CED announces additions to board of directors and staff

Research Triangle Park, N.C. — The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) on Tuesday announced 13 additions to its 2008-2009 board of directors, including key investors, business professionals and university leaders from across the Triangle.

The new board members include:

• Greg Anglum, partner, Grant Thornton LLP
• Steven Burke, vice president of corporate affairs, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
• David Finch, president and CEO, ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions.
• Vipin Garg, president and CEO, Tranzyme Inc.
• Brian Handley, senior vice president of sales, Microsoft Corp.
• Kevin Johnson, vice president of business development, Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
• Karen LeVert, president and CEO, Southeast Tech Inventures Inc.
• Chris Lynch, attorney, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
• Greg Owen, senior vice president, relationship manager, Wachovia
• John Paris, partner, Williams Mullen
• Jack Sheffield, managing director, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown
• David Spitz, vice president, Channel Advisor
• Ted Zoller, executive director, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Stephen Wiehe, president and CEO of SciQuest, Inc., will serve as CED’s chair for 2008-2009.

CED also introduced Stephanie Dorko as the new director of development.

Prior to joining CED, Dorko worked as a fundraiser on numerous political campaigns, most recently for State Treasurer Richard Moore. She also worked as vice president of government affairs for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity College in Washington, D.C. Dorko is a native of Greensboro.