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EVO Merchant Services, CEO, Ray Sidhom Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2009 Award Winner in Metro New York

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- EVO Merchant Services, a leader in the payment processing industry, announced that Ray Sidhom, CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year ((R)) 2009 Award in Metro New York. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outs...

NEA Portfolio Companies Selected as Zero2IPO Venture 50 and China Entrepreneur 'Rising Stars' Honorees

BEIJING, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a leading global venture capital firm, today announced that four of its China-based portfolio companies were named to the Zero2IPO 2009 Venture 50 list: CITIC Pharmaceuticals, LianLian Pay, LineKong and Novast Pharmaceuti...

Dyadem CEO Kevin North Named a Finalist in Ernst & Young's 2009 Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards

TORONTO, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyadem today announced that its President and CEO, Kevin North, was named an Ontario finalist in the Information Technology category for Ernst & Young's 2009 Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards. These prestigious awards recognize individuals who demonstrate the entr...

Aton Pharma CEO Mike Wells Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2009 Award Winner;

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Aton Pharma, Inc. announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Michael G. Wells, has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year (R) 2009 Award in the emerging companies category in New ...

SearchAmerica(R) President, Daniel Johnson, Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R)

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence and Community Improvement MINNEAPOLIS, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Search America (R) , a part of Experian and a leader in financial clearing services for health care, today announced that its president, Daniel Johnson, received the Ernst & Young E...

IPC The Hospitalist Company Inc. CEO, Adam Singer, M.D., Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2009 Award Winner in the Greater Los Angeles Area

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in Services Category NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPCM ), a leading national hospitalist physician group practice company, today announced that CEO, Adam Singer, M.D., receiv...

eCardio Chief Executive Officer Larry Lawson Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2009 Award Winner in the Houston & Gulf Coast Area

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in Health Sciences Category THE WOODLANDS, Texas, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- eCardio Diagnostics ( www.ecardio.com ) today announced that Larry Lawson, President and Chief Executive Officer, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year (R)...

Angelo Masciantonio, CEO and Co-Founder of HTH Worldwide Named Ernst & Young 2009 Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) in Greater Philadelphia

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in Health Care Services and Products Category PHILADELPHIA, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- HTH Worldwide, a global health and safety services company, today announced that Angelo Masciantonio, CEO and Co-Founder received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur ...

Cogdell Spencer Announces Chief Executive Officer Frank C. Spencer Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2009 Award Winner in the Carolinas

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in Real Estate and Construction Category CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cogdell Spencer Inc. (NYSE: CSA ) announced today that its chief executive officer, Frank C. Spencer received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Y...

Kensey Nash Corporation's CEO & President, Joe Kaufmann Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2009 Award Winner in Greater Philadelphia Region

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in Life Sciences PHILADELPHIA, June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kensey Nash Corporation (Nasdaq: KNSY ), today announced that Joe Kaufmann, CEO and President, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year (R) 2009 Award in the Life Sci...

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UC San Diego's $3 million NSF grant to fund science festivals

... with community partners, as the lead organizer of the 2010 San Diego Science Festival. The university was the lead facilitator, in collaboration with entrepreneur Larry Bock and 100 leading science organizations, for the inaugural 2009 event. In addition to funding the week-long, central San Diego Science Fes...

Trailblazing rural community shows green heating oil a viable option

...wer in carbon footprint than natural gas. Partners in the pioneering project are UEA's Low Carbon Innovation Centre, Norfolk County Council, local entrepreneur Andrew Robertson of Clean Energy Consultancy, and the two bodies that represent the oil heating industry in the UK and Ireland - the Oil Firing Techni...

15-state Southern obesity summit to focus on deadly epidemic

...ng with the epidemic like the South." Speakers and panelists will include UAB researchers and Kenneth Cooper, M.D., a Texas-based health author and entrepreneur widely regarded as the "father of aerobics" for his 1986 fitness book Aerobics. Other participants will include Donna Richardson Joyner, Buns of St...

Clemson bioengineer wins prestigious Early Career Award

... application, and they held a rank no higher than assistant professor at the time of application. Wallace H. Coulter was an engineer, inventor and entrepreneur who applied engineering principles to biomedical problems. He founded Coulter Corp., which developed and marketed the first automated blood cell count...

Elsevier launches Bioscience Hypotheses

...challenging, and provides a clear and coherent argument with a testable conclusion. Bioscience Hypotheses is edited by Dr William Bains, biotechnology entrepreneur and innovator, and visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge. The journal welcomes papers that: deliver new insight into the understand...

Platinum Solutions, Inc. Teams with Lockheed Martin on Federal Bureau of Investigation's Next Generation Identification Program

...deral government monitor terrorist communications, arrest violent criminals, and improve the prescription drug review and approval process. In 2007, entrepreneur Magazine ranked Platinum Solutions 186 on the 13th annual Hot 500 list of fastest growing companies in the United States. We were ranked as the 61st f...

Names of inaugural Kavli Prize winners revealed

...New York, where it was part of the opening of the first annual World Science Festival. The Kavli Prize is named after and funded by Fred Kavli, the entrepreneur and philanthropist who was inspired to seek a career in science and engineering while marvelling at the northern lights in the skies above the tiny No...

Al Gore and Tom Stoppard among 2008 Dan David Prize Winners at TAU

... scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world. The Prize is headquartered at Tel Aviv University and is named after international entrepreneur and philanthropist Dan David. ...

Undergraduates develop 'dirt-powered' microbial fuel cells to light Africa

...t at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). To translate their idea into a reality, the team collaborated with designer and entrepreneur Richard Kirk. The founder of the London-based Elumin8, and more recently, Polyphotonics, is known for his development and use of a new lighting form b...

Aquaculture concept leaves judges 'goggle eyed'

... to pursue Bait King and other sustainable aquaculture projects after completing graduate school. Established in 2003 by UM alumnus and successful entrepreneur Leigh M. Rothschild, the competition is open to all University of Miami students. Individuals or teams of students must first submit a concept synopsi...

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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...

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