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TBED People and Organizations
Lonnie Emard has been named interim director of the Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management, a recently formed collaboration of business, academic and economic development organizations intended to build information technology (IT) opportunities in South Carolina.
Boise State University has tapped Mary Givens as director of the newly formed Office of Technology Transfer within the university's Division of Research.
G.P. "Bud" Peterson, chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, was named the eleventh president of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn named a former aide, Warren Ribley, as director of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire named former Microsoft Corp. Executive A. Rogers Weed IV as state commerce secretary. The governor also is seeking to reconstitute the agency Weed will head, currently the Department of Community Trade and Economic Development, as the state Department of Commerce. The measure, HB2242, is awaiting a floor vote in the house.
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