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Anna Ehnmark was appointed executive director of the Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington.
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John Gee was named president and CEO of the Information Technology Association of Wisconsin.
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Donna Kent resigned as president and CEO of the Arizona Technology Council to accept a position with Televerde, a marketing service solutions provider based in Tempe.
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Lisa Kuuttila is the first CEO of Michigan State University Technologies, a business organization to train MSU students in the commercialization of science and technology.
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Enterprise Florida selected Louis Laubscher to replace Howard Haug as its new senior vice president and COO.
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Connecticut Innovations has named John Mengacci interim president while it conducts a broad search to fill the position permanently.
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Richard Nelson has been appointed chairman and CEO of the Council of Regional Information Technology Associations.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer has named Avi Schick and David Emil, respectively, as chairman and president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
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Gov. Chet Culver has appointed Mike Tramontina as director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development.
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John Wasilisin was named deputy executive director of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation.
Arkansas Enacts $140M TBED Package
With all of the recent activity from its state legislature, Arkansas will soon possess one of the nation's most comprehensive portfolios of state-supported TBED initiatives. A number of TBED-related acts passed by the Arkansas General Assembly this session have all received Gov. Mike Beebe's signature. The result could be a public injection of up to $140 million for Arkansas's TBED community over the next biennium.
Most of the new TBED initiatives were outlined in the 2007 Legislative Agenda created by Accelerate Arkansas, an independent statewide coalition organized under the Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation. Accelerate Arkansas' goal is to raise the state's average wage to the national average by 2020, a goal to be advanced by investments in research, entrepreneurship, risk capital, and Arkansas' science and engineering workforce.