...

Boston entrepreneur to enliven Milwaukee angel group

Silicon Pastures, a Milwaukee investor group that has weathered a couple of slow years, is staging a comeback under the leadership of tech entrepreneur Pehr Anderson. The angel network, a group of individual investors with high net worth, allows investors to pool strategies, knowledge and plans ...

New mircrogrant program set for entrepreneur and inventor clubs

Madison, Wis. -- Economic development corporations, chambers of commerce and other organizations interested in creating an Inventor and Entrepreneur (I&E) Club in their areas may now apply online for a microgrant from the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Network (WEN). "I'm confident that I&E Clubs ...

While some bemoan lack of venture capital, entrepreneur touts `bootstrapping' for cash

Another in a line of reports paints a bleak picture for entrepreneurs seeking venture capital in Wisconsin, suggesting that such financing could be at its lowest level in 10 years if patterns through the third quarter continue to year's end. The Money Tree Survey , released last week by Pricewa...

Brainstorming entrepreneur creates new innovation business

Chhatpar Madison, Wis. He may have just graduated last year, but Anand Chhatpar is already launching a new global business, hot on the heels of his brainstorming service that sells the ideas of university students to companies needing an innovation boost. Innovation Trip , a seven-day tou...

Madison company cosponsors young entrepreneur awards

Madison, Wis. Ten $1,000 scholarships and a top prize of $7,500 in seed capital are on the line for young entrepreneurs in a business-plan competition sponsored by BizFilings , a company headquartered in Madison, and the Young Entrepreneur Foundation . The contest, named Plan for the Future...

Extreme Entrepreneur Tour coming to Fox Valley

Appleton, Wis. - Cramped living, microwave dinners, and tuition payments compel many college students to dream up creative ways to make money. And while inventiveness and business savvy flow naturally for some, every young capitalist needs a role model. To fill this need, Fox Valley Technical...

Motorcycling entrepreneur to speak in Madison on success, failure, capital

Madison, Wis. - Dan Hanlon sees a lot of parallels between riding a motorcycle and running a business, and he's in a position to know. He has skinned his knees attempting to do both. Hanlon will visit the Fluno Center on Jan. 22 to speak during the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's G...

NameProtect sold, tech entrepreneur to focus on Jellyfish.com

Madison, Wis. - Now that two companies he once owned have been sold, and he's working on another exit strategy, Brian Wiegand's days as a self-described serial entrepreneur might be over. Wiegand's second company, the Madison-based NameProtect , a developer of digital brand management service...

Sales Strategies for the High-Tech Entrepreneur

Wisconsin technology leaders hit the road MILWAUKEE - Ask any successful entrepreneur what the #1 priority for a small business is and you will get one answer: SALES. Despite this, sales force structure and management remains probably the most neglected discipline in business school curricula ...

Conference focuses on experience, challenges of being an entrepreneur

Milwaukee Old experiences were passed down to new businesses at the Wisconsin Entrepreneur's Conference , held June 7 and 8 in Milwaukee at the Hyatt Regency. New and developing Wisconsin business owners, investors and professional service providers converged at the conference to learn techn...

Joao Paulo Baptista Joins Burrill & Company

...national team, focusing on Latin America, a major emerging player in the global growth of life science players. His experience as both an investor and entrepreneur not only complements our San Francisco-based Managing Director team but also he becomes our first internationally domiciled MD." About Burri...

GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces Resignation of Director

...h time he assumed the position of Senior Vice President and remained a director of the Company. Mr. Kandalepas has a varied 30-plus year career as an entrepreneur and executive manager. Mr. Kandalepas earned his Electronics Engineering Degree from DeVry Institute of Technology . About GeoVax Labs, Inc. ...

Cappella Inc. Secures $17.3 Million Series C Investment

...lumbo, M.D., Chief of Invasive Cardiology at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy, and Ascher Shmulewitz, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist, medical device entrepreneur and founder of NeoVision, Xcardia and Labcoat Ltd., and established its headquarters in Galway, with the backing of Polytechnos Venture Partners and A...

University of Maryland Announces Finalists for $75K Business Plan Competition

...nager, technology funding programs, Maryland Technology Development Corporation; Paul Allenza, director, Biotechnology Research and Education Program; entrepreneur Bill Bellows; bio-entrepreneur Lou Cantolupo; Warren Citrin, co-founder and board member, Gloto Corp., co-founder, Solipsys Corporation; Rob Cohen; Cr...

Fina Technologies Names Spotfire Founder Christopher Ahlberg to Board of Directors

... CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Fina Technologies, Inc. today announced that it named Dr. Christopher Ahlberg, a pioneering entrepreneur and scientist, and founder of Spotfire, Inc., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Ahlberg most previously was Executive Vice President, Tibco, Inc.,...

The EntreTech Forum Presents... Greening Of America - The Conversion of Bio-Agriculture, Bio-Energy, and Bio-Products to Eco-Sustainable Businesses

...and utilizing different forms of capital, building alliances and structuring deals are included as part of the programming, and serve as tools for the entrepreneur and researcher to commercialize science and technology. The EntreTech Forum is an affiliate of Northeastern University's School of Technologica...

Dynamic Signs Asset Acquisition Deal With Cannex and Brings Onboard Leading Medical Cannabis Research Scientist Dr. Robert Melamede, Former Chairman of the Biology Department, University of Colorado

...edical cannabis arena is simply put, the living proof that it works. Mr. Kubby, the founder of Cannex, is a long-term cancer survivor. Mr. Kubby is an entrepreneur with a wide range of experience and success in businesses ranging from property management to publishing to political fundraising. He received his BA ...

Humanitarian Offers $75 Million for Single Dose Sterilization of Cats and Dogs

...rgical sterilant could help end these unspeakable practices." Found Animals is a 501(c) 3 private operating foundation, formed by prolific inventor, entrepreneur and billionaire, Dr. Gary Michelson. Dr. Michelson is also noted as one of The Forbes 400 Richest Americans ( http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1006/1...

PercSys Names David Auth and Howard Palefsky to Its Board of Directors

...ee successful commercial products: the ACMI BICAP, the Olympus HPU, and the Novacept Novasure devices. Mr. Palefsky has 35 years of experience as an entrepreneur and investor in medical device and pharmaceutical companies. He has been a general partner/managing member of Montreux Equity Partners since 2002 and ...

MicroCHIPS CEO Named in Popular Science's 'Seventh Annual Brilliant 10'

...ng geniuses shaping the future of science." In the history of this annual list, Dr. Santini is the only honoree who is also a successful life sciences entrepreneur running his own commercial venture. His company, MicroCHIPS, is pioneering intelligent medical devices for drug delivery and biochemical sensing. (P...

Advanced Chemical Transport Opens Merced Facility

...complement the company's existing locations in Sunnyvale and Escondido. ACT has experienced tremendous growth since it inception in 2000. Founded by entrepreneur Walt Singer, the company has grown 400 percent in the last 4 years while retaining 94 percent of its client base. Throughout its growth, ACT has maint...

American Telugu Association's Convention Attracts Over 10,000 People in the U.S.

...r Success, M&As and Growth Speaker: James Gunton, General Partner - NJTC - Venture Capital: People, Process and Incentives - Thoughts for an entrepreneur Gopi Vaddi, Principal - Columbia Capital - Investing in Life Sciences - Creating buzz for your business Dr. Raj Lakhanpal, Principal - Princeton...

ARIUS recognized for entrepreneurial excellence

...utive Officer, received the "Most Innovative" award at the Chinese Canadian entrepreneur Awards, held on April 5th, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario. "The FunctionFIRST(T...body drugs has been recognized through this honour." The Chinese Canadian entrepreneur Awards, sponsored by the Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs (ACC...

febit Forms Scientific Advisory Board

... Ph.D., who will serve as vice chairman. Dr. Nikolich was formerly the executive director of the Neuroscience Institute of Stanford. He is an entrepreneur and consultant, and has over 20 years of biotechnology industry experience in R&D. -- David Lockhart, Ph.D., the CSO of Amicus Therapeutics. Dr. ...

3SBio Inc. Announces Change to the Board of Directors

...the Beijing Pharmaceutical Group and is the Vice Committee Chair for the China Pharmaceutical Enterprises Administrative Association and China Medical entrepreneur Association. In addition, Mr. Yu holds senior consultancy roles with the China Chemical Drug Association and the National Pharmaceutical Industry & Co...

Champalimaud Foundation Unveils C-TRACER in Hyderabad, India

...ioners." About the Champalimaud Foundation The Champalimaud Foundation was created in 2004 at the bequest of the late Portuguese industrialist and entrepreneur Antonio de Sommer Champalimaud. With a 500 million endowment, it is one of the largest private foundations in Europe devoted to science. The Foundatio...

'Come Home to Kansas' Announced by KTEC

...ansas.com ), refreshed daily, that aggregates the thousands of current technical job openings in the state. The site also includes business leader and entrepreneur video testimonials, cost of living data, and detail about Kansas' strong network of tech-based economic development resources for entrepreneurs and in...

WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX) CEO Honored among the 2007 China Top 10 Influential Entrepreneurs

...China Top 10 Influential Entrepreneurs selected by entrepreneur China edition. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cg...eir customers, employees and the society." About entrepreneur China Edition entrepreneur China edition is a monthly business magazine issue...

Anavex strengthens Board of Directors

...utive-level positions with Merck & Co., GlaxoSmithKline and Pharmacia (now Pfizer). He was a regional winner and national finalist for Ernst & Young's entrepreneur of the Year award in 2005. Dr. Durrant holds a MBA from Henley Management College at Oxford and a MB and BCh (equivalent to American MD degree) from t...

Jerusalem Global Ventures Announces $200 Million Growth Equity Fund

...company, Mellanox, which had a successful IPO earlier this year, would be a perfect example of companies we'd fund." Dr. Linde was a successful serial entrepreneur before joining Jerusalem Global Ventures. The Fund expects to invest $5-20 million in companies which late-stage financing needs of $10-50 million. ...

Secure Symbology: Making New Jersey Proud While Saving Lives

...ng systems utilizing its unique technology to assist Homeland Security in the tracking of shipping containers. CEO Sampson is an extremely successful entrepreneur in New Jersey. Prior to building Secure Symbology, Sampson started ECI Conference Call Services, also based in Wayne. He is a member of the NJBiz Hall...

Genstruct CEO, Dr. Keith Elliston, Invited to Speak at Oncology Clinical Trial Summit

...hcare delivery to cancer patients." Dr. Elliston is an invited speaker at many biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry events. He is an experienced entrepreneur and intrapreneur who has dedicated his career to the development of leading-edge technology for drug discovery and drug development. Dr. Elliston spen...

NeoMatrix Announces Additional Funding for Breakthrough Breast Cancer Screening Test

... Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran Richard Franco and entrepreneur Anthony Ciabattoni Join NeoMatrix Board of Directors IRVINE,...nancing to take the Company to profitability." Anthony J. Ciabattoni is an entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience. He was the founder of Pacific Business In...