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TBED Organizations & People Update

Two Southern Arizona tech councils, theInformation Technology Association of Southern Arizona and the Southern Arizona Industry and Aerospace Alliance, decided to merge to have the combined financial resources for a full-time executive director, according to the March 23 edition of the Tucson Citizen.

TBED Organizations & People Update

To reduce administrative costs by up to $500,000 and to improve operational efficiencies, the Slater Fund Board of Directors has approved plans to consolidate Rhode Island's four Slater Centers into a single entity, the Slater Technology Fund, Inc. The fund will retain its four technology thrusts of biomedical technology, interactive technologies, design and manufacturing, and marine and environmental technologies.

TBED Organizations & People Update

The Iowa Entrepreneurs Coalition has been formed to help advance an innovation- and entrepreneur-friendly agenda in the Iowa legislature.

TBED Organizations & People Update

The Georgia Department of Economic Development announced William Boone is the first director for the new Agricultural Center of Innovation.

TBED Organizations & People Update

Dyan Brasington, former president of the Technology Council of Maryland, is the new director of economic and workforce development at Towson University.

TBED Organizations & People Update

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney promoted Renee Fry to serve as director of the Department of Business and Technology, the state agency tasked with retaining and attracting jobs and steering economic policy throughout the Commonwealth.

TBED Organizations & People Update

Sylvia Goldman has resigned as director of the Louisiana Department of Economic Development, effective at the end of March.

TBED Organizations & People Update

Wade Lange, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Industry Forum, announced he will be leaving the organization this summer to return to the private sector.

TBED Organizations & People Update

Greater Baltimore Technology Council executive director Penny Lewandowski is leaving at the end of May to join the Edward Lowe Foundation in Detroit. Assistant director Steve Kovak has been named her successor.

TBED Organizations & People Update

Jerry Lonergan, president of Kansas, Inc., is resigning effective April 1. A bill to dissolve the state's policy and planning organization passed the Kansas Senate last week.

TBED Organizations & People Update

Robert Rosner, chief scientist for the Argonne National Laboratory, will be the lab's new director.

TBED Organizations & People Update

Craig Watters is serving as interim director of the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University. Past director Nola Miyasaki has relocated to Hawaii to join a biotech company.