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MCED CELEBRATES 10th
ANNIVERSARY and GRADUATES 3 COMPANIES
On Tues,
November 13, The Maine Center for Enterprise Development
hosted a 10th Anniversary Reception/Celebration
of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Abromson Center,
on the Portland USM Campus. Lead sponsor for the event was
Verrill Dana, LLP
with additional sponsorship support provided by
Evergreen
Credit Union;
Arnson
Environmental & Safety;
MacDonald Page & Co., LLC;
Ranson Environmental
Consultants, Inc. and
Davidson Associates. Approximately 130 guests came
to honor this exciting time in our organization’s young
history.
The
featured speaker was Diane Sammer, President & CEO of
Emergent Music, LLC
of Portland whose product is Goombah, a web-based service
for music discovery.
Goombah connects people to music and each other based on
their taste, and was recently named one of the Top 100 Most
Useful Websites by The Guardian and "New Technology
of the Year 2007" by MESDA. She was also co-founder of
Systems/Link, which was named by Inc. magazine to the
"Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in the U.S."
and Diane was featured in Wireless Week magazine as
one of 24 "Enterprising Women of Wireless." Diane
is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Small
Enterprise Growth Fund, a state-funded venture capital fund.
She has also served as a judge for the University of
Southern Maine Student Business Plan Competition.
Emcee for
the festive evening with a welcome speech highlighting the
Campus Ventures program was given by Edward S. McKersie,
President Pro Search,
Inc. and Chair, USM Corporate Partners. John Ferland,
President MCED gave a retrospective 10th
Anniversary message emphasizing how far the technology
incubator had come, and the vision for the 2nd
decade. <click
here for timeline>
(top L-R) speaker Diane Sammer of Emergent
Music, Emcee Edward S. McKersie, President Pro Search, Inc.
and Chair, USM Corporate Partners, MCED Executive Director
John Ferland; (bottom L-R) Michael Leathem & Zachariah
Conover of CrossRate Technology, Rebecca Stockbridge of
Medicreative, Joel Glatz & Brad Taylor of Frontier Energy
** Photo by M. Kathleen Kelly
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Honored
were 3 graduating companies
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CrossRate Technology
CrossRate Technology,
led by Zachariah Conover (President/CEO) and Michael Leathem,
is
a leader in high reliability position, navigation, and time
receivers. Through its application of patent pending eLoran
technology, coupled with GPS, CrossRate is helping to secure
America's critical national infrastructure and keep people
safer while they work and play.
Frontier Energy
Frontier Energy,
founded by Joel Glatz and Brad Taylor, is the first
full-service oil company in the nation to offer retail
bioheat fuel, and Maine's first distributor of blended
Biodiesel for transportation. Frontier supplies blended
biodiesel fuel to LLBean, Dragon Products, and the
municipalities of Portland, South Portland, Falmouth, Cape
Elizabeth and Scarborough, and is a major wholesaler of
Biofuels to numerous downstream marketers throughout New
England.
MediCreative
MediCreative,
owned by Rebecca Stockbridge, provides graphic and web
design services to medical professionals to help doctors
create a brand identity and web presence for their practice.
MediCreative was one of the finalists in the 2006 USM
student business plan competition and a 2006 Libra Future
Fund grant recipient, (which targets interesting projects
proposed by persons 18-25 years old.) In November 2007, to
better service her growing client base of businesses outside
of the healthcare field, Becky launched iBec Creative - a
web and graphic design company geared to the needs of
businesses.
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